Hong Kong Book Fair 2023

With the theme of "Living with Statistics", an exhibition booth was set up at Hong Kong Book Fair 2023* to raise public awareness of official statistics and promote the work of the Census and Statistics Department.  The exhibition displayed a wide range of key official statistics closely related to our daily lives under four aspects, viz. shopping, food, housing and transport (Content of panels in PDF format PDF).  Interactive computer quiz game was developed to enhance their knowledge on the relevant statistics.  The exhibition received favourable responses from the public.

* 19-25 July 2023, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre

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Shopping  Shopping details

Year-on-year rates of change in Composite Consumer Price Index for clothing and footwear, durable goods and miscellaneous goods
Average monthly household expenditure on clothing and footwear, durable goods and miscellaneous goods
Retail sales have been improved significantly
Online shopping has become more popular
Mobile payments have become more common
Popularity of using the internet and smartphones continued to increase, promoting the use of mobile payments and online purchases

Food  Food details

Year-on-year rates of change in Composite Consumer Price Index for selected food items
Average monthly household expenditure on food
Hong Kong is a "Gourmet Paradise" - Number of restaurants
Where are our foodstuffs imported from?

Housing  Housing details

Districts with the largest and the smallest population
Distribution of population by type of housing
Proportion of households owning the quarters they occupied
Median monthly mortgage payment and median mortgage payment to income ratio
Major characteristics of households residing in private permanent housing and public rental housing
Change of residence in the past 5 years
Households keeping dogs/cats

Transport  Transport details

Working population and their main mode of transport to place of work
Full-time students and their main mode of transport to place of study
Daily average passenger trips by mode of public transport
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Year-on-year rates of change in Composite Consumer Price Index for clothing and footwear, durable goods and miscellaneous goods
Average monthly household expenditure on clothing and footwear, durable goods and miscellaneous goods
Retail sales have been improved significantly
Online shopping has become more popular
Mobile payments have become more common
Popularity of using the Internet and smartphones continued to increase, promoting the use of mobile payments and online purchases
Year-on-year rates of change in Composite Consumer Price Index for selected food items
Average monthly household expenditure on food
Hong Kong is a "Gourmet Paradise" - Number of restaurants
Where are our foodstuffs imported from?
Districts with the largest and the smallest population
Distribution of population by type of housing
Proportion of households owning the quarters they occupied
Median monthly mortgage payment and median mortgage payment to income ratio
Major characteristics of households residing in private permanent housing and public rental housing
Change of residence in the past 5 years
Households keeping dogs/cats
Working population and their main mode of transport to place of work
Full-time students and their main mode of transport to place of study
Daily average passenger trips by mode of public transport