Table 15
Business enterprises with one or more employees, by industry, with percentage change from 2008 to 2012 and percentage distribution, 2012p

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Business enterprises with one or more employees, by industry, with percentage change from 2008 to 2012 and percentage distribution, 2012p
Table summary
This table displays the counts of business enterprises with one or more employees. The row headers provide information by industry group. The column headers provide information for the five most recent years available, the percentage change over the five most recent years and the distribution of enterprises by industry group for the most recent year available.
  2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 p Change from  2008 to  2012 2012  distribution
  number percent
Total all industries 985,283 998,810 999,693 997,622 1,013,618 2.9 100.0
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting 49,270 49,642 49,727 50,620 53,677 8.9 5.3
Agriculture 35,935 36,789 37,339 38,459 41,957 16.8 4.1
Forestry, logging and support activities for forestry 7,881 7,449 7,036 6,867 6,402 -18.8 0.6
Fishing, hunting, trapping and animal aquaculture 5,454 5,404 5,352 5,294 5,318 -2.5 0.5
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction 8,418 8,671 8,282 7,883 8,279 -1.7 0.8
Oil and gas extraction, contract drilling and related services 6,755 6,879 6,500 5,998 6,187 -8.4 0.6
Mining and quarrying, contract drilling and related support activities 1,663 1,792 1,782 1,885 2,092 25.8 0.2
Utilities 3,220 3,274 3,283 3,389 3,462 7.5 0.3
Electric power generation, transmission and distribution 323 321 306 320 310 -4.0 0.0
Other utilities 2,897 2,953 2,977 3,069 3,152 8.8 0.3
Construction 120,539 123,242 124,773 125,641 128,585 6.7 12.7
Manufacturing 51,483 50,755 49,202 48,235 47,144 -8.4 4.7
Food manufacturing 5,083 4,987 4,856 4,788 4,663 -8.3 0.5
Beverage and tobacco product manufacturing 627 660 652 655 634 1.1 0.1
Textile mills and textile product mills 1,355 1,284 1,217 1,184 1,052 -22.4 0.1
Wood product manufacturing 3,582 3,468 3,376 3,272 3,249 -9.3 0.3
Paper manufacturing 555 545 509 501 489 -11.9 0.0
Printing and related support activities 4,233 4,202 4,062 3,938 3,821 -9.7 0.4
Petroleum and coal products manufacturing 139 129 136 129 139 0.0 0.0
Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing 261 266 261 263 257 -1.5 0.0
Other chemicals manufacturing 1,439 1,454 1,447 1,407 1,352 -6.0 0.1
Plastic product manufacturing 1,711 1,724 1,662 1,640 1,631 -4.7 0.2
Rubber product manufacturing 265 266 252 246 242 -8.7 0.0
Non-metallic mineral product manufacturing 1,837 1,818 1,764 1,724 1,683 -8.4 0.2
Primary metal (ferrous) manufacturing 293 319 318 248 263 -10.2 0.0
Primary metal (non-ferrous) manufacturing 265 247 252 257 240 -9.4 0.0
Fabricated metal product manufacturing 7,893 7,824 7,581 7,500 7,426 -5.9 0.7
Machinery manufacturing 4,963 4,853 4,664 4,634 4,619 -6.9 0.5
Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing 246 244 224 216 225 -8.5 0.0
Communications equipment manufacturing 274 291 278 269 256 -6.6 0.0
Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing 396 399 387 384 379 -4.3 0.0
Navigational, measuring, medical and control instrument manufacturing 727 717 689 679 663 -8.8 0.1
Other computer and electronic products manufacturing 179 186 179 175 170 -5.0 0.0
Electrical equipment, appliance and component manufacturing 1,049 1,034 1,015 984 956 -8.9 0.1
Motor vehicle and parts manufacturing 1,263 1,234 1,178 1,132 1,082 -14.3 0.1
Aerospace products and parts manufacturing 223 227 212 214 238 6.7 0.0
All other transportation equipment manufacturing 520 515 491 476 458 -11.9 0.0
Furniture and related product manufacturing 4,289 4,237 4,139 4,106 3,870 -9.8 0.4
Other manufacturing industries 7,816 7,625 7,401 7,214 7,087 -9.3 0.7
Services 752,353 763,226 764,426 761,854 772,471 2.7 76.2
Wholesale trade 50,731 50,449 48,924 48,354 47,329 -6.7 4.7
Retail trade 104,281 102,161 100,942 100,265 101,138 -3.0 10.0
Transportation and warehousing 45,396 46,400 46,054 46,531 47,884 5.5 4.7
Information and cultural industries 10,781 10,934 10,998 11,191 12,017 11.5 1.2
Finance, insurance and real estate 63,200 64,170 66,591 68,216 80,355 27.1 7.9
Architectural, engineering and related services 17,664 17,839 17,479 17,613 18,307 3.6 1.8
Computer systems design and related services 23,154 24,312 24,583 25,292 24,608 6.3 2.4
Management, scientific and technical consulting services 24,471 25,305 25,193 25,306 26,274 7.4 2.6
Scientific research and development services 2,432 2,468 2,447 2,425 2,377 -2.3 0.2
Health care and social assistance 81,599 83,246 85,545 85,756 88,422 8.4 8.7
All other services 328,644 335,942 335,670 330,905 323,760 -1.5 31.9
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Business Register, enterprises with one or more employees, December 2008-2012.
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