Table 2
Employment by class of worker and industry (based on NAICS1) – Seasonally adjusted
| February 2018 |
March 2018 |
Standard error2 | February to March 2018 | March 2017 to March 2018 | February to March 2018 | March 2017 to March 2018 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| thousands | thousands | thousands | change in thousands | change in thousands | % change | % change | |
| Class of worker | |||||||
| Employees | 15,726.8 | 15,739.3 | 35.7 | 12.5 | 199.5 | 0.1 | 1.3 |
| Self-employed | 2,845.7 | 2,865.5 | 25.3 | 19.8 | 96.7 | 0.7 | 3.5 |
| Public/private sector employees | |||||||
| Public | 3,768.1 | 3,787.7 | 20.4 | 19.6 | 122.5 | 0.5 | 3.3 |
| Private | 11,958.7 | 11,951.7 | 36.2 | -7.0 | 77.1 | -0.1 | 0.6 |
| All industries | 18,572.5 | 18,604.8 | 29.5 | 32.3 | 296.2 | 0.2 | 1.6 |
| Goods-producing sector | 3,932.7 | 3,954.4 | 16.5 | 21.7 | 114.9 | 0.6 | 3.0 |
| Agriculture | 272.2 | 280.3 | 5.4 | 8.1 | 3.7 | 3.0 | 1.3 |
| Natural resources3 | 338.6 | 339.4 | 5.0 | 0.8 | 14.0 | 0.2 | 4.3 |
| Utilities | 134.3 | 137.2 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 2.7 | 2.2 | 2.0 |
| Construction | 1,433.9 | 1,452.2 | 11.1 | 18.3 | 53.5 | 1.3 | 3.8 |
| Manufacturing | 1,753.7 | 1,745.4 | 10.9 | -8.3 | 41.2 | -0.5 | 2.4 |
| Services-producing sector | 14,639.8 | 14,650.4 | 28.1 | 10.6 | 181.3 | 0.1 | 1.3 |
| Trade | 2,817.9 | 2,812.0 | 15.1 | -5.9 | 15.1 | -0.2 | 0.5 |
| Transportation and warehousing | 977.5 | 976.9 | 8.4 | -0.6 | 55.9 | -0.1 | 6.1 |
| Finance, insurance, real estate and leasing | 1,166.0 | 1,165.7 | 8.9 | -0.3 | -4.6 | 0.0 | -0.4 |
| Professional, scientific and technical services | 1,434.9 | 1,438.7 | 11.1 | 3.8 | 21.6 | 0.3 | 1.5 |
| Business, building and other support services | 766.3 | 763.8 | 10.2 | -2.5 | -15.0 | -0.3 | -1.9 |
| Educational services | 1,299.8 | 1,308.2 | 10.6 | 8.4 | 36.7 | 0.6 | 2.9 |
| Health care and social assistance | 2,394.8 | 2,400.1 | 10.9 | 5.3 | 39.6 | 0.2 | 1.7 |
| Information, culture and recreation | 790.7 | 782.0 | 10.5 | -8.7 | -11.1 | -1.1 | -1.4 |
| Accommodation and food services | 1,222.3 | 1,224.5 | 11.7 | 2.2 | 15.8 | 0.2 | 1.3 |
| Other services | 811.6 | 808.7 | 8.4 | -2.9 | 25.1 | -0.4 | 3.2 |
| Public administration | 958.0 | 969.9 | 7.1 | 11.9 | 2.1 | 1.2 | 0.2 |
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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