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MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1988

THE MAJOR FINDINGS OF THE SURVEY ARE SUMMARISED AS FOLLOWS:

(A)

ECONOMICALLY 2,792,800

IN

OF THE

ACTIVE PERSONS

THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1987, 139,900 (5 PER CENT) WERE ENTRANTS, THAT IS, THEY HAD JOINED THE LABOUR FORCE SINCE OCTOBER-DECEMBER 1986.

(B)

52,000 PERSONS (1.9 PER CENT) HAD

THE FROM LABOUR FORCE SINCE OCTOBER-DECEMBER 1986. AMONG THEM, 27 PER CENT LEFT THE LABOUR FORCE FOR REASON OF INCREASE

CENT IN THE VOLUME OF HOUSEWORK, 22 PER

FOR REASON OF POOR HEALTH, AND 18 PER CENT FOR RETIREMENT.

DROPPED

OUT

(C)

THE

EMPLOYED PERSONS

1987. 313,100 REPORTED

(D)

(E)

(F)

THAT

DURING THE 12 MONTHS TO OCTOBER-DECEMBER (11.4 PER CENT) OF THEY HAD CHANGED JOBS RUT WERE STILL WITHIN THE SAME INDUSTRY (THAT IS, INTRA-INDUSTRY MOBILITY).

(THAT

ANOTHER 102,000 (3.7 PER CENT) OF THE EMPLOYED PERSONS REPORTED THAT THEY HAD CHANGED INDUSTRY

IS, INTER-INDUSTRY MOBILITY).

FOR INTRA-INDUSTRY MOBILITY, CONSTRUCTION HAD THE HIGHEST MOBILITY RATE (36.3 PER CENT), FOLLOWED BY MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES (12.3 PER CENT) AND WHOLESALE AND RETAIL TRADE, RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS (9.8 PER CENT)

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INDUSTRIES EXCEPT

FOR INTER-INDUSTRY MOBILITY, ALL SERVICES INDUSTRIES HAD LOST WORKERS DURING THE 12 MONTHS TO OCTOBER-DECEMBER 1987.

THE LARGEST NET

LOSER,

MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES,

LOST 9,600 WORKERS (REPRESENTING 1 PER CENT OF WORK FORCE IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES) WHILE SERVICES INDUSTRIES GAINED 13,800 WORKERS (REPRESENTING 1.5 PER CENT OF THE WORK FORCE IN SERVICES INDUSTRIES).

A MAJORITY (59 PER CENT) OF JOB-CHANGERS HAD CHANGED JOBS VOLUNTARILY, MAINLY BECAUSE THEY WERK DISSATISFIED WITH THEIR EARNINGS FROM THEIR PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT OR BECAUSE THEY DISLIKED THE TYPE OF WORK THAT THEY WERE DOING, THEIR COLLEAGUES OR THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE ESTABLISHMENTS CONCERNED.

ON THE OTHER HAND, ABOUT 37 PER CENT OF THEM HAD TO CHANGE JOBS DURING THE 12-MONTH PERIOD BECAUSE THEY WERE EITHER DISMISSED OR HAD COMPLETED CONTRACTS, OR FOR REASONS OF SLACK WORK AND CLOSEDOWN OF ESTABLISHMENTS.

FIRST-TIME

THERE WERE 17.800 PREVIOUS EMPLOYED PERSONS OR JOB SEEKERS LN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1987 WHO WERE LOOKING FOR WORK. THEY WERE A SOURCE OF FULL-TIME LABOUR.

/(G) THERE WERE