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Table 1 Four-year job retention rate

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  1982 1992 2000 2004 2008
%
All of the economy 52.3 51.8 57.2 57.8 56.0
Manufacturing, unadjusted 56.9 53.0 65.4 62.4 52.5
Manufacturing, adjusted for age and sex 51.8 47.9 61.6 57.4 48.1
Non-manufacturing 51.3 51.5 55.8 57.0 56.6
Note: Differences between manufacturing (unadjusted) and non-manufacturing are significant at the 5% level or better.
Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey.