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Table 1
Labour force statistics by industry,
employment/unemployment, and
sex of paid workers (Canada, 1977)
|
Employed women |
Unemployed
(adjusted) |
| Industrial group |
Numbers |
Dist. |
As % of all |
|
|
|
of women |
% |
employed |
Men (rate) |
Women (rate) |
|
(thousands)
|
|
persons
|
(numbers
|
in thousands)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Goods-producing industries |
|
|
|
|
|
| agriculture |
40 |
1.2% |
28% |
10 ( 9.0%) |
6 (13.1%) |
| other primary industries |
|
|
|
|
|
| (forestry, mines, |
|
|
|
|
|
| fisheries, quarries, etc.) |
18 |
0.5% |
8% |
27(12.0%) |
* |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| Manufacturing |
470 |
14.1% |
25% |
101(6.7%) |
69 (12.8%) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| construction |
42 |
1.3% |
8% |
99(16.7%) |
5 (11.1%) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Sub-total: all |
570 |
17.1% |
20% |
(9.6%) |
(12.9%) |
| goods-producing industries |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| Service-producing
industries |
|
|
|
|
|
| transportation & |
140 |
4.2% |
15% |
33( 5.6%) |
11 ( 7.2%) |
| communication |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| utilities |
16 |
0.5% |
15% |
4 ( 3.7%) |
* |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| trade |
614 |
18.4% |
40% |
66( 6.8%) |
64 ( 9.5%) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| finance, insurance, |
303 |
9.1% |
58% |
7 ( 3.1%) |
17 ( 5.4%) |
| real estate |
|
|
|
|
|
| community, business, |
1,457 |
43.8% |
60% |
72 (6.8%) |
132 ( 8.3%) |
| & personal service |
|
|
|
|
|
| Public administration |
229 |
6.9% |
32% |
24 ( 4.8%) |
18 ( 71.3%) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| Sub-total: .all. |
2,759 |
82.9% |
46% |
( 6.0%) |
( 8.1%) |
| service-producing industries |
|
|
|
|
|
* values too small to be of statistical significance
| Source: |
Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey Division, The
labour force: 1977 annual averages (December 1977). (Ottawa: Statistics
Canada, 1977). |
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