Changes in industrial workforce distribution have varied, depending on the sector. While the number of manufacturing jobs has remained fairly constant, employment in the building trades has dropped sharply from a 1995 peak of 1 million to only 750,000 last year. This sector has contributed greatly to rising unemployment figures.
工業中的製造業人口消長平緩，但營造業勞動力卻自一九九五年的一百萬人高峰，下滑到去年只剩七十五萬人，失業人數大幅增加。