Table 2 
Rural and urban firms with payroll employees relative to population, Canada, 2007

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  Size of firm1
1 to 4 5 to 49 50 to 199 200 or more All firms
number of firms per 10,000 population
All areas 201 124 15 4 343
Larger urban centres 186 125 16 4 331
All rural and small town areas 264 118 10 2 394
Strong metropolitan influenced zone 257 104 8 1 371
Moderate metropolitan influenced zone 259 105 9 2 375
Weak metropolitan influenced zone 273 143 13 3 431
No metropolitan influenced zone 279 105 7 1 392
  intensity of firms in each size category relative to population, compared to Canada as a whole
All areas 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
Larger urban centres 0.93 1.01 1.08 1.11 0.97
All rural and small town areas 1.32 0.95 0.66 0.51 1.15
Strong metropolitan influenced zone 1.28 0.84 0.55 0.35 1.08
Moderate metropolitan influenced zone 1.29 0.85 0.58 0.43 1.09
Weak metropolitan influenced zone 1.36 1.16 0.84 0.73 1.26
No metropolitan influenced zone 1.39 0.85 0.45 0.36 1.14
  intensity of firms in each size category relative to population, compared to all rural and small town areas
All rural and small town areas 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
Strong metropolitan influenced zones 0.97 0.88 0.84 0.69 0.94
Moderate metropolitan influenced zones 0.98 0.89 0.89 0.83 0.95
Weak metropolitan influenced zones 1.03 1.21 1.28 1.43 1.09
No metropolitan influenced zones 1.05 0.89 0.68 0.71 0.99
1. Number of employee full-time equivalents (Box 1).
Note: Due to rounding, numbers may not sum to totals.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Business Register, 2007 and Census of Population, 2006.