Demographic characteristics of employees in the environmental and clean technology products sector

Additional information

The Human Resources Module (HRM) complements and enhances the analytical capacity provided by the Environmental and Clean Technology Products Economic Account and allows for a broader insight into the sector's role in the economy by providing more detailed human resource information (e.g., gender, age, education, immigration status, Indigenous identity, wages and occupation types).

This data visualisation (DV) tool is an extension of the Employment and compensation of employees in Canada's environmental and clean technology products sector DV tool, which can be referred to for additional information on national and provincial employment estimates for the Environmental and clean technology products sector.

Totals may not equal the sum of their components as a result of rounding.

Due to estimates too unreliable to be published (symbol F in the data tables), some selected categories may remain empty in the charts.

In 2019, the Industry categories were expanded.

Definitions

Job

In the Human Resources Module, the concept of "jobs" aligns with the Canadian Productivity Accounts definition and with the Canadian System of Macroeconomic Accounts. This concept corresponds closely to the production of goods and services and is based on the province or the territory of employment. Individuals may have more than one source of income from employment because they work for more than one employer. The number of jobs in the economy thus exceeds the number of people employed to the extent that employees may occupy more than one job. Estimates in this statistical product cover employee jobs only, which excludes self-employed jobs.

Gender

Since its introduction in the 2021 Census of Population, the "gender" variable refers to the gender of the person holding the paid worker job. Gender refers to an individual's personal and social identity as a man, woman or non-binary person (a person who is not exclusively a man or a woman). Given that the non-binary population is relatively small, data aggregation to a two-category gender variable is sometimes necessary to protect the confidentiality of responses. In these cases, individuals in the category “non-binary persons” are distributed into the other two gender categories. Prior to the 2021 Census of Population, this variable refers to sex.

Immigrant status

The "immigrant status" variable refers to the immigrant status of the person holding the paid worker job. Immigrant status refers to whether the person is a non-immigrant, an immigrant or a non-permanent resident. Immigrant refers to a person who is, or who has ever been, a landed immigrant or permanent resident. Such a person has been granted the right to live in Canada permanently by immigration authorities. Immigrants who have obtained Canadian citizenship by naturalization are included in this group. For the purpose of this product, immigrant also includes non-permanent residents.

Indigenous identity

“Indigenous identity” refers to whether the person identified with the Indigenous peoples of Canada. This includes those who are First Nations (North American Indian), Métis and/or Inuk (Inuit) and/or those who reported being Registered or Treaty Indians (that is, registered under the Indian Act of Canada), and/or those who have membership in a First Nation or Indian band. Aboriginal peoples of Canada (referred to here as Indigenous peoples) are defined in the Constitution Act, 1982, Section 35 (2) as including the Indian, Inuit and Métis peoples of Canada.

Visible minority

"Visible minority" refers to whether the person holding the paid worker job self-identified as a visible minority or not. For the purpose of this product, visible minority is defined as persons who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour. It also includes individuals who self-identify as Indigenous.