Table 2
Employment by class of worker and industry (based on NAICS1) – Seasonally adjusted
| January 2018 |
February 2018 |
Standard error2 | January to February 2018 | February 2017 to February 2018 | January to February 2018 | February 2017 to February 2018 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| thousands | thousands | thousands | change in thousands | change in thousands | % change | % change | |
| Class of worker | |||||||
| Employees | 15,668.0 | 15,726.8 | 35.7 | 58.8 | 190.9 | 0.4 | 1.2 |
| Self-employed | 2,889.0 | 2,845.7 | 25.3 | -43.3 | 91.6 | -1.5 | 3.3 |
| Public/private sector employees | |||||||
| Public | 3,717.8 | 3,768.1 | 20.4 | 50.3 | 92.4 | 1.4 | 2.5 |
| Private | 11,950.3 | 11,958.7 | 36.2 | 8.4 | 98.6 | 0.1 | 0.8 |
| All industries | 18,557.1 | 18,572.5 | 29.5 | 15.4 | 282.5 | 0.1 | 1.5 |
| Goods-producing sector | 3,943.1 | 3,932.7 | 16.5 | -10.4 | 114.6 | -0.3 | 3.0 |
| Agriculture | 276.5 | 272.2 | 5.4 | -4.3 | -10.1 | -1.6 | -3.6 |
| Natural resources3 | 331.0 | 338.6 | 5.0 | 7.6 | 11.0 | 2.3 | 3.4 |
| Utilities | 131.6 | 134.3 | 2.3 | 2.7 | -2.6 | 2.1 | -1.9 |
| Construction | 1,433.9 | 1,433.9 | 11.1 | 0.0 | 45.3 | 0.0 | 3.3 |
| Manufacturing | 1,770.2 | 1,753.7 | 10.9 | -16.5 | 71.1 | -0.9 | 4.2 |
| Services-producing sector | 14,613.9 | 14,639.8 | 28.1 | 25.9 | 167.9 | 0.2 | 1.2 |
| Trade | 2,839.9 | 2,817.9 | 15.1 | -22.0 | 35.8 | -0.8 | 1.3 |
| Transportation and warehousing | 964.9 | 977.5 | 8.4 | 12.6 | 47.8 | 1.3 | 5.1 |
| Finance, insurance, real estate and leasing | 1,177.6 | 1,166.0 | 8.9 | -11.6 | 0.0 | -1.0 | 0.0 |
| Professional, scientific and technical services | 1,446.8 | 1,434.9 | 11.1 | -11.9 | 22.8 | -0.8 | 1.6 |
| Business, building and other support services | 767.1 | 766.3 | 10.2 | -0.8 | 2.4 | -0.1 | 0.3 |
| Educational services | 1,287.6 | 1,299.8 | 10.6 | 12.2 | 15.5 | 0.9 | 1.2 |
| Health care and social assistance | 2,370.3 | 2,394.8 | 10.9 | 24.5 | 22.4 | 1.0 | 0.9 |
| Information, culture and recreation | 800.3 | 790.7 | 10.5 | -9.6 | 7.3 | -1.2 | 0.9 |
| Accommodation and food services | 1,215.4 | 1,222.3 | 11.7 | 6.9 | 8.7 | 0.6 | 0.7 |
| Other services | 795.0 | 811.6 | 8.4 | 16.6 | 19.4 | 2.1 | 2.4 |
| Public administration | 949.0 | 958.0 | 7.1 | 9.0 | -14.1 | 0.9 | -1.5 |
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.