Table 2
Rural and urban firms with payroll employees relative to population, Canada, 2007
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Size of firm1 | |||||
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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. |
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