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<br />AGRICUl TURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES 4.8"1" <br />MINING 2.9% <br />CONTRACT CONSTRUCTION 6.1% <br /> <br /> <br />TOTAL REGIONAL <br />EMPLOYMENT 416,800 <br /> <br /> <br />001147 <br /> <br />EMPLOYMENT <br /> <br />Total employment was estimated at 416,800 in 1965. (Illustration 7.) Employ. <br />ment distribution differs materially from the national average. In the United States <br />in 1965, 26 percent of the labor force was in manufacturing while in the Great Basin <br />only 14 percent were engaged in this endeavor. A larger proportion of the Region's <br />work force is engaged in mining, contract construction, transportation, trades, <br />services and government than the national average. <br />Employment, like population, is unevenly distributed. Sixty.eight percent of <br />those employed lived in the Great Salt Lake subregion in contrast to the Tonopah <br />subregion with only one percent of the work force. <br />Employment levels are some of the most important indexes of economic activity <br />and the most important factors in determining whether an area will experience rapid <br />economic growth. <br />Employment is projected to increase 170 percent from 1965 to 2020, to a total <br />of 1,279,000 people. (Illustration 7). <br /> <br />TOTAL REGIONAL EMPLOYMENT/1965 <br /> <br />MANUFACTURING 14.0% <br /> <br />TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNI CAnONS AND <br />OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES 7.1% <br /> <br />WHOLESALE AND RETAil TRADE 20.0"/" <br /> <br />FINANCE, INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE 4.3"10 <br /> <br />SERVICES 27.4% <br /> <br />GOVERNMENT 13.4% <br /> <br />Illustration 7 <br /> <br />7 <br />