Table 2 
Reasons for being a multiple job holder by gender and employment relationship status (main job), persons who worked in 2018 or after, Canada (provinces only), 2020 

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Reasons for being a multiple job holder by gender and employment relationship status (main job), persons who worked in 2018 or after, Canada (provinces only), 2020
  Distribution of workers within category Lower limit – 95% confidence interval1 Upper limit – 95% confidence interval1
  %%%
Total, last worked in 2018 or after      
All workers 100.0 ... ...
Not a multiple job holder 86.5 84.6 88.5
Multiple job holder to meet essential needs 2.8 2.0 3.6
Multiple job holder to earn extra income 5.8 4.4 7.2
Multiple job holder to engage in work they are passionate about 3.2 2.2 4.2
Multiple job holder, other reasons 1.6 1.0 2.3
Employees 100.0 ... ...
Not a multiple job holder 87.4 85.3 89.5
Multiple job holder to meet essential needs 2.7 1.8 3.5
Multiple job holder to earn extra income 5.8 4.2 7.3
Multiple job holder to engage in work they are passionate about 2.7 1.7 3.7
Multiple job holder, other reasons 1.5 0.8 2.1
Self-employed 100.0 ... ...
Not a multiple job holder 82.0 76.6 87.4
Multiple job holder to meet essential needs 3.7 1.5 5.9
Multiple job holder to earn extra income 5.6 2.8 8.4
Multiple job holder to engage in work they are passionate about 6.5 2.4 10.5
Multiple job holder, other reasons 2.2 0.5 3.9
Gender2      
Men      
All workers 100.0 ... ...
Not a multiple job holder 87.4 84.6 90.2
Multiple job holder to meet essential needs 2.7 1.5 3.9
Multiple job holder to earn extra income 5.0 3.1 6.9
Multiple job holder to engage in work they are passionate about 3.3 1.7 4.8
Multiple job holder, other reasons 1.6 0.7 2.6
Employees 100.0 ... ...
Not a multiple job holder 88.2 85.3 91.2
Multiple job holder to meet essential needs 2.6 1.3 3.9
Multiple job holder to earn extra income 5.2 3.0 7.4
Multiple job holder to engage in work they are passionate about 2.6 1.2 4.0
Multiple job holder, other reasons 1.4 0.4 2.3
Self-employed 100.0 ... ...
Not a multiple job holder 83.6 76.3 90.9
Multiple job holder to meet essential needs 3.3 0.4 6.2
Multiple job holder to earn extra income 4.5 0.7 8.2
Multiple job holder to engage in work they are passionate about 6.8 0.9 12.6
Multiple job holder, other reasons 1.9 0.1 3.7
Women      
All workers 100.0 ... ...
Not a multiple job holder 85.6 82.9 88.3
Multiple job holder to meet essential needs 2.9 1.7 4.0
Multiple job holder to earn extra income 6.6 4.6 8.7
Multiple job holder to engage in work they are passionate about 3.2 1.9 4.5
Multiple job holder, other reasons 1.7 0.7 2.6
Employees 100.0 ... ...
Not a multiple job holder 86.5 83.6 89.4
Multiple job holder to meet essential needs 2.7 1.5 3.9
Multiple job holder to earn extra income 6.4 4.2 8.7
Multiple job holder to engage in work they are passionate about 2.8 1.5 4.1
Multiple job holder, other reasons 1.5 0.6 2.5
Self-employed 100.0 ... ...
Not a multiple job holder 79.7 72.1 87.3
Multiple job holder to meet essential needs 4.4 0.8 7.9
Multiple job holder to earn extra income 7.3 3.1 11.4
Multiple job holder to engage in work they are passionate about 6.1 0.4 11.7
Multiple job holder, other reasons 2.6 0.0 5.7
...
not applicable
Note(s):
Population aged 15 and over who worked in 2018 or after, as of February or March 2020 (provinces only), excluding those who were unpaid family workers in their main job.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Survey on Quality of Employment , 2020 (5313).

Table note 1

Confidence intervals are used to express the precision of the estimate.

Table note 2

Estimates for the "other gender" category are included in totals, but cannot be published separately in order to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act.
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