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Tuesday, October 17, 1972

MANPOWER SURVEY FOR THE CLOTHING INDUSTRY

The Clothing Industrial Committee will be conducting a second

manpower survey of the clothing industry next month.

The survey will be made with the assistance of the Labour Department.

The committee is one of the 10 associated industrial committees of the

Industrial Training Advisory Committee.

The survey aims at seeking such information as the number of workers

at present employed, the number of workers now under training, the number

of existing vacancies, and a forecast of the total number of workers required

by November, 1973.

Because of the size of the industry, a random stratified sampling

method has been adopted to select 620 factories to be covered in the survey.

The information collected will be handled in strict confidence and

will be published only in the form of statistical summaries without reference

to any individual factory.

Such information is vital to the work of the Clothing Industrial

Committee, and if meaningful plans are to be drawn up to meet the training

needs of the industry, employers whose factories have been selected for the

survey are requested to provide accurate answers to the questionnaires cont

to them.

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