Producing Hours Worked for the SNA in Order to Measure Productivity: the Canadian Experience: Constructing the national employment benchmark based on the average annual number of employed persons from the Labour Force Survey

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Table A1
Constructing the national employment benchmark based on the average annual number of employed persons from the Labour Force Survey (LFS)
Stage		1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Stage		in thousands
1	ILO¹ – LFS all persons employed	14,019	14,390	14,759	14,947	15,308	15,665	15,950
2	Plus: multiple job holders	674	694	691	693	758	764	787
3	Plus: jobs in aboriginal reserves, and military personnel	123	118	114	114	115	121	123
4	Plus: all jobs in the Territories, and civil servants working outside Canada	54	54	54	54	54	53	55
5	Minus: unpaid absentee paid workers	411	418	434	474	518	558	579
6	Minus: self-employed with "zero" hours worked	225	223	208	179	199	201	188
7	SNA² benchmark – all jobs	14,235	14,614	14,976	15,154	15,518	15,843	16,149
1. International Labour Office.
2. System of National Accounts.
Sources: Statistics Canada, National Accounts and Analytical Studies, Micro-Economic Analysis Division, Canadian Productivity Accounts and CANSIM table 383-0009.