Table 2
Employment by class of worker and industry (based on NAICS1) – Seasonally adjusted
| October 2017 |
November 2017 |
Standard error2 | October to November 2017 | November 2016 to November 2017 | October to November 2017 | November 2016 to November 2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| thousands | thousands | thousands | change in thousands | change in thousands | % change | % change | |
| Class of worker | |||||||
| Employees | 15,647.7 | 15,730.7 | 35.7 | 83.0 | 305.5 | 0.5 | 2.0 |
| Self-employed | 2,841.7 | 2,838.2 | 25.2 | -3.5 | 84.5 | -0.1 | 3.1 |
| Public/private sector employees | |||||||
| Public | 3,726.0 | 3,736.6 | 20.1 | 10.6 | 88.0 | 0.3 | 2.4 |
| Private | 11,921.7 | 11,994.1 | 35.9 | 72.4 | 217.5 | 0.6 | 1.8 |
| All industries | 18,489.4 | 18,568.9 | 29.4 | 79.5 | 390.0 | 0.4 | 2.1 |
| Goods-producing sector | 3,914.6 | 3,952.0 | 16.1 | 37.4 | 126.3 | 1.0 | 3.3 |
| Agriculture | 284.4 | 278.6 | 5.3 | -5.8 | -11.1 | -2.0 | -3.8 |
| Natural resources3 | 331.6 | 331.6 | 4.8 | 0.0 | 5.5 | 0.0 | 1.7 |
| Utilities | 132.1 | 128.6 | 2.3 | -3.5 | -8.9 | -2.6 | -6.5 |
| Construction | 1,425.1 | 1,441.3 | 11.0 | 16.2 | 49.6 | 1.1 | 3.6 |
| Manufacturing | 1,741.5 | 1,771.9 | 10.5 | 30.4 | 91.2 | 1.7 | 5.4 |
| Services-producing sector | 14,574.8 | 14,616.9 | 27.9 | 42.1 | 263.7 | 0.3 | 1.8 |
| Trade | 2,798.4 | 2,837.2 | 14.5 | 38.8 | 82.4 | 1.4 | 3.0 |
| Transportation and warehousing | 960.2 | 959.1 | 8.4 | -1.1 | 50.0 | -0.1 | 5.5 |
| Finance, insurance, real estate and leasing | 1,173.8 | 1,177.1 | 8.7 | 3.3 | 29.2 | 0.3 | 2.5 |
| Professional, scientific and technical services | 1,475.4 | 1,465.5 | 10.8 | -9.9 | 76.9 | -0.7 | 5.5 |
| Business, building and other support services | 749.8 | 745.7 | 10.4 | -4.1 | -14.6 | -0.5 | -1.9 |
| Educational services | 1,275.1 | 1,295.8 | 10.7 | 20.7 | 22.6 | 1.6 | 1.8 |
| Health care and social assistance | 2,392.3 | 2,388.9 | 10.9 | -3.4 | 50.1 | -0.1 | 2.1 |
| Information, culture and recreation | 790.8 | 790.8 | 10.3 | 0.0 | -9.4 | 0.0 | -1.2 |
| Accommodation and food services | 1,212.9 | 1,219.4 | 11.3 | 6.5 | -5.5 | 0.5 | -0.4 |
| Other services | 788.0 | 781.2 | 8.4 | -6.8 | -18.8 | -0.9 | -2.4 |
| Public administration | 958.1 | 956.1 | 7.1 | -2.0 | 0.7 | -0.2 | 0.1 |
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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