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Table 23.3 Payroll employment, by manufacturing industry, 1994 to 2008

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Table 23.3 Payroll employment, by manufacturing industry, 1994 to 2008
	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
	number
Manufacturing sector	1,705,673	1,739,096	1,779,368	1,845,808	1,906,843	1,946,466	2,036,697	1,978,406	1,929,514	1,907,736	1,870,096	1,838,560	1,820,736	1,758,769	1,673,904
Food	207,152	206,340	213,999	216,006	222,195	224,202	232,653	231,613	233,158	233,754	235,405	232,170	233,388	229,102	226,252
Beverage and tobacco products	33,371	32,984	29,736	32,068	34,255	33,791	35,424	35,138	34,860	33,186	31,991	28,097	28,114	26,854	26,695
Textile mills	26,160	26,813	27,035	28,225	29,449	29,520	30,133	26,122	23,829	22,970	20,866	17,412	14,610	12,950	10,363
Textile product mills	17,864	16,512	17,890	19,845	20,500	20,417	20,928	19,707	19,022	18,414	18,073	17,685	16,477	15,164	12,818
Clothing	85,609	86,510	85,882	88,569	90,422	89,465	93,347	82,770	76,261	71,186	62,456	51,765	46,009	40,001	32,825
Leather and allied products	12,036	12,160	12,218	12,391	11,473	11,241	12,219	9,480	8,508	7,539	6,575	5,779	5,030	4,472	3,816
Paper	104,779	104,450	103,394	104,098	100,821	103,110	110,144	103,703	95,981	96,994	93,718	87,689	83,810	79,380	73,515
Printing and related support activities	75,309	80,375	76,787	76,948	79,810	82,459	85,537	83,347	79,678	78,593	73,783	72,829	73,148	72,019	70,522
Petroleum and coal products	14,488	13,414	13,990	13,747	13,753	15,454	15,879	15,305	15,401	15,674	15,301	15,758	16,336	16,657	17,904
Chemicals	89,019	88,054	86,874	88,774	89,227	91,385	95,493	93,412	92,246	92,797	92,761	93,030	90,823	88,960	88,546
Plastics and rubber products	94,063	96,902	104,354	111,754	115,525	117,688	123,469	125,248	126,097	125,790	127,426	125,795	124,827	118,260	107,517
Wood products	109,790	108,431	116,544	124,299	127,559	134,177	141,872	135,758	134,227	133,829	137,153	135,306	130,222	122,940	110,322
Non-metallic mineral products	43,880	47,077	45,687	48,554	52,166	53,286	56,440	53,719	51,423	51,329	51,403	51,304	53,701	52,807	52,707
Primary metals	102,587	102,127	101,727	98,828	100,957	100,529	104,253	91,185	90,322	85,402	79,703	78,731	80,681	78,802	69,107
Fabricated metal products	134,821	139,590	146,910	157,630	165,626	173,072	183,246	184,269	181,096	180,561	176,439	176,068	179,728	175,091	171,126
Machinery	108,551	116,450	124,562	131,871	134,419	132,486	136,397	134,897	137,332	137,162	136,049	140,411	144,467	139,714	138,132
Computer and electronic products	80,372	88,905	88,310	92,754	97,905	101,630	106,289	105,761	95,272	89,084	87,272	85,689	85,086	83,202	83,824
Electrical equipment, appliances and components	52,507	46,669	45,178	45,477	45,898	48,538	53,780	48,723	45,545	45,428	43,095	42,157	42,268	42,754	41,610
Transportation equipment	198,719	204,534	214,530	215,751	229,476	235,548	244,196	242,725	233,603	231,268	229,246	229,337	222,798	215,597	199,464
Furniture and related products	67,883	69,149	71,094	81,566	86,086	88,698	94,350	98,601	98,648	98,637	93,121	94,157	90,677	85,843	79,830
Miscellaneous manufacturing	46,713	51,648	52,668	56,652	59,319	59,772	60,648	56,922	57,006	58,138	58,258	57,391	58,534	58,198	57,007
Notes: North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), 2007. Annual number of salaried and hourly employees on payroll.
Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours and CANSIM table 281-0024.