Table 2
Employment by class of worker and industry (based on NAICS1) – Seasonally adjusted
| July 2017 |
August 2017 |
Standard error2 | July to August 2017 | August 2016 to August 2017 | July to August 2017 | August 2016 to August 2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| thousands | thousands | thousands | change in thousands | change in thousands | % change | % change | |
| Class of worker | |||||||
| Employees | 15,612.8 | 15,602.4 | 35.7 | -10.4 | 273.5 | -0.1 | 1.8 |
| Self-employed | 2,809.0 | 2,841.7 | 25.2 | 32.7 | 100.8 | 1.2 | 3.7 |
| Public/private sector employees | |||||||
| Public | 3,712.6 | 3,704.3 | 20.1 | -8.3 | 77.4 | -0.2 | 2.1 |
| Private | 11,900.2 | 11,898.1 | 35.9 | -2.1 | 196.0 | 0.0 | 1.7 |
| All industries | 18,421.9 | 18,444.1 | 29.4 | 22.2 | 374.3 | 0.1 | 2.1 |
| Goods-producing sector | 3,883.9 | 3,870.2 | 16.1 | -13.7 | 56.2 | -0.4 | 1.5 |
| Agriculture | 278.5 | 280.0 | 5.3 | 1.5 | -11.1 | 0.5 | -3.8 |
| Natural resources3 | 335.1 | 327.4 | 4.8 | -7.7 | 8.8 | -2.3 | 2.8 |
| Utilities | 133.5 | 132.1 | 2.3 | -1.4 | -3.3 | -1.0 | -2.4 |
| Construction | 1,394.3 | 1,399.3 | 11.0 | 5.0 | 22.2 | 0.4 | 1.6 |
| Manufacturing | 1,742.5 | 1,731.4 | 10.5 | -11.1 | 39.6 | -0.6 | 2.3 |
| Services-producing sector | 14,538.0 | 14,573.9 | 27.9 | 35.9 | 318.1 | 0.2 | 2.2 |
| Trade | 2,824.4 | 2,817.7 | 14.5 | -6.7 | 76.4 | -0.2 | 2.8 |
| Transportation and warehousing | 945.8 | 955.6 | 8.4 | 9.8 | 43.9 | 1.0 | 4.8 |
| Finance, insurance, real estate and leasing | 1,157.8 | 1,172.4 | 8.7 | 14.6 | 47.2 | 1.3 | 4.2 |
| Professional, scientific and technical services | 1,471.3 | 1,473.7 | 10.8 | 2.4 | 93.2 | 0.2 | 6.8 |
| Business, building and other support services | 753.4 | 755.1 | 10.4 | 1.7 | -9.3 | 0.2 | -1.2 |
| Educational services | 1,259.9 | 1,260.7 | 10.7 | 0.8 | 2.7 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| Health care and social assistance | 2,399.9 | 2,406.3 | 10.9 | 6.4 | 47.1 | 0.3 | 2.0 |
| Information, culture and recreation | 793.9 | 799.2 | 10.3 | 5.3 | 10.0 | 0.7 | 1.3 |
| Accommodation and food services | 1,208.9 | 1,217.8 | 11.3 | 8.9 | -9.1 | 0.7 | -0.7 |
| Other services | 772.6 | 761.5 | 8.4 | -11.1 | -13.1 | -1.4 | -1.7 |
| Public administration | 950.0 | 954.0 | 7.1 | 4.0 | 29.2 | 0.4 | 3.2 |
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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