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Tuesday, May 1, 1973

Mr. Au-Yeung said, "At the time of the first manpower survey,

the employment statistics published by the Labour Department showed

that 92,871 manual workers were employed in 1,401 registered and recorded

factorios.

"In September 1972, however, the corresponding figures were

107,953 and 3,112 respectively.

"In view of these substantial changes, the Textile Industrial

Committee decided to conduct a second survey with a view to updating

the information on training requirements in the field,"

include:

The information which employers will be asked to supply will

(i) the number of workers employed;

(ii) the number of workers under training;

(iii) the number of existing vacancies; and

(iv)

an estimate of the total number of workers required by May 1974.

Mr. Au-Young stressed that the information collected would be

handled in strict confidence and would only be published in the form of

statistical summaries without reference to any individual factory.

Employers who have queries about the questionnaire should contact

the Employment Statistics Section of the Census and Statistics Department

by telephoning 5-282596.

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