Hong Kong's median monthly household income rose 7.1 percent year on year to 18,000 HK dollars (2,313 U.S. dollars) in the fourth quarter of 2007, Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department said on Tuesday.

Citing a quarterly report on General Household Survey for October to December 2007 published Tuesday, the department said there were 2,247,600 domestic households in Hong Kong in the fourth quarter of 2007, up 0.57 percent on the same period in 2006.

Meanwhile, 3,533,300 people were employed in the fourth quarter, up 2.03 percent on a year earlier.

(Xinhua News Agency February 27, 2008)