APPENDIX B
No. OF WORKERS EMPLOYED IN SELECTED MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES March 1969
Industrial group
Manufacturing*
No. of workers
% of total economically
active population
551,350
37.9
Services
Commerce
337,340
23.2
233,340
16.1
Construction..
Farming and fishing
Communications
Public utilities
86,260
5.9
73,050
5.0
95,780
6.6
13,670
0.9
Mining and quarrying
4,200
0.3
Others (Unclassifiable)
5,360
0.4
Total working population ..
1,400,350
96.3
Unemployed and job-seekers
54,380
3.7
Total economically active population
1,454,730
100
Note: *includes outworkers
Industries
Garments and shirts Plastics
Metal products
Woollen knitting
Cotton weaving
Electronics
Cotton spinning
Job printing
Shipbuilding and repairing
Cotton knitting
Number of persons
employed
82,839
67,959
41,101
35,028
31,501
31,259
21,456
12,313
11,918
9,371
Number of Employees in Registered and Recorded Industrial Undertakings
Number of
industrial
Number of employees
undertakings
Male
Female
Total
March 1947
972
32,904
18,434
51,338
March 1948
1,143
35,770
24,880
60,650
March 1949
1,284
39,563
25,708
65,271
March 1950
1,525
56,226
33,286
89,512
March 1951
1,788
58,367
35,470
93,837
March 1952
1,987
61,149
31,703
92,852
March 1953
2,131
65,272
35,630
100,902
March 1954
2,303
66,925
39,366
106,291
March 1955
2,557
73,669
44,899
118,568
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