Table 2
Employment by class of worker and industry (based on NAICS1) – Seasonally adjusted
November 2017 |
December 2017 |
Standard error2 | November to December 2017 | December 2016 to December 2017 | November to December 2017 | December 2016 to December 2017 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
thousands | thousands | thousands | change in thousands | change in thousands | % change | % change | |
Class of worker | |||||||
Employees | 15,730.7 | 15,781.1 | 35.7 | 50.4 | 294.0 | 0.3 | 1.9 |
Self-employed | 2,838.2 | 2,866.4 | 25.2 | 28.2 | 128.4 | 1.0 | 4.7 |
Public/private sector employees | |||||||
Public | 3,736.6 | 3,758.7 | 20.1 | 22.1 | 85.5 | 0.6 | 2.3 |
Private | 11,994.1 | 12,022.4 | 35.9 | 28.3 | 208.5 | 0.2 | 1.8 |
All industries | 18,568.9 | 18,647.5 | 29.4 | 78.6 | 422.5 | 0.4 | 2.3 |
Goods-producing sector | 3,952.0 | 3,958.0 | 16.1 | 6.0 | 132.1 | 0.2 | 3.5 |
Agriculture | 278.6 | 275.7 | 5.3 | -2.9 | -7.7 | -1.0 | -2.7 |
Natural resources3 | 331.6 | 337.4 | 4.8 | 5.8 | 14.7 | 1.7 | 4.6 |
Utilities | 128.6 | 128.9 | 2.3 | 0.3 | -11.4 | 0.2 | -8.1 |
Construction | 1,441.3 | 1,447.8 | 11.0 | 6.5 | 50.9 | 0.5 | 3.6 |
Manufacturing | 1,771.9 | 1,768.3 | 10.5 | -3.6 | 85.7 | -0.2 | 5.1 |
Services-producing sector | 14,616.9 | 14,689.5 | 27.9 | 72.6 | 290.3 | 0.5 | 2.0 |
Trade | 2,837.2 | 2,841.1 | 14.5 | 3.9 | 78.8 | 0.1 | 2.9 |
Transportation and warehousing | 959.1 | 968.6 | 8.4 | 9.5 | 57.1 | 1.0 | 6.3 |
Finance, insurance, real estate and leasing | 1,177.1 | 1,202.1 | 8.7 | 25.0 | 52.7 | 2.1 | 4.6 |
Professional, scientific and technical services | 1,465.5 | 1,466.6 | 10.8 | 1.1 | 53.3 | 0.1 | 3.8 |
Business, building and other support services | 745.7 | 752.4 | 10.4 | 6.7 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.1 |
Educational services | 1,295.8 | 1,307.0 | 10.7 | 11.2 | 26.3 | 0.9 | 2.1 |
Health care and social assistance | 2,388.9 | 2,381.5 | 10.9 | -7.4 | 30.6 | -0.3 | 1.3 |
Information, culture and recreation | 790.8 | 796.1 | 10.3 | 5.3 | -3.9 | 0.7 | -0.5 |
Accommodation and food services | 1,219.4 | 1,226.3 | 11.3 | 6.9 | 6.8 | 0.6 | 0.6 |
Other services | 781.2 | 793.8 | 8.4 | 12.6 | -10.3 | 1.6 | -1.3 |
Public administration | 956.1 | 953.9 | 7.1 | -2.2 | -1.8 | -0.2 | -0.2 |
Note(s):
The sum of individual categories may not always add up to the total as a result of rounding.
Table note 1
North American Industry Classification System.
Table note 2
Average standard error for change in two consecutive months. See "Sampling variability of estimates" in the "Data Quality" section of the Labour Force Information (Catalogue number71-001-X) publication for further explanations.
Table note 3
Also referred to as forestry, fishing, mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction.
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