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Forest sector employment (Canada)
	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	1999	1998	1997	1996	1995	1994	1993	1992	1991	1990
Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours (number) ^{Footnote 1}
Forestry and logging	24,205	26,384	27,174	27,129	27,308	27,813	26,765	27,273	28,432	29,056	28,648	28,392	34,073	39,441	42,290	45,727	47,994	47,986	47,322	48,766	50,332	48,687	51,595	56,319	54,429	56,257	53,626	52,811	49,980	52,344
Pulp and paper product manufacturing	47,696	52,281	54,121	54,108	53,178	55,642	56,800	58,147	57,839	61,893	62,988	66,602	73,520	79,380	83,810	87,689	93,718	96,994	95,981	103,703	110,144	103,110	100,821	104,098	103,394	104,450	104,779	107,415	111,954	121,628
Support activities for forestry	11,508	12,163	12,218	12,520	12,551	12,295	11,820	11,045	10,946	11,122	11,226	11,114	11,590	13,021	13,771	13,416	13,503	14,991	19,796	19,383	27,996	29,223	26,700	30,190	29,169	32,715	30,966	28,437	27,165	26,956
Wood product manufacturing	85,746	93,123	93,631	93,081	92,281	91,781	92,638	92,028	89,630	88,361	88,949	89,459	110,372	122,940	130,222	135,306	137,153	133,829	134,227	135,758	141,872	134,177	127,559	124,299	116,544	108,431	109,790	96,475	93,450	99,572
Total	169,155	183,951	187,144	186,838	185,318	187,531	188,023	188,493	186,847	190,432	191,811	195,567	229,555	254,782	270,093	282,138	292,368	293,800	297,326	307,610	330,344	315,197	306,675	314,906	303,536	301,853	299,161	285,138	282,549	300,500
Canadian System of National Accounts (number) ^{Footnote 2}
Forestry and logging	26,635	30,545	32,845	32,400	33,185	31,955	31,750	32,595	32,655	36,285	35,070	35,050	41,575	44,955	49,920	56,985	57,065	56,625	58,700	58,515	62,415	65,825	62,370	66,765
Pulp and paper product manufacturing	50,245	52,765	56,150	56,230	54,415	57,050	58,015	58,085	57,795	60,180	64,210	64,660	70,215	77,820	82,700	89,625	90,490	91,770	96,120	104,105	105,870	98,250	100,780	104,710
Support activities for forestry	19,975	22,435	22,435	22,045	21,855	20,790	20,980	20,550	20,475	21,695	21,205	21,900	20,875	21,330	21,575	20,495	20,510	21,625	20,365	20,930	22,515	24,300	24,025	22,055
Wood product manufacturing	87,655	96,655	99,215	98,655	96,610	91,080	90,625	91,390	88,170	86,400	90,880	86,345	100,495	113,195	133,810	150,590	159,260	148,580	151,340	147,820	156,180	162,890	147,570	153,260
Total	184,510	202,400	210,645	209,330	206,065	200,875	201,370	202,620	199,095	204,560	211,365	207,955	233,160	257,300	288,005	317,695	327,325	318,600	326,525	331,370	346,980	351,265	334,745	346,790
Natural Resources Satellite Account (number) ^{Footnote 3}	200,512	218,271	221,281	227,833	224,950	221,011	220,304	219,193	221,808	227,107	233,522	232,879	263,977	291,684
Direct and indirect employment (number) ^{Footnote 4}	309,110		302,489	301,208	306,020	296,691	288,700	361,567
Wages and salaries (dollars) ^{Footnote 5}
Logging		1,811,118,000	1,782,587,000	1,666,370,000	1,588,646,000	1,577,158,000	1,503,019,000	1,358,577,000	1,363,229,000	1,361,800,000	1,308,833,000	1,349,681,000	1,971,323,000	2,261,183,000	2,404,325,000	2,666,773,000	2,604,824,000	1,891,702,000	2,076,934,000	2,073,903,000	1,919,210,000	1,721,811,000	1,835,609,000	1,870,701,000	1,831,750,000	1,764,048,000	1,563,090,000	1,702,040,000	1,639,058,000	1,540,440,000	1,640,687,000
Pulp and paper product manufacturing		3,749,562,000	3,694,284,000	3,579,361,000	3,410,466,000	3,459,083,000	3,640,846,000	3,235,468,000	3,358,406,000	3,410,047,000	3,543,883,000	3,615,862,000	4,072,149,000	4,354,263,000	4,535,143,000	4,987,756,000	5,190,032,000	5,244,896,000	5,217,888,000	5,179,752,000	5,221,169,000	5,581,104,000	4,982,728,000	5,139,002,000	5,119,409,000	5,034,148,000	4,717,101,000	4,572,217,000	4,560,454,000	4,667,264,000	4,655,138,000
Wood product manufacturing		5,202,716,000	5,328,871,000	5,071,847,000	4,860,041,000	4,671,347,000	4,406,329,000	4,176,150,000	3,936,269,000	3,838,905,000	3,876,350,000	3,723,364,000	4,355,073,000	4,939,948,000	5,369,926,000	5,385,426,000	5,382,860,000	5,017,929,000	5,133,564,000	5,018,552,000	5,111,119,000	4,987,684,000	4,500,077,000	4,470,309,000	4,223,193,000	4,080,550,000	3,885,541,000	3,498,939,000	3,200,852,000	2,980,704,000	3,292,025,000
Total		10,763,396,000	10,805,742,000	10,317,578,000	9,859,153,000	9,707,588,000	9,550,194,000	8,770,195,000	8,657,904,000	8,610,752,000	8,729,066,000	8,688,907,000	10,398,545,000	11,555,394,000	12,309,394,000	13,039,955,000	13,177,716,000	12,154,527,000	12,428,386,000	12,272,207,000	12,251,498,000	12,290,599,000	11,318,414,000	11,480,012,000	11,174,352,000	10,878,746,000	10,165,732,000	9,773,196,000	9,400,364,000	9,188,408,000	9,587,850,000

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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 March 30, 2021).

Notes:

Employment includes jobs held by people employed directly in the following subsectors: forestry and logging, support activities for forestry, pulp and paper product manufacturing, and wood product manufacturing.
SEPH data focus on industry and can be used for comparing direct company employment in forestry with that in other sectors.

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Footnote 2

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 20, 2021).

Notes:

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 includes jobs held by people employed directly in the following subsectors: forestry and logging, support activities for forestry, pulp and paper product manufacturing, and wood product manufacturing.

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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, indicators (x 1,000,000). (accessed July 7, 2021).

Note:

Data from Statistics Canada’s Natural Resources Satellite Account (NRSA) are a key source of information on the economic contribution of the forest sector in Canada. The NRSA is able to capture economic activity in forest industry segments that have traditionally been difficult to measure, such as wood furniture manufacturing.

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Footnote 4

Direct and indirect employment

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

Notes:

Natural Resources Canada–Canadian Forest Service calculated indirect employment using Statistics Canada’s National Symmetric Input-Output Tables (15-207-XCB) and National Multipliers (15F0046XDB).
The calculations for indirect employment were changed in 2019 to better account for employment in the forest sector. Retroactive changes to previous years’ 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 May 18, 2021).
Statistics Canada. Table 16-10-0114-01 (formerly CANSIM 301-0009): Logging industries, principal statistics by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (x 1,000). (accessed May 18, 2021).

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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Forest sector employment (Canada)