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Tuesday, May 17, 2005 Population of businesses with employeesFirst quarter 2005There were just over 1,037,400 businesses with employees in the first quarter of 2005, up 1.62% from the first quarter of 2004 when the number of employer businesses was 1,020,895. Alberta (+3.27%) and British Columbia (+2.96%) posted the largest increase in the number of employer businesses compared with the same quarter a year earlier while Prince Edward Island (-2.12%) and Newfoundland and Labrador (-1.09%) posted the largest declines. On a quarterly basis, the largest increases in employer businesses occurred in the western provinces of Alberta (+1.99%) and British Columbia (+1.43%) and the Yukon Territory (+1.89%), while Quebec (-0.48%) and Newfoundland and Labrador (-0.03%) were the only provinces to register declines. Information on Nunavut and the Northwest Territories will be available individually when sufficient quarterly observations are collected. Available on CANSIM: table 178-0001. Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 1105. For more information or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Beau Cinnamon (613-951-9021; fax: 613-951-0104; beau.cinnamon@statcan.gc.ca), Business Register Division. |
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