Sentence examples for the total labour force from inspiring English sources

More than one-half of the total labour force is engaged directly in agricultural activities.

The government also employs a substantial percentage of the total labour force and effects investment policy.

This amounts to less than 0.1% of the total labour force.

The manufacturing and mining sector employs almost one-fifth of the total labour force.

Since 1974 additional immigrants from Turkey have been brought in to work vacant land and increase the total labour force.

The proportion of white-collar workers, public employees, and civil servants in the total labour force continues to grow.

Gyorgy Sziraczki of the UN's International Labour Organisation (ILO) points out that, in the next ten years, the total labour-force of the worker-exporting countries should grow by about a third but labour migration, legal and illegal, is growing twice as fast as even that.

Consequently, the employment rate of the population's total labour force reached 73.7%, a level never before attained.

About 72percentt of the population of the country lives in rural areas (Census Report, 2001) and the agricultural sector provides employment to about 60percentt of the country’s total labour force (GOI, 2002).

Examination of influence statistics demonstrated the larger labour markets of Peel (10% of total labour force), Toronto (17%) and York (6%) regions were influential over the correlations obtained, as assessed by Cooks D statistics.

International migrant workers (IMW) from Sri Lanka have grown ten-fold during the past decade and around 17% of Sri Lanka's total labour force is currently working outside its borders [ 3].