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EINE RIVE GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES

DAILY

INFORMATION BULLETIN

Thursday, May 18, 1972

SECOND MANPOWER SURVEY OF THE PLASTICS INDUSTRY

Information Used For Meaningful Planning

The Plastics Industrial Committee, one of the ten associated

industrial committees of the Industrial Training Advisory Committee, will

be conducting, with the assistance of the Labour Department, a second

manpower survey of the plastics industry during the period June 1 to 21, 1972.

The first manpower survey was conducted from August 18 to September 2,

1967, in which 99 per cent of the factories covered in the survey willingly

supplied the information required.

The Plastics Industrial Committee has subsequently compiled and

analysed the statistical information obtained and published its findings

and recommendations in a manpower survey report, which has been available

in both English and Chinese at the Government Publications Centre at the

Star Ferry Concourse since February 18, 1970.

The committee is pleased to learn that Government has already

implemented some of the recommendations.

At the time of the first manpower survey, manpower statistics in

the Labour Department showed that in September 1967, the total labour force

was 51,556 and the total number of registered and recorded factories was 1,542.

/In December