Table 3
Summary statistics, males — Own-account self-employed and employer

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Summary statistics, males ¿ Own-account self-employed and employer


Table summary
This table displays the results of summary statistics own-account self-employed, employer and 1990s, calculated using 1990s, 2000s,  1990s, years, standard error, proportion and dollars units of measure (appearing as column headers).

  Own-account self-employed Employer
1990s 2000s  1990s 2000s
  years standard error years standard error years standard error years standard error
Mean age 43.7 0.3 44.6 0.3 44.2 0.3 46.1 0.3
  proportion standard error proportion standard error proportion standard error proportion standard error
Education  
Less than high school 0.237 0.017 0.139 0.013 0.158 0.012 0.098 0.011
High school 0.101 0.010 0.113 0.010 0.167 0.015 0.133 0.014
Some postsecondary 0.129 0.015 0.126 0.012 0.093 0.012 0.111 0.013
Postsecondary certificate 0.362 0.018 0.368 0.018 0.305 0.016 0.331 0.020
Bachelor's 0.100 0.012 0.154 0.014 0.132 0.014 0.160 0.016
Above bachelor's 0.069 0.012 0.082 0.011 0.122 0.014 0.138 0.014
Immigrant 0.103 0.014 0.164 0.015 0.135 0.017 0.122 0.016
Married 0.759 0.017 0.768 0.015 0.877 0.015 0.835 0.017
Children 0.573 0.019 0.613 0.018 0.703 0.018 0.637 0.021
Industry  
Forestry 0.035 0.004 0.033 0.004 0.034 0.004 0.041 0.005
Manufacturing 0.041 0.006 0.049 0.010 0.093 0.012 0.091 0.012
Construction 0.246 0.016 0.192 0.014 0.221 0.016 0.221 0.018
Trade 0.091 0.012 0.112 0.011 0.205 0.016 0.160 0.014
Transportation 0.129 0.013 0.147 0.015 0.065 0.008 0.035 0.007
FIRE 0.090 0.011 0.055 0.007 0.026 0.005 0.047 0.009
Professional 0.126 0.014 0.119 0.012 0.107 0.013 0.134 0.014
Business services 0.047 0.007 0.115 0.001 0.031 0.005 0.074 0.011
Education 0.018 0.005 0.015 0.012 0.004 0.003 0.008 0.003
Health care 0.031 0.007 0.019 0.004 0.073 0.010 0.092 0.013
Information 0.048 0.010 0.071 0.010 0.026 0.005 0.022 0.006
Accommodation and food 0.001 0.000 0.018 0.005 0.068 0.010 0.028 0.007
Other services 0.093 0.011 0.049 0.006 0.045 0.005 0.050 0.010
Occupation  
Management 0.094 0.013 0.134 0.012 0.289 0.018 0.283 0.018
Business 0.068 0.010 0.101 0.011 0.048 0.007 0.080 0.013
Natural sciences 0.064 0.010 0.101 0.012 0.036 0.009 0.027 0.005
Health 0.024 0.007 0.017 0.004 0.075 0.010 0.087 0.013
Social sciences 0.019 0.005 0.007 0.002 0.035 0.006 0.039 0.006
Arts 0.100 0.013 0.088 0.012 0.012 0.003 0.030 0.007
Sales 0.167 0.015 0.095 0.009 0.125 0.013 0.107 0.013
Trades 0.407 0.018 0.331 0.017 0.275 0.016 0.220 0.018
Primary 0.041 0.005 0.060 0.007 0.033 0.004 0.072 0.009
Processing 0.013 0.004 0.037 0.010 0.069 0.011 0.055 0.010
  dollars standard error dollars standard error dollars standard error dollars standard error
Other family income 27,931 1,855 42,994 2,010 33,526 1,546 49,743 2,181
Note(s):
FIRE: finance, insurance and real estate.
Source(s):
Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics.
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