GE GIA SKILL STUDY Complete Edition
GEORGIA DEPARTMEN rc F LABOR BEN T. HUIET EMPLOYMENT SECUR TY AGENCY COMMISSIONER ANALYSIS OF GEORGIA'S TECHNICAL, SKILLED, AND CLERICAL LABOR REQUIREMENTS AND TRAINING NEEDS 1962 to 1967
by Dr. John L. Fulmer Project Director and Professor and Dr. Robert E. Green Assistant Project Director and Assistant Professor
Both of the Faculty School of Industrial Management Georgia Institute of Technology
March 15, 1963
Georgia Department of Labor Ben T. Huiet Employment Security Agency Commissioner
Contract A-636 SPONSORING COMMITTEE
Mr. L. L. Austin, Director Retail Merchants Association Retail Automobile Dealers Association
Mr. Walter T. Cates Executive Vice President Georgia State Chamber of Commerce
Mr. Clifford Clarke Executive Vice President Associated Industries of Georgia
Mr. J. W. Fanning, Director Institute for Community & Area Development University of Georgia
Mr. T. M. Forbes Executive Vice President Georgia Textile Manufacturers Association
Mr. Elmer George Executive Director Georgia Municipal Association
Mr. Hill Healan Executive Director Association of County Commissioners of Georgia
Mr. J. O. Long Georgia State Supervisor U.S. Bureau of Apprenticeship & Training
Mr. Jack J. Minter, Director Georgia Department of Commerce
Mr. 0. L. Shelton Executive Vice President & General Manager Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
Mr. E. A. Yates, Jr., Vice President Georgia Power Company ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Many people contributed importantly to this study. In fact, it could not have been possible at all without the interest and support of Commissioner
Ben T. Huiet, Georgia Department of Labor, and Mr. Marion Williamson,
Director, Employment Security Agency, Georgia Department of Labor. The as- sistance and advice of Mr. 0. H. Stephenson, Chief, Reports and Analysis
Section, Employment Security Agency, on the questionnaires, editing, and machine tabulation were invaluable and the authors express here a deep sense of gratitude to Mr. Stephenson, a technician par excellence. We are greatly indebted to Mrs. Maria M. Mallet, Assistant Chief, Reports and Analysis Section,
Employment Security Agency, for her excellent help on publicity and question- naire follow-up. Her untiring efforts to get the various manuscripts in published form were invaluable. Our sincere appreciation is extended to
Messrs. Jack P. Nix and William M. Hicks, Georgia Department of Education, for interest, enthusiasm, and counsel on the various aspects of the study.
We are also grateful for the help of the sponsoring committee, listed on the preceeding page, who publicized the report and otherwise helped get the questionnaires returned. We should like to mention especially the fine work of Messrs. Walter Cates, Paul Miller, Elmer George, and Hill Healan, who wrote numerous letters in support of the questionnaire and the interviews.
We acknowledge a great debt of gratitude to personnel of the Rich
Electronic Computer Center, Georgia Tech, especially Professor Charlie Reed, who programmed the sample inflation and the print-outs so efficiently and elegantly. We are sincerely grateful to following persons who read critically portions of the manuscript:
Mr. L. V. Johnson, Director Georgia Tech Extension Division
Mr. Roy A. Martin, Special Research Engineer Engineering Experiment Station Georgia Tech
Dr. Wm. B. Harrison, III., Director Nuclear Physics Department Engineering Experiment Station Georgia Tech
Professor Leonard H. Taylor Southern Technical Institute
Professor Jesse J. Defore Southern Technical Institute
Our sincere appreciation is here extended to all those personnel, pay-
roll people and others in each company who worked hard to get the rather
long questionnaires filled out despite summer vacations. Without their help
in getting to us complete and accurate information on the current use and
future requirements of skilled, technical and clerical workers in their com- panies, this study would not have been possible.
The report in final form, its accuracy, set up, and general appearance was the prime responsibility of our efficient secretary, Miss Alice Glover, who
labored through many revisions without complaint. We sincerely appreciate her
fine work in typing the manuscript in final form.
Finally and most important of all, this study could not have been at all possible without financial assistance and counsel from the Bureau of Employment
Security, U. S. Department of Labor. We are especially grateful to Messrs.
Levine, Chavrid, and Cappio for advice and many helpful suggestions on various
aspects of the study.
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Sponsoring Committee ii Acknowledgements iii Highlights of the Study 1 A. Conclusions and Recommendations 1 B. Brief Digest of Findings 4
I. Introduction 10 A. Objectives 12 B. Areas in the Study 12 C. Brief Methodology 13 D. Limitations of Study 15
II. Technical Workers in Georgia 17 A. Trends in Georgia's College, Technical, and Skilled Workers 17 B. Force of Technological Change 20
III. Growth Expectations of Sample Firms 22
IV. Characteristics of the Universe Sampled 26 A. Age and Sex of Skilled Workers 27 B. Comparison of Expected and Projected Employment 29 C. Estimated Employer Demand and Components of Demand 30 D. Factors Influencing Relative Number of Skilled Workers 31
V. Training Programs 37 A. Company Training 37 B. Public Training Programs 44 C. Apprenticeship Training 49 D. Union Training Programs 50 E. Relationship of Training to Employer Demand 50
VI. Impact of Changing Technology on Need for New Types of Technicians 53 A. Industrial Trends 55 B. General Summary of Overall State's Industrial Trends 71 C. Research into Science and Technology 73 D. New Technicians Required - 1963 to 1967 74 E. Statistical Analysis of Demand for Technicians to Fill New Positions 1962 to 1963 77 F. Course Specification for New Technicians 81 G. Relationship of Technicians to Scientific Progress and Technological Development 84
VII. Characteristics of the Self-Employed 89 A. Sample Selection and Response 89 B. Method of Analysis of the Data 90 C. Summary of Findings 90 D. Significance of Findings to Main Report 93
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Page VIII. Demand-Supply Summaries for Major Skilled Types 95
IX. Demand-Supply Summaries by Areas 99 A. Project Area Total 99 B. Area Analysis 102 Atlanta SMSA 107 Non-Metropolitan Georgia 111 5-Smaller SMSA's 114 Albany SMSA 117 Macon SMSA 119 Savannah SMSA 121 Augusta SMSA 123 Columbus SMSA 125
X. Georgia Trends in Demand for Skilled Workers 127 A. Major Skilled Categories 127 B. Current and Future Employment of Major Job Types 131
XI. Factors Retarding Technical Education 133
XII. Conclusions 139
APPENDIX A: NEW TECHNICIANS 1. List of Job Titles 2 2. Job Specifications for New Technicians 3 3. Summary of Course Requirements 15 4. Specific Apprenticeship Training Programs in Georgia 25
APPENDIX B: METHODOLOGY I. Basic Procedure 2 II. Definitions 13 III. List of Jobs 14 IV. Questionnaires 19 V. Publicity 46 VI. Letters 50 VII. Use of Computers in Processing Data 57 VIII.Sample Inflation and Related Statistical Analysis 67
APPENDIX C: STATISTICAL TABLES 1. Project Area 1 2. 3 Major Areas 14 3. 5-Sub-Areas 49 4. State of Georgia 64 INDEX OF TABLES (Main Report)
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Table Number
1. Number and Ratio of Population Completing High School 18
2. Number and Ratio of Total Employment Engineers and Scientists 19
3. Employment Data for Sample Firms 23
4. Age Distribution of Skilled Workers 27
5. Percentage of Skilled Workers Female 28
6. Current and Projected Employment 30
7. Factors Contributing Employer Demand 32
8. Effect of Type and Size of Company 34
9. Company Training Programs 39
10. Minimum Educational Requirements of Companies 42
- List of Job Types for Which Companies Requested Training 43
11. Company Training as a Source of Skilled Workers 52
12. New Technicians-Titles and Codes 76
13. Demand for New Technicians by 80 Companies 78
14. Projection of Demand for New Technicians 80
15. Course Specifications Requested for New Technicians 83
16. Characteristics of Self-Employed 91
17. Balance Sheet of Demand and Supply 96
18. Project Area Demand and Net Training Requirements 101
19. Relative Use of Skilled Workers in Different Areas 105
20. Relative Concentration in Different Areas 106
21. Atlanta SMSA Demand and Training Requirements 109
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22. Non-Metropolitan Georgia Demand and Training Requirements 112
23. Five-Smaller SMSA's Demand and Training Requirements 115
24. Albany SMSA Demand and Training Requirements 118
25. Macon SMSA Demand and Training Requirements 120
26. Savannah SMSA Demand and Training Requirements 122
27. Augusta SMSA Demand and Training Requirements 124
28. Columbus SMSA Demand and Training Requirements 126
29. Use of Skilled Workers in Georgia Industries 128
30. Use of Skilled Workers in Georgia Manufacturing 130
31. Current and 1967 Demand in Georgia 132 HIGHLIGHTS OF THE STUDY
A. Conclusions and Recommendations
1. Rapid technological change of a complex nature is a dominant factor in
the Georgia economy. Top management is cognizant of the technological
changes but is being overwhelmed by the speed and complexity of them.
Many have not analyzed fully the implications of technological change in
terms of their operations nor in terms of their need for technicians.
2. The rapidity and complexity of technological change are producing stead-
ily more complex and expensive equipment in production operations and
also consumer appliances. From the standpoint of costs of operations and
consumer good will, there is a compelling necessity for preventive main-
tenance and quick repair on such equipment. These trends are therefore
building up the demand greatly for design engineers and technicians on
the one hand and for maintenance technicians on the other.
3. The continuous acceleration of scientific discovery and technological
change is magnifying problems of communications between Georgia industry
and educators both in colleges and the public school system.
4. The steady up-grading in the skills and knowledge of workers, required
to keep pace with changes in technology, requires top management to have
under continuous study and assessment its need for skilled workers and
technicians. This may require the assistance of outside analysts as with
interviewers in the present study.
5. The rapid growth in the State's requirements for technical, skilled, and
-1- clerical workers means a vast program of public education, assisted by
the colleges, in meeting these needs.
6. Rapid technological change requires frequent studies of the overall supply
and demand for technical, skilled, and clerical workers at intervals of
2 to 5 years to keep estimates current and reasonably accurate and also
to provide data of a maximum value to counselors in high school.
7. The problem of up-dating, i.e. keeping up with the changing technology
in Georgia industry is all pervasive and is a big factor in determining
the State's future rate of growth. This means that teachers in high
schools, vocational-technical schools, and colleges should be provided
sabbatical leave to renew knowledge.
8. Skilled workers, technicians, and engineers must be given the maximum op-
portunity to keep up if their companies are to capitalize on changing
technology. This demands rapid expansion of company training programs
and adult education in our public educational facilities.
9. The pace of progress depends upon dissemination of new knowledge about
changes in technology. This requires better interchange between industri-
alists and educators through summer institutes or some other method. Pub-
lished media and other sources of information should be developed to fur-
ther this process.
10. Small companies in Georgia cannot afford an elaborate setup to capitalize
on technological change. In fact, many large companies appear weak in
this area also. They need analytical help, and certainly expert engineers
to speed-up the process of adopting technological change. It is suggested
that the engineering staff of the Engineering Experiment Station, Georgia
Institute of Technology, be expanded to meet this need. Since there must
-2- exist a real desire on the part of companies for such services, it is
suggested that they be subsidized to only a minor extent by the State.
This means that companies would pay for the cost of such consulting serv-
ices, the State bearing the overhead cost of maintaining an organization.
11. In order to meet the demand for technicians, currently quite large and
becoming progressively greater, a massive effort must be made throughout
the State to change the status image held by young people. It is now
firmly fixed on colleges, but many who finish, and perhaps most of the
60 per cent who drop out, would be happier and more successful in tech-
nician or skilled types of jobs. Changing the image will require much
publicity to parents and intensive counseling with high school pupils.
It will help if we will work to increase the prestige of such jobs which
do command good pay.
12. It has been said that a state or region can expect to achieve rapid growth
in the future to the extent to which it is able to capitalize on rapid
changes in science and technology. This will depend: (1) upon the ex-
tent to which its institutions and private centers engage in basic research,
and (2) the extent to which there is an active effort to promote and help
facilitate adoption of technology. Therefore, it is recommended that we
re-examine our programs of research in the State's public and private in-
stitutions with the thought of both up-grading research and greatly en-
larging their financial support, to meet this challenge to Georgia's
future. B. Brief Digest of Findings
1. The study area includes the entire State of Georgia, plus Aiken County,
South Carolina, and Russell County, Alabama, which constitute parts of
Augusta and Columbus metropolitan areas respectively. Separate figures
on current use and future requirements of technical, skilled, and clerical
workers are given for the six metropolitan areas of the study.
2. The study was conducted in three phases: Namely, mailed survey of a
scientifically drawn sample of firms with 4 or more workers, private in-
terviews with 80 large companies (100 or over workers), and a mailed sur-
. vey of the self-employed, including firms of 3 or less workers.
3. The first phase involved a mailed survey of a stratified sample of 4,731
firms, representing 17,186 employers, both private and governmental. The
questionnaires were mailed to the sample companies around July 1, 1962.
Replies were obtained from 2,521, or 15 per cent of total firms in the
study. In terms of the especially defined universe of 792,126 employees,
the questionnaire returns represented 52 per cent of the total employ-
ment.
4. A few large companies opposed the survey on the grounds that company
training programs would meet future needs. Other employers reported that
it would be difficult to employ technicians because clauses in labor con-
tracts, relative to seniority, would raise the problem of up-grading
skilled workers into the higher paying technician jobs.
5. The sample of firms reporting expect a gain in employment of 8.5 per cent
in three years. Extending this estimate by extrapolation to five years,
-4- the gain in total employment is 57,898 workers or 13.9 per cent.
6. Based on sample reports inflated to the universe, there were working in
the study area (includes Georgia plus Aiken and Russell Counties) in the
summer of 1962, 23,173 technicians, 81,386 skilled workers, and 61,097
clerical workers. The most important of each class in terms of number
of workers is as follows:
TECHNICIANS: Accountant - general and cost, electronics, estimator, production planner, instrument man, civil and construction, and quality control.
SKILLED: Carpenter, automobile mechanic, electrician, maintenance mechanic, machinist, maintenance man, painter, sheet metal worker, and welder.
CLERICAL: Stenographer, accounting clerk, and typist.
7. The total expected employment of technicians (70 titles) in the study
area will be 29,251 in five years, an increase of 6,078 jobs or 26 per
cent over the summer of 1962; skilled workers (77 titles) 102,220, an in-
crease of 20,834 jobs or 26 per cent; and clerical workers (8 titles)
75,520, an increase of 14,423 jobs or 24 per cent. The eight classes of
clerical workers are probably 10 to 15 per cent short because of omission
of certain industrial typ'es from the sample.
8. The estimated number of job openings in 5 years for technicians will be
7,412 or 1,482 yearly; for skilled workers, 27,205 or 5,441 jobs yearly,
and for clerical workers, 30,964 or 6,193 jobs yearly. Net totals of job
openings for technical, skilled, and clerical workers from 1962 to 1967
are expected to be 65,581 jobs or 13,116 yearly. Eighty per cent of the
technical and skilled worker requirements will be due to growth in the
State's economy and 20 per cent to replacement demand.
-5- 9. The second phase of the study involved personal interviews with 300 top
management executives in 80 large firms (100 or more workers). The ob-
jective was 31 new job categories, representing openings for technicians.
The results disclosed a need for 138 new plant titles. The data indicate
a need for 7,500 of these new technicians, of which 51 per cent will be
required in the Atlanta area. Estimates by top management of these com-
panies show that about one-fourth of the new job openings will be filled
through company training programs. The ten leading categories of new
technician jobs are: communication, electrical-mechanical, general science,
chemical, statistical, biochemical, electronic, engineering, electrical
and electronics, audio-visual, and computer-programmer operator.
10. The third phase of the study included a mailed survey of the self-employed,
and an analysis of the questionnaires disclosed that 31 per cent were
college graduates, 7 per cent technician type workers, and 38 per cent
skilled workers. Forty-four per cent have had on-the-job or apprentice-
ship training.
11. The number of different types of skilled jobs and the total employment
of them increase more than proportionately with size of city. Metropolitan
Atlanta, with 25 per cent of the Study Area's population, accounted for
37.5 per cent of the current employment of all types of skilled workers.
The Atlanta Area had 41 per cent each of both the technicians and clerical
workers and 34 per cent of the skilled types of jobs included in the
survey.
12. The percentage of total employment represented by technical, skilled, and
clerical workers declines relatively as size of firm increases.
-6- 13. The highest employment ratio of technicians is found in durable goods
manufacturing, federal employment, and utilities.
14. The highest percentage employment of skilled workers occurs in construc-
tion, and durable goods manufacturing.
15. The highest percentage employment of clerical workers is concentrated in
services, federal government, state and local governments, and utilities.
16. The sample of 2,521 firms reported on 5 types of company training programs.
The distribution of companies participating in these programs is as fol-
lows: Number with formal training, 60 per cent; on-the-job training, 57
per cent; apprenticeship, 11 per cent; and unit classrooms, executive
development courses, and others 17 per cent (the ratio will add to more
than 60 because many companies had more than one program). It is highly
significant that 60 per cent of Georgia employers (having 4 or more
workers) have one or more types of company training programs.
17. A high school education is required as a minimum by 40 per cent of the
companies employing skilled workers and technicians, and by 69 per cent
of the companies employing clerical workers. On-the-job training or
apprenticeship training is required by 17 per cent of the companies em-
ploying skilled workers. Vocational training for initial employment is
required by 23 per cent of the companies reporting on technical workers
and 15 per cent of the firms in the case of clerical workers.
18. Company training will apparently provide for about one-fourth of the
requirements in five years of technical and skilled workers.
-7- 19. The apprenticeship training program is currently training about 2,119
skilled workers annually, while 1,000 are engaged in up-grading types of
training. In three years the output from this program is expected to be
3,500 and 10,000 respectively, and in five years, 4,500 and 15,000.
20. Southern Technical Institute is currently training 260 technicians yearly;
this total is expected to be 375 in three years and 555 in five years.
21. The vocational-technical schools of the State Department of Education
graduated 502 workers in 1962, and expect to have the output up to 3,821
by 1965 and 5,788 by 1967. High schools in the system had 2,738 graduates
from business type education in 1961-62. In addition the State's school
system had enrolled 108,680 pupils in one or more business courses in the
fall of 1962. Many from both of the latter categories enter the clerical
type jobs and may therefore be regarded as meeting in part the demand for
clerical workers.
22. Calculations of net training requirements (net number of jobs to be filled
minus those to be trained in company programs) show a total of 3,322 tech-
nicians that need to be trained in 3 years and 5,051 in 5 years. The net
training requirements for skilled workers is 12,160 in 3 years and 18,093
in 5 years. Net training requirements for clerical workers (8 classes)
is 16,376 in 3 years and 25,668 in 5 years.
23. Balancing the net training requirements against expected output in public
training agencies or programs shows a deficit overall of technicians (in
cluding new technicians) of 4,000 workers in 5 years, and skilled, 7,100
workers in 5 years. These net figures do not include the output of pri-
vately operated schools mainly of clerical workers, some skilled workers,
-8- and few technicians. The net balance in clerical workers is not shown because of the many imponderables involved---business education and pri- vate school output, etc. I. INTRODUCTION
It has been said that until about 1920 the scope of human knowledge doubled every century. Since 1920 the pace of growth of knowledge has stead- ily accelerated until it appears that a doubling has again occurred in the last 10-15 years. The major areas of growth in knowledge have been in ihe physical and biological sciences. Technology has tended to keep pace with the advancing scientific knowledge with a few years lag.
The speed up in the growth of science and technology has put industrial processes under pressure to keep up. This has meant a greater use of scien- tists, engineers, technicians, and skilled workers. The National Science
Foundation-1/ has shown that the demand for scientists and engineers expanded
65 per cent from 1950 to 1960. The Census Bureaua/ finds that the use of technicians grew by 36 per cent. In the period 1960 to 1970, the National
Science Foundation2/ estimates that our need for scientists and engineers will rise by 79 per cent and that of technicians by 87 per cent.A/ In support of this problem, the U.S. Labor Departmentl/ has predicted that while the labor force in the United States will expand by 20 per cent, the demand for professional and technical workers will rise by twice as much, or 40 per cent. On the other hand the demand for unskilled laborers will remain
1/ — National Science Foundation, Investing in Scientific Progress 1961- 1970 1961 , pp. 14-15. ' 2/ — U.S. Bureau of the Census, United States Population 1960-United States Summary: General Social and Economic Characteristics PC(1) . . 1C, 1962, pp. 218-9. 37 Investinj in Scientific Progress, ibid. 4/ National Science Foundation, The Long-Range Demand for Scientific and Technical Personnel, NSF 61-65, pp. 44-45 (Prepared for National Science Foundation by U.S. Department of Labor). JJ U.S. Department of Labor, Manpower Challenge of the 1960's, pages 5 and 11.
-10- unchanged against a larger population.
The sharp growth in the demand for engineers, technicians, and skilled workers can be met only by a faster growth in college output and by greatly increased training in vocational-technical schools and institutes. In
Georgia and much of the South facilities are sadly lacking to train the skilled and technical workers. In 1962 the State of Georgia had in operation eight vocational-technical schools with an annual output of 502 students, primarily of the skilled category of workers. This does not include Southern
Technical Institute which graduated 260 technician types of workers in June
1962. In order to meet the expected large increase in demand for skilled and technical workers, the Georgia Department of Education, in cooperation with local school systems, is in process of establishing 26 vocational-tech- nical areaY training schools, located mainly in the larger population centers. In addition there are in operation two State vocational-technical schools.
This report is designed to provide supply and demand measurements on
165 defined clerical, skilled, and technician types of workersA4/ In ad- dition the demand for entirely new types of technicians which are expected to develop in the next five years is also a part of the study. Such infor- mation will assist the Georgia Department of Education to determine the size of these training centers, the courses of study required, and the equipment for the classrooms and laboratories. The data will be invaluable to teacher counseling in high schools.
A second vocational-technical school for Augusta was announced January 19, 1963. Thus by 1965, the Georgia Department of Education expects to have in operation 27 area vocational-technical schools, plus 2 State operated schools of the same type. 6a/ Medical and dental technicians were not included because a study was in process, which has now been published as, "Nursing and Paramedical Personnel in Georgia: A Survey of Supply and Demand," by Dr. Cameron Fincher, Georgia State College, December 1962. -11- A. Objectives
The specific objectives of the study are as follows:
1. Determine numbers as of June 1962 of workers in clerical, skilled, and technician categories for all segments of the State's economy likely to employ any of these types of workers.
2. Show sex of each job category.
3. Determine age distribution by job category.
4. Determine educational preference of employers for workers by degree of skill.
5. Show expected employment of technical, skilled, and clerical workers by periods to 1967.
6. Determine net training needs for various types of skilled jobs by areas in the Study Area.
7. Project entirely new types of technicians that will be needed in the next 5 years.
Several industrial categories were excluded wholly or in part from the study, because it was felt that probably few or no skilled and technical workers would be found. The most important of the omitted industries are agricultural employment and mining, water transportation and services, eating and drinking places, real estate, personal services, motion pictures and amusement, and legal services. In addition the smaller firms (less than
100 workers) were omitted for most of the wholesale and retail trade and credit agencies other than banks.
B. Areas in the Study
The project study area has been divided into seven areas, corresponding to the six metropolitan areas plus an "all other," to include the remainder of the State outside metropolitan centers. They are as follows:
-12- Area Number Area Counties in the Area
1. Albany SMSAA/ Dougherty
2. Atlanta SMSAA/ Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, and Gwinnett
3. Augusts SMSAA/ Richmond and Aiken (in South Carolina)
4. Columbus SMSA1/ Chattahoochee, Muscogee, and Russell (in Alabama)
5. Macon SMSAA/ Bibb and Houston
6. Savannah SMSAA/ Chatham
7. Non-Metropolitan Georgia 147 other counties
JV Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by Census Bureau for 1960 Census of Population.
The data in this report are shown for each area separately. A State summary by industry is given also, omitting Aiken County, South Carolina and Russell County, Alabama.
C. Brief Methodology
The study is based on a sample drawn from a finite universe. The cate- gories of employment described briefly above and shown in detail in Appendix
B were separated into the seven areas as defined. Industries were further stratified by size. The sampling ratio specified2/ for studies of this sort are as follows:
Size of firm Sample ratio Under 20 workers 1/25 20 to 99 workers 1/4 100 and over workers 100 per cent
----.-7tHandbook on Labor Market Research Methods: Occupational Labor Market Analysis, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Employment Security, Office of Program Review and Analysis, Washington, D. C., Draft Section No. 5, November 1957, pages 14-15.
-13- In order to meet the tendency toward a low response and to compensate further for the small size of the universe, as for example Albany, the sam- pling rate was doubled for each category except the largest firms where a
100 per cent universe was employed. Sample selection employed random starting points for each stratum.
Data were obtained by mailed questionnaires primarily, supplemented by intensive interviews for a sub-sample of 80 firms. The mailed questionnaire consisted of a folded two-part form with pre-listed job definitions, tailored according to the types of jobs most dominant in each industry. In all, 23 questionnaires were designed with instructions and job definitions to corre- spond. Samples of the questionnaires used both in the mailing and the per- sonal interview are presented in the Appendix. Definitions and the main in- structions for filling out the mailed questionnaire are also given in the
Appendix. In order to raise the response ratio to acceptable proportions, an intensive follow-up was pursued by letters and telephone calls from the
Georgia Department of Labor, local Chamber of Commerce, and the local labor market analysts. Three separate letter type follow-ups were employed. In addition, about 250 firms were contacted directly by labor market analysts in order to remove observed sampling deficiencies. This follow-up pressure produced an overall response in relation to the sample selected of 52 per cent.
A special questionnaire was designed to learn the characteristics of the self-employed in firms of 0 to 3 workers. A four per cent sample was drawn. Each respondent in this sample was first contacted by mail with follow-up by telephone or personal visit by local labor market analysts. A total of 216 questionnaires are represented in this part of the report.
-14- D. Limitations of Study
Three major limitations affect validity of the study although it is believed to only a minor extent. They are the incompleteness of the universe represented, the relatively small size of sample obtained through the mailed questionnaires and limited personal follow-up, and reporting bias. The in- completeness of the universe was largely deliberate in the interest of prac- tical aspects of the study. By definition, many industries were wholly eliminated and others from a size standpoint,-Y both criteria being based on probable use by firms of technical, skilled, and clerical workers. In total,
792,126 workers are included in the universe as defined, representing covered employment, government (Federal, State, and local), non-profit institutions, and railroads. Since total nonagricultural employment in the study area was
1,089,4609 in September 1961 , the base month, it is seen that the universe as defined does not include 38 per cent of total employment. In terms of skilled workers, it is believed that omissions of these workers are rela- tively small. Analyses of the effects of the omissions on the total esti- mates of technical, skilled, and clerical workers presented later in the report indicate that the technical and skilled worker estimates may be short by 5 to 10 per cent, and the clerical workers by a probable 15 to 20 per cent.
Mailed questionnaires are always subject to a degree of non-response error, especially if the response ratio is small. The response was not small enough to produce any significant bias it is believed, since such errors
8/ For details in industries wholly or practically omitted, see Appendix B . 9/ Based on total Georgia nonagricultural employment, plus that for Aiken County, South Carolina and Russell County, Alabama.
-15- occur more frequently when the ratio of returns is around 10 to 15 per cent,
and education is a factor in reporting. Since our response ratio relative
to number of firms contacted was 53 per cent and the reports appeared not
to be influenced by education of respondents but by size of firms, a signifi-
cant non-response bias doesn't appear to exist. In fact the desirable re- porting ratios were obtained both for the two groups of smaller firms (4-19 workers and 20 to 99 workers) but the larger firms failed to live up to ex- pectations in reporting. In fact, a few of the most important firms refused
to cooperate, alleging that the study was of no interest to their operations
since company training programs met all necessary requirements for skilled
and technical workers. Some unusually large firms were treated as a universe
of one in the inflation process in order to spread out a complex labor pat-
tern over the larger common group that was treated in the inflation group. II. TECHNICAL WORKERS IN GEORGIA
A. Trends in Georgia's College, Technical, and Skilled Workers
As a setting for the more specific material which will be presented on the survey of technical, skilled, and clerical jobs later in the report, a brief discussion is given at this point on the status and trends in Georgia's overall educational capital..
Table 1 presents trends in the number of high school and college gradu- ates, 25 years or over, in the State's economy by Census decades since 1940.
The data show that the number of college and high school graduates in the population of Georgia has almost doubled in the last 20 years. This is real progress, but in 1960 the State lagged the nation in both respects by 20 and
25 per cents.
Table 1 Trends in Number and Ratio of Population Completing. High School or College, Georgia, and United States, 1940 to 1960 (Ratio based on persons 25 years old or over)
Ratio of PoPulation 25 Number Completing- Years Old or Over Completing , Year College College High School2/ (4 Yrs. High School-4/ (4 Yrs. or more) or more)
Georgia 1940 213,920 50,512 14.0 3.0 1950 282,755 79,275 15.4 4.6 1960 518,198 125,769 24.0 6.2 PER CENT INCREASE 143 149
United States 1940 3,407,331 14,626,864 19.8 4.6 1950 5,284,445 23,940,565 28.0 6.2 1960 7,587,6.32 33,035,545 33.4 7.7 PER CENT INCREASE 123 126
a/ Includes also 1 to 3 years of college.
Source: United States Census of Population 1960: General, Social and Economic Characteristics, Georgia, PC(1)-12C, pp. 191-192, U.S., PC(1)-1C, pp. 207-209.
The story in terms of engineers, skilled workers (craftsmen), and two
types of clerical workers is shown in Table 2. The data for the 20 year
period show that another dramatic increase occurred. The number of engineers
expanded four times in the 20 year period; the number of skilled craftsmen
doubled, while the number of stenographers and typists (female) increased
almost three times. The rates of increase greatly out-paced those for the
nation, but in terms of percentage of total employment represented by these
classes the State lags the nation by rather sharp ratios. Table 2 Ratio of Census Classes of Engineers, Skilled, and Clerical Workers to Total Employment, with Georgia and United States Compared 1940 to 1960
1940 1950 p.960 Item Number Per Cent Number Per Cent Number Per Cent (000) Total (000) Total (000) Total
Georgia Total Employed 1,092 100.0 1,255 100.0 1,450 100.0 Engineers (Tech) 2.8 0.3 5.7 0.5 10.7 0.7 Skilled (Craftsmen): Male 65.6 6.0 112.8 9.0 135.8 9.4 Female 1.9 0.2 3.8 0.3 5.3 0.4 Total 67.5 6.2 116.6 9.3 141.1 9.8
Secretaries, stenographers, typists (Female) 13.1 1.2 22.0 1.8 37.3 2.6
United States Total Employed 45,070 100.0 56,435 100.0 64,639 100.0 Engineers (Tech) 276 0.6 520 0.9 854 1.3 Skilled (Craftsmen): Male 4,564 10.1 6,807 12.1 7,392 11.4 Female 123 0.3 236 0.4 253 0.4 Total 4,687 10.4 7,043 12.5 7,645 11.8
Secretaries, stenographers, typists (Female) 990 2.2 1,508 2.7 2,179 3.4
Source: United States Census of Population 1960: General, Social and Economic Characterisitcs, Georgia, PC (1)-12C, pp. 197-201; United States PC (1)-1C, page 219.
According to the relative number, Georgia had in 1960 only 35 per cent
as many engineers, 55 per cent as many craftsmen, and 25 per cent as many sec-
retaries, stenographers, and typists as the nation. Even though the pace of
growth percentage-wise is faster in Georgia, figures show that the State has
a long way to go. Unfortunately, no data are given on technicians as a class,
and it was impossible to separate this group from the general statistics.
Yet the expanding need for technicians is the most critical. This is
-19- indicated by the following quotations from Mr. Lester Velie 12/ article in the October 1962, Reader's Digest, "Automation - Friend or Foe?"
"For every new engineer who goes to work in industry three new technicians are needed as backup support. These are the men- like the computer-maintenance engineers--whose training is slightly below college-degree level but higher than that of the old skilled worker. Some 200,000 of these technicians are needed yearly. Only an estimated 15,000 are being supplied."
And further in a specific illustration, he cites the interesting fact that,
"Automatics Division of North American Aviation, Inc., south of Los Angeles, scoured 125 colleges last year but could obtain only about one-third of the 1,500 professional men it needed. But Auto- netics last year also turned away 137,000 job applicants who lacked the required education or skills."
B. Force of Technological Change
How important this force is one can judge by looking at the pest impact of improving technology on output. Robert Solow of M.I.T. has estimated that, of the total increase in United States output per man-hour from 1909 to 1949, only 12.5 per cent was due to increase in capital equipment, while 87.5 per cent was due to technical progress. 11/ In a second study, Solomon Fabricant of the National Bureau of Economic Research found that, during the period
1871 to 1951, technological advance accounted for 90 per cent of capital for- mation. 11/ And Benton F. Massell, in still a third independent study, at the
Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, likewise has found that, during the period 1919 to 1955, technological change accounted for approximately
1-2/ Velie, Lester, "Automation - Friend or Foe?", Reader's Digest, Octobff,1962, pp. 104-106. 1.2.4 R. Solow, "Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function," The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 39, pp. 312-320, August 1957. 11/ S. Fabricant, "Resources and Output Trends in the U.S. Since 1870," American Economic Review, vol. 46, May 1956.
-20- 90 per cent of the rise in output per man-hour. 11/
13/ B. F. Massell, "Capital Formation and Technological Change in United States Manufacturing," The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 42, pp. 182-188, May 1960.
-21- III. GROWTH EXPECTATIONS OF SAMPLE FIRMS
Part I, page 1 of the questionnaire, contained a series of questions that pertained to current and future expected employment, and to plans rela- tive to starting a branch factoryJA/ The answers to the first of these questions are given in Table 3. These data have been classified into two major categories with subdivisions under each. The two major categories are
JI-Covered 15—/ employment and Non-Covered employment.16/ — The various indus.. trial categories are also given. The columns of the table provide data on the September 1961 employment, current employment for Summer of 1962, and expected employment for one, three, and five years in the future. Based on aggregate employment, compared to Summer 1962 employment, the following gains are expected by employers:
Number Per of Cent Period Jobs Gain
1 Year 13,436 3.2 3 Years 35,667 8.5 5 Years 57,898 13.9
The 5-year gain is just short of 3 per cent per year. The industrial categories show the following expected gains in five years:
14/ So few companies reported an intention to start a branch factory that the findings relative to this question are not regarded as significant. 15/ JI-Covered refers to those firms in Georgia that come under the Emplow9nt Security Law of Georgia. 12' This category includes all governments, nonprofit institutions, and railroads.
-22- Table 3 Employment Data for Sample Firms
Current Industrial Employ- Employ- Employment Expected Percentam Category ment, ment by Employer Increase?! Sept. Summer in Years Li Years 1961 1962 1 Year 3 Years 5 Yearsa/ 1 Year 3 Years 5 Years
JI-Covereal Manufacturing a. Durables 48,927 54,221 55,807 58,617 61,427 2.9 8.1 13.3 b. Non-durables 146,807 147,410 152,566 159,142 165,718 3.5 8.0 12.4 Total 195,734 201,631 208,373 217,759 227,145 3.3 8.0 12.7
Construction 9,999 10,410 11,159 12,584 14,009 7.2 20.9 34.6
Utilities4/ 31,657 30,721 31,505 32,973 34,441 2.6 7.3 12.'1
Trade & Services 37,860 33,085 34,258 36,831 39,404 3.5 11.3 19.1 Total Covered 275,250 275,847 285,295 300,147 314,999 3.4 8.8 14.2
Non-Covered Federal Government 47,581 56,608 51,856 53,840 55,824 2.5 6.4 10.3
State & Local Governments 69,074 70,742 73,199 77,842 82,485 3.5 10.0 16.6
All other Non- Covered 21,499 20,592 20,875 21,627 22,379 1.4 5.0 8.7 Total Non-Covered 138,154 141,942 145,930 153,309 160,688 2.8 8.0 13.2
AGGREGATE TOTAL 413,404 417,789 431,225 453,456 475,687 3.2 8.5 13.9
-a/ Obtained by extrapolation of rate of gain between one and three years to five years. -b/ From Summer 1962 c/ Covered under State Job Insurance Program -ITransportation, communication, electric, gas, and sanitary service. Number Per Industrial of Cent Category Jobs Gain
Manufacturing 25,514 12.7 Construction 3,599 34.6 Utilities 3,720 12.1 Trade & services 6,319 19.1 Federal Government 5,216 10.3 State & Local Government 11,743 16.6 Other Non-covered employment 1,787 8.7 TOTAL 57,898 13.9
On the basis of employer estimates, the data show greatest employment gains in construction, followed by trade and services, and then by State and
local governments. The lowest expectations are held by the "all other non- covered" which includes various nonprofit institutions such as churches, private schools, etc.
Comparisons of the expected growth by employers with the State's growth prospects 11/ prepared during the Summer of 1961, show the following differ- ences for the five year period.
Relative Difference Industrial Economic of Group Employer Projections Projections
Manufacturing 12.7 9.2 -28 Construction 34.6 22.0 -36 Utilities 12.1 4.2 -65 Trade & services 19.1 17.0 -11 Government 14.0 18.3 31 All other 8.7 14.8 70 TOTAL 13.9 13.7 -1
17/ Fulmer, John L., "Georgia Employment Trends 1947-1960, 1965, 1970," Georgia Department of Labor, October 1961.
-24- The variation between the two estimates is considerable with the pro- jections being 12 per cent lower in the case of the composite JI-Covered oc- cupations and 35 per cent above compared to the Non-covered or primarily government types of occupations. Overall, however, the difference is an in- significant 1 per cent. For the purposes of this study, we assume that employers are closer to the problem and also provide more flexible estimates for the different areas, and therefore, the employer estimates for 1 year,
3 years, and 5 years are accepted for the purposes of this study. IV. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE UNIVERSE SAMPLED
Inflation of the sample of 2,521 firms by industry, by size, and area showed that during the Summer of 1962, the Project Areall/ had at least
165,656 workers in 155 job titles. 12/ Of this total, 23,173 were technical workers; 81,386 skilled workers, and 61,097 were clerical workers. Eight classes of clerical workers are believed to be short by about 15 per cent.
Later we show that 138 new job types for technicians should be recognized, equalling over 7,500 new jobs in five years. The relative importance of the three skilled categories in Georgia's economy is shown by the percentage of total employment represented by each class. Since this sample was taken from a universe of 792,126 employees, the percentage of total employment represented by the 70 technicians is 2.9 per cent; by the 77 skilled jobs
10.3 per cent, and by the 8 clerical jobs, 7.7 per cent; the overall ratio being 20.9 per cent.
18/ The Project Area is somewhat more extensive than Georgia. In ad- dition to Georgia, Aiken County, South Carolina, and Russell County, Alabama are included. II/ The original job definitions included 165 titles but none of the following jobs titles were reported: (a) Technicians: Design Draftsman, Ram-Jet Engine Engine Development Technician, Internal Combustion Insulator Tester Laboratory Assistant, X-ray Equipment Mechanical Engineering Technician, Steam Turbine Radioisotope Production Operator Sheet Tester Systems Engineering Technician, Computer (b) Skilled: Optical Laboratory, Mechanics Plastics Molder (Fabric, Plastics Products) Thus a net of 70 technicians titles, 77 skilled jobs, and 8 clerical types are included, giving a total of 155 job titles.
-26- A. Age and Sex of Skilled Workers
Table 4 shows a comparison of the age distribution of the skilled cate-
gories with Georgia's employed labor force in 1960. The data show that the
age distrubution of the State's employment is concentrated heavily in the
age classes under 35 and over 45. A comparative analysis shows that both
technical and clerical workers are most heavily concentrated in the age
classes under 35, which contain over half of both age groups. Skilled workers
are concentrated in age class 35 to 44 but tend to be relatively high also
in the age class under 35. This means that skilled workers are older than
the two other categories. Technicians, a recent class of worker, is youngest.
Clerical workers, which are dominated by females, is very heavy in the young-
er age class and lowest in the age group 45 and over. There is a heavy turn-
over among the younger female clerical workers for marriage and childbearing.
Many, however, return to the work force again after childbearing because of
necessity or from choice.
Table 4 Comparison of Age Distribution of Skilled Categories of Workers in Study with Georgia Employment Age Categories, Summer 1962
Total Number of Employed Percentage Distribution Employment Employment According to Age Classes of Type of Employment to Age Classes Categories Under 35 to 45 and Under 35 to 45 and 35 44 Over 35 44 - Over State2/ 1,385,047 563,841 336,840 484,366 40.7 24.3 35.0 Project Area: b/ Technical 23,173 12,138 6,894 4,138 52.4 29.7 17.9 Skilled 81,386 27,622 32,686 21,077 33.9 40.2 25.9 Clerical 61,097 35,058 15,099 10,940 57.4 24.7 17.9 TOTAL 165,656 74,818 54,679 36,155 45.2 33.0 21.8
2/ Based in the Census of 1960. If In addition to State of Georgia, the Project Area includes also Aiken County, South Carolina and Russell County, Alabama.
-27- The relationship of sex of workers to skilled occupations is shown in
Table 5.
Table 5 Comparison of Percentage of Female Workers in Different Skilled Categories with Ratio of Female Workers in State Employed, Summer 1962
Total Total Percentage Worker Number Number Total Category of of Female Female Workers Workers Workers
I. State Employe& 1,385,047 495,644 35.8
II. Skilled CategoriesJ 1. Technician 23,173 2,437 10.5 2. Skilled 81,386 877 1.1 3. Clerical 61,097 50,409 82.5 TOTAL 165,656 53,723 32.4
a/ From Census of Population of 1960. 17/ From Sample Survey of Skilled Workers, Summer 1962.
While the ratio of females in the working population in Georgia is 36 per cent, in the study area the ratio was somewhat more than 32 per cent.
Yet, the relative importance of females varies quite widely between the three skilled categories. The ratio is highest in clerical workers and lowest in the skilled trades, 82 per cent and 1 per cent respectively. A somewhat higher ratio prevails among the technicians. Yet, if the job titles in- cluded dental and medical technicians, for which women are especially adapted, the ratio would be much higher. The reasons for a higher ratio of females among clerical workers are well understood. In the case of technicians, the reasons are not so obvious. However, willingness to take training in science and mathematics for which girls often have aptitude, and their patience and perseverance in handling tedious and exacting jobs are other requisites which would tend to qualify females for technical types of occupations.
-28- B. Comparison of Expected and Projected Employment
Table 6 contains comparisons of current (Summer 1962) employment with
expected and projected employment at intervals to 1967. The two types of
future employment will first be explained. Expected employment is based on reports by employers for one year and three years ahead 2.2/ which were in-
flated along with all other data obtained in the questionnaire. The pro-
jected employment was derived by applying economic growth multipliers for
Georgia to current employment. These were obtained from an earlier analysis
of growth prospects of Georgia from 1960 to 1970.2 1/
The data in the table show that Georgia employers expect technical,
skilled, and clerical types of jobs to expand from 24 to 26 per cent during
the next 5 years. The projections, derived from analysis of Georgia's growth
trends, however, are considerably less, and forecast growth of between 15
and 20 per cent during the next 5 years. Both forecasts predict highest
growth among technical workers.
The computed net increase from employers' expectations is about 50 per cent higher than the projections. The yearly growth rate based on the ex- pectations is over 5 per cent, compared to 3 per cent for the projections.
The higher yearly rate of growth from the employers' expectations is logical because Georgia's rate of growth is increasing. The increase in the use of
technicians, skilled and clerical workers will be comparatively more rapid because of shift towards these types of jobs. The future requirements series based on expected employment of employers provide flexibility in the estimates,
22/ The 5 year figures were obtained by extrapolating the growth rate between one and three years. 21/ See Fulmer, John L., "Georgia Employment Trends 1947-1960, 1965 1970," Georgia Department of Labor, October 1961.
-29- reflecting differences in the prospects for growth of different sections of the State. The trends in employment based on employers' expectations are therefore accepted for the purposes of this study.
Table 6 Comparison of Current Employment and Projected Employment for Skilled Categories of Workers, 1962 to 1967
Technical Skilled Clerical Total Employment Category Workers Workers Workers Three Classes
I. Current Employment, Summer 1962 23,173 81,386 61,097 165,656
II. Expected Employment!' A. 1 Year 24,982 88,196 65,058 178,236 B. 3 Years 27,115 95,207 70,288 192,610 C. 5 Years 29,251 102,220 75,520 206,991 Percentage Growth Expected in 5 Years 26.2 25.6 23.6 24.7
III. Projected Employmenth' A. 1 Year 24,170 85,892 62,889 172,951 B. 3 Years 25,802 89,113 65,912 180,827 C. 5 Years 27,781 94,654 70,282 192,717 Percentage Growth Projected for 5 Years 19.9 16.3 15.0 16.3
IV. Ratio: 5 Year Expected Increase to 5 Year Projected Increase 1.32 1.57 1.57 1.52
4/ Based on employers expectations given in the questionnaire. b/ Based on multiplication of Economic Growth Factors onto Current Employment
C. Estimated Employer Demand and Components of Demand
In addition to reporting on specific technical, skilled, or clerical jobs, each employer was asked to estimate total employment in the firm, 1 year and 3 years from the reporting date, Summer of 1962. The five year estimated employment was obtained by extrapolating the rate of change between
1 year and 3 years, to 5 years. The overall summary of these employers'
-30- estimates is given in Table 7. The trend in expected future employment
compared to current employment is shown by the estimated increase in jobs
for 1 year, 3 years, and 5 years. To the net increase of jobs for each per-
iod was added replacement requirements, determining total employer job open-
ings for 1 year, 3 years, and 5 years. Thus for each period the employer
job demand is composed of two elements: (1) effect of growth in the State's
economy, and (2) effect of the replacement requirements. 22/ These results
are also given in the accompanying table, along with the relative importance
of the components of employer job demand.
The data show that the growth in demand is from 0.9 to 7.0 times the
replacement demand for the three major classes of workers. Highest growth
in demand occurs in technicians and lowest among clerical workers.
The replacement demand for clerical workers is quite heavy because
female workers, who are mainly in the age class under 35, have a very high
replacement rate. Skilled workers are between both extremes with a growth
of about 3.0. The composite of the growth demand for the three categories
of workers is almost twice as important as the replacement demand.
D. Factors Influencing Relative Number of Skilled Workers.
The trend throughout America is, of course, toward more scientists,
engineers, technicians, and skilled workers. Automation is a big factor in modern industry. Considered directly, however, these two trends are of op-
posite influence in specific industries. Automation is labor saving and
tends to displace workers. It increases the number of semi-skilled workers.
An opposite effect, however, is that automation creates new industries to
22/— Replacement requirements reflect the effects of death and retire- ments by age classes and other withdrawals.
-31- Table 7 Size and Relative Importance of Factors Contributing to Employer Demand for Technical, Skilled, and Clerical Workers in Study Area!' During the Next Five Years
Occupational Category Technical Skilled Clerical Total Item Three Classes
I. Current Employment 23,173 81,386 61,097 165,656
II. Expected Employmentk/ 1 Year 24,982 88,196 65,058 178,236 3 Years 27,115 95,207 70,288 192,610 5 Years 29,251 102,220 75,520 206,991
III. Estimated Employer Job Demand// 1 Year 2,071 8,072 8,582 18,725 3 Years 4,737 17,621 19,547 41,905 5 Years 7,412 27,205 30,964 65,581
IV. Factors Contributing to Size of Employer Demand A. Growth of State's Economy 1 Year 1,811 6,816 3,963 12,590 3 Years 3,941 13,828 9,193 26,962 5 Years 6,076 20,828 14,425 41,329 B. Replacement Demand 1 Year 260 1,256 4,619 6,135 3 Years 796 3,793 10,354 14,943 5 Years 1,336 6,377 16,539 24,252
V. Relative Importance of Factorsd/ (Per Cent) A. Growth of State's Economy 1 Year 87 84 46 67 3 Years 83 78 47 64 5 Years 82 77 47 63 B. Replacement Demand 1 Year 13 16 54 33 3 Years 17 22 53 36 5 Years 18 23 53 37
AV Includes State of Georgia plus Aiken County, South Carolina and Russell County, Alabama. , Based on Estimated Employment of Employers inflated to the universe. :E/ Estimated Employer Demand equals estimated increase in employment of the various job categories plus replacement requirements. d/ Replacement requirements for workers are based on factors given in the appendix which reflect deaths and retirements.
-32- design, build, and service complex, automatic type equipment. The initial
specific impact from increased automation and enlarged company size is
reduction in the number of technicians and skilled workers. The secondary
impact, however, from increased diversity of industry and the trend to more
service type industries is a build-up in the need for technicians and skilled workers. The greatest increases affecting the initial impact will be in
design, services, and maintenance. Fast changes in technology can only be
exploited by design work. Keeping equipment in operation will require a
new type of diagnostic or maintenance technician. Service work for this
rapidly changing, complex equipment can mean only a great and expanding
need for highly skilled technicians. This secondary impact, it is believed
from the results of this study, will in time exceed the initial impact where
the necessary numbers of trained workers in these categories are available when needed.
The effect of size of company and type of industry on the relative use of technical, skilled, and clerical workers was investigated. The data from
sample firms on use of technical, skilled, and clerical workers are related to current employment by size of firm and type of industry. The results are presented in Table 8 which relates current employment to the percentage re- presented by the three classes of skilled workers. The ratios show that the relative use of all these categories of workers declines quite sharply with the size of firm. The percentage use of skilled workers in firms employing
4 to 19 workers is 117 per cent higher relatively than in firms employing over 100 workers; and clerical workers, 142 per cent higher. The ratio for the three skilled categories overall is 116 per cent greater than for the
-33- Table 8 Relationship of Size of Firm and Type of Industry to Relative Use of Technicians, Skilled, and Clerical Workers in Study Area Summer 1962
Firm Size Total Percentage of Current and Current Employment Represented by Maior Industry Category Employment Technical Skilled Clerical Selectea/
I. JI-Covered Employment A. 4 to 19 Workers: Manufacturing Durables 897 2.9 19.8 6.9 29.7 Nondurables 920 2.6 12.5 10.4 25.5 Total 1,817 2.8 16.1 8.7 27.6 Construction 1,521 3.0 41.2 6.6 50.8 Utilitieei 439 5.4 3.0 11.6 20.1 Service & other 2,788 4.2 12.4 18.7 35.3 Total 6,565 3.6 19.5 12.6 35.8
B. 20-99 Workers: Manufacturing Durables 5,132 4.1 15.6 5.6 25.3 Nondurables 7,574 2.7 6.7 6.3 15.8 Total 12,706 3.3 10.3 6.0 19.6 Construction 3,934 4.4 36.9 4.3 45.7 Utilities 3,105 2.7 10.8 8.8 22.4 Service & other 5,906 3.8 10.6 20.1 34.6 Total 25,651 3.5 14.5 9.3 27.4
C. 100 & over Workers: Manufacturing Durables 48,192 4.0 12.7 2.8 19.4 Nondurables 138,730 1.9 8.3 3.1 13.3 Total 186,922 2.4 9.4 3.0 14.9 Consturction 4,955 1.8 18.7 3.1 23.6 Utilities 27,177 3.2 8.4 10.0 21.6 Service & other 24,391 2.0 4.0 17.0 23.1 Total 243,445 2.5 9.0 5.2 16.6
II. Non-covered Employment/ Federal 50,608 4.9 7.1 14.5 26.5 State & local 70,742 2.5 2.4 6.8 11.7 Other Non-covered-Si 20,592 1.1 6.3 10.7 18.1 Total 141,942 3.1 4.6 10.1 17.9
AV This is the total for the 155 jobs out of the 165 selected for study which reporced. V/ Covered in Job Insurance Program,of State of Georgia -II Includes transportation, communication, electric, gas and sanitary services. d/ Not covered under Georgia State Job Insurance Program but mostly under other types 9f job insurance. 4V Private hospitals, private educational institutions, religious organizations, and miscellaneous nonprofit organizations, and also railroads. -34- larger firms. Note that except for technicians 21/ in size firm 4 to 19 workers, the inverse correlation with size of firm is consistent with size of firm.
The differences are logical in view of the fact that almost any size operation must have one skilled or technical worker, and one clerical work- er. For firms that vary in size from 4 to 19 workers, averaging about 10 workers, any one of these types would run a high ratio of technical or skilled workers. Another factor, of course, is that the larger firms tend to utilize more of labor saving machinery. Still a third factor is that the larger firms, particularly branches of manufacturing plants, employ great numbers of semi-skilled workers in assembly line and other types of production operations. Selling and transport services involve operations which employ professional and other types of workers mainly, and not so many of the skills included in this study.
In order to show the effect of industry type on the relative use of technical, skilled, and clerical workers, it is necessary to confine the comparisons to the size group 100 and over workers of the JI - Covered Cate- gory with the Non-covered Category in the last section of Table 8. The undesignated size of the Non-covered includes reporting establishments which employ 100 workers or over primarily. In general, the Non-covered in this classification are higher in technical and clerical workers than the JI -
Covered establishments of 100 workers or more, being 24 per cent and 94 per
22/ The irregular variation for firm size 4 to 19 workers appears to be a sampling variation because of the small employment represented. The self-employed is substantially higher in the use of technical and skilled workers than any size shown in Table 8. Data later on in the report on the self-employed confirm the greater need of small firms for technical and skilled workers.
-35- cent higher, respectively. The JI - Covered is 100 per cent higher in skilled workers. Considering all 8 major industrial groups in one comparison, it is noted that federal establishments are highest in technical workers, followed by durables, utilities, State and local governments, service, and construe-,
tion. In the skilled group, the leader is construction (18.7 per cent) fol- lowed by durables (12.7), utilities, non-durables, and Federal. The clerical category of workers shows the following order: service and other, Federal, other noncovered, utilities, and State and local governments. Construction ranks very high in skilled workers because of dominance of such skilled workers as carpenters, cement finishers, and plumbers. Federal and durable manufacturers rank high in the ratio of technicians. Federal employers are high because of such high user agencies as Internal Revenue, Federal Aviation
Agency, and Warner Robins Airplane Modification Center. Durables are high in both technicians and skilled workers because of the metal-working, fabri- cating industries, and aircraft manufacturers. Trade and service, Federal, other non-covered, and utilities are higher in the ratio of clerical workers because of the inherent nature of the business which involves a maximum of customer service and public relations work, requiring stenography, typing, bookkeeping, filing, and etc. V. TRAINING PROGRAMS
A. Company Training
Extent of Company Programs.
The questionnaire survey of companies in Georgia sought general infor- mation on company training programs and minimum educational requirements which the company had established for initial employment. Data on the num- ber of workers currently in training and the number to complete company training were also obtained in that part of the questionnaire which dealt with specific skilled jobs as to current employment and expected future em- ployment. The outline type questionnaire in Appendix B provides for report- ing on training as follows: No formal training given, apprenticeship, on- the-job training, unit classroom, and executive development programs. The designated questions on educational level for employment varied with the skilled level, with classification as to educational level, varying according to the following classes: No educational requirements, eighth grade level, high school graduate, completion of on-the-job training, apprenticeship, and vocational or trade school training.
Table 9 presents in digest form the type of company training programs which companies replying to the questionnaire reported. The data are by size of firm with the Non-covered firms presented without specifications as to size, 24/ and comparable to the largest size firms in the Covered category.
The ratio of firms having one or more training programs in operation during the Summer of 1962 was as follows:
24/— The Non-covered firms which reported were primarily employers of 100 employees or over.
-37- Per Cent
Firms Covered Under Job Insurance: 4 - 19 workers 44 20 - 99 workers 58 100 - or more workers 72
Non-covered firms 67
The data show that participation in company training increased strongly with size of firm. The employers with 100 or more workers not only had 64 per cent more training but had a greater variety of programs underway. The universe as defined for this study included 17,186 firms. Applying the above ratios by size of firm indicate that at least 8,900 firms in Georgia are en- gaged in company training of one sort or another.
The type of program most popular with all companies was on-the-job train- ing, of which about 57 per cent of all companies in the sample had such pro- grams. This means, based on the universe in this study, that at least
8,45025 firms are engaged in on-the-job training. The second most popular program was apprenticeship training, and the ratio of companies with programs reporting did not vary significantly by size. However, the proportion of
Non-covered firms reporting programs in apprenticeship training was less than half as large as the Covered firms. Comparisons between industries in the
Covered categories show that the construction industry had by far the highest ratio of companies giving apprenticeship training. The number of middle-size companies (20-99 workers) was especially high in this respect. Durable goods manufacturing tended to be second to construction in the ratio with programs, although the relationship is not regular. Among the Non-covered employers, state and local government had the highest ratio of reporting firms with
2-5.1 Derived by applying participation ratios to the different size strata.
-38-
Table 9 Percentage of Companies by Size and Industrial Type Engaging in Company Training Programs, Summer of 1962
Total Total Per Cent Percentage of Total Size of Firm Number Number with One Companies in Sample of and of or More with Training ► Type of Industry Companies Companies Programs On- Appren- Unit All Reporting Reporting the- tice- Class- Others %se or More Job ship Room Programs
;overed Employment Companies with 4 to 19 workers: 1. Manufacturing a. Durables 97 31 32 28 12 2 3 b. Nondurables 70 34 49 46 13 0 3 TOTAL 167 65 39 35 13 1 3 2. Construction 129 52 40 33 15 0 2 3. Utilities 50 21 42 44 0 0 4 4. Trade & Service 326 157 48 47 5 3 10 TOTAL 672 295 44 41 8 .2 6 Companies with 20 to 99 workers: 1. Manufacturing a. Durables 112 64 57 57 9 0 1 b. Nondurables 151 88 58 57 11 3 5 TOTAL 263 152 58 57 10 2 3 2. Construction 100 43 43 33 35 3 1 3. Utilities 73 47 64 66 15 8 11 4. Trade & Service 170 107 63 56 10 11 22 TOTAL 606 349 58 54 15 5 9 Companies with 100 or over workers: 1. Manufacturing a. Durables 111 71 64 64 22 7 17 b. Nonduraoles 358 269 75 75 13 8 10 TOTAL 469 340 72 72 15 8 12 2. Construction 30 8 27 27 13 0 0 3. Utilities 51 39 76 76 12 12 14 +. Trade & Service 121 97 80 78 9 16 17 TOTAL 671 484 72 72 14 9 12
ion-Covered Employment L. Federal Government 328 272 83 77 5 16 14 1. State & Local Government 184 85 46 41 5 18 19 1. Other Non-Covered 60 24 40 37 18 10 3 TOTAL 572 381 67 61 6 13 15
iGG REGATE 2,521 1,509 60 57 11 _7 10
21 Percentages will be added to more than the ratio of number with programs because many com- mlifN5participated in one or more types of training programs. apprenticeship programs. Relative to the universe for the study, an esti- mated 1,800 companies in the Study Area have apprenticeship programs.
Unit Classroom, while relatively low in the ratio, is interesting to to this study because it sho's the extent to which companies are trying to meet the needs for changing skills in mass. Here the ratio of companies reporting programs with this type of training increases sharply with company size, with the Non-covered companies having the highest ratio of all. There are an estimated 650 firms in the Study Area operating Unit Classrooms.
Educational Preferences of Companies.
Analysis of three types of minimum requirements for initial employment reported by companies in the survey is presented in Table 10. These three minima are in terms of high school graduates, on-the-job or apprenticeship training, and vocational or trade school training for initial employment as semi-skilled, skilled, technical and clerical workers. Variations in re- quirements for different types of employment are given according to industry and by size of company in the Covered employment and Non-covered employment unspecified as to size. The ratios of requirements relative to the total number of firms in the sample show that requirements increase with level of skill and size of company. The percentage of firms specifying that skilled workers also have on-the-job training varies from 14 to 28 per cent between size of firms but without any definite relationship to size. The percentage of firms specifying that technical workers have vocational or trade school training varies from 21 to 25 per cent between size, and clerical workers from 10 to 19 per cent, but without either showing any clear relationship to size of firm.
The comparisons between kinds of industries, holding size of firm
-40- constant, indicate in general that construction companies have lowest speci- cations with reference to education while utilities have the highest require- ments. Note that manufacturing, which ranks high in the use of semi-skilled workers, is next lowest to construction in educational requirements with
less than one-fifth (10 to 19 per cent) requiring a high school education.
The large Covered firms have higher educational requirements except
semi-skilled and skilled workers than the Non-covered companies. On the
other hand, the large Covered firms have significantly lower requirements
for either on-the-job and apprenticeship training or vocational training
than the Non-covered firms. Yet Federal Government requirements for pre- vious vocational training of technical and skilled workers is lower than
any of the industrial categories in the large-size Covered firms, except utilities which required practically no vocational training of its clerical employees on initial employment. Compared to the Covered firms, Federal
Government ranks high in both types of requirements for skilled workers.
Table 10 Percentage of Companies by Size and Industrial Types Requiring High School Education and/or Vocational Training for Initial Employment Summer 1962
Percentage of Reporting Companies Percentage Specifying Size of Firm Specifying High School Graduate and on Initial Employment On-the- Vocational or Trad Type of Industry Job or School Training fo Semi- Tech- Appren- Technical Clerica Skilled Skilled nical Clerical ship for Workers Workers Workers Workers Workers Workers Sk. Workers
I. Covered Employment A. Companies with 4 - 19 workers: 1. Manufacturing 19 29 25 46 11 13 25 2. Construction 12 13 23 52 28 27 26 3. Utilities 24 45 43 76 7 25 5 4. Trade & Service 31 36 30 62 17 21 17 TOTAL 23 30 28 58 18 21 19
B. Companies with 20 - 99 workers: 1. Manufacturing 10 32 32 66 20 25 20 2. Construction 3 19 22 47 20 28 29 3. Utilities 32 57 58 81 16 19 13 4. Trade & Service 32 50 36 74 18 25 16 TOTAL 17 37 34 67 20 25 19
C. Companies with 100 or over workers: 1. Manufacturing 19 43 52 82 15 19 10 2. Construction 0 3 35 56 13 22 8 3. Utilities 37 78 71 92 8 21 2 4. Trade & Service 56 73 52 86 10 31 8 TOTAL 25 48 53 82 14 21 10
II. Non-Covered Employment 1. Federal Government 43 51 42 69 16 17 7 2. State & Local Government 27 40 34 65 15 34 16 3. Other Non-Covered 17 34 22 63 39 46 22 TOTAL 32 44 36 67 18 28 12
III. AGGREGATE 24 40 40 69 17 23 15 The following is a list of job titles for which companies requested
training programs in the questionnaire:
Skilled Category Number of and Companies Job Title Requesting I. TECHNICIANS:
001 Accountant, General and Cost 47 028 Estimator 24 025 Electronics 29 022 Draftsman, Structural 20 074 Time-Study II 17 053 Quality Control Technician 14 050 Production Planner 11 020 Draftsman, Electrical 10 021 Draftsman, Mechanical-Furniture 10
II. SKILLED:
241 Machinist 65 243 Maintenance Mechanic (Any industry) 50 221 Electrician 49 278 Welder 41 204 Auto Mechanic 35 212 Carpenter (Non-manufacturing) 24 242 Maintenance Man (Factory or Mill) 22 244 Mason (Brick, etc.) 21 266 Sewing Machine Repairman 21 203 Air Conditioning or Refrigeration Mechanic 19 262 Plumber (Construction) 15 273 Tool and/or Die Maker 15 267 Sheet Metal Worker 13 249 Printer 12 213 Cement Finisher (Construction) 10 218 Diesel Mechanic (Non-manufacturing) 10 253 Patternmaker (Furniture) 10
III. CLERICAL WORKERS:
402 Bookkeeper 125 406 Stenographer 117 401 Accounting Clerk 65 403 Bookkeeping Machine Operator 47 404 Key-punch Duplicator Operator 40 407 Tabulating-Machine Operator 29 405 Statistical Clerk 13
-43- Location of Georgia State Employment Offices and Vocational-Technical Schools
The accompanying map compares the location of the Georgia State Employ- ment offices with the location of currently operating and projected voca- tional-technical schools of local systems in cooperation with the Georgia
Department of Education. The 21 schools projected will also be in operation in the next few years. The employment offices will take the lead in place- ment of the skilled and technical workers trained by the area trade schools.
The close proximity of the employment offices to the area training centers will assist greatly the vital placement function.
LOCATION OF GEORGIA STATE EMPLOYMENT OFFICES AND VOCATIONAL — TECHNICAL SCHOOLS OF THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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-44- B. Public Training Programs
Georgia Department of Education, Vocational-Technical Schools.
The Division of Vocational Education, Georgia Department of Education, in cooperation with local systems, has a program to develop 26 area voca- tional-technical 21/ schools designed to train technical, skilled, and cleri- cal workers. They are to be in the following areas: Albany, Atlanta,
Athens, Augusta, Columbus, DeKalb County, Griffin, Macon, Marietta, Moultrie,
Swainsboro, Savannah, Thomaston, Thomasville, Valdosta, and Waycross. In addition, there are two State operated schools at Clarkesville and Americus.
Study of the accompanying map of Georgia indicates that these points are well distributed geographically. Most of Georgia's post-high school men and women desiring training for technical, skilled, or clerical jobs are within reasonable commuting distance of these schools. Note from the map also the proximity of employment offices operated by the Georgia Department of Labor.
The close proximity of the employment offices of the area training centers will assist greatly the vital placement function.
The number of area vocational-technical schools in operation or pro- jected to be in operation (including the 2 State Schools) are as follows:
September 1962 8 September 1963 20 September 1964 28
In June 1962, 502 certificates were granted by the two State and the eight area vocational-technical schools. By June 1963, the output is ex- pected to be up to 1,387; June 1965, 3,821; and by June 1967, 5,788.
26/ A 27th Vocational-Technical Area School was announced January 19, 1963, to be located at Augusta, Georgia
-45- Projected output by the three categories is as follows:
YEAR 1963 1965 1967
Skilled Workers 745 2,242 3,570 Technical Workers 382 945 1,344 Clerical Workers 260 634 874
TOTAL Pre-employment . 1,387 3,821 5,788
In addition the number of students finishing public high schools with a high level competence in the clerical skills must be taken into account.
The number was 2,738 in 1961-1962, and projections for years in the study period are shown below:
1963 2,960 1965 3,500 1967 4,200
The total enrollment in all courses in business education during 1961-
62 was 108,680 in such courses as filing, typewriting, shorthand, office practice, business law, and 17 others, involving over 300 high schools, in- cluding adult classes and courses given in private schools. Many of these young people will take employment in clerical types of jobs in business after graduation from high school. Consequently, the demand for clerical workers in future years should be balanced against the output, not only of clerical workers from the vocational-technical schools and business education gradu- ates but also in part against those persons in high school who are taking one or more courses in business education.
The Georgia Department of Education participates in a large number of special short-term training programs and offers a vast number of extension classes especially for employed workers to keep up with changing industrial methods. This is a very important activity designed to help workers keep
-46- up-to-date on changing technology.
Southern Technical Institute
The Southern Technical Institute, a unit of the Engineering Extension
Division, Georgia Institute of Technology, trains technicians in the fol-
lowing fields:
*Air Conditioning Engineering Technology *Building Construction Technology *Civil Engineering Technology *Electrical Engineering Technology (Electronics Option) *Electrical Engineering Technology (Power Option) *Gas Engineering Technology * Industrial Engineering Technology * Mechanical Engineering Technology
Electrical Engineering Technology (Telephone Option) Industrial Engineering Technology (Management Option) Textile Engineering Technology
Indicates accreditation. 221
The Institute plans to add, in the near future, an educational program
in Chemical Technology.
The Southern Technical Institute, founded in 1948, is an accredited two- year, coeducational, boarding, terminal, technical college offering the
Associate of Science Degree in the above eleven fields. The number of
Associate Science Degrees granted in June 1962 was 260. Mr. Hoyt L. McClure,
Director, Southern Technical Institute, has estimated (conservatively) that
the number of Associate of Science Degrees will rise to 375 by 1965 and to
555 by June 1967, if additional planned dormitory space is constructed to
support the larger demand anticipated in 5 years.
27 / Accredited by the Engineers' Council for Professional Development. The three curricula not indicated as accredited have not been in existence long enough to qualify for accreditation.
-47- Evening Schools.
Selected courses of study pertaining to some technical or skilled com- petence can frequently be obtained in a local high school or college, if proper inquiry is pursued. The best known sources of such courses, however, are in the Atlanta area, by the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia
State College. The courses, leading to an associate of science degree in technology, which may be obtained at Georgia Tech in the evening are:
Building construction, civil engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, with supporting institute courses in drawing, English, mathematics, and physics. The above courses may be trans- ferred to Southern Technical Institute for credit toward an associate of science degree, or a student may pursue studies in the evening school at
Georgia Tech for 4 or 5 years, completing all the required courses for an associate of science degree in technology. In addition, a range of studies may be pursued in adult education subjects, such as mechanical drawing and welding. A variety of academic subjects are available also.
The Georgia State College offers courses only in its academic program in evening classes, but many subjects may Le taken to build up competence in several areas of technology. In a typical quarter, Georgia State College offers in its evening school the following courses: Mathematics through calculus, statistics, quality control, theoretical physics, electricity, basic electronics, basic chemistry, time and motion study, technical re- porting and writing, public speaking, communication skills, accounting-- basic & cost, animal behavior, bacteriology, biology, biochemistry, instru- mentation in biology and chemistry, logic, microbiology, organization theory, progrduLing, systems analysis, etc.
-48- Limited courses of study may be obtained in the evening from some of the other colleges in the area. Inquiry would show what is available. A person interested in pursuing study in some field of technology, or acquiring competence in a skill should also check for available courses with the super- intendent of education in the area.
C. Apprenticeship Training
The Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training, U.S. Department of Labor, assists industry in promotion and development of a broad, and growing pro- gram of apprenticeship training in Georgia industries. Georgia has no ap- prenticeship law governing policies and standards and is thus in a coopera- tive basis. The Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training promotes and helps companies develop programs for specific skills, and also registers workers for the programs. The Georgia Department of Labor's function is that of testing, screening, and referring workers.
For the period ending September 20, 1962, the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training, U.S. Department of Labor, had 2,119 workers registered in 36 separate programs. 28/ The construction trades with 13 programs accounted for 83 per cent of the registrants; metals trades, 5 per cent; and printing trades, 4 per cent. The unaccounted for 8 per cent covered 11 programs of which about two-thirds were in two programs, i.e., maintenance mechanic- repairmen (3.7 per cent) and granite workers (1.9 per cent). Details on all apprenticeship programs in which the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training is cooperating are given in Appendix A.
28/_ Data provided to authors by Mr. J. O. Long, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training, in letter, dated Oct. 24, 1962.
-49- The Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training also promotes programs for worker improvement. During the year ending September 30, 1962, it had in
existence 30 such programs, varying from 10 to 60 hours per program which
involved 1,000 workers. In this program, and also for those in registered
apprenticeship, the Georgia Department of Education cooperates by providing related classes in local vocational schools. It also helps in developing
interest, active support, and cooperation of vocational teachers and others
to stimulate apprenticeship and worker improvement programs.
D. Union Training Programs
Information 22/ on union activity in training indicates that a majority
of the apprenticeship training programs now underway in companies were pro- moted by unions. Often the initiative to begin such programs in companies
originates with unions. A number of trade unions have contracts, under collective bargaining, to supply skilled workers as needed by companies.
In such instances, the apprenticeship program is organized in union facili- ties, conducted, and managed entirely by unions. However, unions seldon initate their own programs without the assistance of the Bureau of
Apprenticeship and Training. The Bureau is available to help plan any training program needed, but it does not give training.
E. Relationship of Training to Employer Demand
The analysis from Table 9, previously discussed, indicates that 11 per cent of employers have apprenticeship training programs and 57 per cent have on-the-job training. Additional training is provided in unit classrooms and
29/— Loc. cit.
-50- executive development courses, both of which are fine for up-grading workers and managerial personnel. The questionnaire also obtained data on the number in training and how many workers under each job title would complete company training in 1 year and 3 years, the 5 year estimate being obtained by extra- polation of the rate between 1 year and 3 years.
The overall measures of training for these 3 time periods in relation- ship to employer job demands for technical, skilled, and clerical workers are given in Table 11. The data show that the highest percentage overall of total demand supplied through company training is for the skilled worker category where the apprenticeship program of the U.S. Department of Labor is particularly applicable. The lowest ratio of training is among the cleri- cal workers where company training is least applicable, especially for typists and stenographers. The 1 year training ratio for skilled workers is 36 per cent and 21 per cent for clerical workers. The ratio for technicians is 43 per cent. For the technical category the training ratio declines about 26 per cent in 5 years, the skilled category 6 per cent, and for clerical 19 per cent. For the three groups compositely companies are training about 29 per cent of expected needs in one year and have underway or are planning a program which will train about one-fourth of expected job needs in 5 years.
This is very close to the ratio 80 large companies plan to train in terms of needs in 5 years for entirely new types of technicians. 32/
30/ See Section VI on "Impact of Changing Technology" on need for new technicians.
-51- Table 11 Size and Relative Importance of Company Training as a Source of Supply to meet Employer Demand for Technical, Skilled, and Clerical Workers in GeorgiaW during the Next Five Years
Items Occupational Category Technical Skilled Clerical Total
I. Current Employment 23,173 81,386 61,097 165,656
II. Expected Employment:hi 1 Year 24,982 88,196 65,058 178,236 3 Years 27,115 95,209 70,288 192,610 5 Years 29,251 102,220 75,520 206,991
III. Estimated Employer Demand!/ 1 Year 2,071 8,072 8,582 18,725 3 Years 4,737 17,621 19,547 41,905 5 Years 7,412 27,205 30,964 65,581
IV. Company Training as a Source of Supply for Technical, Skilled and Clerical Workers: A. Estimated Number to be Trained in Companies 1 Year 886 2,873 1,763 5,322 3 Years 1,415 5,458 3,171 10,044 5 Yearsli 2,363 9,114 5,296 16,773 B. Percentage of Total Demand to be Supplied by Company Training: 1 Year 43 36 21 29 3 Years 30 31 16 24 5 Years 32 34 17 25
V. Percentage of Total Demand to be Supplied from other Methods of Training: 1 Year 57 64 79 71 3 Years 70 69 84 76 5 Years 68 66 83 75
a/ Includes Aiken County, South Carolina, and Russell County, Alabama. 11 Based on contemplated employment of Employers inflated to universe values, SI Estimated employer demand equals estimated increase in employment plus worker replacement requirements. di Based on extrapolating the rate of increase in number of trained person- nel from 1 year to 3 years estimated by employers to a 5 year basis.
-52- VI. IMPACT OF CHANGING TECHNOLOGY ON NEED FOR NEW TYPES OF TECHNICIANS
Everywhere in the world, in our nation, and in Georgia industry, there
is a struggle to introduce the latest technological changes. This has a two-
fold objective: First, to capitalize on new technology and second, to get
ahead of competitors, or at least stay up with them. But introduction of new technology brings complications. It must be evaluated in terms of opera- tions, and a plan must be worked out for its introduction. In the process, men must be re-trained, engineers and technicians up-dated, market demand
assessed, and investment requirements determined. In many cases the tech- nicians needed are not available. A delay is caused while they are trained by the engineers and scientists concerned.
The personal interviews demonstrated that delays up to five years were being experienced by companies in adoption of technological change. Those who have studied the rate of diffusion 31/ of new technology have stated that on the average about ten years are required to enable adoption and completion of integration into operations of an industry of a completely new machine.
However, this period varies, depending upon profitability of the innovation, size of investment required, type of industry, including number of firms,
and also to some basic extent, durability of equipment replaced, rate of growth of industry's output, and how recent the development. The pace of
introduction of new technology in most cases now is undoubtedly less than
ten years because of: (1) The urgency of the cold war, (2) the pace of the
31/ Mansfield, Edwin: "Diffusion of Technological Change," Review of Data on Research and Development, National Science Foundation, No. 31, NSF # 61-52, October 1961.
-53- competition, and (3) favorable attitudes on the part of top management to- ward improved equipment, innovations, new products, etc., reflected by the large, active research and development programs of most companies.
To observe the effects of changing technology in Georgia's economy and its impact on the need for new technicians, interviews were held with manage- ment, scientists, and engineers in eighty firms, cutting across all major manufacturing and nonmanufacturing activities. These sample firms were drawn at random from companies employing 100 or more workers which were most like- ly to be strongly concerned with new types of technicians. 32 / In general, the sampling ratio was around ten per cent, although some industries, like communications, electric, and gas, were surveyed 100 per cent. The inter- yews started with top management and proceeded to the engineers, supervisors, technicians, research and development groups, and maintenance technicians intimately concerned with changing technology. The amount of time spent on an interview varied from a few hours in some of the simpler operations to three days in the larger, more complex companies.
We present below the results from these interviews in four parts:
First, there is a summary of the main technological trends currently under- way in the different industrial categories; second, a presentation is made of the main technician types needed, with the overall areas of training specified; third, the need for technicians is assessed in terms of the prob- able numbers required in the next five years, and fourth, the significance of technicians is related to advance of technology and economic development of an area.
32/— The lumber and wood industries, furniture and fixtures, apparel, and many of the service industries were omitted for this reason.
-54- A. Industrial Trends
The following trends are summaries of information obtained from tech- nical personnel in representative companies through personal interviews:
I. DURABLES - Manufacturing
A. Stone, clay, and glass products
1. Use of radioisotopes in measuring densities.
2. Automation of inspection systems to remove inspection from the realm of human error.
3. Use of ultrasonic or ultraviolet light systems in inspection.
4. The whole manufacturing process is moving toward mechanization and automation to increase volume and improve quality. This move results in the use of more sophisticated electrical controls and circuitry as well as pneumatic and hydraulic systems.
5. New methods of in-plant communication, particularly visual, are being sought.
6. Where human performance is essential, strides are being taken toward statistical evaluation and control performance.
7. Materials handling is becoming automated from the loading of furnaces to the movement of the finished product. Mixing is already automated.
8. The demand for mechanical engineers is growing.
9. Special applications of both AC and DC circuitry are being utilized.
B. Metals--Primary and fabricated
1. Growing use of automatic controls based on newer electronic concepts using transistors. Many sequence type operations will be controlled by static (or stationary) switching components, i.e., with transis- tors, etc.
2. Plastics and foil lined paper containers are replacing some metal type containers.
3. New types of metals or new characterisitcs for presently used metals are being developed.
4. Continuous operations are tending to replace job shop operations.
-55- B. Metals--Primary and fabricated (continued)
5. New chemical and physical tests are being developed and used at all stages of metals refining and fabrication. Spectrographic, X-ray techniques, magnetic particle inspection, and nuclear techniques; and ultrasonic devices or thickness measuring devices are some of these.
6. There is a continual emphasis on improving methods. A part of the stimulus for this results from competition with Belgians and Japanese.
7. Quality requirements with respect to dimension and content are be- coming more rigid, and cleanliness, i.e., on products for use in missiles; also workmanship, as Class A welder required for missile structures.
8. Use of aluminum is growing in this area. Distance from the largest users of primary metals and fabricated metals makes lightness essen- tial due to transportation costs.
9. Primary metals manufacturers are tending toward specialty metals.
10. Computer programs on tape or cards are being developed to control repetitive operations. The objective is to obtain accurately con- trolled production by mechanical methods through mass data pro- cessing by machine and the reduction of human judgement needed to a minimum.
11. Greater emphasis on the recovery of materials from waste and the development of by-products from waste materials.
C. Machinery
1. Capital equipment manufacturers are building both larger equipment and more precise equipment. The objective is to obtain greater capacity with equal or less weight per unit of capacity.
2. More use of electronic and hydraulic control mechanisms with a definite trend toward automatic controls is observable in new capital equipment. Much new capital equipment is tape controlled.
3. The growth of automation in manufacturing equipment means that capital equipment manufacturers are forced to do more work on a job shop basis.
4. The use of solid-state electrical components in control systems is growing.
5. In connection with the trend toward automation in some machine shop practices there is a sort of reverse trend to DC circuitry to get better speed control, due to solid-state power type components.
-56- C. Machinery (continued)
6. New metals and metal substitutes are being utilized. Aluminum alloys are being used for structural and decorative purposes. New plastics for bearings and for functions requiring high tensile strength are being utilized.
7. Use of individual motors as opposed to one large motor both in the manufacture of capital equipment and in the final equipment as assem- bled is growing.
8. In general, manufacturers of capital equipment are studying the functions to be performed in an effort to determine basic prin- ciples and perhaps develop radically new equipment.
9. More and more technicians are going to be required for the instal- lation and servicing of new machine tools; also in production, inspection, and programming.
10. Growth in the use of metallic and non-metallic die-castings.
11. Statistical methods of quality control are becoming more widely used, and in certain cases are a condition for contract work with large national manufacturers.
12. Greater emphasis on design engineering, and there is an enlarged desire for engineers and technical persons with creative ideas and abilities to handle rapid changes in technology.
13. Increased influx of foreign machine tools.
D. Electrical Machinery
1. Where possible, automation is being applied to both the production and assembly of components. Automation is also being applied to the repair of electric motors and to quality control work in building electric motors.
2. Electrical and electronic controls are being miniaturized.
3. Trend to more static controls (stationary, i.e., circuit breakers, ets.).
4. Work on fuel cells, solar energy, and other technological develop- ments continues.
5. Improvements in design of motors is occurring, using existing steel and wire.
6. New epoxy insulations and cleaning compounds are being used.
7. New types of batteries are being developed.
-57- 8. Use of atomic energy by government and private industry is expected to have some effect on type of equipment.
9. Remote control, fail safe systems are being employed.
E. Transportation Equipment (automobile and aircraft)
1. Growing use of exotic metals (alloys) such as stainless steel and aluminum honeycomb assemblies. Some of these are ultra strength materials requiring entirely new methods for fabrication and joining, including electronic welding.
2. Some of these new materials require entirely new methods of pro- cessing. Chemical milling, electronic beam welding and plasma sources will play a large part in this trend. Ultrasonic equipment is also involved.
3. Growing use of urethane and other plastics products. Some of these are used for insulation, others to reduce weight and provide strength.
4. Growing use of automatic operation of machine tools both new and modified. Tape controls will play a large part in this trend.
5. The use and maintenance of automated machinery, and programming are growing problems which will require technicians.
6. Some product units are becoming larger requiring changes in tooling, fabrication and joining skills.
7. Many processes require new levels of cleanliness as well as new levels of worker protection.' Some require remote manipulation.
8. New sources of energy are being investigated including nuclear energy and fuel cells.
9. The standards of precision required for manufacture are becoming more rigorous.
10. Some products require miniaturization and micro-miniaturization.
11. New devices such as lasers, masers, and new techniques such as thin- film techniques and cryogenic techniques are being used.
12. The use of pneumatic systems both as components of the final prod- ucts and as testing devices is growing.
13. The use of automatic data processing for supply control is growing. F. Instruments and Miscellaneous Manufacturers
1. Growth in digital and analog electronic instrumentation. This isn't new except with respect to the growth in its use by manufacturers in Georgia.
2. Expanded use of electro-mechanical instrument accessories, as well as nuclear and ultrasonic devices.
3. New principles and thus new designs are being developed.
4. Greater use of automatic equipment both for parts production and assembly. Much of this equipment will be controlled electronically.
5. Growth in the use of technicians as supervisors of production units, sales and installation work, and as designers for installation of standard units.
6. Increased use of engineering technicians to back up engineering and research workers; more responsible assignments for engineering technicians.
7. Growth in automatic data processing.
8. New materials are being developed and used in both the product and its packaging.
9. There is a constant emphasis on the improvement of production methods and quality controls.
II. NONDURABLES - Manufacturing
A. Food and kindred products
1. Automation and tighter quality control measures are being moved back toward the food source or grower.
2. Automation is being applied to the processing line with respect to sorting and quality control.
3. Continued acceleration in volume of frozen foods.
4. Changing methods of preserving food. Freeze-dehydration is on the horizon. New use of radiation, including infra-red and gamma rays are under development.
5. Growth in the use of industrial weighing devices.
6. Growth in the amount of vertical integration within the industry. The direction has been from the processor back to the grower. Now, the processor may be thinking of moving into prepared foods.
-59- A. Food and kindred products (continued)
7. Growth of automatic data processing.
8. Use of computers to determine optimum combination of inputs for some processed foods such as sausages.
9. Growth in number of individual companies and laboratories. This will increase the number of food technologists and laboratory tech- nicians needed.
10. Increased mechanization (and automation) in food production, i.e., feeding of animals.
B. Textile Mill Products
1. Improved raw materials involving synthetics. The trend is toward heavier denier in tire manufacturing with fewer plies. Methods of testing to determine qualities and characteristics of fiber are growing in importance.
2. Since size of unit for manual handling has reached the limit, the trend is toward automatic handling with expensive equipment.
3. In recent years a complete breakthrough in textile machinery has occurred, leading toward automation of textile operations. There are larger, more expensive continuous flow machines; this requires synchronization of machines, development of automatic transfer ma- chines. This results in increased speed of operations, larger packages. All of this means more sophisticated process controls, electronic and mechanical, to maintain flow and product uniformity, including production scheduling.
4. The trend toward expensive, complex machinery, involving electronic mechanisms and often also hydraulic or pneumatic, enlarges the prob- lem of preventive maintenance.
5. The finishing of fabrics is changing and chemical technology, in- cluding coating for some types of products, is becoming more impor- tant and also more complex.
6. The textile mills serving the automobile industry are striving for a fabric that will equal the normal life of the automobile. Tire manufacturers are pursuing development of a tire without fabric materials.
7. The computer is of growing importance for data processing and management controls. In time computer use for production planning will grow.
8. Greater emphasis on quality control, systems analysis, and the other tools of scientific management.
-60- B. Textile Mill Products (continued)
9. Emphasis on design and packaging will remain high. The style factor is becoming more important in all phases of industry.
10. The independent mills are not able to move as rapidly toward auto- mation and computers as the larger integrated concerns. They are, however, going to high speeds and higher drafts, to machinery with anti-friction bearings, electronically controlled, coupled with hydraulic or pneumatic systems.
11. Work is being done on elimination of some of the processes--go from opening to cards, sliver to direct spinning, from coarse roving, and in chemical processes, elimination of slashing.
12. The large integrated textile companies are moving toward diversified types of production, involving in time lines of products not closely related to present products.
C. Paper and allied products
1. Movement toward continuous processing using different types of com- puters for control.
2. Increasing use of electronic instrumentation.
3. Growth in the use of electronic and pneumatic controls to automate and provide automatic transfer between present machines.
4. Greater use of engineering and technical talent.
5. Basic machinery is being developed to produce different products such as polyethelene and foil coatings. (This represents the marriage of plastics and paper).
6. The use of Beta ray thickness gauge, a nuclear measuring device, is growing.
7. Automation is being extended back to the woodlands through the use of bigger and more sophisticated mobile equipment.
8. Growth in the use of statistics and statistical analytical tools.
9. Growth of automatic data processing equipment.
10. Paper manufacturers are in forestry business, requiring forestry technicians.
11. More rigid "packaging" requirements are reflected back from the converter to the manufacturer requiring improved quality control and new product development.
-61- D. Printing and publishing
1. The use of magnetic ink has meant that quality of printing had to be improved.
2. Conventional typesetting equipment has been speeded up by use of tape controls.
3. A fast typesetting machine is needed and is probably on the way. This will eliminate entire detailed processes such as stereotype. Also, the objective is to eliminate the hot metals of setting type.
4. Application of electronics is being made in all areas of printing. For example, here are some of them:
a. Electronic machines are being developed which adjust paper to put colors in register. b. Electronic equipment is being used to determine the thick- ness of ink. c. Electronic equipment may be used for proofreading. d. Electronic equipment is also being applied to mechanical con- trols of printing equipment. e. A scanning device has been developed to separate color elements in a color transparency. f. Electronic screen process printing is perhaps on the horizon.
5. The industry is switching from sheet pad to roll pad to reduce costs.
6. New types of inks and new printing surfaces are being developed and utilized.
7. More versatile presses and also more specialized presses are be- coming available to the industry.
8. More mergers in the industry may mean larger companies which can give more support to research and development.
9. Equipment is becoming easier to operate. Technical level people will thus be needed in supervision and in maintenance rather than in the operative level.
10. Facsimile transmission of pictures or pages by microwave methods.
11. Unintegrated parts or units of the printing system will be tied together for tighter control. Computers may play a part in this.
12. Greater use of production control techniques.
13. The application of computers to justifying copy is under study.
14. "In house" printing is increasing for both literature and packaging materials.
-62- E. Chemicals and allied products, rubber and plastics
1. Continued expansion of use of anhydrous nitrogen in agriculture.
2. More rigid standards require more chemical control and laboratory people.
3. Increased product development will require more laboratory tech- nicians.
4. Automatic data processing in these firms is growing.
5. Use of automatic process controls is increasing.
F. Shoe Manufacturers
1. The use of rental shoe manufacturing equipment lingers, but in a few years ownership of equipment will be dominant. Many foreign makes of shoe manufacturing equipment, excellent types and cheaper types, are being imported. Any suitable, efficient new equipment will be adapted quickly.
2. Tremendous strides have been made in toe lasting machines. A new model just being adopted will provide an output of 100 dozen pairs per man-day, up 300 per cent from the early 1930's.
3. New electronic clickers (die-type cutters) will cut through any kind of material--one sheet or a telephone book--with personnel protective devices.
4. Moulding of shoes by mechanical methods is being developed. It will double output per man by consolidating many basic steps. The material used to mould shoes will outlast synthetic soles now widely used.
5. The industry is going to mechanized handling at the various work stages.
6. The research laboratories are perfecting a synthetic material for uppers that will breathe, with an evershine surface.
7. Research will have available in near future an imitation sole which will outlast the latest types of synthetic soles. III. CONSTRUCTION
A. Construction, building, and special trade contractors
1. The installation of various electrical, air conditioning, and mechani- cal systems, many of which have electronic control systems, has made building construction more complex. There is a growing need for tech- nicians trained on a systems basis rather than on a "modular" or building block basis.
2. The use of concrete involving long spans and thin sections is growing and is spreading into new fields.
3. Growing use of building materials made of fiberglass and plastics. More of these type materials would be utilized if building codes were changed. In the long run, however, it is expected that there may be a return to traditional use of masonry.
4. Windowless buildings and plants are developing more and more because of air conditioning. Also, accurate light control is being increas- ingly recognized as important to quantity and quality of output.
5. The use of more and better prefabricated materials such as slabs, partitions, and for roofs is desired. Pre-assembled walls are being considered.
6. Electrical contractors are finding a growing demand for the appli- cation and installation of more electronic equipment, particularly in control applications. Increased use of new methods of temperature control, absorption cooling heat pumps.
7. Standard types of paints are being dropped. The industry is getting involved in the use of epoxy resins and synthetic plastics.
8. Painting equipment is becoming more complex and specialized to keep up with new painting materials, but it is not yet even with materials developed.
9. The tendency is to specify the thickness of paints rather than the number of coats.
10. The painting industry is having to broaden its base as to its capa- bility, since new building materials are in many cases eliminating the need for painting.
11. Computers are presently being applied to accounting and cost account- ing. Cost estimating by computer is on the horizon.
12. Computers are presently being used on some standard types of problems such as electrical circuits, and electrical distribution systems.
-64- B. Construction (excluding building)
1. Higher standards for road construction are being developed and are being enforced as never before.
2. New machinery is being developed so rapidly that old mechanics can't keep up with it.
3. Road contractors are required to have more engineering competence in their organization.
4. Construction projects are larger and more complex.
5. Road surface mixing mills are becoming more complex and require a larger and larger investment.
6. The design of rapid transit systems and appropriate equipment is a brand new field with new problems.
7. Computer programs are being used on some standard types of construc- tion such as bridge spans and complicated structural situations.
8. Control work on expensive equipment is of growing importance.
9. Trend is to new materials such as epoxy compounds, for bonding, and also the use of new alloys from the steel industry.
10. New welding techniques are under consideration.
11. More complex problems in urban highway construction with changing type and character of traffic.
12. Quality control and inspection requirements are increasing (concrete pavement thickness and density measurement instruments).
IV. TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATION, ELECTRIC, GAS & SANITARY SERVICE
A. Communications
1. Growth in microwave transmission with great improvement in antennae design.
2. Trend in industries is toward private wires with teleprinter services, including Wide Area service.
3. Growth in broad band switching centers with magnetic tape.
4. Utilization of stations in space.
5. Increased use of tele-processing of data at great distance, with growth in flexibility of methods.
-65- A. Communications (continued)
6. Scope of direct dialing is increasing, to include eventually world wide dialing.
7. Shifting from DC circuitry to AC circuitry in telephone systems.
8. Increased use of electronic devices to control traffic load, in- cluding electronic central office.
9. Expansion of mobile communication facilities, employing microwaves-- ship to shore, automobile telephone, etc.
10. Push-button type telephoning, followed by television viewing on tele- phone, will be here in 2 to 5 years.
11. The larger industries are moving to centralized private branch ex- changes.
B. Electricity, Gas, and Sanitary Services
1. Increased use of computers in accounting, management, and in certain aspects of operations.
2. Increased use of microwave technology in communications perhaps.
3. Increased use of electronic equipment in controls to protect systems against interruptions of flow; to change in switching equip- ment and techniques; and metering.
4. Concentration to fewer power plants for generation of electric energy; higher voltage transmission of energy, underground perhaps.
5. Application of higher temperature materials (steam power, conduction transformers, etc.); transmission materials will become more compli- cated.
6. Improved conduction and insulation equipment.
7. Adding more heat pumps.
8. There will be a greater use of the fuel cell.
9. Increased use of labor saving and automatic devices.
10. More complicated hydraulic systems and lifts.
11. Trend towards more complicated electrical appliances.
12. More widespread use of gas turbine as a source of power in industry, with individual building generators.
-66- 13. More use of cathodic protection for underground metallic pipe, with trend towards plastic pipe as price declines.
14. New heating techniques with gas in steel making;, also annealing, welding, heat treating.
15. Cost savings from mixtures of oil with gas.
C. Transportation (railroad and pipeline)
1. Increased use of microwave technology for communications.
2. Increased use of computers in management, various types of control and to monitor operations--freight car control and prime power, simulation of railroad system, and may eventually operate railroads automatically.
3. Growth in market analysis and to better concept of what services are wanted and how to tailor equipment and rates to meet these needs.
4. Automation of track maintenance is increasing, with pre-assembly of track units in shops.
5. More automatic signaling, to control track occupancy, including electronic scales to weigh cars and to determine rollability.
6. Increased emphasis on maintenance and programming of equipment by technician type workers, related to greater use of complicated test equipment.
7. The railroads are moving to container concept, not "piggy back" like trucks but to standard containers of 40 feet; they also are experi- menting with sub-multiples of this size. Big problem is lack of uniform movement in this direction by all railroads.
8. Increased use of lightweight materials in railroad rolling stock, i.e., aluminum hopper and aluminum box cars.
9. Remotely controlled pumping stations are widely in use in pipeline industry.
D. Transportation (airlines)
1. Increased use of computers in management work, inventory control, preventive maintenance, passenger reservations, and in operations-- flight simulators, and eventually for pre-flight program planning, to check circuitry, and all forms of data control.
2. Increased use of electronic equipment of growing order of complexity. (Maintenance of this equipment is a big problem). Example of new uses are as follows:
-67- D. Transportation (airlines---continued)
a. Selective calling in radio communications. b. Automatic identification on radio which will be based on a complete program of flight and which will use digital com- puters in a radar display. c. Automatic programming of data transmission devices, in- cluding plane to ground, for data exchange without human reaction. d. Use of slowed down video-techniques.
3. In communications going to leased line concept with satellite receiver transmitters, using microwave transmission systems.
4. Growing importance of knowing advanced welding technology and metal- lurgy, including exotic metals of very high tensile strength.
5. Increased use of plating processes to recondition parts, and methods of application of coating materials on exotic metals.
6. X-ray inspection of certain parts of plane before preventive mainte- nance is growing in importance.
7. Air conditioning and refrigeration are becoming more important.
8. Pneumatics is of great importance in jet planes...and there is a tendency to use this kind of power transmission.
9. The trend is from vacuum tube to solid-state electronics.
10. Will shortly be using transponders, giving a third dimension in flight, which is based on air pressure of plane while in flight.
11. Must work to closer tolerances all the time.
12. Sonic high frequency vibration of jet engine affects safety of plane and also well-being of people living near airport. Noise abatement is getting a lot of attention.
13. The problem of anti-collision of planes is now getting lots of research.
14. For the long run, much thought and advance planning are being given to development of a supersonic transport, which will travel 2 to 3 times the speed of sound.
15. Shifting from DC circuitry to AC circuitry; this has paralleled the shift from piston type engine to the jet.
-68- V. TRADE AND SERVICES (Banking, insurance, retailing, & miscellaneous services)
1. Automatic electronic data processing to cope with increased volume of paper handling. This requires systems analysis and development.
2. Elimination of transcription process by the use of magnetic ink character recognition and optical scanning devices.
3. Check clearance by magnetic tape rather than mailing of checks.
4. Development of new services from the total banking systems and analysis concept.
5. Tele-transmission of data.
6. Records storage on tape. (Moving from cards to tape).
7. Development of new insurance services from the total insurance pro- gram concept.
8. Application of computers not only to data processing but to provide a mass memory for communication and intelligence type data to improve business operations.
9. The underwriting function is becoming more complex due to technical problems in the commercial and industrial areas.
10. Selection and job evaluation are becoming more important with more attention and new tools being devoted to it.
11. Growing use of operations research approach to management. Availa- bility of computers has facilitated this course of action.
12. The problem of data retrieval is of increasing importance as well as the amount of effort given to it.
13. High grade technicians are now required to perform work or services not previously needed or non-existent a few years ago.
VI. MEDICAL AND RELATED SERVICES (Federal, State, local, and private)
1. Growing use of disposable items in hospitals. More items are being used by more different hospitals.
2. Recording of more data about patients electronically for processing by computer and the use of computers for diagnosis work.
3. Growing use of radioisotopes for diagnostic work on the patient and in the laboratory. This will require more supervision and control, also.
-69- VI. MEDICAL AND RELATED SERVICES (continued)
4. Growing use of medical-audio-visual communication and audio-visual devices.
5. Greater use of electronic equipment and instruments both for patient surveillance and for laboratory tests and diagnosis.
6. Growing use of micro-methods procedures.
7. Greater use of X-ray equipment and X-ray techniques; higher-power X-ray with automatic developing.
8. More attention being paid to environment including atmosphere and water. There will be more fall-out and reactor surveillance.
9. Automation of hospital accounting procedures is on the horizon depending in part upon the size of the hospital for its economic justification.
10. Growing use of inhalation therapy.
11. Increased emphasis on information retrieval and thus elimination, reduction, or change of function of libraries.
12. More research on animals.
13. Broadening field of drugs to control disease and reduce pain.
14. High grade technicians are now required to perform work or services not previously needed or non-existent a few years ago.
15. Growing use of "mechanical" substitute organs during surgical proce- dures and during therapy: For example, artificial heart, kidney, etc. B. General Summary of Overall State's Industrial Trends
Trends which cut across Georgia Industry broadly, if not comprehensively:
1. Microwave technology is being increasingly applied to communication problems. Examples are expansion of mobile communication facilities employing microwaves--ship to shore, automobile telephones, etc. Railroads are moving to an integrated system. Airlines are going to leased line concept with satellite transmitters. Data transmission to central office computing facilities from a network of data supply points or smaller computers is in the planning phase in some large national companies.
2. The trend is from DC circuitry to AC circuitry, although there is a reverse trend to DC where variable speed control is important.
3. There is a rapid move to a more intensive use $?f computers in prac- tically all aspects of the Georgia economy. The most widespread uses are developing in managerial accounting and data processing and in machine tool operations with the use of programthed tape. The newest uses for computers are in freight car accounting, airplane reserva- tions and wider areas of simulation--training of airline pilots, business simulation, mathematical models of railroads. In study of cell cytolysis, it is proposed to use computers with criteria to eliminate those slides which are not significant. Consideration is also being given to the use of computers for general diagnostic anal- ysis. Computers are being used regularly to check out circuitry in airlines, to operate railroads and in rapid transit. Such systems are being programmed to a prescribed manner to be self-corrective. Tele-processing of data through computers located at great distances is increasing.
4. Use of electronic components and systems of all types is experiencing a phenomenal growth. In communication, there is a growth of the electronic central office. Greatly expanded use of electronic equip- ment in airlines exists with the automatic pilot getting better all the time. Transponders, showing the third dimension in flight are being introduced. The need for and the use of test equipment with heavy problems of development, construction and maintenance is wide- spread. There is an increased use of all sorts of instrumentation and electronic devices in medical research.
5. Electronic components are being added to many production machines and sub-systems.
6. Electronic components are tending to move toward solid-state circuitry from vacuum tube circuitry.
7. Automatic equipment, frequently electronically controlled, is replacing human effort in quality control, production, and the inspection pro- cesses.
-71- 8. Standards for product quality are growing more rigorous. Statistical procedures of quality control based on the use of sampling and con- trol charts are becoming more predominant. This trend is broad and pervasive. It has been developed even as a tool for quality of per- formance in airplane maintenance.
9. New materials, new machines and new processes are being developed and used as soon as practical. This trend is well illustrated by synthetic textiles, shoe materials and exotic metals. It is also illustrated by developments in use of nuclear materials. Procedure for treatment of cancer of the abdomen by the use of such half-life isotopes of short duration as chlorine, which disintegrates quickly, even though large quantities are employed. Isotope tracing is of growing importance in communicable disease research. New materials such as these are also being adopted in industrial processes, as in two instances mentioned in the interviews: (1) Cobalt 60 to test the quality of the welding in highway bridges, and (2) use of a stron- tium 90 beam to test uniformity of composition of an industrial prod- uct. Research on a considerable scale is going forward to develop nuclear rockets.
10. X-ray inspection of airplane parts--assemblies and sub-assemblies before maintenance--is standard practice.
11. Mechanical handling of materials, both raw and finished products, is developing rapidly. The systems, generally electronically con- trolled, may involve mechanical and hydraulic components, with pneu- matic systems tending to displace hydraulic systems. Mechanical handling is highly developed in stages, as for example, in the han- dling of shoe components from station to station.
12. In engineering design of industrial and some other types of buildings, the trend is to windowless buildings. This enables accurate light control to be maintained and lessens the cost of heating and air- conditioning. Accurate light control is being recognized increasing- ly as a very important factor in quality of output and output per man.
13. There is a growing recognition of the place of science and tech- nology in faster industrialization and more rapid economic growth. The place of the educational system relative to the need for trained scientists, engineers, engineering and industrial technicians, and skilled workers is better appreciated.
14. Management in some companies is tending to apply the systems concept to the entire company operation rather than limiting it to small units of processing operations. In some cases the thought is that if the proper components of the system can be interrelated and pro- grammed properly, much of the system can be controlled by computer.
-72- 15. There is constant emphasis on the improvement of methods and the use of new materials. Companies regard the costs of the basic factors of production and the prices of the finished product or products to be largely determined by competition. Improvements in the efficiency of methods and processes offer the most fruitful channel for profit improvement.
16. Company managements in some industries are giving more thought to diversification, even radically different from the current line.
17. The upgrading of technicians and the development of higher qualifi- cations for new technicians are necessary to keep up with advancing technology.
C. Research into Science and Technology
The following trends are those suggested by the work of university re- search organizations. As such they represent developments considerably ahead of those in industry. These trends may be expected to show up in any industry at a later period, from 3 to 10 years:
1. With respect to electronics and computers:
a. Equipment is being developed to perform in more stringent envi- ronments. This should mean cheaper and more trouble-free equip- ment for normal use in the future. b. Much of the work (electronics and many other fields) being done for the National Aeronautics and Space Agency is unclassified and thus is available to industry much quicker and easier. c. There will probably be an explosion of consumer products re- lated to electronics. d. The application of electronics to medical problems or problems in the life sciences area is developing and should grow rapidly. Electronic instrumentation for bio-medical and biophysics uses is developing. e. Micro-minaturization and thin film circuitry is increasing computer capabilities. Computer will be applied to more types of problems due to increased speed and flexibility. Also, more equipment capability can be built into a smaller space. f. Information storage and retrieval is a growing field which is tending to become a science--informational science. g. Software (programming packages) for computers, making the equipment more flexible in use is changing the requirements for technicians to support the computer installation. h. Continued application of electronics to control machine pro- cesses and automated systems.
2. With respect to nuclear products:
-73- a. Small nuclear devices for producing electricity or heat are under development. b. Nuclear rockets are under development. c. Use of radiation for the production of new materials and for studying structure of matter is growing. New devices for measuring radiation are under development. Radiation in- creasingly used for inspection of materials. d. Radiation techniques based on radioisotopes and neutrons will be used in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. e. Use of nuclear devices in process control as well as actual processing, e.g., food. f. Use of radiation for pest control. g. Utilization of radiation to accelerate selective mutations for crop improvement. h. Increasing knowledge about water, air, and food product pollution by radioactive materials.
3. With respect to the physical sciences:
a. High vacuum and micro-miniaturization techniques are being developed. b. Increased research in low temperature physics and chemistry with development of cryogenic techniques. c. New developments are occurring in the fields of solid electronics and molecular electronics. d. Expanded research in (1) Maser (Microwave Amplication by Stimulated Emission of Radiation), and (2) Laser (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation). e. New materials, such as plastics. f. New materials are being developed to withstand higher temperatures. g. Radiation of fibers is increasing.
D. New Technicians Required - 1963 to 1967
The discussion of technological trends in each industry, with top man- agement, engineers and scientists, technical, and maintenance personnel led naturally to discussion of problems and personnel needs in order to capi- talize in company operation and research and development on the emerging technological changes. The personal interview was used as a process in analysis, give and take, leading from vague concept, to a firm and enthusi- astic vision of future plans in the company for technicians not now employed.
Through this process 138 new technicians were discovered in the 80 companies studied intensively in this phase of the study. The word "new" does not
-74- necessarily mean new to all American industry but new to the companies under investigation. In fact, in many cases highly skilled, intelligent workers were in the process of partially filling these new types •of technician jobs.
Later in this report, a statistical summary shows to what extent companies expect to fill the need for new technicians from present personnel.
The following presentation represents a consolidation of the 138 tech- nician job titles discovered, into 31 occupational categories. The number assigned is for identification purposes of this study; the corresponding
D.O.T. codes supplied by the U.S. Department of Labor are provided in Table
12.
The composite of what each type of technician will do is summarized in
Appendix A; the types of equipment with which he must be familiar are also given. The lists of jobs which follow the occupational titles were given by company personnel. The kind of training specified is given under major oc- cupational summaries in Appendix A, beginning on Page 16. Table 12 Occupational Code Numbers Assigned by U.S. Department of Labor to New Technician Categories in Georgia Skilled Survey, Summer 1962 Occupational Title Occupational Skilled of Code Number Survey Code Technicians Assigned 2/ I. Job Categories Assigned Published Code Numbers: 04 Building Service Systems Technician 5-72.010 16 Environmental Health Technician 0-95.093 20 Industrial Water Filter & Sewerage Plant Tech. 7-54.621 28 Silk-Screen Process Technician 5-91.701
II. Job Categories Assigned New Code Numbers: 01 Animal Technician 0-50.019 02 Audio-Visual Technician 0-66.819 03 Biochemical Electronic Technician 0-50.049 05 Chemical Technician 0-50.909 06 Combustion and Furnace Technician 0-50.929 07 Communications Technician 0-67.119 08 Computer Programmer-Operator 0-69.989 09 Construction Technician 0-67.069 10 Cryogenics Technician 0-66.919 11 Electrical Technician 0-67.139 12 Electrical and Electronics Technician 0-67.129 13 Electronic Computer Maintenance Technician 5-83.449 14 Electronics-Mechanical Technician 0-67.109 15 Engineering Technician 0-67.059 17 Food Quality Control Technician 0-50.959 18 General Science Technician 0-67.049 19 Industrial Engineering Technician 0-67.149 21 Machine Tool and Die Technician 0-67.019 22 Metals Technician 0-50.519 23 Nuclear Technician 0-50.609 24 Plastics Technician 0-66.969 25 Pneumatics Technician 5-80.109 26 Poultry Technician 3-48.919 27 Quality Control Technician 0-50.339 29 Statistical Technician 0-66.829 30 Systems Analyst 0-69.929 31 Welding Technician 4-85.199
a/ Analysis on Coding the above Technician Categories was provided through the courtesy of the Bureau of Employment Security, U.S. Employment Service. E. Statistical Analysis of Demand for Technicians to Fill New Positions 1962 to 1963
The interviews with top management, research and development personnel, engineers, and technical maintenance personnel on their need for new tech- nicians, the type of man desired and training required produced quantitative estimates of the demand. Information about whether the company was training a person to fill the position was also obtained. Since technicians are clas- sified on the basis of whether they have the equivalent of two years training from a technical high school, some problems were encountered in evaluating the mathematical and scientific requirements. Yet, usually where a measure of company training was given to meet demand, it was clearly because the man had unusual aptitudes, was working with an engineer or scientist, and often was attending special courses.
The results of the statistical investigation are given in Table 13, classified into 31 categories. The ten categories of technicians that domi- nate requirements relative to the State's future economic growth are:
Communication Electrical-Mechanical General Science Chemical Statistical Biochemical electronic Engineering Electrical and electronics Audio-visual Computer-programmer-operator
Other important categories are: pneumatics, construction, industrial, building service systems, animal, and systems analysts. The estimated needs of 80 companies for the 31 major categories of technicians (138 job types) are shown in the following tabulation: Gross Neta/ 1 Year 517 357 3 Years 1,127 766 5 Years 1,737 1,172 a/ Net after number to be trained by company is deducted.
-77- Table 13 Summary of Technician Needs Which are Expected to Develop in 80 Georgia Companies, 1962 to 1967, and Extent to Which Company Training will Meet Requirements.
Number No. Number Company Net Number to Job Needed in will train be trainedh/ Categories 1 yr 3 yrs 5 yrs1/ Trns 1 yr 3 yrs 5 yrs 1 yr 3 yrs 5 yrs Animal 8 21 34 8 8 11 14 0 10 20 Audio-visual 6 40 74 0 0 25 50 6 15 24 Bio-Chemical Electronic 23 52 81 0 0 0 0 23 52 81 Building Service Systems 9 25 41 0 3 10 17 6 15 24 Chemical 28 61 94 1 5 16 27 23 45 67 Combustion & FurnaceS/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Communications 97 229 361 22 41 91 141 56 138 220 Computer Programmer Operator 30 50 70 16 6 23 40 24 27 30 Construction 25 35 45 0 0 0 0 25 35 45 Cryogenics 9 18 27 3 0 3 6 9 15 21 Electrical 8 21 34 2 0 11 22 8 10 12 Electrical & Electronics 25 50 75 8 9 14 19 16 35 56 Electronic Computer Maintenance 7 12 17 2 3 3 3 4 9 14 Electrical-Mechanical 77 175 273 18 30 63 96 47 112 177 Engineering 26 51 76 10 12 18 24 14 35 52 Environmental HealthS/ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Food Quality Control 2 2 2 0 0 1 2 2 1 0 General Science 20 66 112 20 15 22 29 5 44 83 Industrial Engineering 27 34 41 2 5 3 1 22 31 40 Industrial Water Sewerage pit.EJ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Machine Tool & Die Maker 3 7 11 3 3 2 1 0 5 10 Metals 9 15 21 0 0 0 0 9 15 21 Nuclear 6 12 18 2 4 6 8 2 6 10 Plastics 6 15 24 3 1 0 0 5 15 24 Pneumatics 9 28 47 15 3 12 21 6 16 26 Poultry 7 13 19 0 0 0 0 7 13 19 Quality Control 10 15 20 3 4 3 2 6 12 18 Silk-screen Process 1 2 3 1 1 0 0 0 2 3 Statistical 29 56 83 0 0 7 14 29 49 69 Systems Analyst 9 19 29 3 7 15 23 2 4 6 Welding 1 3 5 0 0 3 6 1 0 0
TOTAL 517 1,127 1,737 142 160 362 566 357 766 1,172
2/ Estimate based on adding 3 year total to the change from 1 to 3 years. Number needed minus the number to be trained by the company. S. ' to estimate demand accurately.
-78- Only eighty firms are represented in the calculations. Eighty-nine
firms were drawn to represent the approximately 1200 employers in the State with 100 or more workers, and 80 cooperated in the study. In addition to size of company, another consideration was whether the industry would be strongly affected by technological trends. 31/ The sample design was set up in such a way as to reflect the variability of the industry. This meant that the sampling ratio varied from industry to industry but the overall sampling percentage was 28 per cent with an inflation of 3.60. Applying
appropriate industrial inflation ratios to the jobs reported in each industry raised the expected total employment of technicians in new jobs in five
years to 7,542, not including the two special types listed below. (Fifty-
one per cent of these workers will be needed in the Atlanta area). With
approximately one-fourth being trained in company programs, the net number which will need to be trained is 1,600 in one year and 5,500 in five years.
Since it is impossible to train a technician in one year, the planners would need to concentrate on the three-year and five-year requirements. See
Table 14.
In developing the estimates of new openings for technicians certain errors and biases are inherent; some tend to detract from the estimate, others add to it. The interviews with top management, engineers, and main- tenance personnel in the 80 companies, amounting to about 300 persons, by skilled interviewers trained in economics and management theory undoubtedly
33/ These estimates of requirements are based on reports for 80 companies. The interviews also disclosed expected needs for 650 medical technicians and 450 invironmental health technicians, the latter a south-wide figure. One large company expected to employ 200 technicians yearly of standard type (from Southern Technical Institute, etc.) over the next 5 years.
-79- Table 14 Projection of Gross and Net Requirements for Newly Employed Technicians in Georgia, 1962 to 1967
Universe Value, Sample based on infla- of 80 tion of Sample Item Large Firms to large firms, with over 100 Workers Number Needed: 1 Year 517 2,122 3 Years 1,127 4,844 5 Years2/ 1,737 7,542 Number in Training Currently 142 358 Number Company will Train: 1 Year 160 530 3 Years 362 1,297 5 Years2/ 566 2,055 Net Number to be Trained: 1 Year 357 1,592 3 Years 765 3,547 5 Years2/ 1,172 5,487
2/ Estimate determined by adding to the 3 years total the change from 1 year to 3 years. helped company officers to come to grips with problems in their companies posed by rapid technological change. These officers gained a more complete concept of their technological problems and their possible solutions by the analysis which occurred during the interchange. This tended to raise the estimated needs for technicians because they were realized more quickly and completely. On the other hand many firms under 100 workers, omitted from the personal interview part of the study, also employ technicians. This is especially true of the smaller firms in printing and publishing, metal fabri- cation of all types, and electronics types of concerns. Omission of these companies tended to reduce the estimated number of technicians to be trained.
-80- Professor L. H. Taylor, Southern Technical Institute, thinks this may be a
fairly large omission, particularly in the air conditioning, refrigeration, and construction industries. He says that these types of industries are major employers of technicians in these fields from Southern Technical
Institute, and that often some of these companies which are unable to pay the hire of an engineer will compromise by employing a technician. It would seem therefore that the analytical bias from the interviews of company per- sonnel in the 80 large companies is at least, and perhaps more than, counter- balanced by omission from the survey of the types of small companies which also employ technicians. This latter bias is enlarged by the tendency of many small manufacturing companies, or companies providing a service closely related to technology, to employ a technician instead of the more expensive engineer.
F. Course Specification for New Technicians
Course specifications for new types of technicians in the composite are presented in this section of the report. The course specifications for six groups of similar types of new technicians are summarized, however, in
Appendix A. The section immediately following explains how these data were obtained.
Methods of Procedure for Obtaining Data on Course Specifications
After the job specifications had been developed for each new type of technician with appropriate managers and specialists, each was asked to discuss the general specifications and characteristics needed by a person to fill this position. Next, the respondent manager or specialist was asked to indicate on a checklist the courses considered essential for initial employment. (This check list is included as a part of Appendix B). In some
-81- cases, the interviewee would on his own initiative add other courses in the
space provided before being invited to do so. In all cases an opportunity
for the addition of another course or courses was provided and many responded.
At the close of the data collection phase of the study a supplementary check-
list was developed, and the course requirements were tabulated from the ini-
tial checklist and from the additional courses requested by the respondents.
From these data a master table was prepared showing the number of companies
requesting specific courses for specific types of technicians. The tabular
data presented below and in Appendix A were developed from the master table.
Summary of Course Specifications for 31 New Technicians
Courses have been presented in three categories in Table 15. Category
I includes those courses required by 50 to 100 per cent of the new technician
jobs reported. Category II includes those courses requested for 25 to 49 per cent of the new technician jobs reported. Category III includes those
courses required by less than 25 per cent of the new technician jobs reported.
For general curriculum building purposes only those courses requested
for 25 or more per cent of the new technicians are probably meaningful.
Courses required by less than this per cent are probably needed for a special type technician and must be fitted into a specific curriculum, or more prob-
ably provided by company training programs.
As expected, the fundamentals of mathematics and technical reporting
and writing were included in Category I. The great number of requests for technicians in the electrical and electronic groups explains the high per- centage (60 and 56) requesting electricity and electronics. Engineering drawing was requested by 53 per cent; however, this is not altogether a true picture. In many cases the respondent assumed that all technicians would
-82- Table 15
Course Specifications for 138 New Technicians Requested by 80 . Georgia Companies Participating in Survey, Summer 1962
Number of Per Cent of Category and Course Technicians Total Reported Technicians
I. Courses in High Frequency2/ of Requests: Mathematics through geometry 123 80 Technical reporting and writing 95 62 Electricity 92 60 Basic electronics 86 56
Industrial electronics 85 56 . Engineering drawing 82 53
II. Courses in order of Less Frequency:J=2/ Communication skills 76 49 Applied physics 61 40 Instruments technology 56 36 Mechanics 55 36 Machine shop 53 34 Circuit design 52 34 Basic chemistry 50 33 Standards and specifications 44 29 Hydraulics 43 28 Statistics 42 27 Welding technology 39 25
III. Courses of Compaatively Low order of Frequency:Si Public speaking 36 23 Metallurgy 35 23 Applied chemistry 33 22 Quality control 33 22 Computer technology 30 20 Theoretical physics 28 18 Engineering design 27 18 Heat treatment of metals 24 16 Advanced electronics 24 16 Radio and microwaves 23 15 Time & motion study 19 12 Microbiology 7 5 Bacteriology 6 4 Instrumentation - biology & chemistry 6. 4 Biology - applied 5 3 Chemistry - industrial 5 3
a/ Requested for 50 per cent or more new technician jobs reported. 17 25 to 49 per cent of new technician jobs reported. £1 25 per cent of the new technician jobs reported. have had this course and failed to check it as required for initial employ- ment. This was brought out in later discussion.
Course Requirements for Specific Groups of Technicians
In order to facilitate the analysis for curriculum development, the 31 major technician types have been arranged into six categories, or groupings, based on similarity of course specifications by industry. These groupings are as follows:
1. The biology related group.
2. The chemistry and physics related group.
3. The computer, statistics, and systems group.
4. The electrical group.
5. The engineering, mechanical, and metals group.
6. The miscellaneous group.
Details on the composite course requirements for each group, as well as for each of the technicians categories constituting the group, are presented in tabular form in Appendix A, Tables A - F.
G. Relationship of Technicians to Scientific Progress and Technological Development
The fastest growing economies in Europe are West Germany and Russia.
It is widely acknowledged that in both countries more emphasis is given to the training of scientists, technicians, and skilled workers than in the
United States and the English speaking nations. Even during World War II, it was observed that every German city of any influence had a "technische hochschule." These were well equipped, fine buildings, occupying the most prominent spots in the cities. The German public school system trains tech- nicians as a natural part of the educational program. It is believed that
-84- the speed of industrial progress and scientific discovery of Modern Germany, from about the turn of the Century, may be tied to this approach to education.
Data are lacking for proof, but this assertion will be presumed here. Through illustration, a later discussion will have a bearing on this point.
Mr. L. V. Johnson has stated that there is a need for three to six tech- nicians for each engineer or scientist. 34/ The engineer (or the scientist) is broadly trained in theory. Building a pyramid of technicians and skilled workers around him would enable a more complete and quicker exploitation of basic theory. The technician understands theory but in a narrower field than the engineer. The technician's strong point is his ability to work with engineers and make developments, equipment, or tests to carry out and put into effect the engineer's theory. The technician, because of his inherent ability to put theory into practice, helps speed up technological innovation in industry. I shall give three examples below illustrating these points.
At the University of Virginia, in the late 1930's when Hitler was run- ning wild in Europe, the physics department employed a couple of refugee
German instrument makers. These men worked in the physics department with highly theoretical men. Yet, about fifteen years later, as a result of this teamwork, the physics department of the University of Virginia was able to make a breakthrough in nuclear physics by demonstrating that an element could be separated into components or particles of different weights. This was done through the use of an ultra-high speed centrifuge, revolving at the rate of several million RPM's. From a concept, the German instrument makers had
34/ Johnson, L. V.: Technical-Institute Programs--Response to Techno- logical Challenge, and address to the Forty-fifth Annual Conference, National University Extension Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 26, 1960, pp. 11-12. The ratio of skilled craftsman to the engineering technician is 8-20 to 1.
-85- worked out the equipment to test the theory. Their important contribution and the success of the experiment was publicly acknowledged at an open house attended by the senior author in the late 1940's.
An example from the history of science also supports the point. In
1860, the noted English physicist, James Clerk Maxwell, developed the elec- tromagnetic theory of light. This stated that light waves are electrical in nature and not mechanical. But Maxwell only gave a mathematical formu- lation as proof of his theory. Scientists would not accept his theory until it was proved in the laboratory. This was accomplished in 1888 by a young
German scientist, Heinrich Rudolph Hertz, 31/ in his technical High School
Laboratory in Karlsuhe where he was a professor of physics.
Both of the above are excellent examples of how scientific discovery and technological progress are forwarded by technicians. But we can also cite a case which we discovered in the course of our interviews. This il- lustration involves a company where lack of technicians is delaying an im- portant research and development project in Georgia. The research involves hydrogen at low temperatures. The lack of cryogenics technicians has caused from a three to five year delay in the research while physicists and engineers waste time to train needed technicians from local high school graduates.
The project budget, involving millions of dollars of extra costs, has already been revised upward twice.
The fact that technicians are important to rapid scientific and tech- nological progress and industrial growth has been demonstrated. The impor- tance of technicians (and skilled workers) to maintenance work on complex
35/ Upton, Monroe: Electronics for Everyone, Signet Science Library Book, August 1962, pp. 124-134.
-86- types of equipment--even automobiles--is neither recognized nor appreciated in some of our arguments for expansion of technical type schools. Production type equipment designed with electronic controls and mechanical and hydraulic mechanisms, or those of a pneumatic type, is coming out in increasing volume.
Such equipment is expensive--it may involve a half-million dollars. Obvi- ously, many industries cannot afford "downtime" on such equipment. They want maintenance technicians who prevent breakdowns by proper inspections, or if breakdowns do occur, technicians who can move immediately to diagnose the trouble and make the equipment operative. This is beyond the ordinary skilled mechanic or maintenance man. A technician is needed who knows the theory of the mechanism and how it operates. A veritable boom is expected to develop for technicians to perform sophisticated maintenance work. Activity stretch- ing across the entire economy is foreseen--even to maintenance work on house- hold appliances and automobiles which products are fast becoming increasingly complex.
The importance of first class automobile maintenance and repair and the tragic effect of deficiencies in the training of such persons is illustrated by the following story from the Reader's Digest for June 1962, pp. 124-27.
In this report written by James Stewart Gordon, and entitled: "Hidden
Factors in Auto Deaths," the author has summarized the findings of a team of researchers of the Harvard University--United States Public Health Service project investigating highway deaths, University of California at Los
Angeles, and other sources. The results of the research in general of the
Harvard team is that many accidents attributed to high speed, alcohol or reckless driving may have had other causes as well. Studies at UCLA show also that high speed was not as important as had been thought in causing
-87- deaths. In experiments over a period of years (on over 60 cars under actual collision conditions) to determine the ability of cars and their occupants to withstand collision, tests have shown that speeds of 21 to 27 miles per hour can cause death on impact. The studies have shown, surprisingly, that shoddy repair work is a frequent cause of fatalities. Coupled with improper repair work is the dangerous indifference of many drivers to their car's condition, as for instance, tires. In many accidents which had been offi- cially attributed solely to drunken driving or speed, the simple mechanical fact that tires had failed at crucial moments was found to be a factor. VII. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SELF-EMPLOYED
The objective for this portion of the study was to determine the charac- terisitcs of firms of three or less workers with respect to the duration of the business and the output of the firm. The education and training of the operator in secondary schools and college programs were determined, as well as the role of various types of vocational education and training in his de- velopment. Original developments of these firms were also investigated.
A. Sample Selection and Response
The small firms in Georgia with three or less workers represent about
32,000 firms and 58,000 workers. While these firms may not constitute a great deal of employment in terms of the State total, it is believed that they are of great significance to the use of technical and skilled workers.
The hypothesis is strongly supported by the inverse relationship already established between size of firm and relative use of technical, skilled, and clerical workers. It was therefore thought that a study of the self- employed would add considerably, not only to our knowledge of the demand for technical and skilled workers, but also would provide information on small firms and how they may relate to the economic growth process through firm starts. The industries in which the study was concentrated were retail trade, manufacturing, repair services, business services, and construction.
Insufficient questionnaires were returned by the small construction firms to permit analysis.
Magnetic tape was obtained from the Bureau of Old Age and Survivors'
Insurance records office, Baltimore, Maryland, and addresses abstracted through computer programming on an IBM 1401. A random selection of the
-89- firms in selected industries, as discussed above, was chosen. The number of questionnaires mailed was 725. A questionnaire 36J designed to obtain basic background, formulated and field tested in the usual fashion, was mailed to the firms included in the sample, with a covering letter and return mailing pieces. Within 10 days, the cut-off date for mailed returns, 129 replies had been obtained. A telephone follow-up was pursued through the area labor market analysts. This brought in another 87 forms, or a survey total of 216.
B. Method of Analysis of the Data
The completed questionnaires were classified into four groups which were very similar in terms of the product or service and the characteristics of the operators and other personnel. These groups were Repair Work, Manu- facturing, Trade and Services, and General Business Services. The Standard
Industrial Classification Codes included in each group are provided as foot- notes to Table 16. The data were analyzed and classified on the basis of the variables of interest. Some significant findings appear in the next section.
C. Summary of Findings
Firms with three or less workers tend to be largely service oriented.
This service orientation is shown by the 55 per cent of the firms which pro- vide only a service plus the 24 per cent which provide both a service and a product. Some of the manufacturing firms reported providing a service (30 per cent) or both a service and a product (24 per cent).
36/ See copy in Appendix R.
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Table 16 Analysis of Characteristics of Self-Employed in Firms with 3 or Less Workers
Repair Manufac- Trade General ITEM Work2/ turing-. b/ and Business Composite Services./ Service& Number of Companies Reporting 52 50 67 47 216
Duration of Business in Georgia (Years) 13.2 12.0 11.3 9.4 11.5
Percentage of Companies Reporting Dependence of Business on: 1. Product 46.0 35.8 21.8 2. Service 55.8 30.0 40.3 100.0 54.6 3. Both Product & Service 44.2 24.0 23.9 23.6
Education & Training of Business Operator: 1. Less than 8th grade 11.5 3.0 6.5 12.0 2. Completion of 8th grade 7.7 6.0 11.9 4.3 7.9 3. One or more Years H.S. 32.7 16.0 6.0 4.3 14.3 4. High School graduate 23.1 38.0 26.9 2.1 23.0 5. One or more yr. college 17.6 19.2 10.0 17.9 23.4 6. College graduate 46.8 26.4 5.8 18.0 34.3 7. M. S. Degree 3.8 17.0 8. Ph. D. Degree 2.1 0.5
Other Sources of Education and Training of Business Operator:2/ 1. Vocational-trade school 27.0 14.0 7.5 8.5 13.9 2. Technical school 23.1 4.0 4.5 10.6 10.2 3. Private Business school 9.6 2.0 1.5 14.9 6.5 4. Apprenticeship 21.2 22.0 7.5 25.5 18.0 5. On-the-job, another co. 48.1 22.0 10.4 25.5 25.5 6. None 19.2 50.0 79.0 57.4 53.2
Vocational Background of Business Operator: 1. Technical 13.4 12.0 1.5 2.1 6.9 2. Skilled 78.9 54.0 16.4 6.4 38.0 3. Neither 7.7 34.0 82.1 91.5 55.1
Technical or Skilled Back- ground of Hired Personnel: 1. Technical 2.0 6.0 21.3 6.5 2. Skilled 80.8 60.0 10.4 4.3 37.5 3. Both technical & skilled 26.0 1.8 4. Neither tech, nor skilled 17.3 8.0 89.6 74.4 54.2
Reporting Inventions or Original Developments 5.8 10.0 4.3 4.6 (a) Repair Work SIC Codes 75 & 76, (b) Manufacturing SIC Codes 19-39, (c) Trade and Services odes 40-88, excluding 73, 75, 76, (d) General Business Services SIC Codes 73 and 89, (e) s will exceed 100 because of repeats in more than one kind of training.
-91- Many of these small firm operators have had considerable formal educa- tion. The 26 per cent completing a 4-year college program represents the largest single block. The highest percentage of college graduates among the self-employed is found in the General Business Services Group (47). This is due to the large number of professional type activities---accounting, archi- tecture, engineering, etc., found in this group. The next highest percent- age of college graduates is found in the Trade and Services Group. High
School education is the most important type of schooling in manufacturing and repair work. Thirty-eight per cent of the operators in Manufacturing concerns have completed high school and 23 per cent of those in Repair
Services, but an additional 33 per cent of the Repair Group have completed one or more years of high school.
Sources of vocational education and training other than secondary schools and college programs are also important in the development of the operators of the firms. Over 44 per cent reported some training in one or more of the programs listed in Table 16. The group most heavily dependent upon these other programs of vocational education is Repair Services with
92 per cent having had some work in these programs. This type of education is least important in Trade and Services. The most frequent source of voca- tional education is on-the-job training with another company.
Since the major objective of the study of which this is a part is di- rected toward determining the need for technical and skilled personnel, the number of firm operators falling into these categories is particularly in- teresting. The group having the largest percentage of operators with a technical background is Manufacturing with 6 per cent; and having a back- ground in a skill, Repair Services with 81 per cent. Operators with skilled
-92- training is also important in manufacturing (54 per cent). A background as a technician or as a skilled worker is relatively unimportant in the Trade and Services and General Repair Services Group.
The use of other personnel having a technical or skilled background follows the same pattern as that of the firm operator. More skilled workers are to be found in Repair Services (81 per cent) and in Manufacturing (60 per cent) than in any other group. Only manufacturing firms reported using both technical and skilled personnel.
More inventions or original developments were reported by Manufacturing
(10 per cent) and Repair Service (6 per cent). Most of these inventions or developments have to do with labor saving devices. Some unique products are also involved.
The following are examples of new products developed by some of these small firms: Electronic type barbecue machine, combination gang and edger to speed sawmill operations, textile speciality chemicals, new sound and thermal insulation materials, compressed air stapling gun, horizonatal power line switch, bags for coffee urns, manually operated outboard motor, and brake bleeding device that eliminates the need for two men in bleeding hy- draulic brake systems. Examples of service developments or new processes are package finance service to small firms, special methods and tools for repair of refrigeration equipment, and use of acetylene torch to solder ra- diator cores with a new type of solder.
D. Significance of Findings to Main Report
The number of firms involved in the sample, while drawn according to random methods, are not of sufficient size to justify statistical inference to the main report. However, some gereralizations are appropriate.
-93- Irrespective of how one analyzes Table 16 or which category he tests, it is obvious that a comparatively high level of education and skilled training exists in the backgrounds of both the managers and the workers in these small firms. They are innovators of considerable scope as shown by number of in- ventions or developments reported. Their number, 32,000, and high turnover rate indicate that the opportunity to join the self-employed is fairly good provided one has the proper educational background---high school at least, and technical skills to maintain a high quality of product or service.
While it is not possible to employ usual statistical methods as in other parts of the report to show the annual need for technical and skilled per- sonnel among the self-employed, it is obvious that the demand is considerable for firm starts and worker replacements. The conclusion is that self-employed firms not only are significant in numbers but also are especially high in ratio of employment of persons with skills and persons of considerable edu- cation. VIII. DEMAND-SUPPLY SUMMARIES FOR MAJOR SKILLED TYPES
In the analysis to this point, we have measured employers' demand for skilled categories and for job types for intervals up to five years. In one year total job openings for technicians are estimated at 2,071; skilled work- ers, 8,072, and clerical, 8,582. The five year estimates are 7,412 techni- cians, 27,205 skilled workers, and 30,964 clerical workers, with an aggre- gate total of 65,581. In addition there will be a demand for about 7,542 new technicians in five years. There are sizable training programs in ex- istence to meet these demands. The Georgia Department of Education is in the process of developing twenty-seven vocational-technical schools in addi- tion to two State schools to help supply the growing demand for skilled workers. Southern Technical Institute, operated by Georgia Tech, is gradu- ating annually about 260 highly specialized technicians. The Bureau of
Apprenticeship Training, U.S. Department of Labor, operates a cooperative program with industry to train many skilled workers on-the-job.
The interrelationship of demand and supply for technical and skilled workers is presented in Table 17. The table provides information on the aggregate number of jobs employers expect to have open in 1, 3, and 5 years.
Information on company training, and also on the composite output of the educational system are shown. The data show that a somewhat higher percent- age of the needs in the near future may be expected to be met by company training programs, while the opposite is true of the various educational programs, which will be more successful in meeting the requirements expected
in five years. Company programs include the Bureau of Apprenticeship Train-
ing. Rates of training output show that company programs are training about
886 technical workers yearly now; the educational system 677; for new
-95- Table 17 Balance Sheet of Demand and Supply for Technical and Skilled Workers Summer 1962
Technicians Period Survey New Total Skilled Defined TitlesA/ Workers Titles I. Total Employer AGGREGATE DENAND12/ 1 Year 2,071 2,122 4,193 8,072 3 Years 4,737 4,844 9,581 17,621 5 Years 7,412 7,542 14,954 27,205 II. Training Supply A. Company Training 1 Year 886 530 1,416 2,873 3 Years 1,415 1,297 2,712 5,458 5 Years 2,363 2,055 4,418 9,114 B. Educational SystemE/ 1 Year 677 0 677 745 3 Years 2,995 0 2,995 4,481 5 Years 6,508 0 6,508 10,957 III. Percentage Supplied A. Company Training 1 Year 43 25 34 36 3 Years 30 27 28 31 5 Years 32 27 30 34 B. Educational System 1 Year 33 0 16 9 3 Years 63 0 31 25 5 Years 88 0 43 40 C. Deficit 1 Year 24 75 50 55 3 Years 7 73 41 44 5 Years -20 d/— 73 27 26
V Based on field survey of 80 large firms. 21 Job Openings from increase in employment plus replacement demand, ignoring excess job with minus. —c/ By vocational-technical schools of Georgia Department of Education and Southern Technical Institute. Figures based on 26 area schools and 2 State vocational-technical schools. Data on the 27th school are not yet available. / This figure indicates an apparent training surplus of this class of technician, but many will be capable of filling job openings for new techni- cians, which shows a deficit in the training projections. technicians developing, companies expect to turn out 530 or 25 per cent of needs by mid-1963. In the case of skilled workers companies have in training,
2,873, and the educational system, 745 for mid-1963. The output by companies of technicians in five years will be stepped up 2.7 times for present types
-96- of technicians, and 3.9 times for new types of technicians; and the education system, because of the large increase in number of new training centers, will step up the current rate for technicians 9.6 times. Output of skilled workers by companies will go up 3.2 times from current rates and in the edu- cational system, 14.7 times. The greatest gains in output of technicians and skilled workers is programmed for the educational system, in its timely program of Vocational-technical schools.
The overall balance of supply from company training and training in centers of the public educational system, including Southern Technical
Institute, will leave a deficit by mid-1963 of 50 per cent for technicians, representing 2,100 jobs open that cannot be filled. In five years the defi- cit will have narrowed to 27 per cent but there is likely to be 4,028 tech- nical jobs seeking trained workers. In the case of skilled workers the situation is about the same but numbers are even larger. By mid-1963, the deficit of skilled workers is expected to be 55 per cent, representing 4,454 unfilled skilled jobs. By mid-1967, while the percentage deficit will be only one-fourth or 26 per cent, the unfilled openings for skilled workers may be as high as 7,134.
The deficits are probably not nearly as large as they seem because ex- perts consider that companies tend to be optimistic in projecting the future.
The estimates should be regarded as on the high side. However, the size of the deficit and the need for greater output of technical and skilled workers to stimulate company starts indicate the need for a somewhat enlarged pro- gram from both the company and the public sectors.
The procedure to get a somewhat larger program requires: (1) Greatly stepped up company training through the Bureau of Apprenticeship Training,
-97.- U.S. Department of Labor, and (2) still higher training goals for the voca- tional-technical schools and also for Southern Technical Institute. IX. DEMAND-SUPPLY SUMMARIES BY AREAS
In this section employer job demand will carry the usual connotation employed in this report. It means the net number of job openings that may
be expected. Net number of job openings is determined by the net increase
in total employment during a given period plus replacement requirements of
current workers. Supply ordinarily would reflect the total number of work-
ers trained by companies and by the public school system through vocational-
technical training centers and technical institutes. While the questionnaire was able to spot company training in terms of job specifics, it has not been
possible to get job training specifics from the public school system because
over three-fourths of the schools are under construction and in the planning
stage. Aggregate projections have been provided in this section on the basis
of the instructional area that will be in operation by certain dates, and
the general demand-supply measure in terms of net of company training. The
results show what is required of the public school system by job titles.
The plan for this section of the report is to provide demand-supply di-
gests from the detailed tables in the appendix. Nine of these digest tables,
showing major titles, will be presented and a brief discussion given of the
job highlights. The tables consist of the summary table for the project
area, three main division tables, and five sub-area tables.
A. Project Area Total
Table 18 presents a demand-supply analysis for the important technical,
skilled, and clerical workers for the entire study area. 32/ Current
37/— Includes the entire State of Georgia plus Russell County, Alabama, and Aiken County, South Carolina.
-99- employment, employer demand or net job openings for 1 year, 3 years, and 5 years in the future, and net training requirements for 1 year, 3 years, and
5 years in the future are presented in this table. In terms of job titles,
12 technician types of jobs are listed, 25 skilled workers, and 5 clerical workers. These 42 jobs account for 82 per cent of total current employment,
80 per cent of the new job openings in 5 years, and 84 per cent of the net training requirements in 5 years. Thus about 85 per cent of the problem of
future demand-supply of skilled workers is concentrated in this table. De- tails on all jobs for the entire study area, showing age, sex, company train- ing, job openings, and training needs, are given in Appendix C. Table 18 Analysis of Employer Demand and Net Training Requirements for Important Technical, Skilled, and Clerical Job Titles By Periods, Summer 1962 to 1967
PROJECT AREA (Total)
Current Skilled Category Employ- Employer Demand: Net Trainingg and Job Title ment Net Job Openings.) Sum 1962 1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 1 Year 3 Years 5 Years Technicians: 001 Acc i t-Gen & Cost 3,336 241 659 1,078 98 456 738 025 Electronics Tech 1,756 293 572 852 239 429 614 028 Estimator 1,414 164 347 532 131 273 408 050 Production Planner 1,111 106 251 397 75 193 299 035 Instrument Man 1,085 10 42 74 4 29 53 009 Civil & Const Tech 935 93 171 248 91 169 245 053 Quality Control Tech 923 68 172 276 46 136 216 021 Draftsman-Mech-Furn 878 90 221 353 43 149 232 056 Research Lab Analyst 840 9 25 41 8 21 35 033 Industrial Tech 833 66 168 271 10 37 51 022 Draftsman-Structural 751 96 171 246 43 115 153 034 Instructor-Trainees 692 59 132 206 15 82 123 Subtotal 14,554 1,295 2,931 4,574 803 2,089 3,167 Per Cent of Total 63 63 62 62 68 63 63 All others 8,619 776 1,806 2,838 382 1,233 1,884 Total 23,173 2,071 4,737 7,412 1,185 3,322 5,051 Skilled Workers: 212 Carpenter (Non-mfg) 6,780 980 2,019 3,062 800 1,653 2,451 204 Automobile Mechanican 6,159 379 1,034 1,693 240 781 1,271 221 Electrician 4,997 1,075 1,650 2,228 886 1,317 1,673 243 Maintenance Mechanic 4,969 197 646 1,097 55 350 604 241 Machinist 4,860 388 975 1,564 238 663 1,043 242 Maintenance Man 4,530 307 758 1,210 256 659 1,044 249 Painter 4,332 309 625 944 237 462 671 267 Sheet-Metal Worker 3,471 400 889 1,379 293 601 899 278 Welder 3,312 456 985 1,515 254 648 954 240 Loom Fixer 2,701 83 236 390 -99 -63 -109 244 Mason (Brick, etc) 2,415 215 519 825 162 429 675 205 Auto Body Repr-Paint 2,404 102 377 654 74 253 447 238 Lineman (it, ht, pw) 1,788 114 246 379 -10 -28 -77 210 Cabinetmaker I 1,748 81 292 504 63 234 407 262 Plumber 1,497 376 726 1,077 215 458 630 246 Millwright 1,431 76 160 244 24 94 135 213 Cement Finisher Const 1,374 377 664 951 316 541 746 276 Truck Mech (Non-mfg) 1,336 93 278 464 32 176 294 257 Pipe & Steam Fitter 1,266 244 433 622 177 331 453 218 Diesel Mech-Non-mfg 1,151 140 274 408 87 205 293 272 Structural Ironwkrs 1,134 75 148 222 75 148 222 268 Spinning Frame Fixer 1,021 40 138 236 -23 9 21 202 Aircraft Mechanic 983 33 127 221 22 96 169 203 Air'cond or Ref Mech 968 137 286 436 72 176 253 269 Stationary Engineer 737 16 60 104 -7 32 57 Subtotal 67,364 6,693 14,545 22,429 4,439 10,225 15,226 Per Cent of Total 83 83 83 82 85 84 84 All others 14,022 1,379 3,076 4,776 763 1,935 2,867 Total 81,386 8,072 17,621 27,205 5,202 12,160 18,093 Clerical Workers: 406 Stenographer 15,549 2,035 4,583 7,247 1,915 4,329 6,822 401 Accounting Clerk 13,117 1,519 3,638 5,864 1,249 2,964 4,737 1408 Typist 11,734 1,595 3,676 5,826 1,483 3,526 5,575 4,210 981 2,391 3,869 4.02-a makiamme m . 9,513 1,067 2,595 405 Statistical Clerk 4,344 494 1,293 2,127 420 1,079 1,770 Subtotal 54,257 6,710 15,785 25,274 6,048 14,289 22,773 Per Cent of Total 89 78 81 82 89 87 89 All others 6,840 1,872 3,762 5,690 772 2,087 2,895 Total 61,097 8,582 19,547 30,964 6,820 16,376 25,668 TOTAL FOR AGGREGATE 165,656 18,725 41,905 65,581 13,207 31,858 48,812 TOTAL FOR LISTED JOBS 136,175 14,698 33,261 52,277 11,290 26,603 41,166 PER CENT OF TOTAL 82 78 79 80 85 84 84
2/ Equals net increase in employment based on employer expectations plus age separation effect9. This requirement is derived by substracting the number to complete company training by periods from the net number of job openings. The largest number of job openings and net training requirements in 5 years are as follows:
Net Job Net Training Openings Requirements in 5 Years in 5 Years
Technicians: Accountants--Gen & Cost 1,078 738 Electronics 852 614 Estimator 532 408 Production Planner 397 299 Subtotal 2,859 2,059 Skilled: Carpenter 3,062 2,451 Electrician 2,228 1,673 Auto Mechanics 1,693 1,271 Machinist 1,564 1,043 Welder 1,515 954 Sheet-Metal Worker 1,379 899 Maintenance Man 1,210 1,044 Subtotal 12,651 9,335 Clerical: Stenographer 7,247 6,822 Accounting Clerk 5,864 4,737 Typist 5,826 5,575 Bookkeeper 4,210 3,869 Subtotal 23,147 21,003 TOTAL 38,657 32,397
The fifteen jobs listed (four technicians, seven skilled, and four cleri- cal workers) account for 59 per cent of the net job openings for the entire study area and 66 per cent of the training needs. The yearly number of job openings expected during the next five years from these 15 jobs average 7,731 and the yearly net training needs are 6,479.
B. Area Analysis
The original intent or the purpose of the study was to develop independ- ent estimates of current use and future requirements for technical, skilled,
-102- and clerical workers for the six Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas 31/ in Georgia plus a total for all the rest of the State (referred to as Non-
Metropolitan Georgia). The sample was designed to permit separate inflation for each of the seven areas. However, response to the questionnaire32/ was insufficient to permit inflation separately for the five smaller metropolitan areas (Albany, Macon, Savannah, Augusta, and Columbus). The returns were sufficient, however, to inflate to the universe for the 5 areas as a whole.
Estimates were then prepared for each of the areas separately by allocation of the 5-area total by ratios based on the relative importance in each of these areas of 40 different industry categories 4.91 involved in the inflation process.
The three major divisions of the study inflated directly are Atlanta,
Non-Metropolitan Georgia, and five smaller Metropolitan Areas. Detailed data are given in Appendix .0 for each of these major divisions of the study. These data show current employment, sex, age, replacement effects; company training in 1, 3, and 5 years; and expected employment 1, 3, and 5 years; net number of job openings in 1, 3, and 5 years, and net training re- quirements in 1, 3, and 5 years. Each of the five smaller Metropolitan Areas
38/ Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas are integrated economic areas around cities, defined along county lines which have been defined by the U.S. Bureau of the Budget for purposes of statistical reporting referred to as Metropolitan Areas. The criteria for establishing such areas as SMSA's are given in United States Census of Population 1960, General Social and Economic Characteristics: United States Summary PC (1), U.S. p. x. The 6 city areas included from Georgia in the study qualify as SMSA's under these criteria. 32/ The main deficiency in the returns was among large firms which had a response of about 60 per cent. 0 See Appendix .B for a description of these.
-103- is derived from the 5-area composite total for each skilled occupationAli
The data provided are therefore more limited. Estimates are for current employment; net job openings in 1, 3, and 5 years; and net training require- ments in 1, 3, and 5 years. Since these data were derived from an overall total by allocation procedures, they are only rough approximations but are believed sufficiently accurate for planning purposes.
The relative importance of the three major areas and the five sub-areas in explaining current employment of technical, skilled, and clerical workers is shown in Table 19. It is to be noted that Atlanta and Non-Metropolitan
Georgia account for 76 per cent of the aggregate employment reported for
155 classes of technical, skilled, and clerical workers. Non-Metropolitan
Georgia is one percentage point above Metropolitan Atlanta. But Atlanta is a substantially higher user of technical and clerical workers. New elec- tronics types of industries and high government employment explain the higher ratios (41 per cent each) than Non-Metropolitan Georgia which, however, uti- lizes the highest number (41 per cent) of the skilled workers. The higher ratio among skilled workers is related to textiles, apparel, paper and pulp, and some wood using industries in outlying Georgia. The five smaller metro- politan areas, as a whole, are only about 63 per cent as large as either of the other areas. In the aggregate this area is also relatively high in skilled workers and relatively low in technical workers. The Macon and
Augusta SMSA's have about 6 per cent each of the study area total; the
Columbus and Savannah SMSA's, almost 5 per cent each, and Albany 2 per cent.
41/— Albany, Macon, Savannah, Augusta, and Columbus. The latter two are listed out of alphabetical order because they include Aiken County, South Carolina, and Russell County, Alabama which required a more complex alloca- tion procedure
-104- Table 19 Relative Use of Skilled Types of Workers in Different Areas, Summer 1962
Item Technician Skilled Clerical Total Workers Workers
Project Area Total 23,173 81,386 61,097 165,656 1. Atlanta SMSA 9,550 27,540 25,104 62,194 2. Non-Metropolitan 8,725 33,202 21,786 63,713 3. 5 Smaller SMSA's Total 4,895 20,631 14,204 39,730 SUB-AREA TOTALS: a. Albany 412 1,902 1,109 3,423 b. Macon 1,286 4,758 4,737 10,781 c. Savannah 845 4,017 2,717 7,579 d. Augusta 1,400 5,654 3,090 10,144 e. Columbus 947 4,301 2,550 7,798
Percentage of Total 100.0 99.9 100.0 100.0 1. Atlanta 41.2 33.8 41.1 37.5 2. Non-Metropolitan 37.7 40.8 35.7 38.5 3. 5 Smaller SMSA's Total 21.1 25.3 23.2 24.0 SUB-AREA RATIOS: a. Albany 1.8 2.3 1.8 2.1 b. Macon 5.5 5.8 7.8 6.5 c. Savannah 3.6 4.9 4.4 4.6 d. Augusta 6.0 6.9 5.1 6.1 e. Columbus 4.1 5.3 4.2 4.7
Macon tends to be relatively high in clerical workers (7.8 per cent) and
Augusta in skilled workers (6.9 per cent). The strong concentration of clerical workers in the former is due to the Warner Robins Air Modification
Center, and the high ratios of skilled workers in the Augusta Area is asso- ciated with the Savannah River Plant.
The effect of the degree of urbanization and city size on the relative
use of the three classes of skilled workers is shown by the following tabu- lation which relates relative size as to population in 1960 to the 1962 employment of technical, skilled, and clerical workers for the three major divisions in the study.
-105- Table 20 Percentage of Project Area Totals
1960 Skilled Survey, Summer 1962 Area Census of Technical Skilled Clerical Total Population Workers Workers Workers
1. Atlanta SMSA 25 41.2 33.8 41.1 37.5
2. Non-Metropolitan Georgia 53 37.7 40.8 35.7 38.5
3. Five Smaller SNSA's 22 21.1 25.3 23.2 24.0
TOTAL FOR PROJECT AREA 100 100.0 99.9 100.0 100.0
The data show a striking concentration of all three skilled categories
of workers in Atlanta SMSA as compared to population. Relatively, the
Atlanta SMSA with 25 per cent of the Study Area's population has 37.5 per
cent of the skilled workers, a ratio of 1 to 1.5. The comparison shows
that concentration is highest in technicians and clerical workers and some-
what lower in skilled workers, but still relatively higher than either of
the other two divisions. The five smaller SMSA's in the composite also more
than than hold their own in the relative employment of skilled workers with
a ratio of 1 to 1.1. The use of technicians falls slightly below par.
In the case of Non-Metropolitan Georgia, the various industries here
fall far short compared to total population in the uses of the three cate-
gories of skilled workers, with a ratio of 1 to 0.7. Even in the use of
skilled workers, of which group this area has the largest number, the ratio
is short, 1 to 0.8. The conclusion is that the number of types of skilled
workers and relative employment of them increases more than proportionately with city size. This finding is in line with an analysis by Florence 112/ on the effect of size of city on concentration of engineers, scientists, and technological workers. These findings are consistent also with research by
Florence on the importance of skilled workers to economic growth. For three large metropolitan areas in the western world, he shows that the proportion of such specialized personnel is in multiples of the areas' labor force.
The three areas he has reference to are London, Paris, and New York, and I cite his data directly:
"In 1931 Greater London contained 19.5 per cent of the em- ployed population of Great Britain. But it held 52.7 per cent of all workers engaged in making scientific instruments and apparatus other than photographic and electrical. . . .
In 1946, the Department of the Seine (the metropolitan area with its center at Paris) contained 12.2 per cent of the employed population of France but held: 36 per cent of the engineers, 37 per cent of the industrial designers, 34 per cent of the techno- logical workers, 37 per cent of the labor workers, and 32 per cent of the chemists.
The New York Metropolitan area contained 11.2 per cent of the total employees in American manufacturing industries in 1947, but also held: 56.5 per cent of all workers employed in surgical manu- facturers and medical instruments, 32 per cent of all workers em- ployed in making electrical measuring instruments, and 17.5 per cent of all workers employed in making mechanical measuring instru- ments."
Atlanta SMSA. Data for 42 leading technical, skilled, and clerical workers in the Atlanta SMSA are given in Table 21. The jobs are all listed from highest current employment in descending order. The 12 technical types of workers account for 6,661 jobs or 70 per cent of the total current employ- ment, 69 per cent of the net job openings in five years, and 67 per cent of
42/ — Florence, P. Sargent, "Economic Efficiency in the Metropolis," The Metropolis in Modern Life, (Edited by Robert Moore Fisher), Doubleday and Company, New York, 1955, page 106.
-107- the net training requirements in five years. The 25 types of skilled jobs account for 22,426 jobs current, or 81 per cent of the total employment of
77 classes of skilled workers in the Atlanta MBA, 84 per cent of net job openings in five years, and 90 per cent of net training requirements. The five classes of clerical workers listed account for 21,856 jobs currently or 87 per cent of the eight classes of clerical workers studied, 74 per cent of the job openings in five years, and 87 per cent of the net training re- quirements in five years.
The 42 jobs listed in Table 21 represent 50,943 jobs currently (Summer of 1962), and 82 per cent of the total employment reported by 155 job occu- pations in the study, 76 per cent of the new job openings in five years, and
86 per cent of the net training requirements in five years. Details on sex, age, company training, etc. for 155 job types in the Atlanta area will be found in Appendix C. Table 21 Analysis of Employer Demand and Net Training Requirements for Important Technical, Skilled, and Clerical Job Titles By Periods, Summer 1962 to 1967
ATLANTA SMSA
Current Skilled Category Employ- Employer Demand: Net Training and Job Title ment Net Job Openings a/- RequirementsE' Sum 1962 1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 1 Year 3 Years 5 Years Technicians: 001 Acc't-Gen & Cost 1,691 164 405 645 68 287 448 025 Electronics Tech 1,137 176 431 687 157 344 542 033 Industrial Tech 635 57 150 243 11 28 40 022 Draftsman-Structural 489 58 85 113 18 46 48 028 Estimator 460 69 107 144 67 99 132 021 Draftsman-Mech-Furn 432 46 100 155 32 64 94 014 Commercial Artist 338 20 83 147 6 56 101 009 Civil & Const Tech 322 61 79 98 59 78 95 045 Mechanical Tech 309 21 68 115 -3 44 74 050 Production Planner 300 19 64 109 5 36 62 049 Proc-Descrip Writer 274 6 17 28 -33 -22 -37 053 Quality Control Tech 274 33 80 127 21 65 103 Subtotal 6,661 730 1,669 2,611 408 1,125 1,702 Per Cent of Total 70 70 69 69 67 67 67 All others 2,889 319 754 1,182 200 552 846 Total 9,550 1,049 2,423 3,793 608 1,677 2,548 Skilled Workers: 249 Painter 2,442 172 271 372 111 169 202 221 Electrician 1,873 727 1,093 1,461 641 969 1,253 212 Carpenter (Non-mfg) 1,743 335 358 381 322 332 338 204 Automobile Mechanic 1,670 113 320 530 71 269 444 267 Sheet-Metal Worker 1,518 83 155 228 76 130 187 241 Machinist 1,379 134 355 576 125 304 491 205 Auto Body Repr-Paint 1,161 55 197 340 55 125 220 243 Maintenance Mechanic 1,037 50 141 234 26 115 189 242 Maintenance Man 967 92 197 303 82 180 274 244 Mason (Brick, etc) 958 36 24 13 36 -4 -34 278 Welder 921 116 268 420 79 221 342 202 Aircraft Mechanic 894 32 122 212 20 91 160 262 Plumber 767 303 524 746 156 292 359 218 Diesel Mech-Non-mfg 641 31 83 134 16 53 83 210 Cabinetmaker I 552 23 54 86 23 50 80 203 Air-cond or Ref Mech 522 95 189 284 45 115 160 246 Millwright 488 13 36 59 23 37 276 Truck Mech (Non-mfg) 442 45 101 158 39 92 142 264 Printer-Compositor 419 5 41 77 3 17 37 257 Offset-Press Man 403 42 89 136 -3 26 31 216 Cylinder-press-Pr & Ph 369 70 120 171 24 59 69 257 Pipe & Steam Fitter 336 192 326 459 162 264 357 272 Structural Ironwkers 319 8 19 31 8 19 31 234 Jig & Fixture-Bldg 305 12 31 50 10 30 48 238 Lineman (it, ht, pw) 300 3 19 35 -7 -30 -46 Subtotal 22,426 2,787 5,133 7,496 2,120 3,911 5,454 Per Cent of Total 81 85 84 84 89 89 90 All others 5,114 504 980 1,462 250 478 627 Total 27,540 3,291 6,113 8,958 2,370 4,389 6,081 Clerical Workers: 406 Stenographer 6,710 955 2;158 3,404 910 2,013 3,163 401 Accounting Clerk 6,049 672 1,689 2,754 557 1,310 2,120 408 Typist 5,097 844 1,912 3,006 782 1,823 2,857 402 Bookkeeper 2,273 299 715 1,151 255 608 973 405 Statistical Clerk 11,727 247 611 988 196 448 715 Subtotal 21,856 3,017 7,085 11,303 2,700 6,202 9,828 Per Cent Total 87 68 73 74 87 84 87 All others 3,248 1,390 2,656 3,939 407 1,140 1,407 Total 25,104 4,407 9,741 15,242 3,107 7,342 11,235 TOTAL FOR AGGREGATE 62,194 8,747 18,277 27,993 6,085 13,408 19,864 TOTAL FOR JOBS LISTED 50,943 6,534 13,887 21,410 5,228 11,238 16,984 PER CENT OF TOTAL 82 75 76 76 86 84 86
al Equals net increase in employment based on employer expectations plus age separation effects. IV This requirement is derived by subtracting the number to complete company training by periods from net number of job openings. -109- The following tabulation shows the most important technical, skilled, and clerical jobs in the Atlanta Area on the basis of job openings and train- ing requirements in the next five years.
Net Job Net Training Openings Requirements in 5 Years in 5 Years
Technicians: Electronics 687 542 Accountant-Gen & Cost 645 448 Industrial Tech 243 40 Draftsman-Mech-Furn 155 94 Subtotal 1,730 1,124 Skilled Workers: Electrician 1,461 1,253 Plumber 746 359 Machinist 576 491 Auto Mechanic 530 444 Pipe & Steam Fitter 459 357 Welder 420 342 Carpenter (Non-mfg) 381 338 Subtotal 4,573 3,584 Clerical Workers: Stenographer 3,404 3,163 Typist 3,006 2,857 Accounting Clerk 2,754 2,120 Subtotal 9,164 8,140 TOTAL 15,467 12,848
The totals from the above 14 jobs will account for.55 per cent of the job openings in five years and 65 per cent of the net training requirements. Non-Metropolitan Georgia. This includes all cities, towns, and counties outside five-county Metropolitan Atlanta, and nine counties 41/ in five other metropolitan areas, or a total of 147 Georgia counties. The old line tex- tiles, lumber and wood products, and the newer apparel, pulp and paper in- dustries dominate.
Table 22 gives a summary on the demand and supply condition during the next five years for 42 of the 155 jobs studied. The 12 technical type jobs add up to 6,359 jobs during the Summer of 1962, or 73 per cent of the total of 70 technical occupations represented. These 12 technical occupations also account for 59 per cent of the net job openings in five years and 61 per cent of the net training requirements in five years. The 25 skilled occupations out of 77 represent 29,218 jobs currently, or 88 per cent of the total, 85 per cent of the net job openings in five years, and 83 per cent of the net training requirements also in five years. The clerical type jobs employed 19,721 workers during the Summer of 1962, or 91 per cent of the total employment for the eight classes of clerical workers studied, 90 per cent of the job openings in five years, and 90 per cent of the net train- ing requirements by 1967. The totals for all 42 job classes represented
55,298 jobs during the Summer of 1962, or 87 per cent, 84 per cent of the net job openings for skilled workers in Non-Metropolitan Georgia in five years, and 84 per cent of the training requirements also in five years. De- tails on all jobs, including information on sex, company training, expected employment, etc. will be found in Appendix C.
43/ Includes two counties outside Georgia, Aiken County, South Carolina, and Russell County, Alabama. Table 22 Analysis of Employer Demand and Net Training Requirements for Important Technical, Skilled, and Clerical Job Titles By Periods, Summer 1962 to 1967 NON-METROPOLITAN GEORGIA
Current Skilled Category Employ- Employer Demand Net Training and Job Title merit Net Job Openings..2/ Requirementsa/ Sum 1962 1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 1 Year 3 Years 5 Years Technicians: 001 Acc't-Gen & Cost 1,028 50 201 353 6 129 232 035 Instrument Man 882 2 6 10 2 6 10 056 Research Lab Analyst 656 4 17 31 3 13 24 050 Production Planner 593 77 157 238 61 131 194 028 Estimator 522 52 128 205 29 82 127 023 Draftsman-Topo 508 2 8 13 2 8 13 053 Quality Control Tech 491 25 66 107 16 46 74 009 Civil & Const Tech 473 19 56 92 19 56 92 034 Instructor-Trainees 349 31 82 133 16 61 98 021 Draftsman-Mech-Furn 336 21 69 117 -5 42 72 025 Electronics Tech 305 44 75 106 21 52 69 057 Res Tech-Env Test 216 8 31 53 8 31 53 Subtotal 6,359 335 896 1,458 178 657 1,058 Per Cent of Total 73 50 57 59 52 58 61 All others 2,366 330 671 1,012 166 473 688 Total 8,725 665 1,567 2,470 344 1,130 1,746 Skilled Workers: 212 Carpenter (Non-mfg) 3,208 428 1,036 1,646 292 814 1,276 204 Automobile Mechanic 2,824 212 524 838 131 387 610 242 Maintenance Man 2,462 176 441 707 140 382 609 241 Machinist 2,103 174 401 627 65 223 331 243 Maintenance Mechanic 1,983 100 349 599 31 183 322 240 Loom Fixer 1,873 55 144 234 -55 -41 -76 221 Electrician 1,698 261 383 505 239 289 349 278 Welder 1,511 219 441 665 127 274 385 249 Painter 1,238 124 290 457 117 255 398 267 Sheet-Metal Worker 1,086 187 408 628 133 272 401 238 Lineman (1t, ht, pw) 1,056 62 150 239 -2 27 34 244 Mason (Brick, etc) 1,042 76 155 235 65 135 202 210 Cabinetmaker I 961 40 170 301 34 128 230 205 Auto Body Repr-Paint 839 30 128 226 9 98 176 272 Structural Ironwkers 709 65 124 183 65 124 183 268 Spinning Frame Fixer 689 13 53 94 -13 17 34 213 Cement Finisher Const 624 239 437 635 178 323 445 266 Sew Machine Repair 584 46 98 150 23 57 82 276 Truck Mech (Non-mfg) 565 20 88 157 -26 32 64 246 Millwright 475 29 54 79 17 37 50 262 Plumber 448 18 51 85 15 37 61 263 Power-Shovel Oper 323 28 63 98 25 60 92 218 Diesel Mech-Non-mfg 320 84 141 199 57 115 154 257 Pipe & Steam Fitter 320 12 36 60 -2 20 34 237 Knit-mach Fix (Tex) 277 23 54 85 12 38 59 Subtotal 29,218 2,721 6,219 9,732 1,677 4,286 6,505 Per Cent of Total 88 86 85 85 86 84 83 All others 3,984 433 1,059 1,685 279 822 1,295 Total 33,202 3,154 7,278 11,417 1,956 5,108 7,800 Clerical Workers: • 406 Stenographer 5,606 747 1,653 2,606 711 1,603 2,522 402 Bookkeeper 5,075 558 1,368 2,224 520 1,295 2,101 401 Accounting Clerk 4,290 581 1,300 2,056 451 1,080 1,689 408 Typist 3,031 382 938 1,511 348 896 1,441 403 Bookkeeping Mach Op 1,719 230 534 849 152 432 679 Subtotal 19,721 2,498 5,793 9,246 2,182 5,306 8,432 Per Cent of Total 91 91 90 90 89 90 90 All others 2,065 256 658 1,074 266 604 986 Total 21,786 2,754 6,451 10,320 2,448 5,910 9,418 TOTAL FOR AGGREGATE 63,713 6,373 15,296 24,207 4,748 12,148 18,964 TOTAL FOR LISTED JOBS 55,298 5,554 12,908 20,436 4,037 10,249 15,995 PER CENT OF TOTAL 87 84 84 84 85 84 84
a/ Equals net increase in employment based on employer expectations plus age separation effect. =)-( This requirement is derived by subtracting the number to complete company training by periods from net number of job openings. The following tabulation is a ranking of the most important technical, skilled, and clerical jobs from the standpoint of net job openings and net training requirements in five years.
Net Job Net Training Openings Requirements in 5 Years in 5 Years
Technicians: Accountant-Gen & Cost 353 232 Production Planner 238 194 Estimator 205 127 Subtotal 796 553 Skilled Workers: Carpenter (non-mfg) 1,646 1,276 Auto Mechanic 838 610 Maintenance Man 707 609 Welder 665 385 Cement Finisher Const 635 445 Sheet-Metal Worker 628 401 Machinist 627 331 Subtotal 5,746 4,057 Clerical Workers: Stenographers 2,606 2,522 Bookkeeper 2,224 2,101 Accounting Clerk 2,056 1,689 Subtotal 6,886 6,312 TOTAL 13,428 10,922
The 13 jobs listed above represented 55 per cent of the net job openings and 58 per cent of the net training requirements in 5 years for Non-Metro- politan Georgia. 5-Smaller SMSA's. The five smaller SMSA's include the one-county areas with Albany and Savannah, and the two-county areas with Augusta, and Macon, and the three-county areas with Columbus. Yet the composite of these five city areas account for less than one-fourth (24 per cent) of the total employ- ment reported for the Summer of 1962 in 155 technical, skilled, and clerical job types.
Summary of the demand and supply conditions for the leading jobs in this five-metropolitan complex is given in Table 23. The twelve technician types listed employed 3,212 workers in the Summer of 1962, or 66 per cent of the total employment, 63 per cent of net job openings in five years. The
25 skilled occupations listed were responsible for 18,051 jobs during the
Summer of 1962, or 87 per cent of the total represented by 77 skilled occu- pations, 88 per cent of the net job openings in five years, and 90 per cent of the net training requirements in five years. Five clerical jobs out of
8 types studied are listed. They accounted for 12,765 jobs in the Summer of 1962, or 90 per cent of the total, 89 per cent of net job openings in five years, and 89 per cent also of net training requirements in five years.
The total of all the jobs represented by the 42 jobs listed was 34,028 workers during the Summer of 1962, or 86 per cent of the total for all the
155 job studied, 87 per cent of net job openings in five years, and 88 per cent of the net training requirements in five years. Additional details on all jobs, showing sex, age, company training, expected employment, etc., will be found in Appendix C. Table 23 Analysis of Employer Demand and Net Training Requirements for Important Technical, Skilled, and Clerical Job Titles By Periods, Summer 1962 to 1967
5-SMALLER SMSA'a Current Skilled Category Employ- Employer Demand: Net Training and Job Title ment Net Job Openings-. a/ Requirements2/ Sum 1962 1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 1 Year 3 Years 5 Years Technicians: 001 Acc't-Gen & Cost 617 27 54 81 24 40 58 028 Estimator 432 42 112 183 35 92 150 039 Lab Ass't-Metal 390 2 7 13 2 7 13 025 Electronics Tech 314 73 66 59 61 33 3 034 Instructor-Trainees 257 10 25 40 -8 7 10 050 Production Planner 217 10 30 49 9 26 44 022 Draftsman-Structural 196 28 71 113 16 56 88 027 Eng-Ass't-Mech Equip 184 6 14 22 6 8 11 054 Radio/TV Trans Tech 177 5 18 31 1 6 10 053 Quality Control Tech 158 11 26 42 9 25 39 009 Civil & Const Tech 140 13 36 58 13 36 58 045 Mechanical Tech 130 9 22 35 9 17 27 Subtotal 3,212 236 481 726 177 353 511 Per Cent of Total 66 67 64 63 78 68 68 All others 1,683 117 269 420 49 164 244 Total 4,895 353 750 1,146 226 517 755 Skilled Workers: 243 Maintenance Mechanic 1,948 47 155 265 -2 52 93 212 Carpenter (Non-mfg) 1,828 217 626 1,035 187 507 837 204 Automobile Mechanic 1,665 54 189 326 38 125 217 221 Electrician 1,426 87 174 262 6 59 70 241 Machinist 1,378 79 220 361 47 136 221 242 Maintenance Man 1,100 39 119 200 34 96 161 278 Welder 881 122 276 430 48 154 227 267 Sheet-Metal Worker 867 130 326 523 84 .199 311 249 Painter 651 13 63 114 9 38 71 240 Loom Fixer 644 18 67 115 -52 -46 -72 257 Pipe & Steam Fitter 610 40 71 103 17 47 62 213 Cement Finisher Const 518 65 173 282 65 164 266 224 Elect-Instr Repair 505 6 18 30 6 18 30 246 Millwright 468 33 70 107 6 35 48 238 Lineman (it, ht, pw) 432 48 77 106 -1 -25 -65 244 Mason (Brick, etc) 415 103 339 577 61 298 507 205 Auto Body Repr-Paint 404 17 52 88 10 29 50 259 Plasterer Const 376 138 210 283 134 206 277 269 Stationary Engineer 357 9 31 53 -9 8 14 276 Truck Mech (Non-mfg) 329 28 89 150 19 52 88 262 Plumber 282 55 150 246 45 129 210 203 Air-Cond or Ref Mech 272 39 77 115 24 41 56 268 Spinning Frame Fixer 269 26 82 137 -11 -11 -18 210 Cabinetmaker I 235 18 68 117 6 55 97 239 Linotype Operator 191 5 10 16 3 7 10 Subtotal 18,051 1,436 3,732 6,041 774 2,373 3,768 Per Cent of Total 87 88 88 88 88 89 90 All others 2,580 191 491 786 101 280 436 Total 20,631 1,627 4,223 6,827 875 2,653 4,204 Clerical Workers: 408 Typist 3,607 369 826 1,308 353 807 1,276 406 Stenographer 3,233 333 772 1,237 293 713 1,137 401 Accounting Clerk 2,777 266 649 1,054 240 573 928 402 Bookkeeper 2,164 210 512 835 206 488 795 405 Statistical Clerk 984 85 223 370 72 203 337 Subtotal 12,765 1,263 2,982 4,804 1,164 2,784 4,473 Per Cent of Total 90 89 89 89 89 89 89 All others 1,439 158 373 597 140 340 542 Total 14,204 1,421 3,355 5,401 1,304 3,124 5,015 TOTAL FOR AGGREGATE 39,730 3,401 8,328 13,374 2,405 6,294 9,974 TOTAL FOR LISTED JOBS 34,028 2,935 7,195 11,571 2,115 5,510 8,752 PER CENT OF TOTAL 86 86 86 87 88 88 88
Equals net increase in employment based on employer expectations plus age separation effect9. -J This requirement is derived by subtracting the number to complete company training by periods from the net number of job openings. -115- The following are the most important technicians, skilled workers, and clerical workers in the five metropolitan area complex, determined according to net number of job openings and net training requirements in five years.
Net Job Net Training Openings Requirements in 5 Years in 5 Years
Technicians: Estimator 183 150 Draftsman-Structural 113 88 Accountant-Gen & Cost 81 58 Subtotal 377 296 Skilled Workers: Carpenter (non-mfg) 1,035 837 Mason (Brick, etc) 577 507 Sheet-Metal Worker 523 311 Welder 430 227 Machinist 361 221 Auto Mechanic 326 217 Plaster Const 283 277 Subtotal 3,535 2,597 Clerical Workers: Typist 1,308 1,276 Stenographer 1,237 1,137 Accounting Clerk 1,054 928 Subtotal 3,599 3,341 TOTAL 7,511 6,234
The 13 jobs given above account for 56 per cent of the new job openings and 63 per cent of the net training requirements in five years for the five- other metropolitan areas in the study area. Albany SMSA. The Albany SMSA consists of the City of Albany and Dougherty County. In 1960 total population was 75,680 and employment 28,135, including members of the armed forces (5,309), giving a net employ- ment of 22,726. The skilled study for 155 classes of jobs showed 3,423 for the Albany SMSA. A ranking of the 24 most important technical, skilled, and clerical jobs in the Albany SMSA is given in Table 24. These 24 jobs ac- counted for 74 per cent of the employment during the survey period (Summer of 1962), 75 per cent of the new job openings in 5 years, and 77 per cent of the net training requirements in 5 years. Details on all job classes4 4/ in the Albany SMSA will be found in Appendix C.
The following tabulation shows the leading jobs by types according to expected job openings and training needs in 5 years.
Net Job Net Training Openings Requirements in 5 Years in 5 Years
Technicians: Estimator 29 25 Accountant-Gen & Cost 9 6 Electronics 9 4 Subtotal 47 35 Skilled: Carpenter 204 170 Mason 122 113 Cement Finisher 55 52 Sheet Metal Worker 50 29 Machinist 46 29 Auto Mechanic 33 23 Electrician 28 10 Subtotal 538 426 Clerical: Stenographer 118 106 Typist 94 92 Bookkeeper 86 82 Subtotal 298 280 TOTAL 883 741
The 13 job classes listed account for 62 per cent of expected job openings and 66 per cent of net training requirements of skilled workers in the area in 5 years.
44/ Separate tabulations are not given for jobs with 4 or less workers in Appendix C, because of variations in estimates due to the method of allo- cation.
-117- Table 24 Analysis of Employer Demand and Net Training Requirements for Important Technical, Skilled, and Clerical Job Titles By Periods, Summer 1962 to 1967
Albany SMSA Current Employer Demand: Net Training Skilled Category Employment Net Job Openings2' Requirements?' and Job Title Summer 1962 1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 1 Year 3 Years 5 Year
Technical Workers: 001 Acc't-Gen & Cost 62 3 6 9 2 4 6 028 Estimator 60 7 18 29 6 15 25 025 Electronics Tech 33 2 6 9 1 2 4 034 Instructor-Trainees 32 1 4 6 -2 1 1 045 Mechanical Tech 19 1 3 5 1 3 4 054 Radio/TV Trans Tech 18 1 2 3 1 1 050 Production Planner 16 2 3 2 3 053 Quality Control Tech 14 1 3 4 1 3 4 Subtotal 254 16 44 68 9 31 48 Per Cent of Total 62 53 54 54 47 53 52 All others 158 14 38 58 10 28 45 Total 412 30 82 126 19 59 93 Skilled Workers: 212 Carpenter (Non-mfg) 340 42 123 204 38 103 170 204 Automobile Mechanic 182 5 19 33 4 13 23 221 Electrician 131 10 19 28 2 8 10 241 Machinist 107 11 28 46 7 18 29 243 Maintenance Mechanic 97 3 9 15 3 4 249 Painter 93 2 9 16 2 6 11 213 Cement Finisher Const 82 10 33 55 10 31 52 242 Maintenance Man 77 3 8 14 3 6 11 244 Mason (Brick, etc) 65 19 70 122 14 65 113 267 Sheet-Metal Worker 56 13 31 50 9 19 29 278 Welder 52 6 14 22 4 9 14 257 Pipe & Steam Fitter 51 5 8 11 2 5 7 Subtotal 1,333 129 371 616 95 286 473 Per Cent of Total 70 68 73 74 72 76 77 All others 569 60 138 220 37 91 140 Total 1,902 189 509 836 132 377 613 Clerical Workers: 406 Stenographer 286 32 73 118 27 66 106 408 Typist 235 26 59 94 25 58 92 402 Bookkeeper 209 20 52 86 20 50 82 401 Accounting Clerk 202 19 49 81 18 43 70 Subtotal 932 97 233 379 90 217 350 Per Cent of Total 84 84 83 83 83 83 83 All others 177 19 49 79 18 45 72 Total 1,109 116 282 458 108 262 422 TOTAL FOR AGGREGATE 3,423 335 873 1,420 259 698 1,128 TOTAL JOBS LISTED 2,519 242 648 1,063 194 534 871 PER CENT OF TOTAL 74 72 74 75 75 77 77
#' Equals net increase in Employment based on employer expectations plus age separatiol effects. This requirement is derived by subtracting the number to complete company training by periods from net number of job openings.
-118- Macon SMSA. The Macon SMSA consists of the City of Macon and 2 coun- ties, Bibb and Houston Counties, and the total population of the area in 1960 was 180,403, with corresponding employment of 67,333 of which 2,416 were in the armed forces. The total number of skilled workers estimated for the Macon SMSA from the study of 155 job classes is 10,781.
The accompanying table, Number 25, contains 24 of the most important skilled jobs in the Macon SMSA listed in order of importance according to current employment. The 24 job types (8 technical, 12 skilled, and 4 cleri- cal) represent 7,969 jobs or 74 per cent of the total for the area. They also account for 70 per cent of the new job openings in 5 years and for 74 per cent of the net training requirements in 5 years. Detailed data on all jobs in the report will be found in Appendix C.
The following tabulation shows the 13 most important job types for the Macon SMSA. They account for 60 per cent of expected job openings and 64 per cent of the training requirements in 5 years.
Net Job Net Training Openings Requirements in 5 Years in 5 Years
Technicians: Estimator 41 32 Draftsman-Structural 31 23 Accountant-Gen & Cost 16 11 Subtotal 88 66 Skilled: Carpenter 221 177 Sheet Metal Worker 140 97 Auto Mechanic 88 55 Machinist 71 50 Welder 67 51 Electrician 66 20 Cement Finisher 57 54 Subtotal 710 504 Clerical: Typist 538 527 Accounting Clerk 329 302 Stenographer 326 305 Subtotal 1,193 1,134 Total 1,991 1,704
The 13 job types given in the tabulation accounted for 60 per cent of the expected job openings and 64 per cent of the net training requirements in 5 years for the Macon SMSA.
-119- Table 25 Analysis of Employer Demand and Net Training Requirements for Important Technical, Skilled, and Clerical Job Titles By Periods, Summer 1962 to 1967 MACON SMSA Current Employer Demand: Net Training Skilled Category Employment Net Job Openinga.4./ RequirementaY and Job Title Summer 1962 1 Year 3 Years 5 Years l'Year 3 Years 5 Yes
Technical Workers: 001 Acc f t-Gen & Cost 136 6 11 16 5 8 1] 028 Estimator 118 10 25 41 8 20 3: 049 Proc-Descrip Writer 101 1 2 4 1 2 i 022 Draftsman-Structural 84 8 20 31 4 15 2: 025 Electronics Tech 80 56 16 -24 53 8 -3' 052 Proj Plan-Data pr sy 76 1 2 3 1 2 050 Production Planner 60 2 7 11 2 6 11 033 Industrial Tech 57 1 2 3 2 Subtotal 712 85 85 85 74 63 4 Per Cent of Total 55 74 52 41 84 56 3 All others 574 30 79 123 14 50 8 Total 1,286 115 164 208 88 113 12 Skilled Workers: 267 Sheet-Metal Worker 433 33 86 140 24 61 9 212 Carpenter (Non-mfg) 430 47 134 221 40 107 17 204 Automobile Mechanic 421 16 52 88 8 32 5 241 Machinist 372 15 43 71 10 30 5 221 Electrician 365 22 44 66 2 16 2 243 Maintenance Mechanic 328 9 30 51 -2 7 1 242 Maintenance Man 271 10 31 51 9 27 1 269 Stationary Engineer 160 2 7 11 -2 1 278 Welder 145 15 41 67 10 31 ' 249 Painter 129 3 13 24 2 7 213 Cement Finisher Const 117 15 36 57 15 34 .,
257 Pipe & Steam Fitter 106 9 15 21 5 10 Subtotal 3,277 196 532 868 121 363 5' Per Cent of Total 69 56 59 59 60 61 All others 1,481 155 375 601 82 234 3 Total 4,758 351 907 1,469 203 597 9 Clerical Workers: 408 Typist 1,636 156 342 538 151 336 5 401 Accounting Clerk 924 88 205 329 82 189 3 406 Stenographer 915 88 204 326 81 191 3 402 Bookkeeper 505 49 115 185 48 110 1 Subtotal 3,980 381 866 1 378 362 826 1,3 Per Cent of Total 84 85 84 84 85 84 All others 757 68 165 270 63 155 2 Total 4,737 449 1,031 1,648 425 981 1,5 TOTAL FOR AGGREGATE 10,781 915 2,102 3,325 716 1,691 2,6 TOTAL JOBS LISTED 7,969 662 1,483 2,331 557 1,252 1,S PER CENT OF TOTAL 74 72 71 70 78 74
4V Equals net increase in employment based on employer expectations plus age separat: effects. This requirement is derived by subtracting the number to complete company traini: by periods from the net number of job openings.
-120- Savannah SMSA. The Savannah SMSA includes the City of Savannah and the County of Chatham. The total population of this Metropolitan Area in the 1960 Census was 188,299 and total employment, 66,470 , of which 5,089 were in the armed forces. The study of 155 skilled type jobs resulted in allo- cation of 7,579 skilled workers to the Savannah SMSA. As compared to the Macon SMSA, this is a comparatively low number of skilled workers, which is probably due to lack of a high user of all types of skilled workers as Warner Robins in the Macon Area.
Table 26 presents 24 of the most important job types in the area ranked in order of importance in each category. The data show that these 24 occu- pations (8 technical, 12 skilled, and 4 clerical) represented 5,567 workers during the Summer of 1962, or 73 per cent of the total, 71 per cent of the job openings expected in 5 years, and 69 per cent of the net training re- quirements in 5 years. Detailed data on all jobs in the study are given in Appendix C.
Below is listed the most important jobs from this tabulation, arranged according to number of job openings expected and net training requirements in 5 years.
Net Job Net Trainings Openings Requirements in 5 Years in 5 Years
Technicians: Estimator 36 28 Draftsman-Structural 31 23 Electronics 25 11 Subtotal 92 61 Skilled: Welder 232 79 Carpenter 184 145 Sheet Metal Worker 141 71 Auto Mechanic 66 44 Electrician 61 13 Maintenance Mechanic 56 14 Cement Finisher Const 50 48 Subtotal 790 414 Clerical: Stenographer 250 229 Accounting Clerk 243 202 Typist 198 190 Subtotal 691 621 TOTAL 1,573 1,097
The data on 13 skilled types of workers account for 56 per cent of the total job openings expected and 57 per cent of net training requirements of the Savannah SMSA in 5 years.
-121- Table 26 Analysis of Employer Demand and Net Training Requirements for Important Technical, Skilled, and Clerical Job Titles By Periods, Summer 1962 to.1967 SAVANNAH SMSA
Current Employer Demand: Net Training Skilled Category Employment Net Job Openings±t/ Requirementsbi and Job Title Summer 1962 1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 1 Year 3 Years 5 Yez
Technicians: 001 Acc't-Gen & Cost 138 5 13 20 5 9 1! 028 Estimator 84 8 22 36 6 17 21 025 Electronics Tech 66 5 15 25 2 7 1: 053 Quality Control Tech 45 1 3 5 1 3 054 Radio/TV Trans Tech 44 1 5 8 1 022 Draftsman-Structural 39 8 19 31 4 15 2 034 Instructor-Trainees 36 1 3 1 048 Paper Tester 34 3 6 -3 Subtotal 486 28 81 134 15 53 8 Per Cent of Total 58 56 52 53 56 54 5 All others 359 22 74 120 12 45 7 Total 845 50 155 254 27 98 16 Skilled Workers: 278 Welder 390 74 153 232 15 61 7 243 Maintenance Mechanic 327 12 34 56 3 9 1 221 Electrician 323 20 40 61 1 12 1 212 Carpenter (Non-mfg) 309 39 112 184 33 88 14 204 Automobile Mechanic 308 12 39 66 9 26 4 241 Machinist 294 10 30 50 4 10 1 242 Maintenance Man 186 7 24 40 6 14 2 249 Painter 141 3 14 25 1 7 1
267 Sheet-Metal Worker 139 37 89 141 19 47 246 Millwright 119 7 15 24 -5 -2 - 238 Lineman (it, ht, pw) 108 11 18 25 -3 -12 -; 257 Pipe & Steam Fitter 106 9 15 21 -2 4 213 Cement Finisher Const 99 13 32 50 13 30 i Subtotal 2,849 254 615 975 94 294 4i Per Cent of Total 71 66 66 66 57 57 .i All others 1,168 129 321 513 72 219 3:
Total 4,017 383 936 1,488 166 513 7 ' Clerical Workers: 401 Accounting Clerk 644 59 148 243 50 123 21 406 Stenographer 616 66 155 250 59 143 2 408 Typist 489 56 125 198 51 120 1 402 Bookkeeper 483 47 116 189 47 109 '1 Subtotal 2,232 228 544 880 207 495 7 Per Cent of Total 82 82 82 82 83 82 All others 485 50 122 198 42 109 1 Total 2,717 278 666 1,078 249 604 9 TOTAL FOR AGGREGATE 7,579 711 1,757 2,820 442 1,215 1,9 TOTAL JOBS LISTED 5,567 510 1,240 1,989 316 842 1,3 PER CENT OF TOTAL 73 72 71 71 71 69
1/ Equals net increase in employment based on employer expectations plus age separati effects. IV This requirement is derived by subtracting the number to complete eompany trainir by periods from the net number of job openings.
-122- Augusta SMSA. The Augusta SMS/02/ consists of the City of Augusta and two counties, Richmond County, Georgia, and Aiken County, South Carolina. The total population as of the Census of 1960 was 216,639 and total employ- ment was 80,109, of which 13,057 were military workers. The study survey of 155 applicable skilled job types disclosed a total of 10,144 workers (technical, skilled, and clerical) for the Summer of 1962.
Table 27 presents the 25 most important jobs for the Augusta SMSA ranked from the highest employment during the study period by major skilled cate- gory. The data show that these jobs accounted for 75 per cent of total cur- rent employment of all the skilled classes studied, 64 per cent of expected job openings in 5 years, and 68 per cent of net training requirements of the Augusta SMSA in 5 years. Detailed data for all jobs in the report will be found in Appendix C.
The following tabulation presents the job types in order of importance which will provide the most job openings and have highest training require- ments for the area in 5 years.
Net Job Net Training Openings Requirements in 5 Years in 5 Years
Technicians: Estimator 34 29 Electronics 24 14 Accountant-Gen & Cost 18 13 Subtotal 76 56 Skilled: Carpenter 210 173 Maintenance Mechanic 97 56 Auto Mechanic 70 49 Maintenance Man 55 50 Electrician 52 13 Machinist 43 28 Welder 32 24 Subtotal 559 393 Clerical: Stenographer 301 277 Typist 263 257 Accounting Clerk 204 179 Subtotal 768 713 TOTAL 1,403 1,162
The above jobs listed (13) represent 49 per cent of net job openings expected and 54 per cent of the net training requirements for the Augusta SMSA in 5 years.
45/ -- The Augusta and Columbus SMSA's are treated at the end of this section, because the inclusion of counties from adjacent states complicated the allocation procedures.
-123- Table 27 Analysis of Employer Demand and Net Training Requirements for Important Technical, Skilled, and Clerical Job Titles By Periods, Summer 1962 to 1967 AUGUSTA SMSA Current Employer Demand: Net Training Skilled Category Employment Net Job Openings:a/ Requirements2/ and Job Title Summer 1962 1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 1 Year 3 Years 5 Yea, Technicians: 039 Lab Ass't-Metal 389 2 7 13 2 7 13 001 Acc't-Gen & Cost 150 5 11 18 5 8 13 028 Estimator 81 7 20 34 6 17 29 027 Eng-Ass't-Mech Equip 78 1 4 7 1 4 6 025 Electronics Tech 67 5 15 24 3 9 14 034 Instructor-Trainees 66 2 4 7 1 3 5 050 Production Planner 51 4 9 15 3 8 12 021 Draftsman-Mech-Furn 45 5 11 17 5 10 16 053 Quality Control 39 3 7 12 2 7 10 Subtotal 966 34 88 147 28 73 118 Per Cent Total 69• 52 56 58 70 62 63 All others 434 31 70 107 12 44 68 Total 1,400 65 158 254 40 117 186 Skilled Workers: 243 Maintenance Mechanic 876 15 55 9i 2 31 56 224 Elect-Instr Repair 479 6 17 28 6 17 28 204 Automobile Mechanic 383 11 41 70 9 28 49 212 Carpenter (non-mfg) 381 43 126 210 38 104 173 242 Maintenance Man 335 11 33 55 10 30 5C 221 Electrician 325 16 34 52 11 13 257 Pipe & Steam Fitter 270 10 20 31 6 17 25 241 Machinist 248 0 26 43 5 17 2E 240 Loom Fixer 244 7 25 44 -20 -17 -2i 246 Millwright 234 8 19 31 4 14 2i 249 Painter 161 3 14 25 2 9 1; 278 Welder 139 9 20 32 6 16 2/ Subtotal 4,075 148 430 718 68 277 45f Per Cent Total 72 47 50 51 42 51 5: All others 1,579 166 422 690 95 263 42f Total 5,654 314 852 1,408 163 540 88i Clerical Workers: 406 Stenographer 810 82 188 301 72 174 27 . 408 Typist 729 73 165 263 70 161 25' 401 Accounting Clerk 517 52 126 204 47 110 17! 402 Bookkeeper 473 47 111 180 46 106 17 Subtotal 2,529 254 590 948 235 551 88, Per Cent Total 82 82 81 80 83 81 8 All others 561 57 141 230 49 128 20 Total 3,090 311 731 1,178 284 679 1,09 TOTAL FOR AGGREGATE 10,144 690 1,741 2,840 487 1,336 2,16 TOTAL JOBS LISTED 7,570 436 1,108 1,813 331 901 1,46 PER CENT OF TOTAL 75 63 64 64 68 67 6
1/ Equals net increase in employment based on employer expectations plus age separatio effects. 11 This requirement is derived by subtracting the number to complete company training by periods from net number of job openings.
-124- Columbus SMSA. The Columbus SMSA includes the City of Columbus and 3 counties, Chattahoochee and Muscogee in Georgia, and Russell County, Alabama. The 1960 Census shows 217,985 population and 84,206 employment for the entire Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area of Columbus. The employment total, however, included 26,286 members of the armed forces. The survey disclosed 7,798 workers in the 155 skilled job types reported in the questionnaire form. The Columbus SMSA is relatively low in skilled workers compared to the Macon and Augusta SMSA's because of the very large number of the work force accounted by the armed forces in the area.
The most important skilled occupations in the area are given in Table 28, ranked in order of importance by major skilled category. The 25 job types listed in the table represent 71 per cent (5,547 jobs) of the total employment of the skills studied during the Summer of 1962. They also ac- count for 6.7 per cent of the job openings in 5 years and 67 per cent of net training needs of the Columbus SMSA in 5 years. Details on all skilled jobs studied in the area are presented in Appendix C.
The following tabulation isolates the jobs with the highest number of job openings expected in 5 years. Data on net training requirements are also listed.
Net Job Net Training Openings Requirements in 5 Years in 5 Years
Technicians: Estimator 43 36 Electronics 24 12 Accountant-Gen & Cost 20 14 Subtotal 87 62 Skilled: Carpenter 216 172 Machinist 151 97 Sheet Metal Worker 117 65 Welder 77 58 Auto Mechanic 69 47 Cement Finisher 65 61 Electrician 55 15 Subtotal 750 515 Clerical: Stenographer 243 219 Typist 215 210 Accounting Clerk 195 187 Subtotal 653 616 TOTAL 1,490 1,193
The 13 jobs listed above account for 50 per cent of the job openings expected in 5 years and 56 per cent of the net training requirements for the Columbus SMSA in 5 years.
-125- Table 28 Analysis of Employer Demand and Net Training Requirements for Important Technical, Skilled, and Clerical Job Titles By Periods, Summer 1962 to 1967 COMUMBUS SMSA
Current Employer Demand: Net Training Skilled Category Employment Net Job Openings—/a Requirements•/ and Job Title Summer 1962 1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 1 Year 3 Years 5 Yea]
Technicians: 001 Acct-Gen & Cost 130 7 13 20 7 10 14 028 Estimator 90 11 27 43 9 22 36 034 Instructor-Trainees 73 4 11 18 -6 025 Electronics Tech 67 5 14 24 2 7 12 050 Production Planner 59 2 8 14 1 7 12 045 Mechanical Tech 50 5 11 17 5 9 13 054 Radio/TV Trans Tech 37 1 4 6 1 2 053 Quality Control Tech 35 4 9 13 4 9 13 009 Civil & Const Tech 33 3 8 14 3 8 14 Subtotal 574 42 105 169 25 73 116 Per Cent Total 61 51 56 57 63 60 62 All others 373 40 83 128 15 48 71 Total 947 82 188 297 40 121 187 Skilled Workers: 204 Automobile Mechanic 370 10 39 69 9 26 4; 212 Carpenter (Non-mfg) 369 46 131 216 39 105 172 241 Machinist 357 35 93 151 22 60 9; 243 Maintenance Mechanic 320 9 27 46 -5 3 ( 221 Electrician 283 19 37 55 2 13 1! 240 Loom Fixer 275 8 28 49 -22 -20 -3: 242 Maintenance Man 231 8 24 39 7 19 3: 278 Welder 154 18 48 77 14 36 5 • 267 Sheet-Metal Worker 141 28 73 117 18 41 6. 249 Painter 128 3 13 24 2 8 1 213 Cement Finisher Const 123 14 39 65 14 37 6 268 Spinning Frame Fixer 115 11 35 59 -5 -5 - Subtotal 2,866 209 587 967 95 323 52 Per Cent Total 67 54 59 60 45 53 5 All others 1,435 177 411 653 117 289 45 Total 4,301 386 998 1,620 212 612 98 Clerical Workers: 406 Stenographer 606 65 152 243 55 138 21 408 Typist 518 58 135 215 56 131 21 402 Bookkeeper 493 47 119 195 46 114 lE 401 Accounting Clerk 490 48 120 197 44 108 1; Subtotal 2,107 218 526 850 201 491 7S Per Cent Total 83 82 82 82 83 82 i All others 443 48 118 192 40 107 1; Total 2,550 266 644 1,042 241 598 9( TOTAL FOR AGGREGATE 7,798 734 1,830 2,959 493 1,331 2,1: TOTAL JOBS LISTED 5,547 469 1,218 1,986 321 887 1,4: PER CENT TOTAL ./.. 64 67 67 65 67 I
a/ Equals net increase in employment based on employer expectations plus age separat erfects. 11 This requirement is derived by subtracting the number to complete company traini by periods from net number of job openings. -126- X. GEORGIA TRENDS IN DEMAND FOR SKILLED WORKERS
A. Major Skilled Categories
Since the entire project area included areas outside Georgia, this sec- tion of the report is presented in order to give some perspective to the
State of Georgia. As a matter of fact, Georgia data dominate the study most significantly. This is shown by the proportion of total employment estimates associated with Georgia. For the 70 classes of technical workers, the
Georgia percentage of the total in the study area was 96 per cent; 77 skilled worker classes, 96 per cent; and 8 clerical types, 98 per cent. In fact, only 5,036 of the total employment in the study was outside Georgia, or 3 per cent.
Table 29 gives a summary of the relative importance of major industrial categories in the current utilization of technical, skilled, and clerical workers. In general, about one-third of the total of the three types of skills is found in manufacturing. The clerical class is lowest, or one-fifth.
Skilled worker use is 40 per cent, and technical workers, 35 per cent in manufacturing. Skilled worker use is second heaviest in construction which accounted for 29 per cent of the skilled workers during the Summer of 1962.
Trade and services employ the largest number of clerical workers or 30 per cent. The Non-Covered governments (federal, state, and local) employ rela- tively large numbers of technicians and clerical workers, and have relative- ly little use for skilled workers. Yet in general, the Non-Covered indus- tries (which are mainly governments) have comparatively fewer of the job types included in the study. This is shown by the relative size of the universe and relative number of skilled workers employed. While the Non-
Covered industries accounted for 28 per cent of the universe studied, these
-127- Table 29 Number and Relative Importance of Use by Major Industrial Categories of Technical, Skilled, and Clerical Workers in Georgia, Summer 1962
Industrial Class of Skilled Workers Category Technical Skilled Clerical Total
I. Number Employed: A. Covered Employment 1. Manufacturing 7,873 31,408 13,360 52,641 2. Construction 1,883 22,532 3,085 27,500 3. Transportation, Communication, Electric, Gas, etc. 1,507 4,239 4,808 10,554 4. Trade and Services 3,842 11,053 17,970 32,865 Total 15,105 69,232 39,223 123,560
B. Non-Covered Employment 1. Federal Government 3,230 4,726 9,902 17,858 2. State & Local Government 3,808 2,983 8,486 15,277 3. All other 221 1,325 2,379 3,925 Total 7,259 9,034 20,767 37,060 TOTAL OF AGGREGATE 22,364 78,266 59,990 160,620
II. Percentage of Total: A. Covered Employment 1. Manufacturing 35.2 40.1 22.3 32.8 2. Construction 8.4 28.8 5.1 17.1 3. Transportation, Communication, Electric, Gas, etc. 6.7 5.4 8.0 6.6 4. Trade & Services 17.2 14.1 30.0, 20.5 Total 67.5 88.4 65.4 77.0
B. Non-Covered Employment 1. Federal Government 14.4 6.0 16.5 11.1 2. State & Local Government 17.0 3.8 14.1 9.5 3. All other 1.0 1.7 4.0 2.4 Total 32.4 11.5 34.6 23.0 TOTAL OF AGGREGATE 99.9 99.9 100.0 100.0 categories have only 23 per cent of the established number of technical, skilled, and clerical workers employed. However, in specific categories, the Non-Covered group has more than its share of technicians (32 per cent) and clerical workers (35 per cent).
Table 30 gives a distribution of current employment in the three major skilled categories for the 13 manufacturing industries. It is seen that durable goods manufacturing is relatively high in the use of technical and skilled workers. Less than one-third of total manufacturing employment in
Georgia is durable goods manufacturers. Yet this category of manufacturing accounted for 49 per cent of the technical workers in manufacturing and 45 per cent of the skilled workers. The use of clerical workers, only 33 per cent, is still comparatively high for durables.
The manufacturing industries among the durable industries, ranking high in the use of technicians, are fabricated metals, machinery (both electrical and others), and transportation equipment. In non-durables, textiles and apparel; pulp, paper, printing and publishing; and chemicals are highest.
In the case of skilled workers, non-durables dominate, and highest user in- dustries are textiles and apparel, and pulp, paper, printing and publishing.
For durables, great concentration in use of skilled workers is found in transportation equipment and machinery except electrical, with lesser rela- tive use in lumber, furniture and fixtures, and fabricated metals. The employment of clerical workers is relatively low in durables, being only one-half as great relatively as non-durables. Textiles and apparel; food; and pulp, paper, printing and publishing alone employ 55 per cent of all the clerical workers in manufacturing, although even this ratio is not so high relatively since about one-half of Georgia's total manufacturing is concen- trated in these industries.
-129- Table 30 Number and Relative Importance of Use by Major Manufacturing Industries of Technical, Skilled, and Clerical Workers in Georgia, Summer 1962
Industrial Class of Skilled Workers Category Technical Skilled Clerical Total
I. Number Employed A. Durables 1. Lumber 443 1,813 1,115 3,371 2. Furniture & Fixtures 221 1,811 563 2,595 3. Stone, clay, and glass 240 696 506 1,442 4. Primary metals 163 674 179 1,016 5. Fabricated metals 594 1,604 474 2,672 6. Machinery, excl. electrical 669 3,116 653 4,438 7. Electrical Machinery & Instr. 373 657 385 1,415 8. Transportation Equipment 1,153 3,652 528 5,333 Total 3,856 14,023 4,403 22,282
B. Non-durables 1. Food 565 2,057 2,046 4,668 2. Textiles & Apparel 2,024 8,518 3,796 14,338 3. Pulp, paper, printing & pub. 666 5,731 1,907 8,304 4. Chemicals 555 784 929 2,268 5. All other 207 295 279 781 Total 4,017 17,385 8,957 30,359 TOTAL OF AGGREGATE 7,873 31,408 13,360 52,641
II. Percentage of Total A. Durables 1. Lumber 5.6 5.8 8.3 6.4 2. Furniture & Fixtures 2.8 5.8 4.2 4.9 3. Stone, clay & glass 3.0 2.2 3.8 2.7 4. Primary metals 2.1 2.1 1.3 1.9 5. Fabricated metals 7.5 5.1 3.5 5.1 6. Machinery, excl. electrical 8.5 9.9 4.9 8.4 7. Electrical Machinery & Instr. 4.7 2.1 2.9 2.7 8. Transportation Equipment 14.6 11.6 4.0 10.1 Total 49.0 44.6 32.9 42.2
B. Non-Durables 1. Food 7.2 6.5 15.3 8.9 2. Textiles & Apparel 25.7 27.1 28.4 27.2 3. Pulp, paper, printing & pub. 8.5 18.2 14.3 15.8 4. Chemicals 7.0 2.5 7.0 4.3 5. All other 2.6 0.9 2.1 1.5 Total 51.0 55.2 67.1 57.7 TOTAL OF AGGREGATE 1)0.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 B. Current and Future Employment of Major Job Types
The Georgia employment of the 155 classes of technical, skilled, and clerical workers during the Summer of 1962 was 160,620; by mid-1967 employers expect an increase to 201,551, up 25 per cent, and at an annual rate of in- crease of almost 8,200 jobs yearly. The trends for important job types are given in Table 31. These jobs have been arrayed from highest down, and in- clude the most important, interesting jobs for each category. According to this criteria, 10 job titles are given under technicians, 24 under the skilled worker category, and 8 under the clerical. The highest ranking tech- nical job shows 3,279 jobs in 1962 for accountant-general and cost; 6,621 carpenters for the skilled group, and 15,236 stenographers for the clerical group. The job types which employers expect to grow most rapidly in the technicians group are electronics technicians (45 per cent), draftsman (37 per cent), and estimator (30 per cent). In the skilled worker category, the fastest growing job types expected by employers are plumbers (63 per cent), cement finisher-construction (63 per cent), pipe and steam fitters (47 per cent), welder (40 per cent), air-conditioning and refrigeration mechanic
(39 per cent), electrician (39 per cent), carpenter-non-manufacturing (36 per cent), and sheet metal worker (33 per cent). Note that the construction type jobs not only tend to have the highest projection growth but dominate also the jobs listed. This is due to the strong growth expected by the managers of firms in the construction industry. Table 31 Current Use and Expected 1967 Employment in Georgia of Highly Important Job Types by Skilled Categories
Number Number Per Cent Skilled Category Employed Expecteda/ IncreaseW and Summer to be Job Title 1962 Employed Mid-1967 Technicians: 001 Accountant-General & cost 3,279 4,048 23 025 Electronics 1,748 2,533 45 028 Estimator 1,383 1,803 30 050 Production Planner 1,090 1,384 27 035 Instrument Man 1,083 1,140 05 009 Civil & Construction 929 1,135 22 053 Quality Control Tech 907 1,133 25 021 Draftsman-Mech-Furn 844 1,159 37 056 Research Lab Analyst 839 860 03 033 Industrial Tech 825 1,056 28 Subtotal 12,927 16,251 26 Per Cent of Total 58 57 All others 9,437 12,195 29 Total 22,364 28,446 27 Skilled Workers: 212 Carpenter (Non-mfg) 6,621 9,026 36 204 Automobile Mechanic 6,067 7,329 21 221 Electrician 4,856 6,756 39 241 Machinist 4,719 5,825 23 242 Maintenance Man 4,357 5,158 18 243 Maintenance Mechanic 4,302 4,988 16 249 Painter 4,257 4,821 13 267 Sheet Metal Worker 3,437 4,577 33 278 Welder 3,240 4,532 40 240 Loom Fixer 2,551 2,641 04 244 Mason (Brick, etc) 2,388 3,076 29 205 Auto Body Repair-Paint 2,384 2,881 21 238 Lineman (it, ht, pw) 1,737 2,036 17 210 Cabinetmaker I 1,729 2,076 20 262 Plumber 1,486 2,428 63 213 Cement Finisher Const 1,340 2,180 63 276 Truck Mech (Non-mfg) 1,319 1,680 27 246 Millwright 1,230 1,315 07 218 Diesel Mech (Non-mfg) 1,134 1,415 25 272 Structural Ironworkers 1,078 1,190 10 257 Pipe & Steam Fitter 1,050 1,540 47 202 Aircraft Mechanic 983 1,130 15 268 Spinning Frame Fixer 959 1,048 09 203 Air-cond or Ref Mech 955 1,323 39 Subtotal 64,179 80,971 26 Per Cent of Total 82 82 All others 14,087 17,798 26 Total 78,266 98,769 26 Clerical Workers: 406 Stenographer 15,236 18,252 20 401 Accounting Clerk 12,961 15,346 18 408 Typist 11,435 13,895 22 402 Bookkeeper 9,404 11,186 19 405 Statistical Clerk 4,232 5,215 23 403 Bookkeeping Mach Oper 3,371 3,967 18 404 Key-Punch-Dupl Oper 1,771 3,636 105 407 Tabulating Mach Oper 1,580 2,839 80 Total 59,990 74,336 24 TOTAL FOR AGGREGATE 160,620 201,551 25 TOTAL FOR LISTED JOBS 137,096 171,558 25 PER CENT OF TOTAL 85 85
a/ Obtained by extrapolation the 1 year to 3 year rate to 5 years. All percentages are positive except where indicated by a minus. XI. FACTORS RETARDING TECHNICAL EDUCATION
The basic cause retarding a broader program of technical education is of course the slowness of educators, business leaders, and others to accept the importance of the place of scientists, engineers, and technicians in a world which seems increasingly oriented toward changing science. The after- math of Sputnik I has demonstrated this. A few are now convinced that we
lack facts to move promptly and adequately in the right direction. This
study is an attempt to remedy factual barriers to the program. But there
are other much more serious problems. Some big companies refused to cooper-
ate in this study because they had training programs which they felt would meet all their foreseeable needs. A few labor unions may oppose the move to a bigger program of skilled training in public education for a variety of reasons.
Bad as these problems are, they do not approach either in scope or seriousness "the college status symbol" problem and the belief that college is the major road to success. College is not the only road to success, and is certainly not the best road to success if the child does not possess the aptitude for college work; too much force on the part of the parents for a college education could lead to maladjustments and failure in higher educa- tion. The problem of college drop-outs is dramatically illustrated by a recent study by the Dean of Faculties, Georgia Institute of Technology, The report is an evaluation studyki of the Freshman Class of 1957.
This class constituted 1,059 students at the beginning of the fall of
46./ Research Memorandum 62-5, "Longitudinal Analysis of Academic Performance," Office of the Dean of Faculties, Georgia Tech, June 1962, p. 9.
-133- 1957. In June 1961, when this class should have graduated, 191 or 18 per
cent received their Baccalaureate Degree, 301 or 28 per cent were still in
college and in a passing status. The other 667 or 54 per cent had withdrawn
for various reasons. We wonder how many would have been better off it they
had aimed at getting a technical school training or other type training more
suited to their capabilities. They could have been happier.
Often prestige factors on the part of parents, sometimes ignoring the
welfare of the child, are at stake. The delusions, and even tragedy, of this
form of thinking is succinctly summed up by Dr. Walter M. Lofton, former
Professor, University of Illinois, and now Director of Guidance Publications
and Services, Science Research Associates, in the Reader's Digest for
September 1962, pp. 250-251, under the title: "Will College be Wasted on
Your Child?" According to Dr. Lofton, for many boys and girls, college is
a cruel mirage. Many of those who do enter college will learn only the
bitterness of failure. Fewer than four out of ten freshmen are destined to
be graduated after four continuous years in the same institution. Of those who do earn bachelors degrees, many will find that four college years have
been a waste of time. Despite these hard facts, the parents of nearly 70
per cent of all children under 18 expect their youngsters to go on to higher
education. The chief victims of this unwarranted emphasis are teenagers with
aptitudes outside traditional academic areas.
He illustrates:
"Jimmy, a boy who grew up in our neighborhood, enjoyed making model airplanes and boats with his dad. Unfortunately, his parents saw college as a road to s'ccess, so though Jimmy's scholastic ability was limited, his parent' made him repeat his senior year of high school three times until he was finally admitted to college. His reward after four more years was a college degree and a job as a salesman. His next job was in sales too, as were his next and his next."
-134- "At one company, however, a capable personnel manager discovered Jimmy's talent for working with his hands and his interest in making mechanical models. He discussed with the young man the possibility of his doing that kind of work. Jimmy tried it--and now he's happy and successful after eight needlessly wasted years."
The conclusion from all this is that children with the aptitude can prof- it greatly from a technical school education and be of real service to in- dustry. Starting pay is from $450 to $550 per month, with advancement opportunities that compare with many types of college programs. This report has shown job openings of 12-15,000 jobs annually in Georgiafor those with training in the technical, skilled, and clerical areas. In addition, vacan- cies exist for unusual types of jobs for those with the interest to take the time and effort to qualify. That opportunities exist in unexpected lines of endeavor is illustrated in an amusing way by a little story in Life. In the September 29, 1962 issue, page 9, eleven unusual trades are listed in which applicants are needed and for which Training Schools exist at various points in the United States. These jobs and educational opportunities are in Auctioneering, Bartending, Chick Sexing, Confectionary Work, Cooking,
Diving, Dry Cleaning, Gemology, Horticulture, Musical Mending, Mending, and
Umpiring. The training programs range from a few weeks up to two full years of training with starting pay ranging up to $9,000 yearly earnings. The
Editor of Life comments that, "there are dozens of such private schools which offer exceptional opportunities: the chance to learn an unusual trade or to get ahead is expanding, far-from-crowded fields. The sample of jobs above is not nearly exhaustive but suggests, in its variety, opportunity about which non-college-bound youngsters and semi-skilled workers may never have thought. "47/
47/ See also Velie, Lester, "Why Johnny Can't Get a Job," Reader's Digest, January 1963, pp. 149-154. -135- Other barriers to expanded program of vocational-technical training ex-
ist in the ranks of labor unions, even among companies. Unions sometimes
see a threat to union security. Jobs filled by vocational-technical schools
are viewed as perhaps preventing up-grading of older union workers to these
jobs. It also threatens their authority from the standpoint of company hiring skilled workers trained in specific union apprenticeship training programs. Some national companies showed a hostility to the program during
the survey, because vocational-technical training in area schools posed a
threat to company training. Some refused to cooperate in filling out the questionnaire. The usual excuse given in these fairly rare cases, fortunately, was that the company employed unskilled workers whom it develops through company training, including all types of workers---semi-skilled, skilled,
and technical workers, depending upon the aptitude and interest of workers
in the program. Obviously, some threat to the company training program may exist but not as much as it seems, because all graduates from vocational- technical schools will still require on-the-job training for a period to ad- just to company Standard Operating procedures and to learn the practical as- pects of the type of work in which engaged. Furthermore, in an age of rapidly changing science and technology, the updating of skilled and particularly technical workers would seem to be a large and continuing problem. From the standpoint of the relationship of the public school system, companies stand to gain indirectly from a strong program through a steady rise in the level of education of society as the whole school system strives to keep up with the vocational-technical s%,hools. The Atlanta Journal of October 7, 1962, carried a story on the search by American industries for scientific and technical talent in Europe to back up space age and relat:, i research. This is a commentary on the urgency of
-136- the problem facing all of us in education, from the first grade through a
graduate Ph. D. Recently, at a meeting of the International Society for
Economic Development in Washington, at which many foreign countries were
represented, the very profound overriding conclusion of over two days of
deliberations was that human development properly guided held the key to
more rapid development of nations. Interpreted to the institutions in
Georgia, the South, and the nation, this means, it seems, that the predomi-
nant objective of a democratic society as the one in which we live should
be the maximum development of the inherent abilities of each individual to
his or her mental and skilled capacities. Any other program is a sacrifice
of the worth of the individual to society, and an injustice to the person
involved. It is obvious that a strong, well planned program of vocational-
technical training for those who have natural aptitudes for such training will be a gain to society. For the individual, it will make for a more
satisfying and complete life.
Tailoring education to the aptitude needs of the individual is not a
new concept. Technically, we have the know-how to do the job. The difficulty resides probably in lack of public support for the idea that education should
fit the abilities and needs of the individual. The basic problem then is
education of the public-parents first and legislators second--to the needs
of children for this type of training and the requirements of public educa-
tion for financial support. This is a problem for the public relations ex- perts. They will need to produce a program of public relations aimed at high
school pupils, their parents, legislators, businessmen, and all others who
know that what is the best for the child is best for society---and for the
long run economic development of the State. It would seem that the ultimate
objective of the entire educational system is development to a maximum the
-137- capacity of each individual, starting with the child and on through adult- hood. This means that there is no one type of education that can be pre- scribed for society as a whole.
The program of publicity envisioned will require a great deal of in-
formation on the nature, place, pay, and glamour of jobs now held by skilled workers and will be available to the person highly qualfied as a skilled or technical type worker. The public will need to be informed on the place of vocational-technical education to the future growth of the State's economy.
Specific information will be needed also on the manpower requirements of the complex, newer types of industries in the chemical, electronics, and other industries directly related to the Space Age. XII. CONCLUSIONS
1. The very great need for a long list of skilled workers and technicians,
and even new types of technicians, poses to Education in Georgia a challenge which is without precedent as to scope and significance to the future devel-
opment of the State.
2. The growing complexity of industry and its consumer and industrial pro-
ducts means a new and enlarged significance for the skilled worker and tech- nician. They are needed to keep our economy going, and to keep customers
satisfied with the performance of a growing variety of machines. Because
of the growing complexity of automobiles, the automobile mechanic gains new
importance, as he prevents an enlarged slaughter of humans resulting from
inadequate maintenance and repair of automobiles.
3. As a result of growth in control mechanisms involving electronics, me- chanics, and hydraulic devices, work with industrial types of equipment re- quires a person with some basic knowledge of the theories involved in these
fields. Such knowledge can be obtained only in a two-year program in a first class vocational-technical school. The problem of maintaining some of our
industrial mechanisms (even the problem of a means of transport) is also a et9— topic of increasing interest for graduate engineers. A principal finding
from the field survey in Georgia is that top management neither properly
anticipates the need nor plans to employ technicians and even engineers with
sufficient lead time to meet changing technology head-on.
4. Industrialists and nonmanufacturing types of businesses are increasingly concerned over the need to keep skilled and technical workers up-dated. Many
-139- large firms have their own programs for this; although, it is not certain
that they are effective in many cases. The answer is a broadened program
of adult education in high schools, vocational-technical schools, and also
in evening schools. The problem of financing these courses is a knotty one.
Perhaps the State should provide the space and equipment, the tuition being
provided by the company or by the adult, except in special circumstances.
Such a plan would preserve the spirit of learning as a continuous process
and would condition the worker to meet the need for retraining when it
occurs. Big job shifts would be met without serious difficulty because the
workers would have retained the habit of learning. Such workers would
seldom fail to reflect the aptitudes or attitudes now so widely expected
from and lacking among retrainees for the Retaining Program of the U.S.
Department of Labor.
5. While findings indicate that some types of company training programs are
in effect, these programs are not proving to be broad and comprehensive, and
are not sufficient in size. Real effort is required here to cope with fu-
ture company needs for skilled and technical workers. It will require plan- ning and bold projections into the future. The Bureau of Apprenticeship and
Training, U.S. Department of Labor, has a good program and highly competent men to help companies develop many types of effective Apprenticeship Training
Programs.
6. The biggest growth will be in the demand for technicians. The U.S. is
estimated to need 200,000 of these te-hnicians yearly, but only 15,000 are
being trained. A technician must be proficient in mathematics and the
sciences, and be prepared to sp-ld two years beyond high school preparing
-140- himself in a specialized field involving necessary theory, with greatest
emphasis on the applied aspects of his area of specialization. His IQ will
be 115 or above. He could, in many cases, finish college, but because of
lack of funds, or time, or a distaste for so much theory, he will prefer and
will be happier as a technician, working with engineers and scientists. He
will show unusual aptitude in understanding complex theory and in making
equipment, or otherwise carrying out the tests desired by the scientists.
He will normally operate in a sector of the broader field of the scientist,
or engineer. This supplementation of the scientist will enable greater
speed by industry in adopting technological trends. The use of technicians,
therefore, may be expected to become a competitive factor in the progress
and even survival of companies in an industry where technological change is
significant to operations, to new products, and to improvements in industrial
equipment processes.
7. The public information services--newspapers, radio and television--have
an important place in reporting, in non-technical language, scientific and
technological changes which have wide impact. They also have a most impor-
tant place in helping to build a Status Image for the skilled and technical worker. The skilled or technical worker has much to contribute, not only
to more satisfaction to all, but to care and supervision of the wide range
of equipment which most of us own. He has an even more important contribu-
tion to a more rapid economic growth of the State through helping industri-
alists see the significance of new technologies to their own business, and
in helping them to adopt these new technologies with all possible speed.
8. Public education also has an obligation, and must have the facilities,
equipment, and teachers to stay on the Frontier of Changing Science and
-141- Technology in curricula, counseling, testing, public information to students,
and in fact, to most of the activities of schools as much. This responsi- bility poses a particular problem for the small school which cannot hope to compete with the larger high schools. A solution here would seem to be a consolidated or area school, with equipment for the last two and perhaps three years of high school equal to the largest and best metropolitan high
schools.
9. The Study holds tremendous implications for guidance and counseling in high schools. The figures on job opportunities not only may serve as a basis for suggestions to doubtful pupils, but may give them a goal and thereby improve motivation. Adoption of programs could feasibly appear early in high school for those students incapable of carrying an academic curriculum through high school. Some types of clerical and many types of skilled work- er categories may be filled by children with little aptitude for an academic education, provided they have aptitudes in dexterity and manual skills.
This means broad and comprehensive programs of aptitude testing.
10. Drop-outs, because of the high rate of unemployment resulting in delin- quency and eventually in serious crime, pose an unusual problem for counse- lors. It is recommended that an approach similar to that of California be employed. According to the method there, a record of drop-outs is kept for each school, and certain persons have the responsibility of following up on them in about 2 to 3 years, to persuade them to return to school, either academic or to some vocational-teClnical school. A high percentage of the
California drop-outs return and successfully complete the course of study, and become responsible citizens. See: "I was a Drop-Out," Readers' Digest,
December 1962, pp. 203-207.
-142- 11. Personal interviews by professional experts in management and labor eco- nomics with top management personnel demonstrated the value of analysis in getting companies to come to grips with personnel problems in connection with changing technology that affected their particular industry. The pace of technological change is not likely to lessen in the foreseeable future, in fact, all evidence indicates that it will accelerate. In order to advance and capitalize on changes in technology, and to meet competition, companies will need to recognize promptly their need for technicians in order that the educational system can train them to meet foreseeable needs. Since the analytical help proved so effective in meeting this problem with the eighty companies participating, it is recommended that analysts of an equivalent background be made available to companies in Georgia in the future, either through a State agency or through private consultants.
12. Study of the self-employed disclosed a great dependence of these small firms on the technical and skilled training, both of the managers and work- ers in these companies. The self-employed, it is believed, have an important bearing on the economic development of Georgia. Most new firm starts fall in this size class. While the failure rate is high, many of this size firm succeed and grow into larger firms, employing significant numbers of workers.
Analysis showed the high significance of technical and skilled workers to the kind of products or types of services marketed, and to the success of the enterprise. This indicates that many technical and skilled workers will become operators of small firms. Their success and contribution to the eco- nomic growth of Georgia can be materially greater if they happen to be good managers as well as technicians. This can be assured if their basic training is broadened to include also basic accounting and the principles of company
-143- organization.
13. One of the most notable findings from the intensive surveys is that there is an absence of coniniunication between educators and company management.
This problem exists at two levels in the educational setup of the State.
There is first the problem of communication at the college level between professors and researchers on the one hand, and company management and re- search and development personnel in companies on the other. The second area needing better communication is between (1) the high school and technical school teachers and (2) those personnel who not only employ skilled, technical, and clerical workers, but those who also supervise them closely in their work. It is proposed that a series of summer institutes be sponsored by the two echelons of education for their opposites in companies. These institutes should be organized in such a way as to promote a maximum of interchange be- tween educators and company personnel concerned with changing technology.
An institute is conceived first as a plan where papers would be presented by professors, college researchers, and company research and development personnel. Then a series of round tables would take place, discussing changing technology in terms of company prospects. The institutes in the technical schools would be confined to panels and exhibits of newer types of test equipment beginning to be developed in industry. This whole program could be bound together in a dynamic organization by a publication devoted to reporting changing technology as it affects Georgia Industry.
14. Scientists, engineers, college teachers, and others have problems of keeping up with an accelerating science and technology. The answer here is a Sabbatical leave not less frequent than each seven years, and preferably
-144- every five years. This means an enlarged teaching faculty because so many would be away on study at all times. If educators are to keep up and be of maximum usefulness to society and to the economy, industrialists and other groups with which they are in constant contact, there is no other way. The question then comes to this point: Are we as a State, region, or nation prepared to pay the price for this phenomenal gain to economic growth by thus enlarging our budgets?
15. Changes in technology, and particularly those changes in technology that tend to be drastic in their consequences, pose serious difficulties to the average company, and this is particularly true of the smaller companies in
Georgia. To meet this problem, it is proposed that the State provide through some agency, preferably Georgia Tech, an engineering consultation service to help companies work out answers to such rapid changing technology. It may be financed in some part by State appropriations, but in large part by company reimbursement for the cost of the services.
16. If we are to meet effectively the need in future years for technicians, especially because of the lead time required in their training, it would seem that the current survey as a model in determining requirements would need to be repeated at intervals in order to keep jobs by type and in quantitative terms under continuous process of assessment. The repeat interval should be 2 to 3 years, which would enable some corrective overlap on the five year projections. Both the company projections of requirements and those based on economic projections should be provided in order to preserve a proper balance in estimates of a demand without dependence on any one set of figures.
A weakness of the present study was lack of the fullest cooperation on the
-145- part of company top management in helping personnel people in projections of company needs for a few years in the future. However, as the survey comes to be recognized as a development device for the State's economy, it is be- lieved that company disinterest in this type of study will disappear and be embraced instead with enthusiasm.
17. And a final conclusion, constituting also a prophecy, is that a gigantic growth is expected in demand, as a result of rapidly changing technology, for design engineers and technicians on the one hand, and for maintenance- type technicians to service the sophisticated products and equipment on the other. Between the design work and maintenance of final products and equip- ment is the production process in which the need for skilled workers is de- clining. Technicians, however, will be increasingly utilized, either in very special positions or as supervisors. Yet, the trend is so strong that the need for maintenance type technicians, supported by skilled workers, will undoubtedly counterbalance in time the decline of employment of skilled workers on the production line. This does not count the growth in the demand for the design function which is growing steadily more complex as it accel- erates. The fact is that, as the study has demonstrated at several points, there is a growing investment in production type machines which reflects the need for electronic controls, tied to mechanical mechanisms, often in- volving also hydraulics and/ or pneumatics. The same complexity is also appearing in consumer type goods. The expensive production equipment must be kept in production as a matter of sheer economics. This means the main- tenance person who acts in the dual role of preventive maintenance expert and diagnostician must have some basic knowledge of theory in the areas of electronics and mechanic ,: and often hydraulics, even perhaps pneumatics.
-146- His main job is to prevent breakdowns, but if they occur, he must move promptly to diagnose the trouble and then to supervise its repair.
In the area of consumer durable goods, a complexity also exists and while the size of investment is not as large in absolute dollars, it is rela- tively large and often a critical need exists to keep them in operation.
The relationship of consumer goodwill to secure market demand has never been more important and is steadily growing even more critical in this sense.
High class, quick, dependable maintenance work on such equipment is of such importance, and the job is growing so much more complex, that the day of the maintenance technician is emerging. He will be required to have basic theory, a practical working knowledge of test equipment, have the desire to keep up, and will be in great demand. He will command good pay because of his 2-year technical training in the first instance, but momparticularly because of the accelerating demand for his services. APPENDIX A: NEW TECHNICIANS APPENDIX A: NEW TECHNICIANS
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1. List of Job Titles 2
2. Job Specifications for New Technicians 3
3. Summary of Course Requirements 15
4. Specific Apprenticeship Training Programs in Georgia 25 1. List of Job Titles, New Technicians
Skilled Occupational Title Occupational Survey Code of Code Number Technicians AssignedA/
1. Job Categories Assigned Published Code Numbers: 04 Building Service Systems Technician (41).h/ 5-72.010 16 Environmental Health Technician (0) 0-95.093 20 Industrial Water Filter & Sewerage (0) 7-54.621 Plant Technician 28 Silk-Screen Process Technician ( 3 ) 5-91.701
II. Job Categories Assigned New Code Numbers: 01 Animal Technician (34) 0-50.019 02 Audio-Visual Technician (74) 0-66.819 03 Biochemical Electronic Technician (81) 0-50.049 05 Chemical Technician (94) 0-50.909 06 Combustion and Furnace Technician (0) 0-50.929 07 Communications Technician (361) 0-67.119 08 Computer Programmer-Operator (70) 0-69.989 09 Construction Technician (45) 0-67.069 10 Cryogenics Technician (27) 0-66.919 11 Electrical Technician (34) 0-67.139 12 Electrical & Electronics Technician (75) 0-67.129 13 Electronic Computer Maintenance Tech (17) 5-83.449 14 Electronics-Mechanical Technician (273) 0-67.109 15 Engineering Technician (76) 0-67.059 17 Food Quality Control Technician (2) 0-50.959 18 General Science Technician (112) 0-67.049 19 Industrial Engineering Technician (41) 0-67.149 21 Machine Tool and Die Technician (11) 0-67.019 22 Metals Technician (21) 0-50.519 23 Nuclear Technician (18) 0-50.609 24 Plastics Technician (24) 0-66.969 25 Pneumatics Technician (47) 5-80.109 26 Poultry Technician (19) 3-48.919 27 Quality Control Technician (20) 0-50.339 29 Statistical Technician (83) 0-66.829 30 Systems Analyst (29) 0-69.929 31 Welding Technician ( 5 ) 4-85.199
a/ Analysis on Coding the above Technician Categories was provided through the courtesty of the Bureau of Employment Security, U.S. Employment Service. b/ Numbers in parenthesis indicate number of job openings expected by 80 large companies in 5 years. -2- 2. Job Specifications for New Technicians
01--ANIMAL TECHNICIAN
Conditions animals for and then handles them during laboratory experi- ments; prepares diets based on feed, exercise, and any other instruments; makes innoculations, harvests materials, bleeds, keeps records; may also handle radioisotopes. Uses same equipment for animals as nurse does for humans, such as syringes, thermometers, etc.
Plant job titles: Animal Technician Primate Technician (Animal)
02--AUDIO-VISUAL TECHNICIAN
Produces audio and visual aids; works with authors to get the ideas to be developed or displayed; does creative work in writing and graphic arts. Uses all sorts of photographic instruments and graphic arts equipment. Does photo laboratory processing.
Plant job titles: Audio-Visual Technician
03--BIOCHEMICAL ELECTRONIC TECHNICIAN
Operates electronic equipment used in patient treatment and care in- cluding also electronic equipment used in controlling and measuring dosages of radioisotopes or radiation; sets up equipment in operating room or wher- ever is needed for patient surveillance or treatment; maintains and calibrates equipment; administers prescribed dosages of isotopes or radiation; calculates intensity and time required for radiation dosage and records daily dose-inten- sity, time and dose; evaluates radiation treatments. Uses simple chemical equipment, time-pulse-respiration recorders, spectrophotometer, central axis depth dose tables, radiation meters, centrifuges, and fine optical instruments.
Plant job titles: Biochemical Technician Bio-Electronics Technician Radio Therapy Assistant Medical Electronic Equipment Technician Radioisotope Assistant 04--BUILDING SERVICE SYSTEMS TECHNICIAN
Coordinates installation and/or operation of various building service systems; establishes desired relationships between installation of systems; checks shop drawings against specifications; operates and maintains, in- cluding development of a preventive maintenance program for motors, genera- tors, air condition, heating, and lighting equipment in buildings. Uses testing equipment for electrical circuits, refrigeration equipment including air measuring devices.
Plant job titles: Air Conditioning and Ventilating Technician Building Power and Gas Mechanical and Electrical Coordinator
05--CHEMICAL TECHNICIAN
Plans and controls the use of chemicals in manufacturing operations; tests new chemicals on the market and new chemicals being introduced into processing operations by laboratory analyses; maintains purity and strength of chemicals in bulk or in solution; checks purity of water; reclaims chemi- cals; runs chemical tests using conventional chemical laboratory equipment and in addition other specialized tests as follows: colorimeters, resilience tests, density tests, hardness tests, pyrometers, oxygen analyzers, micro- scopes,fadeometers, and viscosimeters.
Plant job titles: Chemical Control Man Chemical Process Control Technician Chemical Technician Chemical Testing Technician Glass Technology Laboratory Technician Rubber Technician Process Materials Recovery Technician Textile Chemical Technician Textile Finishing Technician
06--COMBUSTION AND FURNACE TECHNICIAN
Analyzes incoming raw materials, mixes and melts batch in glass manu- facturing, and checks the resulting product for conformance to quality stand- ards; tests raw materials for chemical content; sets up the instrumentation to maintain controls of the combustion process; supervises work force of semi- skilled people; takes "seed counts" and analyzes "cords." Uses pyrometers, oxygen analyzers, microscope, mechanical screens, and glass saws; also does some chemical analysis.
Plant job title: Combustion and Furnace Technician
-4- 07--COMMUNICATIONS TECHNICIAN
Participates in the planning and programming of equipment, then installs and maintains complicated communications and computing equipment; works to convert engineering sketches to a part or component for testing; installs equipment and circuits; monitors and interprets data from the equipment; maintains and repairs the equipment as needed; plans the use of the equip- ment. Uses electrical and electronic equipment including wave meters, os- cillators, oscilloscopes, vacuum tube voltmeters, signal generators, re- corders, slide rules, calculators, bridges, wide band power and voice meas- uring devices, and pulse generators.
Plant job titles: Communication Technician Electronic Transmission Technician Microwave and Antennae Technician Microwave Maintainer Apprentice Telegraphic Computer Technician Trunk Engineering Assistant
08--COMPUTER PROGRAMMER-OPERATOR
Prepares and maintains programs and operates the computer and peripheral equipment; keeps up with and maintains new computer routines and new types of equipment as available; writes programs not requiring advanced mathematics; follows specific instructions, e.g., engineering, or accounting, in preparing programs for specific problems; assembles program and data and processes through input devices, computers, and output devices. Utilizes various types of programs, instructional manuals, and input-output equipment.
Plant job titles: Accounting Computer Technician Computer Analyst Computer Librarian Computer Operator Programmer Computer Process Control Technician Data Processing Supervisor's Assistant Programming Standards Technician Programming Technician Computer Programmer or Systems Analyst 09--CONSTRUCTION TECHNICIAN
Plans and coordinates construction project work under direction of civil engineer; studies specifications and programs operations on project by sched- uling work and use of resources such as men, materials, and equipment; handles and supervises surveying instruments and work; calibrates concrete and asphalt mix plants; supervises concrete and steel reinforcing work; calculates equip- ment and bearing values; calculates cost by cost accounting methods; develops preventive maintenance program and directs maintenance on mechanical equip- ment, including diesel and gasoline engines. Uses surveying equipment, cal- culators, accounting forms, and mechanical equipment, including diesel and gasoline engines.
Plant job titles: Instrument Man for Surveying Work Paving Construction Technician Construction Technician
10--CRYOGENICS TECHNICIAN
Designs, assembles, and operates a system (storage, refrigeration, pumping, and instrumentation) to achieve extremely low temperatures; stores cryogen fluids in tanks at proper pressure; uses pumps to cause liquids to flow; keeps fluids flowing properly at the correct pressure and temperature; must be able to carry out instrumentation to tell what is happening in the systems.
Plant job titles: Cryogenics Technician
11--ELECTRICAL TECHNICIAN
Develops, designs, and prepares layouts for electrical installations and electrical equipment and tests after fabrication and installation; may work under direction of electrical engineer and expand basic engineering design into final product; supervises installation; corrects failures in equipment by testing, diagnosing difficulties, and making repairs as needed. Uses drawing instruments, electrical and electronic test equipment such as voltmeters, ammeters, and stroboscopes.
Plant job titles: Electrical Control Technician General Field Superintendent Electrical Motor Technician Test Technician 12--ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN
Installs, adjusts, and maintains electrical and electronic components of all types of manufacturing and industrial control equipment; follows pro- cedures of design engineer in testing and installing electrical and elec- tronic equipment; follows prescribed engineering testing procedures for acceptance and evaluation tests and prepares reports; develops preventive maintenance program; observes, diagnoses and either corrects or instructs electrician to modify and make repairs on equipment. Uses circuit testers, voltmeters, ammeters, ohmmeters, oscilloscopes, stroboscopes, signal genera- tors, resistance and capacity bridges, and frequency counters.
Plant job titles: Electrical and Electronic Technician Electrical Technician Electronic Control Technician Electronic Technician Electronic and Electrical Maintenance Technician Electronic Maintenance Technician Electronics Assistant Electronics Research Technician Flight Simulator Technician Radiation Equipment Technician Technical Draftsman for Electronics Work Transponder Altimetry Technician
13--ELECTRONIC COMPUTER MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN
Services and does minor repair work on computers and all peripheral equipment including tabulating equipment; does routine maintenance and serv- ice; installs mechanical and electronic parts. Uses electronic measuring instruments, mechanical tools, logic diagrams, and circuit drawings.
Plant job titles: Electronic Computer Maintenance Technician Tabulating and Electronic Equipment Technician
14--ELECTRONICS-MECHANICAL TECHNICIAN
Assists in fabricating, installing, and maintaining equipment with mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic sub-systems controlled largely by elec- tronic components or systems; reads prints, does corrective design work, and does layout work; develops preventive maintenance program; observes, diagnoses and corrects failures in equipment. Uses small mechanical tools, circuit testers, ohmmeters, voltmeters, amperage meters, oscilloscopes, micrometers, calipers, and may be called upon to use basic machine tools. 14--ELECTRONICS-MECHANICAL TECHNICIAN (continued)
Plant job titles: Advanced Maintenance Technician Agricultural Implement Technician Automated Equipment Technician Automated Machine Maintenance Technician Automatic Milling Technician Automation Technician Electro-Mechanical Technician Electro-Mechanical Testing Technician Electronics Maintenance Man Field Service Engineer Foreman of an Automated Assembly Section Foreman of an Electro-Mechanical Devices Department Gin Service Technician Industrial Electrical Maintenance Technician Machine Tool Programmer Mechanical Electronics Packaging Technician Mobile Equipment Maintenance Technician Packaging Service Technician Technical Maintenance Supervisor Technician for Pulp and Paper Industry Textile Equipment Technician
15--ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN
Does sub-design work, testing, and estimating to turn an engineer's basic design into a workable product; prepares engineering drawings and fills in components and methods to conform to company procedures under direction of project engineer; does estimating of performance and costs; examines dif- ficulties and makes recommendations about design changes in product. Utilizes drafting tools, calculating equipment, machine tools and equipment, and hand- books on weights and strength; may also use other specialized equipment such as surveying or electronic equipment.
Plant job titles: Cotton Gin Engineering Technician Engineering Technician Gin Sales Technician Machine and Tool Designer Materials Handling Technician Mechanical Design Technician Textile Equipment Installer Yarn Carrier Research and Development 16--ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH TECHNICIAN
Assesses and corrects or recommends corrective action for environmental health problems; does routine inspections of water waste and selected indus- trial hazards; determines insect and rodent infestation; inspects food and dairy plants. Uses ph-meters, chlorimeters, thermometers, and drafting in- struments and equipment.
Plant job title: Environmental Health Technician
17--FOOD QUALITY CONTROL TECHNICIAN
Develops procedures for testing food products and packaging materials during processing to insure conformance with quality standards; formulates quality control system; runs biological and weight tests on in-process birds; tests packaging materials before and after this operation is completed. Uses microscope, test tubes, bacteriology tests and various other laboratory pro- cedures; also uses shear test for tenderness, scales, and various other meas- uring devices, including spectrometers.
Plant job titles: Biological and Quality Control Technician Food Technician
18--GENERAL SCIENCE TECHNICIAN
Establishes or follows directions of scientist or engineer in the estab- lishment and accomplishment of testing programs in the various fields of science; follows standard laboratory procedures or instructions of superior in testing and measuring in the areas of electricity, chemistry, and mechan- ics. Uses standard measuring devices such as micrometer, calipers, potenti- ometer, flow transducers, and pressure transducers.
Plant job titles: Engineering Research Technician General Science Technician Heat Transfer Technician Test Department Technician 19--INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN
Assists industrial engineer or does some industrial engineering work as specified and may also be considered for supervisory work in manufacturing departments; does studies involving the establishment of work standards by either conventional stop watch methods or work sampling procedures; develops standards for either existing or changed jobs; develops plant layouts, in- spection programs, and maintenance programs; may also coordinate production activities by scheduling and supervision. Uses stop watch, handbooks on methods engineering, statistical tables, and may also use more specialized equipment such as precision gauges or testing fixtures peculiar to partic- ular firm.
Plant job titles: Assistant to Industrial Engineer Departmental Manager Industrial Engineering Technician Methods and Standards Technician Printing Supervisor Production Supervisor Trainee Supervisory Trainee Time and Motion Technician
20--INDUSTRIAL WATER FILTER AND SEWERAGE PLANT TECHNICIAN
Operates water filter and sewerage treatment plant; would operate plant during day and be responsible for those operating plant at night; applies and controls the use of chemicals in the treatment of industrial wastes. Uses water pumps, pressure flow meters, and basic chemical tests.
Plant job title: Industrial Water Filter and Sewerage Plant Technician
21--MACHINE TOOL AND DIE TECHNICIAN
Develops and fabricates jigs, fixtures, tools, and dies in accordance with plant needs; develops parts from engineering instructions and blueprints, templates, or a piece already made; may do supplemental design work; in- structs skilled workers in the fabrication of parts. Uses drafting equip- ment and all standard shop equipment such as lathes, grinders, boring mills, drills, etc.; also makes use of reference books and catalogues.
Plant job titles: Die-sinker at the technical level Tool and Die Maker Tool Design Technician 22--METALS TECHNICIAN
Tests and assists in processing particularly plating, of metals and metal products; runs mechanical and chemical tests on metals; and chemical tests on plating solutions; develops testing equipment for specific types or adaptations of basic tests. Uses the following equipment: spectrograph and spectrophotos,ampen hour meters, hull cells, strain testers, elongation testers, tensile testers, hardness testers, compression testers, and any type of machine tool to be found in the typical machine shop.
Plant job titles: Chemical Plating Technician Coating, Finishing and Plating Technician Exotic Metals Coating Technician Metals Laboratory Technician Mechanical Laboratory Technician Metals Testing Technician
23--NUCLEAR TECHNICIAN
Operates equipment using either high or low power nuclear energy devices for research or industrial purposes; manipulates electro-mechanical controls to obtain energy needed; uses radiation equipment to test perfection of welds, thickness of paint, quality of asphalt, and determine the density of soils; constructs and maintains (including preventive maintenance) specialized equipment for research purposes. Uses nuclear sources such as reactor, or Cobalt 60 and similar type nuclear energy source, reactor control instru- ments, calibration instruments, radiation detection instruments, vacuum equipment, cryogenics equipment; may also use pumps and motors and special devices such as paint thickness gauges, and asphalt thickness gauges.
Plant job titles: Nuclear Reactor Operator Nuclear Test Technician Radiation Laboratory Technician
24--PLASTICS TECHNICIAN
Develops designs for and fabricates products made of or finished with plastics materials or components; turns engineering ideas into real product through hand lay-up, use of compression molding equipment, and plastics ma- chine tools; does plastics applications in construction or industrial firms; checks usage of plastics to insure application within material capabilities. Uses machine flow meters, pressure gauges, pilot air valves, air motors, plastics machine tools, and injection molding equipment. Also, uses a slide rule and accurate measuring devices such as scales and balances.
Plant job titles: Building Plastics Technician Frothing Technician Plastics Technician 25--PNEUMATICS TECHNICIAN
Maintains, overhauls, modifies, and tests pneumatics systems; performs trouble shooting, testing, and performs corrective action; may remove part from basic equipment, shop test, and restore to basic equipment; improves system to keep up with advancing technology. Uses exotic metals, ceramics, stainless steels, and aluminum; also uses manometers, humidifiers, seals, and filters.
Plant job title: Pneumatics Technician
26--POULTRY TECHNICIAN
Establishes and checks on maintenance of standards for poultry growing conditions. Works with contract or wholly owned poultry growing operations giving counsel and inspecting for conformance with standards. Checks on environment, feed, and growth of birds. May also work with environmental control equipment, automatic bird feeding equipment, medicines, and anti- biotics used in the poultry industry, scales, thermometers, and laboratory testing equipment.
Plant job titles: Agriculture Poultry Technician Broiler Serviceman or Technician
27--QUALITY CONTROL TECHNICIAN
Develops and/or administers quality systems for maintaining standards of quality in incoming materials, processing operations, and finished prod- ucts; runs various types of tests on incoming materials, materials in-process, and finished products; develops control charts for in-process control systems, may make recommendations about correcting process difficulties. Uses statis- tical tables and specialized measuring instruments and tests, depending upon the industry such as Rockwell hardness, optical comparator, sonic X-ray or Magnaflux to test castings, mullen tester, flat crush tester, and Beach punc- ture test on paper or moisture meters, oil extraction tests, and twist checks in the textile industry.
Plant job titles: Quality Control Technician Textile Quality Control Technician 28--SILK-SCREEN PROCESS TECHNICIAN
Advises on technical capability of silk-screen process, plans the work and supervises reproduction by silk-screen process; works with art and photo department; consults with the sales department; may actually do the layout work, photo-color separation, and stencil cutting; assists in or does the setup work on presses; supervises production employees. Uses photographic equipment such as darkroom camera, vacuum beams, arc lamps, developers, en- largers, and special chemicals and paper; also works with screens, stencils, and presses.
Plant job titles: Photographic Technician for Silk-Screen Printing Production Supervisor for Silk-Screen Silk-Screen Printing Press Technician
29--STATISTICAL TECHNICIAN
Assembles, analyzes, and classifies data using statistical tools to provide a basis for decision making; may accumulate data from records or in the field; transposes data to machine records; analyzes and classifies data on appropriate bases; may assist in design of experiments. Uses mathematical, statistical, and probability tables; also uses slide rules, calculators, ma- chine record equipment, graphing, and tabulation equipment.
Plant job titles: Engineering Assistant Engineering Forecast Technician Statistical Technician Urban Traffic Analyst
30--SYSTEMS ANALYST
Analyzes existing systems of accomplishing work and develops improved systems; surveys relationships among personnel, materials, equipment, and procedures in existing systems by block diagramming and flow charting; does procedures design work; applies computer services where desired and appli- cable in systems. Uses libraries of forms, books, and manuals, including layout forms and flow charts.
Plant job titles: Assistant to Systems Analyst Business Systems Analyst Financial Systems Analyst and Programmer Systems Analyst 31--WELDING TECHNICIAN
Programs, operates, and maintains electron beam and maser equipment; adjusts equipment for operation to be performed; keeps highly technical re- cords; does preventive maintenance work and repair work on machine; adjusts and adapts machine to keep it updated with new development or to new jobs. Uses vacuum furnace, holding fixtures, electron beam welding equipment, and masers.
Plant job titles: Electron Beam Cutting and Welding Technician Welding Technician (Emphasis on electronic welding) Maser Beam Welder 3. Summary of Course Requirements
The following Tables, A - F, give a list of courses specified for 31 technicians types requested by 80 larger companies in personal interviews during the Summer of 1962. The technicians have been grouped into tables, for summary purposes, according to similarities in job specifications re- quested by these companies. Table A Course Specifications for Technicians in the Biology Related Group
Total Number of Jobs in Each Category 5 3 2 2 1 13 Bio- Food Environ- Chemical Animal Quality mental Courses Electronic Technician Control Poultry Health Composite No. Per No. Per No. Per No. Per No. Per No. Per of Cent of Cent of Cent of Cent of Cent of Cent Cos. of Cos. of Cos. of Cos. of Cos. of Cos. of Rep. Total Rep. Total Rep. Total Rep. Total Rep. Total Rep. Total
Basic electronics 5 100 2 67 7 54 Industrial electronics 5 100 2 67 7 54 Instrumentation-biology-chemistry 5 100 5 38 Mathematics through geometry 4 80 2 67 1 100 7 54 Statistics 3 60 2 67 1 50 1 50 1 100 8 62 Applied physics 3 60 3 23 Nuclear physics 3 60 3 23 Electricity 3 60 1 50 4 31 Basic chemistry 3 60 2 67 1 50 1 50 7 54 Technical reporting & writing 3 60 2 67 2 100 2 100 1 100 10 77 Biology- applied 3 60 2 67 5 38 Chemistry-bio-chemistry 3 60 3 23 Micro-biology 3 60 2 67 1 50 1 100 7 54 Applied chemistry 2 40 2 67 1 50 5 38 Public speaking 2 40 1 100 3 23 All others 2 40 2 100 2 100 6 46 Engineering drawing 1 100 1 8 Time and motion study 1 50 1 8 Communication skills 1 50 1 50 2 15 Bacteriology 3 100 2 100 5 38 Biology--general 1 50 1 8 Animal behavior 3 100 3 23 Animal husbandry 3 100 3 23 Pathology 3 100 3 23 Comparative anatomy 2 67 2 15 Genetics 2 67 2 15 Physiology 2 67 2 15 Radio-metering 2 67 2 15 Animal anatomy and physiology 1 33 1 8 Psychology 1 33 1 8 Table A (continued)
Total Number of Jobs in Each Category 5 3 2 2 1 13 Bio- Food Environ- Chemical Animal Quality mental Courses Electronic Technician Control Poultry Health Composite No. Per No. Per No. Per No. Per No. Per No. Per of Cent of Cent of Cent of Cent of Cent of Cent Cos. of Cos. of Cos. of Cos. of Cos. of Cos. of Rep. Total Rep. Total Rep. Total Rep. Total Rep. Total Rep. Total
Quality control-statistical 1 50 2 100 3 23 Refrigeration 1 50 1 8 Laboratory Processes and tech. 1 50 1 8 Air conditioning 1 50 1 8 Standards and specifications 2 100 2 15 Poultry husbandry 2 100 2 15 Surveying 1 100 1 8 Industrial hygiene 1 100 1 8 Medical entomology 1 100 1 8 Milk and food technology 1 100 1 8 Water filtration & sewerage treatment 1 100 1 8
Table B Course Specifications for Technicians in the Chemistry and Physics Related Group
Total Number of Jobs in Each Category 10 4 4 3 1 1 1 24 Industrial Combustion Water Filter Courses General and and Sewerage Chemical Science Plastics Nuclear Furnace Cryogenic Plant Composite No. Per No. Per No. Per No. Per No. Per No. Per No. Per No. Per of Cent of Cent of Cent of Cent of Cent of Cent of Cent of Cent Cos. of Cos. of Cos. of Cos. of Cos. of Cos. of Cos. of Cos. of Rep. Total Rep. Total Rep. Total Rep. Total Rep. Total Rep. Total Rep. Total Rep. Total
Mathematics thru geom 10 100 4 100 4 100 2 67 1 100 1 100 1 100 23 96 Basic chemistry 10 100 3 75 4 100 2 67 1 100 1 100 21 88 Applied chemistry 8 80 1 25 3 75 1 33 1 100 14 58 Tech reporting & writing8 80 2 50 1 25 2 67 1 100 14 58 Standards & specs. 7 70 3 75 10 42 All others 7 70 3 75 3 100 1 100 14 58 Quality control (stat) 6 60 1 25 1 25 1 33 1 100 10 42 Statistics 6 60 1 25 7 29 Instruments technology 4 40 3 75 1 25 1 33 1 100 1 100 11 46 1 Communications skills 4 40 2 50 2 50 2 67 10 42 Electricity 3 30 2 50 3 75 2 67 1 100 11 46 Basic electronics 3 30 2 50 3 100 1 100 9 38 Engineering drawing 3 30 2 50 4 100 2 67 11 46 Plastics theory 3 30 4 100 7 29 Mechanics 3 30 2 50 3 75 8 33 Industrial electronics 3 30 2 50 3 100 1 100 9 38 Algebra--higher 3 30 1 33 4 17 Chemistry-industrial 3 30 1 100 4 17 Applied physics 3 75 3 75 1 33 1 100 8 33 Theoretical physics 1 25 2 50 1 100 4 17 Circuit design 1 25 1 100 2 8 Engineering design 1 25 3 75 1 33 5 21 Metallurgy 1 25 1 100 2 8 Machine shop 1 25 3 75 1 100 5 21 Welding technology 1 25 1 33 1 100 3 13 Heat treatment of metals 1 25 1 100 2 8 Hydraulics 1 25 2 50 1 100 4 17 Computer technology 1 25 1 100 2 8 Refrigeration 2 50 1 100 3 13