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Forest industry employment (Canada)
	2016	2017	2018
Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours (number) ^{Footnote 1}
Forestry and logging industry	27,308	27,129	27,174
Pulp and paper product manufacturing industry	53,178	54,108	54,121
Support activities for forestry industry	12,551	12,520	12,218
Wood product manufacturing industry	92,281	93,081	93,631
Total	185,318	186,838	187,144
Canadian System of National Accounts (number) ^{Footnote 2}
Forestry and logging industry	32,630	33,185	35,540
Pulp and paper product manufacturing industry	56,365	57,355	56,410
Support activities for forestry industry	21,505	21,970	21,205
Wood product manufacturing industry	97,190	98,825	97,460
Total	207,690	211,335	210,615
Natural Resources Satellite Account (number) ^{Footnote 3}	231,066	232,549	233,407
Direct and indirect employment (number) ^{Footnote 4}	306,020	301,208	302,489
Wages and salaries (dollars) ^{Footnote 5}
Logging industry	1,588,646,000	1,606,199,000
Pulp and paper product manufacturing industry	3,410,466,000	3,602,303,000
Wood product manufacturing industry	4,860,041,000	5,060,194,000
Total	9,859,153,000	10,268,696,000

Footnotes

Footnote 1

Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours

Source: Statistics Canada. Table 14-10-0202-01 (formerly CANSIM 281-0024): Employment by industry, annual. (accessed May 29, 2019).

Note: Employment–includes jobs held by people employed directly in the following industries: forestry and logging, support activities for forestry, pulp and paper product manufacturing, and wood product manufacturing. Natural Resources Canada prefers to use employment data from Statistics Canada’s System of National Accounts (SNA) because these data are linked to the underlying framework used to compile the Canadian System of Natural Economic Accounts (e.g., GDP, national wealth). Employment data can also be sourced from Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey (LFS) and the Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours (SEPH). The strength of LFS data is their demographic information, and they can be used to capture the level of self-employment in the forest sector. The SEPH focus on industry and can be used for comparing direct company employment in forestry with that in other sectors.

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Canadian System of National Accounts

Source: Statistics Canada. Table 36-10-0489-01 (formerly CANSIM 383-0031): Labour statistics consistent with the System of National Accounts (SNA), by job category and industry. (accessed May 23, 2019).

Note: Natural Resources Canada prefers to use employment data from Statistics Canada’s System of National Accounts (SNA) because this data is linked to the underlying framework used to compile the Canadian System of National Economic Accounts (e.g. GDP, national wealth).

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Footnote 3

Natural resources satellite account

Source: Statistics Canada. Table: 38-10-0285-01 (formerly CANSIM 388-0010): Natural resources satellite account. (accessed June 18, 2018).

Note: Natural Resources Canada calculations based on Statistics Canada’s Table: 38-10-0285-01.

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Footnote 4

Direct and indirect employment

Source: Indirect employment is calculated by Natural Resources Canada using Statistics Canada’s National Symmetric Input-Output Tables (15-207-XCB) and Statistics Canada’s National Multipliers (15F0046XDB).

Note: The calculations for indirect employment were changed in 2019 to better account for employment in the forest sector. This change affects data for 2018 and going forward. Retroactive changes to previous year’s data have not been applied at this time.

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Footnote 5

Wages and salaries

Sources:

Statistics Canada. Table 16-10-0117-01 (formerly CANSIM 301-0008): Principal statistics for manufacturing industries, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (x 1,000). (accessed June 3, 2019).
Statistics Canada. Table 16-10-0114-01 (formerly CANSIM 301-0009): Logging industries, principal statistics by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). (accessed June 3, 2019).

Note: Wages and salaries are the earnings, in cash or in kind, of Canadian residents for work performed before deduction of income taxes and contributions to pension funds, employment insurance and other social insurance schemes.

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