which is why the study will be limited to men. Figure 2:1 summarizes some of the characteristics mentioned. In the SAF statistics only academic qualifications and a few vocationai high school qualifications are coded while a general high school education is not distinguished from other less advanced educationa1levels. Of all such salary eamers in the SAF sector there are only 4 % with an academic degree. This proportion has stayed approximately constant during the whole period of investigation. The proportion with a (vocational) high school education was 20 % in the mid-fifties and has since then increased a little. In 1967 the proportion
was 25 %. Compared with the total number of salary earners in SAF or the labour force as a whole, our population is thus rather small, covering altogether some 40 000 to 50 000 employees.
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in industry 7 % are salary earners employed by members of SAF 2 % are »educated» salary earners employed by members of SAF
Source: Census of the Population in 1960 and SAF salary statistics 1960.
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