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Appendix IIB

Industrial Undertakings and Persons Employed in selected Industries in certain of the Main Industrial Groups

U.N. Standard Industrial Classification

Number

Industry

Industrial Undertakings

335

Persons Employed

1956 1957 1958

1956

1957

1958

23

Manufacture of Textiles

Cotton Spinning

19 19 20

14,271

Wool Spinning

3

3

2

847

15,646 386

* 12,613

205

Cotton Weaving

146

158

183

9,838

11,045

* 15,870

Finishing

51

63

74

1,627

1,738

1.974

Knitting Mills

325

349

272

14,046

13,202

8,511

Cordage, rope & twine

42

41

31

938

911

498

24

Footwear, Wearing Apparel &

made-up Textile Goods

Footwear except rubber footwear

29

31

59

1,042

1,110

1,845

Wearing apparel except footwear

195

218

585

8,418

12,084

25.602

Made-up textile goods except

wearing apparel

31

28

36

882

860

786

31

Chemical & Chemical Products

=

Medicines

21

Cosmetics

Paint & lacquer.

Matches

2997

22

28

568

563

633

10

8

5

257

261

169

10

9 11

471

500

530

3

568

473

462

Basic Metal Industries

ار (1)

Rolling mills

11

12 17

738

675

1,487

Metal Products (except Machinery)

Tin cans

34

35

Enamelware

39

33

**

43

1,292

1,219

933

23

6,156

5,595

5.644

Vacuum flasks

5

5

6

751

767

924

Electro-plating

52

50

78

1,147

1,014

1.298

Needles

6

6

712

559

537

Hurricane lamps

4

4

7

368

190

398

Hand torch cases

29

30

36

5,540

5,163

5.401

Pressure stoves & lanterns

(no separate

21

(no separate

1.462

Wrist watch bands

records)

58

records)

2,003

T

37

Electrical Apparatus

Hand torch bulbs

28

29 34

Torch batteries

8

8 11

==

751

873

868 1,089

920

1.033

38

Transport & Transport Equipment

Shipbuilding & repairing

23

Tramways

Motor buses

Aircraft repair

2-22

1

2-2-

23 30

8,245 10,733

10,049

1

1

1,536

1,517

1,492

2

973

1,057

1.083

1

1,437

889

909

39

Miscellaneous

Artificial pearls

7

7

7

364

313

403

Buttons

28

29

29

1,155

1,162

1,341

Bakelite ware

15

14

18

301

363

477

Plasticware

113 131

296

2,987

4,184

8,024

Fountain pens

5

6

9

192

164

267

Artificial flowers

(no separate

11

records)

(no separate records)

1,462

* During the year 3,900 workers employed in the weaving sections of 9 cotton spinning mills were transferred from 'Spinning' to 'Weaving'.

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