Other Housing Statistics

- Loans and Advances for Use in Hong Kong

  by Economic Sector

Loans and Advances for Use in Hong Kong by Economic Sector (1)
(D) Deposit-taking Companies
HK$ million
Economic sector  2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Manufacturing  2,372 2,759 2,434 2,691 2,993
Agriculture and fisheries (2) ## 3 14 17 -
Transport and transport equipment 10,824 8,066 6,032 5,518 6,308
Electricity, gas and telecommunications (3) 2 3 1 6 -
Electricity and gas (4) - - - - 1
Recreational activities (4) - - - - 4
Building and construction; property development and investment 3,312 2,715 2,123 1,830 820
  Property development and investment 20 4 6 7 37
     Industrial          
     Residential 2,754 2,189 1,865 1,593 497
     Commercial 180 167 37 38 99
     Other properties 28 8 5 5 20
     Sub-total 2,981 2,368 1,913 1,643 654
  Others 331 347 210 187 166
Wholesale and retail trade 558 505 526 327 314
Information technology (4) - - - - 1
Mining and quarrying (2) 3 1 ## ## -
Miscellaneous 23,779 18,020 14,147 12,553 7,052
  Hotels, boarding houses and catering 186 4 3 2 ##
  Financial concerns (other than all authorised) 225 162 60 81 52
  Stockbrokers 13 20 9 ## ##
  Professional and private individuals 22,800 17,592 13,808 12,088 6,488
    To purchase flats under the "Home Ownership Scheme", the "Private Sector Participation Scheme" and " Tenant Purchase Scheme" 8 15 16 15 10
    To purchase other residential properties 17,365 12,298 9,680 8,273 1,857
    For other purposes 5,427 5,278 4,112 3,799 4,620
  All others 554 243 267 382 512
All economic sectors 40,849 32,072 25,278 22,942 17,492

Notes:

Figures are as at end of the year.

Loans and advances for some economic sectors have been reclassified.  As such, the figures are not strictly comparable with those of previous years.
(1) Figures exclude loans and advances for trade financing.
(2) As from March 2004, figures have been included in "All others" under "Miscellaneous"
(3) As from March 2004, loans for telecommunications have been included in "Information technology" and " "Manufacturing"
(4) Figures prior to 2004 are not available.
(5) Figures include loans for credit card advances, other business purposes and other private purposes. Figures are combined to safeguard confidentiality of information provided by individual authorised institutions.
## Less than half the final digit shown (include magnitude zero).

Source:

Hong Kong Monetary Authority (Enquiry Telephone No.: 2878 8222), cited in Hong Kong Government Census and Statistics Department (2005), Hong Kong Annual Digest of Statistics, 2005 Edition. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Government Printer, p. 239.