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The following table cited in "Chapter 4:  Industrial & Employment Relations in the Mining Industry" - book by Benedict Y. Imbun, Papua New Guinea, UPNG Press 2000

Table 2: Employment figures of the Ok Tedi mine construction phase as of 1983.

 

1980 IOTPR forecast for 1983

Actual May 1983

Total construction force

3000

3480

Proportions

%      n

%      n

National

70.0   2100

67.0   2330

Asia-expatriate

20.0   600

18.3   640

Other expatriates

10.0   300

14.7   510

Source: R. Jackson, 1993:79