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This time: Employment Statistics Part Time Full Time Work

The end of term is always a difficult time to get any writing done, which is a problem because I'm on a deadline. However, I did manage to hive off a little time from marking and dealing with student queries to compile the following statistics on Part Time and Full Time work and how it is distributed by gender. This is drawn from Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey characteristics and the U.S Bureau of Labor, Labour Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey. It's for a piece I'm working on about the gendered nature of work in Canada and the U.S.

Table 1. Canada

Female and Male Employment Full Time and Part Time

Percentage of working population by gender


Years
Employment total (thousands)
Part Time
Full Time

Female
Male
Female
Male
Female
Male
2007
7477.7
8185.6
25.4
10.1
74.6
90.0
2008
7541.1
8254.8
25.6
10.4
74.4
90.0
2009
7480.4
7942.6
26.1
11.3
73.9
89.1
2010
7528.8
8035.7
26.1
10.9
73.5
89.1
2011
7581.1
8164.3
25.9
11.1
74.1
89.1
2012
7650.8
8230.5
25.6
10.7
74.4
88.9
2013
7735.1
8290.2
25.5
10.9
74.6
89.3
2014
7729.9
8322.7
26.1
10.9
74.3
89.0
2015
7747.7
8382.5
25.1
10.8
74.9
89.1
2016
7805.8
8373.4
24.9
11.2
75.1
88.8
2017
7917.1
8500.2
24.7
11.4
75.3
88.6

Table 2. United States

Female-Male Employment Full Time and Part Time

Percentage of working population by gender



Years
Employment total (thousands)
Part Time
Full Time

Female
Male
Female
Male
Female
Male







2007
74,115
83,538
26.4
12.6
73.6
87.4
2008
74,363
83,109
27.8
14.0
72.2
86.0
2009
72,855
81,073
28.5
15.6
71.5
84.4
2010
71,980
80,341
28.5
15.7
71.5
84.3
2011
72,976
80,503
28.3
15.2
71.7
84.8
2012
74,051
82,143
28.5
15.5
71.5
84.5
2013
74,397
82,590
28.2
14.5
71.8
85.5
2014
68,613
77,692
25.8
12.7
74.2
87.3
2015
69,703
79,131
25.2
14.1
74.8
87.6
2016
70,868
80,569
24.9
12.4
75.1
87.6
2017
70,840
80,877
24.8
12.2
76.8
88.5




Comments

  1. Lisa Lambert3 April 2018 at 13:31

    Your Table 1 2007 % for women is not adding up. Maybe 25.4% instead?

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  2. Jacquetta Newman3 April 2018 at 13:44

    Thanks Lisa. I'm glad you caught that. Some of the rounding throws out the numbering, but that was a typo. Cheers.

    ReplyDelete

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