But headcounts in the street are not the only thing to weigh against lingering Syrian control.
They found exactly the same tendency to reduce classroom spending to pay for increases in administrative headcounts.
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Yet recent censuses in Asia have proven that even the most mammoth old-fashioned headcounts can be done cheaply.
Labour-force participation remains well below its 2000 peak, and payroll headcounts have only this year returned to their 2001 levels.
The firms are desperate to increase their advisor headcounts and are throwing money at brokers from rival firms to get them to join.
And note that since teacher salaries have been rising over this period, actual teacher headcounts have likely been falling even faster than instruction spending.
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This is the smallest percentage of employers planning to reduce headcounts since the third quarter of 2000, when a 5% rate was also reported.
The firms are desperate to increase their advisor headcounts and revenue.
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In contrast to the trends shown for new work, Scottish manufacturers registered a moderate rise in headcounts in October, while their service-providing counterparts cut jobs.
Some had been hoping the economy would get better faster and in turn tried to maintain their headcounts in order to be at capacity when things pick up again.
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The mixed-race population has increased, due to both inter-racial marriages and Census Bureau forms in the past two headcounts that allow people to identify themselves as more than one race.
Scotland saw the slowest rate of job creation of all surveyed UK regions, with the exceptions of Northern Ireland, Wales and Yorkshire and Humber, where headcounts either decreased or were unchanged.
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