Table 4
Access to benefits in current or last job(s) by gender and type of employment (main job), persons who worked in 2018 or after, Canada (provinces only), 2020
| Workers with access to benefit | Lower limit – 95% confidence interval1 | Upper limit – 95% confidence interval1 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | |
| Total, last worked in 2018 or after | |||
| Pension plan | 51.2 | 48.6 | 53.7 |
| Paid sick leave | 52.1 | 49.3 | 54.8 |
| Paid vacation leave | 60.9 | 58.3 | 63.6 |
| Disability insurance or death benefits | 48.3 | 45.6 | 51.0 |
| Supplemental medical or dental care | 54.0 | 51.3 | 56.7 |
| Workers' compensation | 44.8 | 42.3 | 47.4 |
| Supplemental maternity, paternity, parental or Employment Insurance benefit | 41.9 | 39.4 | 44.4 |
| Other benefit | 4.0 | 3.0 | 5.0 |
| Gender2 | |||
| Men | |||
| Pension plan | 51.7 | 48.1 | 55.4 |
| Paid sick leave | 49.8 | 45.9 | 53.7 |
| Paid vacation leave | 59.9 | 56.0 | 63.7 |
| Disability insurance or death benefits | 51.4 | 47.6 | 55.2 |
| Supplemental medical or dental care | 56.1 | 52.4 | 59.8 |
| Workers' compensation | 47.9 | 44.2 | 51.5 |
| Supplemental maternity, paternity, parental or Employment Insurance benefit | 40.3 | 36.7 | 43.8 |
| Other benefit | 4.1 | 2.7 | 5.5 |
| Women | |||
| Pension plan | 50.4 | 46.8 | 54.0 |
| Paid sick leave | 54.4 | 50.7 | 58.1 |
| Paid vacation leave | 62.1 | 58.5 | 65.6 |
| Disability insurance or death benefits | 44.8 | 41.2 | 48.5 |
| Supplemental medical or dental care | 51.7 | 47.9 | 55.4 |
| Workers' compensation | 41.4 | 37.9 | 45.0 |
| Supplemental maternity, paternity, parental or Employment Insurance benefit | 43.6 | 40.1 | 47.2 |
| Other benefit | 3.9 | 2.5 | 5.3 |
| Type of employment | |||
| Permanent employees | |||
| Pension plan | 61.3 | 58.3 | 64.3 |
| Paid sick leave | 66.3 | 63.2 | 69.4 |
| Paid vacation leave | 77.2 | 74.5 | 79.9 |
| Disability insurance or death benefits | 61.7 | 58.5 | 64.9 |
| Supplemental medical or dental care | 67.5 | 64.4 | 70.6 |
| Workers' compensation | 54.0 | 50.9 | 57.1 |
| Supplemental maternity, paternity, parental or Employment Insurance benefit | 52.8 | 49.7 | 55.9 |
| Other benefit | 4.8 | 3.5 | 6.1 |
| Fixed-term employees3 | |||
| Pension plan | 42.8 | 33.6 | 52.0 |
| Paid sick leave | 41.0 | 31.2 | 50.7 |
| Paid vacation leave | 47.5 | 37.3 | 57.6 |
| Disability insurance or death benefits | 28.3 | 20.0 | 36.7 |
| Supplemental medical or dental care | 39.1 | 29.6 | 48.6 |
| Workers' compensation | 34.8 | 25.3 | 44.2 |
| Supplemental maternity, paternity, parental or Employment Insurance benefit | 32.2 | 23.2 | 41.3 |
| Other benefit | 2.1 | 0.0 | 4.5 |
| Other temporary employees4 | |||
| Pension plan | 21.5 | 12.4 | 30.5 |
| Paid sick leave | 12.6 | 5.8 | 19.3 |
| Paid vacation leave | 16.5 | 10.0 | 23.1 |
| Disability insurance or death benefits | 7.7 | 1.9 | 13.6 |
| Supplemental medical or dental care | 14.3 | 7.1 | 21.4 |
| Workers' compensation | 26.9 | 17.7 | 36.0 |
| Supplemental maternity, paternity, parental or Employment Insurance benefit | 19.4 | 11.5 | 27.4 |
| Other benefit | 0.7 | 0.0 | 1.6 |
| Self-employed with employees | |||
| Pension plan | 28.0E | 17.5 | 38.5 |
| Paid sick leave | 17.0E | 8.2 | 25.7 |
| Paid vacation leave | 20.1E | 10.7 | 29.4 |
| Disability insurance or death benefits | 23.4E | 13.8 | 33.0 |
| Supplemental medical or dental care | 28.0E | 17.1 | 38.9 |
| Workers' compensation | 28.6E | 17.8 | 39.5 |
| Supplemental maternity, paternity, parental or Employment Insurance benefit | 4.5E | 0.0 | 9.5 |
| Other benefit | 5.0E | 0.4 | 9.5 |
| Self-employed without employees | |||
| Pension plan | 14.8 | 8.9 | 20.6 |
| Paid sick leave | 1.1 | 0.0 | 2.1 |
| Paid vacation leave | 3.0 | 0.2 | 5.8 |
| Disability insurance or death benefits | 7.3 | 4.0 | 10.6 |
| Supplemental medical or dental care | 6.9 | 3.7 | 10.2 |
| Workers' compensation | 5.5 | 2.8 | 8.1 |
| Supplemental maternity, paternity, parental or Employment Insurance benefit | 2.4 | 0.0 | 5.1 |
| Other benefit | 1.8 | 0.0 | 3.7 |
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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.
Table note 3
The category "fixed-term employees" includes workers who had an employment contract of a fixed duration.
Table note 4
The category "other temporary employees" includes on-call, seasonal, casual, and temporary agency workers.
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