Table 2
Employment by class of worker and industry (based on NAICS1) – Seasonally adjusted
| December 2017 |
January 2018 |
Standard error2 | December 2017 to January 2018 | January 2017 to January 2018 | December 2017 to January 2018 | January 2017 to January 2018 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| thousands | thousands | thousands | change in thousands | change in thousands | % change | % change | |
| Class of worker | |||||||
| Employees | 15,780.0 | 15,668.0 | 35.7 | -112.0 | 147.6 | -0.7 | 1.0 |
| Self-employed | 2,865.1 | 2,889.0 | 25.3 | 23.9 | 141.0 | 0.8 | 5.1 |
| Public/private sector employees | |||||||
| Public | 3,759.0 | 3,717.8 | 20.4 | -41.2 | 39.2 | -1.1 | 1.1 |
| Private | 12,021.0 | 11,950.3 | 36.2 | -70.7 | 108.6 | -0.6 | 0.9 |
| All industries | 18,645.1 | 18,557.1 | 29.5 | -88.0 | 288.7 | -0.5 | 1.6 |
| Goods-producing sector | 3,959.3 | 3,943.1 | 16.5 | -16.2 | 110.7 | -0.4 | 2.9 |
| Agriculture | 275.9 | 276.5 | 5.4 | 0.6 | -9.3 | 0.2 | -3.3 |
| Natural resources3 | 336.9 | 331.0 | 5.0 | -5.9 | 6.0 | -1.8 | 1.8 |
| Utilities | 128.3 | 131.6 | 2.3 | 3.3 | -5.5 | 2.6 | -4.0 |
| Construction | 1,448.8 | 1,433.9 | 11.1 | -14.9 | 33.1 | -1.0 | 2.4 |
| Manufacturing | 1,769.4 | 1,770.2 | 10.9 | 0.8 | 86.5 | 0.0 | 5.1 |
| Services-producing sector | 14,685.8 | 14,613.9 | 28.1 | -71.9 | 177.9 | -0.5 | 1.2 |
| Trade | 2,840.7 | 2,839.9 | 15.1 | -0.8 | 73.6 | 0.0 | 2.7 |
| Transportation and warehousing | 970.8 | 964.9 | 8.4 | -5.9 | 40.7 | -0.6 | 4.4 |
| Finance, insurance, real estate and leasing | 1,195.6 | 1,177.6 | 8.9 | -18.0 | 19.3 | -1.5 | 1.7 |
| Professional, scientific and technical services | 1,463.5 | 1,446.8 | 11.1 | -16.7 | 34.1 | -1.1 | 2.4 |
| Business, building and other support services | 756.1 | 767.1 | 10.2 | 11.0 | -1.6 | 1.5 | -0.2 |
| Educational services | 1,307.2 | 1,287.6 | 10.6 | -19.6 | 5.5 | -1.5 | 0.4 |
| Health care and social assistance | 2,381.5 | 2,370.3 | 10.9 | -11.2 | 7.9 | -0.5 | 0.3 |
| Information, culture and recreation | 796.4 | 800.3 | 10.5 | 3.9 | 14.1 | 0.5 | 1.8 |
| Accommodation and food services | 1,226.7 | 1,215.4 | 11.7 | -11.3 | -2.2 | -0.9 | -0.2 |
| Other services | 793.8 | 795.0 | 8.4 | 1.2 | 2.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| Public administration | 953.4 | 949.0 | 7.1 | -4.4 | -15.6 | -0.5 | -1.6 |
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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