Table 2
Employment by class of worker and industry (based on NAICS1) – Seasonally adjusted
| February 2017 |
March 2017 |
Standard error2 | February to March 2017 | March 2016 to March 2017 | February to March 2017 | March 2016 to March 2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| thousands | thousands | thousands | change in thousands | change in thousands | % change | % change | |
| Class of worker | |||||||
| Employees | 15,537.1 | 15,538.1 | 35.8 | 1.0 | 287.2 | 0.0 | 1.9 |
| Self-employed | 2,751.5 | 2,769.9 | 25.3 | 18.4 | -10.8 | 0.7 | -0.4 |
| Public/private sector employees | |||||||
| Public | 3,674.1 | 3,661.4 | 20.2 | -12.7 | 67.1 | -0.3 | 1.9 |
| Private | 11,863.0 | 11,876.7 | 35.8 | 13.7 | 220.1 | 0.1 | 1.9 |
| All industries | 18,288.6 | 18,308.0 | 29.5 | 19.4 | 276.4 | 0.1 | 1.5 |
| Goods-producing sector | 3,816.7 | 3,838.5 | 16.4 | 21.8 | -24.2 | 0.6 | -0.6 |
| Agriculture | 282.6 | 275.7 | 5.5 | -6.9 | -18.8 | -2.4 | -6.4 |
| Natural resources3 | 326.5 | 325.2 | 5.0 | -1.3 | -13.6 | -0.4 | -4.0 |
| Utilities | 137.2 | 134.6 | 2.6 | -2.6 | -4.6 | -1.9 | -3.3 |
| Construction | 1,393.6 | 1,401.9 | 11.2 | 8.3 | 13.0 | 0.6 | 0.9 |
| Manufacturing | 1,676.8 | 1,701.2 | 10.9 | 24.4 | -0.2 | 1.5 | 0.0 |
| Services-producing sector | 14,471.9 | 14,469.5 | 28.1 | -2.4 | 300.6 | 0.0 | 2.1 |
| Trade | 2,778.7 | 2,795.6 | 14.8 | 16.9 | 50.8 | 0.6 | 1.9 |
| Transportation and warehousing | 931.7 | 918.9 | 8.3 | -12.8 | 15.1 | -1.4 | 1.7 |
| Finance, insurance, real estate and leasing | 1,168.1 | 1,174.5 | 8.7 | 6.4 | 59.3 | 0.5 | 5.3 |
| Professional, scientific and technical services | 1,407.0 | 1,411.0 | 11.0 | 4.0 | 13.7 | 0.3 | 1.0 |
| Business, building and other support services | 765.0 | 783.2 | 10.5 | 18.2 | 8.9 | 2.4 | 1.1 |
| Educational services | 1,287.0 | 1,272.1 | 10.7 | -14.9 | 9.1 | -1.2 | 0.7 |
| Health care and social assistance | 2,367.1 | 2,357.9 | 11.0 | -9.2 | 14.0 | -0.4 | 0.6 |
| Information, culture and recreation | 783.3 | 794.0 | 10.4 | 10.7 | 31.9 | 1.4 | 4.2 |
| Accommodation and food services | 1,213.3 | 1,208.7 | 11.4 | -4.6 | 13.0 | -0.4 | 1.1 |
| Other services | 795.5 | 786.0 | 8.3 | -9.5 | 20.3 | -1.2 | 2.7 |
| Public administration | 975.4 | 967.6 | 7.4 | -7.8 | 64.6 | -0.8 | 7.2 |
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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