A new manufacturing employment series of manufacturing employment in pre-WWII Taiwan has been estimated from annual surveys of industrial outputs. The authors claim that the differences between this new series and those reported by factory statistics constitute (1) workers in cottage industries and (2) those economically dependent and yet partially engaged in manufacturing. The series has then been merged with the numbers of office and other employees in manufacturing and of mining and utility workers, to from employment statistics in the "secondary" sector for 1929-66. Average real value-added labor productivity in the said sector has been computed by combining the series with the corresponding, earlier-estimated value added figures.
