Foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong
Foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong are domestic workers employed by Hongkongers, typically families. Comprising five percent of Hong Kong's population, about 98.5% of them are women. In 2019, there were 400,000 foreign domestic helpers in the territory. Required by law to live in their employer's residence, they perform household tasks such as cooking, serving, cleaning, dishwashing and child care.
Advertising for agency specialising in foreign domestic helpers in North Point, Hong Kong
Helpers meeting on Sunday at Statue Square in Central
Sample of the first page of a standard employment contract for a foreign domestic helper
Foreign domestic workers queuing at counters at the Immigration Department in Wan Chai in late August 2008
Hongkongers, Hong Kongers, Hong Kongese, Hongkongese, Hong Kong citizens and Hong Kong people are demonyms that refer to the resident of Hong Kong, although they may also refer to others who were born and/or raised in the territory.
"Hongkonger ethnic group" is manually written in the questionnaire of the 2018 New Zealand census.