3.2
Other sectors 3.5 2.5 2.2
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Total 100.0 100.0 100.0
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Source: Adapted from _Anuarul Statistic al Republicii Socialiste
Romania, 1970_ (Statistical Yearbook of the Socialist Republic
of Romania, 1970), Bucharest, 1970; and U.S. Department of
Commerce, Office of Technical Services, Joint Publications
Research Service--JPRS Series (Washington), _Translations on
Eastern Europe: Economic and Scientific Affairs_, "Development
of National Income Discussed," _Probleme Economice_, Bucharest,
April 1971, (JPRS 53,521, Series No. 491, 1971).

Published labor statistics leave many serious gaps, and unofficially
reported data do not always agree with official figures in the annual
statistical yearbooks. Information released on the size of the
economically active population is limited to percentage changes over the
years.

The economically active population increased by only 3.5 percent from
1960 to 1967 and remained stationary thereafter to 1969. During the
ten-year period the number of persons active in industry increased by
half, whereas the number of those engaged in agriculture declined by 19
percent. Nevertheless, in 1970 about half the population was still
engaged in agriculture, and only 22 percent were active in industry.

Although there is no officially recognized unemployment, a substantial
amount of underemployment is reported to exist in industry and, even
more so, in agriculture. The reasons advanced by Romanian economists for
this situation are the duty and the right of every citizen to work and
the inability to achieve quickly full and efficient employment in a
country that inherited a backward and predominantly agrarian economy
with a large peasant population. Efforts toward obtaining full and
efficient employment have been handicapped by the rapidly rising volume
of investment needed to create new nonagricultural jobs. The average
investment per nonagricultural job increased almost fivefold to 324,000
lei (for value of leu, see Glossary) from the 1951-55 period to the
1966-70 period, and a further 40 percent rise in cost was projected for
the 1971-75 period.

_Table 5. Gross National Product of Romania, by Sector of Origin, 1960
and 1967_ (in percent)

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