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APPENDICES

Appendix I

(Chapter 3: Employment)

Industrial undertakings and persons employed

in main industrial groups

355

United Nations standard

industrial

classification

Industry

Industrial undertakings

Persons

employed

1959

1960

1959

1960

23

numbers

12

Metal mining

14

Clay pits and quarrying

19

Non-metallic mining

20

Food manufacture

21

Beverages

22

Tobacco manufacture

23

Manufacture of textiles

24

3

3

744

723

62

66

1,549

1,447

:

:

:

:

:

1

12

41

76

362

388

6,983

7,482

29

27

899

952

S

7

5

1,244

1,258

691

826

52,936

62,076

25

26

27

Paper

Footwear and wearing apparel

Manufacture of wood and cork

Manufacture of furniture

740

815

47,926

46,109

177

186

2,782

3,028

131

134

3,067

2,881

53

71

829

1,085

28828

Printing and publishing

29

Leather and leather products

:

:

624

644

8,614

8,854

16

19

270

267

30

Rubber products

108

118

7,923

7,963

31

Chemicals and chemical products

113

117

3,140

3,156

32

Products of petroleum and coal

3

4

13

23

33

Non-metallic mineral products

88

84

2,214

2,171

34

Basic metal industries

72

76

2,350

2,575

35

Metal products

578

613

26,473

27,414

36

Manufacture of machinery

282

320

4,305

4.628

37

Electrical apparatus

84

103

3,147

3,930

38

Transport and transport equipment

66

97

12,906

15.693

39

Miscellaneous manufacturing industries..

465

699

17,705

22,855

40

Construction

7

3

73

19

51

Electricity and gas

7

ON

6

1,466

1,345

61

Wholesale and retail trade

8

6

638

646

71

Transport (baling and packing).

13

16

190

233

73

2 23

72

Storage and warehousing

24

24

:

2,973

1,826

85

84

Cable and wireless and telephones

Motion picture industry

Laundry and dry cleaning

Totals

1

1

1,099

1,224

9

7

437

402

199

109

2,431

2,192

:

5,023

5,599

217,367 234.533

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