Chart 7b
The wage increases in the 2000s were more pronounced in the oil-producing provincesNote 1, Women

The title of the graph is "Chart 7 The wage increases in the 2000s were more pronounced in the oil-producing provinces, Women."
This is a line chart.
There are in total 32 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at 60 and ends at 120 with ticks every 10 points.
There are 4 series in this graph.
The vertical axis is "Median real hourly wage of full time workers (index 1981=100)."
The units of the horizontal axis are years from 1981 to 2012.
The title of series 1 is "17 to 24 years Other provinces."
The minimum value is 81.8 occurring in 1998.
The maximum value is 100.0 occurring in 1981.
The title of series 2 is "17 to 24 years Oil-producing provinces."
The minimum value is 69.7 occurring in 1997.
The maximum value is 100.9 occurring in 2009.
The title of series 3 is "25 to 34 years Other provinces."
The minimum value is 96.9 occurring in 1988.
The maximum value is 113.6 occurring in 2012.
The title of series 4 is "25 to 34 years Oil-producing provinces."
The minimum value is 89.6 occurring in 1998.
The maximum value is 109.7 occurring in 2009.

Chart 7 The wage increases in the 2000s were more pronounced in the oil-producing provincesNote 1, Women, Median real hourly wage of full time workers (index 1981=100)
  17 to 24 years Other provinces 17 to 24 years Oil-producing provinces 25 to 34 years Other provinces 25 to 34 years Oil-producing provinces
1981 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
1982 96.6 97.8 99.1 102.0
1983 93.1 95.6 98.3 104.0
1984 89.7 93.4 97.4 106.0
1985 86.4 89.4 98.2 103.8
1986 83.0 85.4 99.0 101.6
1987 85.3 80.3 97.9 97.8
1988 92.7 87.3 96.9 100.4
1989 85.9 83.2 98.5 97.8
1990 90.3 76.9 99.2 92.4
1991 89.5 75.9 99.2 92.4
1992 88.7 74.9 99.3 92.5
1993 87.9 73.8 99.3 92.5
1994 87.2 72.8 99.3 92.5
1995 86.4 71.8 99.4 92.6
1996 85.6 70.7 99.4 92.6
1997 84.8 69.7 99.5 92.6
1998 81.8 73.4 101.6 89.6
1999 85.5 76.3 101.4 90.6
2000 84.3 73.9 103.7 91.3
2001 89.2 74.1 101.7 95.5
2002 88.5 82.2 106.0 91.8
2003 86.6 77.7 106.2 94.9
2004 84.6 73.1 104.4 94.3
2005 83.4 79.8 104.8 98.2
2006 85.7 87.1 104.7 101.7
2007 87.4 86.2 106.3 100.8
2008 93.7 91.9 109.5 106.4
2009 94.3 100.9 112.9 109.7
2010 91.6 96.5 112.9 108.5
2011 92.8 93.8 110.0 107.6
2012 91.8 96.8 113.6 109.4
1. The oil-producing provinces are Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador.
Notes: The sample consists of paid workers age 17 to 64 who were employed full-time in their main job in May (in December for 1984). Hourly wages were adjusted using province-specific Consumer Price Index.
Estimates for 1982, 1983, 1985, and 1991 to 1996 are based on data interpolations.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Survey of Work History, 1981; Survey of Union Membership, 1984; Labour Market Activity Survey, 1986 to 1990; Labour Force Survey, 1997 to 2012.
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