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Statistics, collected quarterly by the Census and Statistics Department on a voluntary basis from registered and recorded industrial undertakings, showed that in March 1974 a total of 567,563 people were directly employed in industrial undertakings in the manufacturing sector. Em- ployment figures in March 1974 for registered and recorded industrial undertakings in the major manufacturing industries were:-

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garments

plastics

metal products

124,046

65,697

51,132

electronics

54,499

knitting

17,818

knitwear from yarn

17,767

cotton weaving

27,262

cotton spinning

21,129

job printing

12,881

shipbuilding and repairing

9,942

rubber footwear

5,646

gloves

11,051

GROWTH OF EMPLOYMENT

Employment in all registered and recorded industrial undertakings has grown more than 12 times from 51,338 in March 1947 to 611,205 in March 1974 as shown in the following table:-

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