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Three-quarters of all federal government employees worked in a census metropolitan area (CMA) in September 2008.
Federal government employment in the 33 CMAs approached 300,000, up 2.6% compared with September 2007.
Ottawa–Gatineau led the way with 124,800 workers or 31.3% of total federal government employment. Montréal (23,600) and Toronto (21,400) had the next largest employment by CMA.
The percentage of federal government employees in the Ottawa–Gatineau region has continued its upward trend after remaining stable between 2003 and 2005. Almost one out of three federal government employees are working in this region compared with one out of four at the beginning of the 1990s.
The proportion of the federal government employment in Ottawa–Gatineau has increased to 18.4% of the region's total employed labour force, the second consecutive annual increase. The proportion had been stable in previous years, following a downward trend during the 1990s.
Halifax ranked second in the proportion of federal public servants among its total employed labour force at 8.1%. The proportion in the other metropolitan regions ranged from 5.7% in Kingston to 0.2% in Oshawa and Barrie.
Note: To provide comparability between the Public Sector Employment program and the Labour Force Survey, statistics 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 when 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 employment 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.
Available on CANSIM: tables 282-0052 and 282-0056.
Data tables on public sector employment are also available from the National economic accounts module of our website.
For more information or to order data, contact Client Services (613-951-0767; pid-info-dip@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.
Table 1
Employment within census metropolitan areas, September 2008
