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Thursday, November 9, 1972
The survey showed that, in terms of employment, the four largest
industries were the manufacture of textiles and made-up textile goods
(264,647), the manufacture of plastic products (72,565), the manufacture of
electrical machinery, apparatus appliances and supplies (59,639), and the
manufacture of fabricated metal products other than machinery (48,850).
The survey also recorded 18,841 vacancies over a wide range of
industries -- a drop of 1,051 from the figure for the previous quarter.
The main vacancies were in the electronics industry (4,607),
garments (4,577), plastics (1,705), metal products (1,409), and cotton
spinning and weaving industry (1,217).
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