Table 2
Employment by class of worker and industry (based on NAICS1) – Seasonally adjusted
April 2017 |
May 2017 |
Standard error2 | April to May 2017 | May 2016 to May 2017 | April to May 2017 | May 2016 to May 2017 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
thousands | thousands | thousands | change in thousands | change in thousands | % change | % change | |
Class of worker | |||||||
Employees | 15,522.8 | 15,591.3 | 35.8 | 68.5 | 289.9 | 0.4 | 1.9 |
Self-employed | 2,788.4 | 2,774.4 | 25.3 | -14.0 | 27.0 | -0.5 | 1.0 |
Public/private sector employees | |||||||
Public | 3,696.6 | 3,705.8 | 20.2 | 9.2 | 76.5 | 0.2 | 2.1 |
Private | 11,826.2 | 11,885.6 | 35.8 | 59.4 | 213.4 | 0.5 | 1.8 |
All industries | 18,311.2 | 18,365.7 | 29.5 | 54.5 | 316.8 | 0.3 | 1.8 |
Goods-producing sector | 3,842.7 | 3,866.0 | 16.4 | 23.3 | 21.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 |
Agriculture | 280.0 | 276.5 | 5.5 | -3.5 | -15.8 | -1.3 | -5.4 |
Natural resources3 | 326.6 | 329.4 | 5.0 | 2.8 | 9.1 | 0.9 | 2.8 |
Utilities | 133.1 | 132.0 | 2.6 | -1.1 | -5.4 | -0.8 | -3.9 |
Construction | 1,402.5 | 1,402.1 | 11.2 | -0.4 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
Manufacturing | 1,700.6 | 1,725.9 | 10.9 | 25.3 | 32.9 | 1.5 | 1.9 |
Services-producing sector | 14,468.5 | 14,499.8 | 28.1 | 31.3 | 295.2 | 0.2 | 2.1 |
Trade | 2,786.8 | 2,802.0 | 14.8 | 15.2 | 74.3 | 0.5 | 2.7 |
Transportation and warehousing | 927.7 | 944.8 | 8.3 | 17.1 | 40.2 | 1.8 | 4.4 |
Finance, insurance, real estate and leasing | 1,175.3 | 1,157.9 | 8.7 | -17.4 | 38.1 | -1.5 | 3.4 |
Professional, scientific and technical services | 1,419.4 | 1,445.3 | 11.0 | 25.9 | 49.7 | 1.8 | 3.6 |
Business, building and other support services | 764.5 | 762.7 | 10.5 | -1.8 | -9.6 | -0.2 | -1.2 |
Educational services | 1,291.4 | 1,289.6 | 10.7 | -1.8 | 15.9 | -0.1 | 1.2 |
Health care and social assistance | 2,370.3 | 2,385.4 | 11.0 | 15.1 | 63.3 | 0.6 | 2.7 |
Information, culture and recreation | 787.8 | 772.0 | 10.4 | -15.8 | -2.0 | -2.0 | -0.3 |
Accommodation and food services | 1,196.4 | 1,201.9 | 11.4 | 5.5 | -4.8 | 0.5 | -0.4 |
Other services | 782.1 | 783.7 | 8.3 | 1.6 | 4.4 | 0.2 | 0.6 |
Public administration | 966.9 | 954.6 | 7.4 | -12.3 | 25.9 | -1.3 | 2.8 |
Note(s):
The sum of individual categories may not always add up to the total as a result of rounding.
Table note 1
North American Industry Classification System.
Table note 2
Average standard error for change in two consecutive months. See "Sampling variability of estimates" in the "Data Quality" section of the Labour Force Information (Catalogue number71-001-X) publication for further explanations.
Table note 3
Also referred to as forestry, fishing, mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction.
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