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Figure 2.1 Employment by main sector in 1960.
Construction
Tourism
Mining and quanying
15%
Financial, property &
business services
1.1%
Agriculture
44.4%
Source: Republic ofCypms.1994. TSuionctlDataonUie Economy ofCypnt* 1960-1991 '.p. 184.
communitiy, social &
personal seiv's
13.8%
While no other sub-sector under-performed like agriculture, few looked particularly
productive. Using the same data as in Figures 2.1 and 2.2, (and 1960 current
market prices) construction exhibited signs of low productivity, 9.5% of labour
producing just 5% of GDP. Manufacturing in 1960 did not look much like a
modem sector able to productively absorb surplus labour from agriculture. Being
essentially dominated by agricultural processing and small scale craft based
industries, manufacturing exhibited signs of low productivity, over 13% of labour
employed in the sector produced 12% of GDP. Income and employment in the
tourist industry was low in 1960. If income and employment in restaurant and
hôtels can be used as a rough proxy for the size and performance of the tourist
industry, it also reveáis signs of under-employment, 3.5% of labour contributing
less than 2% to national income. Only in the small, mining, transport, financial and
property services industries, was under-employment entirely absent. Mining and
quarrying employed 2.5% of labour and produced 5% of GDP. Transport storage
and communications employed 4.5% of labour and produced 8% of GDP, while the
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