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Estimates for the period 2004 to 2009 have been revised. These revisions bring the data into line with the Canadian Productivity Accounts (CPA) published in December 2010. The purpose of this section is to outline and explain the main revisions.

The estimated number of jobs in tourism industries was reduced for 2005 to 2009; by 19,000 jobs in 2009 and 16,600 jobs in 2008. These reductions represent only 1% of the tourism workforce for both years. The number of jobs was lowered mainly in the food and beverage services industries and to a lesser extent in the air transportation and travel services industries in 2009. The number of jobs in accommodation was revised up by 5,400 jobs in 2009, the only tourism industry with an upward revision.

Weekly hours per job, for tourism industries and the total economy, were unchanged from 2004 to 2009. Hourly compensation for the total economy was also unchanged over the same period. However, hourly compensation in tourism industries is between 7 to 25 cents lower for 2007 to 2009 compared to the last Human Resource Module (HRM). For example, hourly compensation for accommodation, food and beverage services, recreation and entertainment and travel services was revised upward in 2009 (from $0.07 to $0.89). On the other hand, downward revisions were observed in air transportation (-$1.49) and other transportation (-$0.42).

Negligible revisions were introduced in the employee profiles for tourism industries for the whole period. The Labour Force Survey is used to develop time series on jobs, hours worked and wages and salaries by occupation, age and gender for each industry group in the HRM. To reduce volatility in the occupational time series, we use a four-year moving average which creates very small changes to the data.