Table 5 Change in jobs by type of region

  2008 Change 1998 to 2004 Change 2004 to 2008
'000 % '000 %
Manufacturing 1,970.3 198.6 9.5 -321.8 -14.0
Montréal-Toronto-Vancouver 742.4 69.2 8.4 -154.2 -17.2
Large census metropolitan areas 273.8 30.8 11.5 -23.9 -8.0
Small census metropolitan areas 267.4 16.0 5.4 -46.5 -14.8
Small towns and rural areas 691.7 82.6 11.8 -92.3 -11.8
Rest of the economy 15,155.6 1,702.1 14.2 1,500.7 11.0
Montréal-Toronto-Vancouver 5,323.8 706.5 17.5 581.1 12.3
Large census metropolitan areas 2,885.1 367.7 16.7 309.8 12.0
Small census metropolitan areas 2,124.9 233.4 13.7 182.5 9.4
Small towns and rural areas 4,827.2 394.5 9.9 432.9 9.9
Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey.
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