FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1988
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JANUARY ORDERS-ON-HAND, EMPLOYMENT, PAYROLL FIGURES RELEASED
IN JANUARY
1988, THE AVERAGE VOLUME OF ORDERS-ON-HAND
LARGEST FIRMS REPORTED BY THE 200
IN THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR DECREASE REMAINED ABOUT THE SAME AS IN DECEMBER 1987 BUT SHOWED SOME
RESULTS OF A SURVEY COMPARED WITH JANUARY 1987, ACCORDING TO THE released TODAY (FRIDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
IN TERMS OF AT THE END OF THE
MEASURED ORDERS-ON-HAND, THE AVERAGE VOLUME OF THE NUMBER OF MONTHS, REFERS TO THE POSITION AS REFERENCE MONTH.
COMPARED
WITH
DECEMBER
1987,
THE
ORDERS
POSITION
IN
THE
BUT
PLASTIC PRODUCTS INDUSTRY IMPROVED SUBSTANTIALLY IN JANUARY 1988, WAS STILL CONSIDERABLY BELOW THAT IN JANUARY 1987.
OF
THE WEARING APPAREL INDUSTRY REPORTED AVERAGE VOLUME
ORDERS COMPARED
SOME DECREASES IN WITH BOTH DECEMBER
THE
1987
AND
JANUARY 1987.
OTHER THE
REPORTED
DECREASES SOME
WHEN COMPARED
PRODUCTS
WITH INDUSTRY,
NO CHANGE
MOST
IN
THEIR
INDUSTRIES
1987.
THE
RECORDED A
SHOWED SURVEYED INDUSTRIES ORDERS POSITION WHEN COMPARED WITH DECEMBER 1987 BUT
ELECTRONIC
JANUARY HOWEVER,
ELECTRICAL AND SLIGHT INCREASE IN ORDERS COMPARED WITH JANUARY 1987.
DECREASED SLIGHTLY IN EMPLOYMENT IN THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR JANUARY 1988 WHEN COMPARED WITH BOTH DECEMBER 1987 AND JANUARY 1987.
EMPLOYMENT IN THE COMPARING JANUARY 1988 WITH DECEMBER 1987,
TEXTILES AND ELECTRICAL AND WEARING APPAREL,
PRODUCTS ELECTRONIC IN THE FOOD AND DRINKS, PLASTIC INDUSTRIES DECREASED, WHILE THAT
INDUSTRIES SHOWED SOME METAL PRODUCTS
PRODUCTS
INCREASES.
AND
COMPARING
FABRICATED
AND
IN PLASTIC PRODUCTS INDUSTRIES. THE INCREASES IN EMPLOYMENT
METAL FABRICATED
PRODUCTS
JANUARY
1988
JANUARY WITH
1987, EMPLOYMENT APPAREL AND WEARING DROPPED IN THE PARTLY OFFSETTING THESE DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN
FOOD AND DRINKS INDUSTRIES.
THE
IN JANUARY 1988, BOTH PAYROLL AND PER CAPITA MANUFACTURING SECTOR INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY OVER DECREASED WHEN COMPARED WITH JANUARY 1987.
EARNINGS IN THE DECEMBER
1987 BUT
IN INTERPRETING THE FIGURES ON CAUTION SHOULD BE EXERCISED PAYROLL AND PER CAPITA EARNINGS FOR THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OF THE YEAR, WHICH OCCURRED IN VIEW OF THE TIMING OF THE LUNAR NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS,
IN LATE JANUARY LAST YEAR BUT TOOK PLACE IN MID-FEBRUARY THIS YEAR.
THIS HAS
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