Statistics, collected quarterly by the Census and Statistics Department on a voluntary basis from registered and recorded industrial undertakings, showed that in March 1974 a total of 567,563 people were directly employed in industrial undertakings in the manufacturing sector. Em- ployment figures in March 1974 for registered and recorded industrial undertakings in the major manufacturing industries were:-
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garments
plastics
metal products
124,046
65,697
51,132
electronics
54,499
knitting
17,818
knitwear from yarn
17,767
cotton weaving
27,262
cotton spinning
21,129
job printing
12,881
shipbuilding and repairing
9,942
rubber footwear
5,646
gloves
11,051
GROWTH OF EMPLOYMENT
Employment in all registered and recorded industrial undertakings has grown more than 12 times from 51,338 in March 1947 to 611,205 in March 1974 as shown in the following table:-
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