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APPENDIX II
SELECTED INDICES OF ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE
The following index figures, selected from those included in Supplement No. 4 to the Gazette or calculated from figures therein, are presented as affording from different angles an indication of the economic position in the Colony at the end of the year 1949 as compared with the position in 1947. The base in the majority of cases is the monthly average for 1947, and indices on this base (printed in heavy type) may therefore be compared with one another.
Base
INDICES ON BASE
Monthly Average
1949
Monthly Average
December
1948
1949
5
Immigration
Monthly Average, 1947 (129,069 persons) 100 ·
168,620 persons 130.6
144,717 persons 112.1
62,444 persons 48.4
Emigration
Monthly Average, 1947
(137,846 persons) 100
181,130 persons 131.4
148,850 persons 108.0
61,783 persons 44.8
11
Employees in
Total Dec., 1947
Dec., 1948
Registered
Factories and
Workshops
13
Factories
Registered
(64,499 persons) 100
Monthly Average, 1947 (43 factories)
63,873 persons 99.0
81,571 persons 126.5
100
24 factories
55.8
19 factories
44.2
17 factories
39.5
35
Tonnages of
Vegetables
Marketed
Monthly Average, 1947 (1413.5 tons)
100
1582.2 tons
111.9
37
Animals
Slaughtered
Monthly Average, 1947 (41,249 animals) 100
49,273 animals 111.4
38
Production of
Fluid Milk
Monthly Average, 1947 (32,544 gals)
100
42,987 gals.
132.1
63,076 gals. 193.8
1721.5 tons
121.8
48,091 animals 116.6
3454.3 tons
244.3
45,866 animals 111.2
73,547 gals.
226.0
167