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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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