The Sudan's Three Towns: A Demographic and Economic Profile of an African Urban Complex. Part III: Labor Force Occupations, Occupational Income, Income Distribution

The last section of a study of demographic & econ characteristics of the Three Towns in the Republic of the Sudan which details LF occup's, LF income by occup. & the distribution of regional income (See SA1218/C-1415 & 1416). The following conclusions are drawn from an analysis of the available statistical material: (1) The pop of the Three Towns comprises about 2.34% of the Sudan's pop but only about 2.28% of the nation's LF. (2) The people of the Ur complex are typically nonagri'al workers who, unlike their follow-Sudanese in the country, earn a cash income. (3) The Ur region has 60% of the professional & nonprofessional workers as well as the majority of the owners & managers (of large commercial & industr business) & semiprofessional nontechnical workers. (4) The Three Towns has 2.80% of the nation's unproductive pop, a figure slightly higher than the nation's X. Pensioners & the crippled & infirm comprise most of this group. (5) It is typically the case in the Ur Sudan that higher income earners have a greater absolute amount of real income. The typical LF member makes more than the mean/average regardless of his job. (6) The relative share of income earned by the highest paid personnel in the Ur sector is slightly smaller than the nat'l X, but this is not true for the workers of the sector as a whole. The Three Towns' Ur complex is not only econ'ly unique in Sudan, but in Africa. Modern commerical, industr & gov structures have resulted in a soc, econ & cultural blend which has yielded econ efficiency, & the continued migration of diverse religious & nat'lity groups to the area has brought sophistication & an unmatched spirit of tolerance & progress. AA.