|
Table 2.
Labour force statistics by occupation,
employment/unemployment, and
sex of paid workers (Canada, 1977)
|
Employed women |
Unemployed
(adjusted) |
| Occupational group |
Numbers |
Dist.1 |
As % of all |
|
|
|
of women |
% |
employed |
Men (rate) |
Women (rate) |
|
(thousands)
|
|
persons
|
(numbers
|
in thousands)
|
|
144 |
4% |
22% |
12 ( 2.3%) |
5 ( 3.6%) |
| Managerial |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Professional & technical |
|
|
|
|
|
| natural sciences |
34 |
1% |
11% |
9 ( 3.2%) |
* |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| social sciences |
65 |
2% |
53% |
* |
6 ( 7.8%) |
| religion |
5 |
* |
18% |
* |
* |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| teaching |
242 |
7% |
56% |
5( 2.4%) |
13 ( 5.1%) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| medicine & health
sciences |
321 |
10% |
82% |
* |
15 ( 4.4%) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| artistic, literary |
37 |
1% |
38% |
6(9.8%) |
4 (10.6%) |
| & recreational |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| Clerical |
1,265 |
38% |
76% |
20(5.8%) |
105 ( 1.1%) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| Sales |
327 |
10% |
37% |
29(4. 7%) |
33 ( 9.2%) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| Service |
502 |
15% |
48% |
54(8.8%) |
72 (12.5%) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| Primary occupations |
|
|
|
|
|
| agriculture |
39 |
1% |
23% |
17(11.3%) |
6 (14.2%) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| other primary occupations |
* |
* |
* |
21(16.3%) |
* |
| (fishing, mining,
hunting, |
|
|
|
|
|
| forestry, quarrying,
etc.) |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| Processing occupations |
264 |
8% |
20% |
97(7.5%) |
45(14.5%) |
| machining, fabricating, |
|
|
|
|
|
| assembling, repairing, etc. |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| Construction trades |
6 |
* |
1% |
99(14.7%) |
* |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| Transport equipment operation |
13 |
* |
4% |
31(8.4%) |
* |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| Crafts persons, material |
|
|
|
|
|
| handling, equipment |
61 |
2% |
18% |
30( 8.8%) |
8(16.9%) |
| operation |
|
|
|
|
|
* 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). |
1. The distribution percentages indicate what
proportion of women are in each occupational group. |