Table 5-1Waste management industry by province and territory — Business sector characteristics

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Business sector characteristics
  Newfound-
land and Labrador		 Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia New Bruns-
wick		 Quebec Ontario Manitoba Saskat-
chewan		 Alberta British Columbia Yukon Territory, North-
west Terri-
tories and Nunavut		 Canada
  number
Number of businesses  
2004 44 13 90 76 495 458 53 52 208 270 18 1,725
2006 24 5 56 49 414 410 26 37 193 231 11 1,477
Total employees 1  
2004 298 144 952 804 6,083 9,729 529 1,096 2,472 2,869 113 25,089
2006 226 105 804 627 5,430 9,547 547 1,064 2,529 2,923 69 23,871
Full-time employees  
2004 239 144 871 683 5,826 9,328 514 930 2,295 2,686 97 23,613
2006 171 105 716 494 5,106 9,243 510 888 2,372 2,821 59 22,485
Part-time employees  
2004 59 0 81 121 257 401 15 166 177 183 16 1,476
2006 55 0 88 133 324 304 37 176 157 102 10 1,386
  thousand dollars
Operating revenues 2  
2004 26,509 16,498 100,891 68,127 863,260 2,037,570 105,834 98,496 466,023 624,170 9,404 4,416,782
2006 20,952 18,699 120,663 70,146 1,043,895 2,353,301 115,736 99,838 556,758 765,511 10,913 5,176,411
Operating expenditures 2  
2004 22,804 14,188 90,856 63,918 794,680 1,826,824 87,371 88,153 369,272 475,651 8,734 3,842,452
2006 17,906 15,538 110,850 66,206 895,108 2,003,318 89,925 87,239 438,647 575,130 9,270 4,309,137
Capital expenditures 2  
2004 3,165 1,429 8,714 7,791 70,252 128,702 4,699 8,076 34,776 38,752 282 306,640
2006 626 x 5,688 6,802 67,559 145,938 x 6,631 31,537 23,909 1,657 303,221
1.
Includes full and part-time employees. All employment estimates obtained from administrative data were counted as full-time employees.
2.
Includes only those revenues and expenditures related to waste management activities.
Note(s):
Figures may not add up to totals due to rounding. This table includes administrative data for businesses that were below the survey threshold for inclusion. As businesses may operate in more than one province or territory, the national totals will not equal the sum of the provincial totals.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Environment Accounts and Statistics Division, CANSIM table 153-0044.