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Tuesday, May 30, 1972

EMPLOYMENT AND VACANCIES IN NON-INDUSTRIAL SECTOR

Survey By Labour Department

Since November 1968, the Labour Department has been conducting,

at half-yearly intervals, surveys of employment and vacancies in the

private non-industrial sector covering hotels, restaurants, education

and medical services.

These surveys now include boarding houses, import and export

businesses, air, ocean and harbour transport and related services, banks

and money changers, insurance, and theatres and cinemas.

On May 24, 1972, printed employment return cards were sent to

managements of all known establishments in these trades and services

with a request that particulars of employment and vacancies as on

May 31, 1972 be entered on the cards.

Completed cards should be returned to the Labour Department

not later than June 5, 1972.

A Labour Department spokesman said that he hoped that all

recipients would fill in these cards fully and accurately and return them

promptly in the reply-paid envelopes provided.

"In the last survey, the extent of co-operation from managements

was most encouraging," he said.

Managements are assured that the information provided on these

cards is kept strictly confidential and is used only for the preparation

of statistical information.

The cards are subsequently destroyed under supervision when all

the relevant information has been extracted and incorporated in statistical

summaries and tables from which individual establishments cannot be identified.

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