Table 6
Proportion of employment characteristics among people aged 25 to 54 by sex, Canada, 2015^{Table 6 Note 1} Table 6
Proportion of employment characteristics among people aged 25 to 54 by sex, Canada, 2015^{Table 6 Note 1}

Table 6
Proportion of employment characteristics among people aged 25 to 54 by sex, Canada, 2015
Table summary
This table displays the results of Proportion of employment characteristics among people aged 25 to 54 by sex Women and Men, calculated using percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
	percent
	Women	Men
Class of worker
Paid employees	88.1	83.0
Public employees	29.9	15.7
Private employees	58.2	67.3
Self-employed
1976	6.0	15.3
2015	11.8	17.0
Unpaid family worker	0.1	0.0
Job permanence
Temporary	10.4	9.3
Permanent	89.6	90.7
Union coverage
No	64.1	68.9
Yes	35.9	31.1
Average job tenure (in months)
1976	67.6	101.4
2015	93.7	94.9
Multiple jobholder
No
1976	98.5	97.2
2015	93.5	95.5
Yes
1976	1.5	2.8
2015	6.5	4.5
Multiple jobs as a paid employee	87.2	86.2
Multiple jobs involving self-employment, exclusively or in combination with paid employment	12.8	13.8
Main job is part-time	38.9	18.2
Selected reasons for working part-time
Caring for children	11.9	1.7
Business conditions	29.0	35.1
Note 1. Unless otherwise noted. Return to note 1 referrer Sources: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, CANSIM tables 282-0038, 282-0078, 282-0080, and custom tabulations.

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