Chart 5
Number and proportion of payroll employees working in natural resources, 1961 to 2016, Canada

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The title of the graph is "Number and proportion of payroll employees working in natural resources, 1961 to 2016, Canada."
This is a combined line chart.
There are in total 56 categories in the horizontal axis. The primary vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 300 with ticks every 50 points. The secondary vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 4 with ticks every 0.5 points.
There are 2 series in this graph.
The units of the horizontal axis are years from 1961 to 2016.
The title of series 1 is "Number of payroll employees."
This series is a column clustered chart.
The vertical axis is "thousands."
The minimum value is 176.1 occurring in 1963.
The maximum value is 270.439 occurring in 2014.
The title of series 2 is "Proportion of payroll employees."
This series is a line chart.
The vertical axis is "%."
The minimum value is 1.4 occurring in 2016.
The maximum value is 3.7 occurring in 1961 and 1962.

Number and proportion of payroll employees working in natural resources, 1961 to 2016, Canada
  Number of payroll employees Proportion of payroll employees
  thousands %
1961 177.0 3.7
1962 180.2 3.7
1963 176.1 3.5
1964 180.1 3.4
1965 187.7 3.3
1966 190.8 3.2
1967 190.9 3.1
1968 186.7 3.0
1969 184.6 2.8
1970 191.221 2.9
1971 185.973 2.8
1972 179.657 2.6
1973 190.361 2.6
1974 196.871 2.5
1975 188.477 2.4
1976 192.475 2.4
1977 206.072 2.5
1978 206.299 2.5
1979 221.218 2.5
1980 238.432 2.7
1981 243.581 2.7
1982 209.863 2.4
1983 223.874 2.4
1984 230.464 2.4
1985 235.283 2.4
1986 218.743 2.2
1987 225.731 2.1
1988 231.312 2.1
1989 229.65 2.0
1990 220.543 1.9
1991 213.227 2.0
1992 193.936 1.9
1993 189.422 1.8
1994 202.674 1.9
1995 202.652 1.9
1996 197.031 1.8
1997 210.299 1.9
1998 209.342 1.8
1999 201.637 1.7
2000 208.829 1.7
2001 207.096 1.6
2002 208.344 1.6
2003 212.015 1.6
2004 215.273 1.6
2005 221.631 1.6
2006 237.054 1.7
2007 244.699 1.7
2008 248.169 1.7
2009 221.127 1.5
2010 226.535 1.5
2011 247.23 1.6
2012 260.61 1.7
2013 264.338 1.7
2014 270.439 1.7
2015 251.911 1.6
2016 229.681 1.4
Notes: Natural resources are the combination of the forestry, logging and support industries; and mining quarrying, and oil and gas extraction. Data covering the period of 1961 to 1982 use annual averages of monthly estimates unadjusted for seasonality. Data from 1983 to 2000 use the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) 1980, while data from 2001 to 2016 use the 2012 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).Sources: CANSIM table 281-0015 (data from 1961 to 1982), CANSIM table 281-0005 (data from 1983 to 2000) and CANSIM table 281-0024 (data from 2001 to 2016).
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