Table 10
Self-employment trends among women and men, 1976 to 2009

Table 10
Self-employment trends among women and men, 1976 to 2009
 Table summary
 This table displays the results of Self-employment trends among women and men. This information begins with the first row header as a category of Year. The following columns are grouped by Self-employed women, Self-employed men, with a series of thousands. Then we have grouped Self-employed women, Self-employed men, Women as a percentage of total self-employment appearing as column headers each listed with the respective percentage as a unit of measure.
Year Self-employed women Self-employed men Self-employed
women		 Self-employed
men		 Women as a percentage
of total
self-employment
thousands percentage
1976 311.6 873.4 8.6 14.2 26.3
1981 404.6 1,020.6 8.9 15.1 28.4
1986 492.0 1,164.0 9.6 16.9 29.7
1991 582.6 1,313.2 10.1 18.6 30.7
1996 744.8 1,426.8 12.2 19.5 34.3
2001 773.4 1,503.3 11.2 18.7 34.0
2006 876.6 1,621.4 11.3 18.6 35.1
2007 911.9 1,703.2 11.4 19.2 34.9
2008 909.9 1,719.7 11.2 19.1 34.6
2009 959.4 1,742.3 11.9 19.9 35.5
Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey.
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