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Employment in the logging, forestry, mining, quarrying and oil wells industries, by provinces and territories

  2000
  Canada Newfoundland Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia New Brunswick
  employees1 (thousands)
All industries2 12,199.6 155.9 53.9 340.0 270.6
Goods-producing industries 2,901.4 29.8 11.3 64.8 63.9
Logging and forestry 68.0 1.5 x 2.5 3.2
Mining (incl. milling), quarrying and oil wells 140.9 2.9 x 2.1 3.6
Manufacturing 2,005.7 17.0 5.4 40.3 39.5
Construction 557.7 5.1 5.5 17.1 13.8
Service-producing industries 9,199.2 124.7 42.5 271.3 205.7
Transportation, storage, communication and other utilities 908.9 14.2 3.3 24.9 22.7
Trade 2,273.8 33.2 7.4 70.2 51.8
Finance, insurance, and real estate 734.5 6.1 2.0 18.5 14.3
Community, business and personal services 4,730.6 58.5 23.8 133.1 97.5
Public administration 680.6 16.2 6.2 27.6 23.3
1. Excludes owners or partners of unincorporated business and professional practices, the self-employed, unpaid family workers, persons working outside Canada, military personnel and casual workers for whom a T4 is not required.
2. Excludes agriculture, fishing and trapping, private household services, religious organizations and the military.
Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM, table 281-0005 and Catalogue no 72-002-XIB.
Last modified: 2004-09-14.

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