Table 2
Employment by class of worker and industry (based on NAICS1) – Seasonally adjusted
August 2017 |
September 2017 |
Standard error2 | August to September 2017 | September 2016 to September 2017 | August to September 2017 | September 2016 to September 2017 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
thousands | thousands | thousands | change in thousands | change in thousands | % change | % change | |
Class of worker | |||||||
Employees | 15,602.4 | 15,613.2 | 35.7 | 10.8 | 264.7 | 0.1 | 1.7 |
Self-employed | 2,841.7 | 2,840.9 | 25.2 | -0.8 | 55.1 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
Public/private sector employees | |||||||
Public | 3,704.3 | 3,730.5 | 20.1 | 26.2 | 102.7 | 0.7 | 2.8 |
Private | 11,898.1 | 11,882.6 | 35.9 | -15.5 | 161.8 | -0.1 | 1.4 |
All industries | 18,444.1 | 18,454.1 | 29.4 | 10.0 | 319.7 | 0.1 | 1.8 |
Goods-producing sector | 3,870.2 | 3,880.7 | 16.1 | 10.5 | 53.9 | 0.3 | 1.4 |
Agriculture | 280.0 | 278.3 | 5.3 | -1.7 | -9.8 | -0.6 | -3.4 |
Natural resources3 | 327.4 | 330.5 | 4.8 | 3.1 | 10.3 | 0.9 | 3.2 |
Utilities | 132.1 | 131.6 | 2.3 | -0.5 | -5.5 | -0.4 | -4.0 |
Construction | 1,399.3 | 1,406.7 | 11.0 | 7.4 | 23.0 | 0.5 | 1.7 |
Manufacturing | 1,731.4 | 1,733.7 | 10.5 | 2.3 | 35.9 | 0.1 | 2.1 |
Services-producing sector | 14,573.9 | 14,573.4 | 27.9 | -0.5 | 265.9 | 0.0 | 1.9 |
Trade | 2,817.7 | 2,834.3 | 14.5 | 16.6 | 99.3 | 0.6 | 3.6 |
Transportation and warehousing | 955.6 | 959.2 | 8.4 | 3.6 | 40.1 | 0.4 | 4.4 |
Finance, insurance, real estate and leasing | 1,172.4 | 1,170.2 | 8.7 | -2.2 | 36.3 | -0.2 | 3.2 |
Professional, scientific and technical services | 1,473.7 | 1,467.4 | 10.8 | -6.3 | 78.3 | -0.4 | 5.6 |
Business, building and other support services | 755.1 | 751.5 | 10.4 | -3.6 | -20.9 | -0.5 | -2.7 |
Educational services | 1,260.7 | 1,280.7 | 10.7 | 20.0 | 6.9 | 1.6 | 0.5 |
Health care and social assistance | 2,406.3 | 2,395.9 | 10.9 | -10.4 | 50.3 | -0.4 | 2.1 |
Information, culture and recreation | 799.2 | 775.5 | 10.3 | -23.7 | -19.5 | -3.0 | -2.5 |
Accommodation and food services | 1,217.8 | 1,213.6 | 11.3 | -4.2 | -16.1 | -0.3 | -1.3 |
Other services | 761.5 | 766.6 | 8.4 | 5.1 | -6.4 | 0.7 | -0.8 |
Public administration | 954.0 | 958.5 | 7.1 | 4.5 | 17.4 | 0.5 | 1.8 |
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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