ENG-1962 — Page 458

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APPENDICES

Appendix I

(Chapter 3: Employment)

Industrial undertakings and persons employed in main industrial groups

393

United Nations

standard

industrial

Industry

Industrial undertakings

Persons

employed

24

classification

numbers

12

Metal mining

1961 1962

1961

1962

2

2

668

630

$

14

19

20

21

22

23 2

24

25

Clay pits and quarrying

Non-metallic mining

Food manufacture

Beverages,

Tobacco manufacture

Manufacture of textiles

Footwear and wearing apparel

Manufacture of wood and cork

:

:

71

66

1,579

1,546

11

10

79

96

:

:

408

458

8,378

9,578

25

25

1,405

1,974

5

6

1,359

1,266

876

964

68,825

71,088

840

956

45,389

52,582

:

:

199

237

3,208

J

3,885

26

Manufacture of furniture

160

177

2,780

3,432

27

Paper

101

137

1,778

2,220

28

Printing and publishing

708

761

11,079

11,765

29

Leather and leather products

19

23

235

322

30

Rubber products

132

159

7,453

8,299

31

Chemicals and chemical products

123

125

3,625

3,519

]

32

Products of petroleum and coal

+

3

34

19

33

Non-metallic mineral products

88

87

2,173

2,204

34

Basic metal industries

84

95

2,819

3,260

35

Metal products

679

845

28,026

31,251

11

36

Manufacture of machinery

341

410

5,086

6,102

37

Electrical apparatus

135

162

6,480

7,843

38

Transport equipment

101

109

16,015

13,907

39

Miscellaneous manufacturing industries ..

959

1,204

32,741

38,287

40

Construction

3

16

51

Electricity and gas

7

7

2,633

3,275

61

Wholesale and retail trade

6

5

933

653

71

Transport

72

Storage and warehousing

220

20

21

8,622

9,430

24

25

3,803

4,068

73

Telephones

1

1

1,510

2,047

84

Motion picture industry.

8

10

647

891

85

Laundry and dry cleaning

219

215

2,351

2,458

Totals

6,359

7,305

271,729 297,897

* Statistics relating to the construction industry have been re-classified.

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