Table 5 Entry into and exit out of self-employment

	'000
	October 2008	October 2009	Entrants¹	Exits²
Self-employed	2,655.5	2,770.5	284.5	-169.5
With paid help	874.1	872.5	39.0	-40.6
Incorporated	614.7	635.6	28.3	-7.4
Unincorporated	259.4	236.9	10.7	-33.2
Without paid help	1,754.5	1,874.2^*	242.1	-122.5
Incorporated	485.5	477.2	41.3	-49.6
Unincorporated	1,269.0	1,397.0^*	200.9	-72.9
Unpaid family workers	26.8	23.9	3.4	-6.3
	%
Self-employed	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
With paid help	32.9	31.5	13.7	24.0
Incorporated	23.1	22.9	9.9	4.4
Unincorporated	9.8	8.6^*	3.8	19.6
Without paid help	66.1	67.6^**	85.1	72.3
Incorporated	18.3	17.2	14.5	29.3
Unincorporated	47.8	50.4^*	70.6	43.0
Unpaid family workers	1.0	0.9	1.2	3.7
1. Self-employed workers with tenure of 12 months or less. 2. Estimated figure (see equation 2). * significantly different from October 2008 at the 0.05 level, at the 0.10 level Source:** Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, not seasonally adjusted.

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