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Three out of every four federal government employees worked in a census metropolitan area (CMA) as of September.
Federal government employment in CMAs amounted to 289,800, or 2.4% of the employed labour force.
Of the total federal government employees across the country, 119,300, or 30.9%, worked within the CMA of Ottawa–Gatineau. The proportion in this region has remained stable since 2003. This follows an upward trend from the beginning of the 1990s when the proportion was just over one quarter (25.7%).
Federal government employment represented 18.0% of total employment in the Ottawa–Gatineau region. This proportion has remained about the same for the past seven years, following a downward trend during the 1990s.
Halifax had the second highest proportion of federal public servants, at 8.1% of total employment as of September. Other proportions ranged from 5.7% in Kingston to 0.2% in both Oshawa and Barrie.
Note: To provide comparability between the Public Sector Employment program and the Labour Force Survey, data for this release are based on the 2001 Standard Geographical Classification census metropolitan definition. Additional CMAs based on the 2006 Standard Geographical Classification (Moncton, Barrie, Guelph, Peterborough, Brantford and Kelowna) are presented here, although they were census agglomerations based on the 2001 Standard Geographical Classification.
The term "federal government" presented in this release includes all organizations controlled by the federal government that are not-for-profit and produce non commercial goods and services on behalf of the government and its citizens. The count of federal government employees includes agencies (for example the Canada Revenue Agency), the Canadian military (regular forces and reservists) and uniformed Royal Canadian Mounted Police members. However, these statistics do not include employees of federal government business enterprises that operate as commercial corporations in the marketplace. The count reflects the last pay period of the month of September.
Available on CANSIM: table 183-0003.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 1713.
Labour Force Survey data can be found on CANSIM, tables 282-0001 and 282-0052.
Data tables on public sector employment are also available online in the Summary tables module of our website.
For more information or to order data, contact Client Services (613-951-0767; pid-dipinfo@statcan.gc.ca). To enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Alain Baril (613-951-4131; alain.baril@statcan.gc.ca), Public Institutions Division.
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