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Table 3
Rural and urban firms with payroll employees by industry sector, Canada, 2007

	Primary	Construction	Manufacturing	Distributive services	Producer services	Social and personal services	All industry sectors
	Industry sector
	number of firms
All areas	65,705	123,482	59,840	262,522	275,244	295,784	1,082,577
Larger urban centres	23,579	94,512	48,321	207,890	241,131	233,689	849,122
All rural and small town areas	42,126	28,970	11,519	54,632	34,113	62,095	233,455
Strong metropolitan influenced zone	8,083	8,572	2,942	10,999	8,314	11,189	50,099
Moderate metropolitan influenced zone	14,652	10,456	4,746	19,406	11,291	22,830	83,381
Weak metropolitan influenced zone	15,916	9,131	3,467	21,751	13,246	24,782	88,293
No metropolitan influenced zone	3,475	811	364	2,476	1,262	3,294	11,682
	percent of firms in each sector
All areas	6	11	6	24	25	27	100
Larger urban centres	3	11	6	24	28	28	100
All rural and small town areas	18	12	5	23	15	27	100
Strong metropolitan influenced zone	16	17	6	22	17	22	100
Moderate metropolitan influenced zone	18	13	6	23	14	27	100
Weak metropolitan influenced zone	18	10	4	25	15	28	100
No metropolitan influenced zone	30	7	3	21	11	28	100
	percent of firms in each region
All areas	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Larger urban centres	36	77	81	79	88	79	78
All rural and small town areas	64	23	19	21	12	21	22
Strong metropolitan influenced zone	12	7	5	4	3	4	5
Moderate metropolitan influenced zone	22	8	8	7	4	8	8
Weak metropolitan influenced zone	24	7	6	8	5	8	8
No metropolitan influenced zone	5	1	1	1	0	1	1
Source: Statistics Canada, Business Register, 2007