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EMPLOYMENT IN THE WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, IMPORT AND EXPORT AND RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS SECTOR IN DECEMBER 1981, AT 483 800, WAS 6.3 PER CENT HIGHER THAN IN DECEMBER 1980. ON THE OTHER HAND EMPLOYMENT IN THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR AND BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION SITES DECREASED BY 0.2 PER CENT AND 1.8 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY AS COMPARED WITH THE SAME TIME LAST YEAR.
A COMPARISON OF EMPLOYMENT FIGURES FOR DECEMBER 1981 WITH THOSE FOR SEPTEMBER 1981, SHOWED THERE WERE INCREASES OF VARYING MAGNITUDE IN EACH OF THE FOUR SECTORS ABOVE. THE HIGHEST INCREASE OF 7.4 PER CENT, REGISTERED IN BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION SITES, WAS DUE TO THE INCREASE IN EMPLOYMENT IN PUBLIC WORKS AND HOUSING DEPARTMENT SITES. THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY INCREASES OF 3.9 PER CENT AND 2.1 PER CENT IN THE FINANCE, INSURANCE, REAL ESTATE AND BUSINESS SERVICES SECTOR AND THE WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, IMPORT AND EXPORT, AND RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS SECTOR RESPECTIVELY. THERE WAS NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR.
TOGETHER WITH EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS, THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT ALSO PUBLISHED VACANCY STATISTICS FOR THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR THE WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, IMPORT AND EXPORT, AND RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS SECTOR- AND THE FINANCE, INSURANCE, REAL ESTATE AND BUSINESS SERVICES SECTOR IN DECEMBER 1981. THÉSE WERE COMPILED FROM THE NUMBER OF JOB VACANCIES REPORTED BY ESTABLISHMENTS COVERED BY THE SURVEY OF EMPLOYMENT, VACANCIES AND PAYROLL IN THESE SECTORS. THE OVERALL FIGURES, TOGETHER WITH A COMPARISON WITH THE CORRESPONDING FIGURES FOR DECEMBER 1980 AND SEPTEMBER 1981, ARE AS FOLLOWS:
NUMBER OF REPORTED VACANCIES IN
SECTOR OF THE ECONOMY
MANUFACTURING
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. IMPORT AND EXPORT. AND RESTAURANTS AND
HOTELS
FINANCE +
INSURANCE
REAL ESTATE
AND BUSINESS
SERVICES
PERCENTAGE CHANGE
DEC. 80 SEPT. 81 DEC. 81
DEC. 81 ON
DEC. 80
DEC. 81 ON SEPT. 81
42 000
47 900
44 100
+ 4.9
- 7.9
5 800 6 600
6 500
+12.0
0.5
2 900
2 200
2 300
-22.8
+ 1.2
THE FIGURES FOR DECEMBER 1981 COMPARED WITH THOSE FOR THE SAME TIME IN 1980, SHOWED INCREASES OF 4.9 PER CENT AND 12 PER CENT IN THE NUMBER OF REPORTED VACANCIES IN THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR AND THE WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, IMPORT AND EXPORT AND RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS SECTOR RESPECTIVELY. FOR THE FINANCE, INSURANCE, REAL ESTATE AND BUSINESS SERVICES SECTOR, THE NUMBER OF REPORTED VACANCIES DECREASED BY 22.8 PER CENT RELATIVE TO THE SAME TIME IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
THE FIGURES