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(2) an Increase in forestry employment from 48,000 to 

 70,000; 



(3) growth 1n fisheries employment from 45,000 to 60,000. 

 Both forestry and fisheries maintain constant shares of national 

 employment of .7 per cent and .6 percent respectively. 



Employment 1n the "service-producing" sector should exhibit the 

 greatest proportional increase 1n the foreseeable future. The 

 services group will surpass both manufacturing and wholesale-retail 

 trade 1n percent of national employment by 1980. 



IMPLICATIONS OF THE NATIONAL PICTURE 



If normal circumstances prevail, the Nation's population and general 

 high standard of living will continue to Increase in the coming 

 decades. A moderate estimate projects a doubling of the national 

 population by the turn of the century, with a significant proportion 

 of that growth occurring in urban areas. 



The population will be made up of a large proportion of youth and 

 young persons of working ages, with only a moderate increase in the 

 elderly through the end of the century. Personal income will rise 

 dramatically. Estimates of leisure time vary considerably, but all 

 authorities agree that the workweek will shorten, from a conservative 

 estimate of 35 hours a week to as little as 20 hours per week. The 

 National Planning Association has projected that 1n 1990, ten percent, 

 and in 2000, twenty percent of the men between the ages of 25 and 54 



