Table 6 Job characteristics by type of region

	%		years		$
	Unionization	SME ¹	Average age	Average seniority	Average hourly earnings
Manufacturing sector
Montréal-Toronto-Vancouver (ref.)	21.7	58.6	41.9	8.7	20.09
Large census metropolitan areas	20.8	51.1^*	40.6^*	8.8	22.87^*
Small census metropolitan areas	30.8^*	44.5^*	41.1^*	10.5^*	22.76^*
Small towns and rural areas	32.4^*	50.5^*	41.0^*	10.4^*	19.78^*
Rest of the economy
Montréal-Toronto-Vancouver (ref.)	27.0	48.6	39.9	7.6	18.06
Large census metropolitan areas	30.6^*	42.7^*	39.0^*	7.4	19.93^*
Small census metropolitan areas	31.9^*	45.6^*	39.4^*	8.2^*	17.82^*
Small towns and rural areas	30.4^*	55.9^*	40.7^*	8.6^*	15.79^*
* significantly different from the reference group (ref.) at the 0.05 level 1. A small or medium-sized enterprise is defined as a business with less than 500 employees. Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, 2008.

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