ne the Institute for Technical Inter- change, East-West Center, University of Hawaii. Training was received in business methods, teaching, nursing, advanced commercial sewing, hotel management, and music leadership. Out of 351 Micronesian students now attending colleges or other institutions of higher learning, 77—or 21%—are women. The South Pacific Commission and the Food and Agriculture Organization have sponsored jointly the fourth Women’s Home Economic Training Course in Fiji. Three women trainees, two from Palau and one from Truk, completed training at this center during the year. Three Micronesian graduates also took part in a 3-week home economics refresher seminar, sponsored jointly in Honolulu by the East-West Center and the SPC. Chapter 4 The 1967 Territory Health Census revealed 41,000 persons in the Territory’s labor force—that is, all persons, except students and housewives, between ages 15 and 65, Only about 16,600 were reported to be remuneratively employed and about half of these were listed as subsistence-copra farmers, fishermen, handicraft producers or boatbuilders, who receive a small cash income. For example, the estimated annual income per copra producer is about $285. Thus some 20% of the total employable population—received wages on either a regular or part-time basis. This percentage of actual wage earners among total potential work 86 Marshall Islands, 19; Yap, 18, Ponape, 17. At the end of fiscal year | 5,373-—more than half the reco 8,450 Micronesian wage earners— employed by the Trust Terr: Government, other agencies of U.S. Government, such as the We; Bureau, Coast Guard and Post O} district and municipal governm and the Congress of Micronesia. Most private wage employme: the Territory is with Micronesia Micronesian-American owned busi es--principally stores, religious sions, and in domestic service. £ Micronesians also work intermitt as stevedores, cargo handlers, casual laborers. In the past year, grams operated by the local Con nity Action Agencies, described be LABOR 8,000—or about force varies among districts, rar from a high of 38% in the Ma Islands to a scant 13% in Truk. other percentages are: Palau, provided full employment for ai 75 Trust Territory citizens and . time employment, or training stipe for periods of three to six months about 500 persons. With some $20,000,000 in Go: ment capital construction schea for fiscal year 1969, together wit! planned construction of two tourist hotels in Palau and Truk di the same period, a sizable increa: Micronesian employment is ar pated. The degree of this increase wi! contingent on the Territory’s abilit provide skilled Micronesian labo private building contractors now & ing the area. This, in turn, will dey on the Adiministration’s capacits develop a skilled labor force in struction and other service indus: Part VII—Social Advancer ** ES