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Tuesday, September 27, 1977

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CLOTHING INDUSTRY MANPOWER SURVEY

A manpower survey of Hong Kong's clothing industry will he conducted

from October 10 to 31 to collect up-to-date information on training requirements

of the industry.

The survey is the fourth in the series to be conducted by the Clothing

Industry Training Board of the Hong Kong Training Council, with the assistance

of the Labour Department and the Census and Statistics Department.

Questionnaires and explanatory letters have been sent to all selected

clothing mills,

Officers of the Census and Statistics Department will call at each

of these mills during the survey period to help complete and to collect the

questionnaires.

The information which employers are requested to supply includes the

number of workers at present employed or under training, the number of existing

vacancies and a forecast of additional workers required in the next 12 months.

Mr. Francis Tien, Chairman of the Clothing Industry Training Board,

stressed: "The information collected will be handled in strict confidence

and will be published only in the form of statistical summaries without referense

to any individual mill.

"As the information to be collected from this survey is of vital

importance for formulating meaningful training plans for the benefit of the

industry, co-operation of those covered in the survey is sincerely solicited,"

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