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Table 19.2 Payroll employment, information and cultural industries, 1996 to 2010

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Table 19.2  Payroll employment, information and cultural industries, 1996 to 2010
  1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
  number of employees
Information and cultural industries 283,051 288,372 297,503 304,067 318,783 319,987 318,219 312,388 309,494 314,384 318,428 328,833 331,919 324,313 325,006
Publishing industries 69,542 72,250 75,475 76,656 83,152 84,656 86,230 x 81,563 85,027 86,560 90,900 93,286 88,330 88,290
Newspaper, periodical, book and database publishers 59,531 60,229 61,348 59,589 62,964 60,495 62,084 x 58,475 59,001 58,078 60,101 61,960 58,340 57,665
Software publishers 10,010 12,021 14,127 17,066 20,188 24,161 24,146 22,599 23,088 26,026 28,482 30,800 31,326 29,990 30,625
Motion picture and sound recording industries 26,895 29,912 32,735 34,306 36,622 37,742 37,404 34,905 32,684 33,325 31,652 34,250 35,244 36,064 35,180
Motion picture and video industries 24,944 27,791 30,430 31,954 34,213 35,425 35,183 32,549 30,065 30,594 29,248 31,991 33,115 34,346 33,566
Sound recording industries 1,950 2,121 2,305 2,351 2,409 2,318 2,222 2,356 2,619 2,731 2,404 2,259 2,128 1,718 1,614
Broadcasting (excluding Internet) 37,064 37,008 37,837 37,453 37,634 37,421 37,994 39,058 39,501 39,059 40,568 42,169 43,198 42,214 43,304
Radio and television broadcasting 36,098 36,074 36,897 36,550 36,764 36,017 36,359 37,175 37,564 37,174 38,519 39,547 40,005 39,454 40,955
Pay and specialty television 966 934 941 902 870 1,404 1,635 1,883 1,938 1,885 2,050 2,622 3,194 2,760 2,349
Telecommunications 119,481 119,674 122,521 124,379 127,934 124,652 119,933 117,134 118,038 118,285 117,974 116,997 116,449 116,608 115,735
Wired telecommunications carriers 83,303 83,105 85,002 85,603 86,991 82,189 81,707 80,279 80,894 80,891 79,809 78,529 78,791 79,641 79,893
Wireless telecommunications carriers (excluding satellite) 22,339 22,355 22,367 22,257 22,837 22,611 23,104 23,066 23,037 23,113 23,550 23,360 23,240 23,505 23,589
Satellite telecommunications 2,425 2,502 2,574 2,571 2,641 1,742 1,756 2,371 2,893 3,128 3,370 3,450 3,492 2,904 1,926
Other telecommunications 11,414 11,712 12,578 13,948 15,464 18,110 13,366 11,417 11,214 11,153 11,245 11,657 10,926 10,558 10,328
Data processing, hosting and related services 5,905 7,033 8,248 10,233 11,939 12,460 11,582 10,770 11,823 12,443 13,427 14,224 14,814 13,509 14,489
Other information services 24,165 22,496 20,686 21,040 21,502 23,056 25,077 x 25,884 26,247 28,248 30,293 28,929 27,589 28,008
Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours and CANSIM table 281-0024.
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