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TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1989

FEBRUARY ORDERS-ON-HAND, EMPLOYMENT AND PAYROLL FIGURES

BUT

AND

LARGEST MANUFACTURING THE ORDERS POSITION REPORTED BY THE 200 COMPANIES IN FEBRUARY 1989 WAS ABOUT THE SAME AS IN JANUARY 1989,

FEBRUARY 1988, ACCORDING INCREASED BY 1 PER CENT WHEN COMPARED WITH TO THE RESULTS OF A SURVEY RELEASED TODAY (TUESDAY) BY THE CENSUS STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

AVERAGE VOLUME COMPARING FEBRUARY 1989 WITH JANUARY 1989, THE

SIGNIFICANTLY IN THE PLASTIC PRODUCTS OF ORDERS-ON-HAND INCREASED INDUSTRY AS SOME COMPANIES SURVEYED RECEIVED A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT NEW ORDERS.

OF

RECORDED

IN

THE

FABRICATED

INDUSTRIES. OVER SLIGHTLY IN THE APPAREL

METAL

SLIGHT INCREASES WERE PRODUCTS AND THE ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS DECLINED THE SAME

POSITION THE ORDERS PERIOD, TEXTILES INDUSTRY, WHILE SHOWING LITTLE CHANGE IN THE WEARING INDUSTRY.

POSITION IN FEBRUARY COMPARED WITH FEBRUARY 1988, THE ORDERS 1989 IMPROVED SIGNIFICANTLY IN THE FABRICATED METAL PRODUCTS INDUSTRY, AND TO A LESSER EXTENT IN THE ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC THE WEARING APPAREL INDUSTRIES.

THE VOLUME

OF

PRODUCTS AND

DROPPED

THE PLASTIC

ORDERS-ON-HAND ON THE OTHER HAND, SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE TEXTILES INDUSTRY AND MODERATELY IN PRODUCTS INDUSTRY OVER THE SAME PERIOD.

THE AVERAGE VOLUME OF ORDERS-ON-HAND IS MEASURED THE NUMBER OF MONTHS AND REFERS TO ORDERS OUTSTANDING AS OF THE REFERENCE MONTH.

IN TERMS OF AT THE END

WITH

SURVEYED REPORTED THAT THE ON EMPLOYMENT, THE MANUFACTURERS

BY

WHEN COMPARED 2 PER LOWER

CENT FEBRUARY 1989 LEVEL WAS JANUARY 1989, AND BY 6 PER CENT WHEN COMPARED WITH FEBRUARY 1988.

MOST MANUFACTURING

INCREASE

IN EMPLOYMENT, EXCEPT A SLIGHT

COMPARING FEBRUARY 1989 WITH JANUARY 1989, INDUSTRIES SURVEYED REPORTED SLIGHT DECREASES THE PLASTIC PRODUCTS EMPLOYMENT WAS RECORDED.

COMPARED

WITH

INDUSTRY IN

WHICH

FEBRUARY 1988,

IN

IN FEBRUARY 1989

DECREASED SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE PLASTIC PRODUCTS INDUSTRY.

DECREASES MODERATE

EMPLOYMENT

THE ELECTRICAL AND

DRINKS INDUSTRIES,

WERE RECORDED IN

ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS, WEARING APPAREL AND FOOD AND ALONG WITH A SLIGHT DECREASE IN THE TEXTILES INDUSTRY.

THE ON

HAND, OTHER

REPORTED IN THE FABRICATED

A SLIGHT METAL

INCREASE

IN

INDUSTRY PRODUCTS

PERIOD.

WAS

EMPLOYMENT OVER THE SAME

AS WAS ...................