ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies trends in employment and labour productivity. In 1961 African manufacturing employees were also concentrated in the four regions, 72.8 per cent being employed in these regions; the concentration of manufacturing employment in these regions having increased between 1961 and 1965. They are: Dar es Salaam and coast, Northern, Tanga and Lake. Groups of industries from which the 1963 fall in manufacturing employment stemmed were saw milling and carpentry, motor vehicles and engineering, and to a lesser extent, grain, oil, seed milling and soap, and miscellaneous industries. Whilst manufacturing employment was increasing over the period 1961 to 1972, the number of manufacturing establishments employing less than ten persons and total employment in these establishments was decreasing. Indices of labour productivity were calculated by dividing the index of industrial production for each year, each industry and for manufacturing as a whole, by indices of labour input.
