negative for five successive quarters, began to pick up again
this year, particularly in the second quarter (paragraph 2.12). Third, there was a large increase in
in the number of
reported employment vacancies (paragraph 4.7); and
manufacturing employment probably showed some increase during
second quarter (paragraph 4.10). Fourth, according to
information obtained from a selection of large manufacturers
in the latest monthly survey on employment, payroll and orders-on-hand(3)
order-book positions continued to improve
the
·
in May 1983 (paragraph 5.3).
Growth rates of domestic exports (%)
Year-on-year
comparison
In money
terms
In real
terms
Rate of increase
in prices
1982/1981
3
1982/1981 Q1
9
Q2
4
Q3
1
Q4
1
1982/1981 Hl
H2
1983/1982 Q1
6
Q2(*)
21
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61
-3
6
-1
10
-4
8
-4
-1
-2
-2
52
93
1983/1982 H1{*)
14
9
3
4
6
5
Note: (*) Estimated by using trade indexes available up to May
1983.
/Domestic
...
(3) The monthly survey on employment, payroll and orders-on-hand includes 200 large manufacturing companies selected on the basis of employment in September 1979, in addition to a small number of construction and other non-manufacturing companies. Each month a questionnaire is sent to each of these companies, requesting information on the number of persons engaged as at the end of the preceding month, on the amount of payroll for the preceding month and on orders-on-hand in terms of months as at the first day of the current month. Its purpose is to provide short-term economic indicators at monthly intervals. As the survey is not based on a scientifically selected random sample, the results do not necessarily reflect the performance of the economy as a whole, but they do give some indication of the direction of change.
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