According to recent research, “Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Hong Kong and Shenzhen Report 2016- 17”, 9.44 per cent of Hong Kong adults were engaged in some kind of entrepreneurial activity in 2016, up from 3.64 per cent in 2009. The government’s report on casual employment in 2010 also noted that there were over 65,000 casual employees in Hong Kong that were employed on a day-to-day basis.