Table 1
Employment rate by sex, province and census metropolitan area; and median monthly childcare fees for selected cities, 2015

Table 1
Employment rate by sex, province and census metropolitan area; and median monthly childcare fees for selected cities, 2015
Table summary
This table displays the results of Employment rate by sex Employment rate, Median monthly childcare fees, Women, Men, Difference, Infant, Toddler and Preschooler, calculated using percent and dollars units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  Employment rate Median monthly childcare fees
Women Men Difference InfantTable 1 Note 1 ToddlerTable 1 Note 2 PreschoolerTable 1 Note 3
percent dollars
Canada 77.5 85.3 -7.8 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Newfoundland and Labrador 73.2 76.0 -2.8 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
St. John's 81.4 83.0 -1.6 1,400 955 857
Prince Edward Island 80.4 83.6 -3.2 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Nova Scotia 78.7 81.8 -3.1 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Halifax 80.9 86.3 -5.4 867 784 785
New Brunswick 79.1 80.4 -1.3 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Moncton 82.5 86.4 -3.9 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Saint John 81.2 83.1 -1.9 846 694 651
QuebecTable 1 Note 4 80.1 84.0 -3.9 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Saguenay 81.2 82.0 -0.8 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Québec 88.6 89.9 -1.3 174 174  174 
Sherbrooke 83.7 82.3 1.4 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Trois-Rivières 82.4 81.0 1.4 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Montréal 77.2 83.6 -6.4 174  174  174
Ottawa–Gatineau, Quebec part 84.3 86.9 -2.6 174  174  174
Ontario 76.4 85.3 -8.9 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Ottawa–Gatineau, Ontario part 80.3 87.6 -7.3 976 1,194 987
Kingston 78.5 84.8 -6.3 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Peterborough 76.1 80.3 -4.2 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Oshawa 78.8 84.7 -5.9 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Toronto 73.9 86.5 -12.6 1,736 1,325 1,033
Hamilton 79.2 83.6 -4.4 1,239 1,020 852
St. Catharines–Niagara 81.1 84.8 -3.7 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Kitchener–Cambridge–WaterlooTable 1 Note 5 81.3 87.5 -6.2 868 825 813
Brantford 79.7 86.1 -6.4 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Guelph 85.0 88.7 -3.7 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
London 75.6 83.6 -8.0 1,180 1,085 970
Windsor 73.0 80.0 -7.0 977 846 760
Barrie 77.5 87.8 -10.3 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Greater Sudbury 77.2 82.9 -5.7 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Thunder Bay 80.3 81.0 -0.7 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Manitoba 79.2 88.0 -8.8 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Winnipeg 80.7 86.7 -6.0 651 451 451
Saskatchewan 80.6 88.8 -8.2 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Regina 83.9 90.4 -6.5 800 605 560
Saskatoon 78.9 87.1 -8.2 850 710 655
Alberta 77.0 88.3 -11.3 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Calgary 79.5 88.0 -8.5 1,075 960 910
Edmonton 77.2 87.6 -10.4 900 790 800
British Columbia 75.9 85.4 -9.5 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Kelowna 77.4 86.0 -8.6 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Abbotsford–Mission 73.1 87.9 -14.8 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Vancouver 74.8 86.6 -11.8 1,225 1,180 905
Victoria 82.3 82.4 -0.1 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
... not applicable
Note 1.

Children under 18 months.

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Note 2.

Children aged 1.5 to 3 years.

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Note 3.

Children aged 3 to 5 years.

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Note 4.

In Quebec, childcare fees are consistent across CMAs.

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Note 5.

The median monthly childcare fees are for Kitchener only.

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Sources: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, CANSIM tables 282-0002 and 282-0129; MacDonald, David and Thea Klinger. 2015. "They go up so fast: 2015 child care fees in Canadian cities." Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
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