Employment

Like GDP, employment is calculated at the industry level. Therefore, the employment calculation uses the same tourism industry ratios as GDP to calculate the tourism portion of each industry. Thus, if the tourism industry ratio for an industry is 50%, half of this industry’s employment is allocated to tourism. This calculation is done for all tourism-related industries and then the shares are summed to arrive at total tourism employment within Canada. As mentioned before, employment data by industry come from the Canadian Productivity Accounts of the CSMA. The employment data are available only at an industry level too aggregated for the PTTSA. Wages and salaries, from the GDP calculation, are used to allocate employment across the sub-industries.