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Summary statistics of manufactures, significant years, 1917 to 1945

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Summary statistics of manufactures, significant years, 1917 to 1945
  1917 1920 19291 1933
  number
Establishments 21,845 22,532 22,216 23,780
  $
Capital 2,333,991,229 2,923,667,011 4,004,892,009 3,279,259,838
  Average, per establishment 106,843 129,756 180,271 137,900
  Average, per employee 3,848 4,882 6,009 6,997
  Average, per wage-earner 4,309 5,616 6,933 8,584
    number
Total, employees 606,523 598,893 666,531 468,658
  Average, per establishment 27.8 26.6 30.0 19.7
    $
Total, salaries and wages 497,801,844 717,493,876 777,291,217 436,247,824
  Average, per establishment 22,788 31,843 34,988 18,345
  Average, per employee 821 1,198 1,166 931
    number
Employees on salaries 64,918 78,334 88,841 86,636
  Average, per establishment 3.0 3.5 4.0 3.6
    $
Salaries 85,353,667 141,837,361 175,553,710 139\317,946
  Average, per salaried employee 1,315 1,811 1,976 1,608
    number
Employees on wages 541,605 520,559 577,690 382,022
  Average, per establishment 24.8 23.1 26.0 16.1
    $
Wages 412,448,177 575,656,515 601,737,507 296,929,878
  Average, per wage-earner 762 1,106 1,042 777
Cost of materials 1,539,678,811 2,085,276,649 2,029,670,813 967,788,928
  Average, per establishment 70,482 92,547 91,361 40,698
  Average, per employee 2 539 3,482 3,045 2,065
Values added in manufacture2 1,281,131,980 1,621,273,348 1,755,386,937 919,671,181
  Average, per establishment2 58,646 71,954 79,015 38,674
  Average, per employee2 2,112 2,707 2,634 1,962
Gross value of products 2,820,810,791 3,706,544,997 3,883,446,116 1,954,075,785
  Average, per establishment 129,128 164,501 174,804 82,173
  Average, per employee 4,651 6,189 5,826 4,170
    hp
Power employed 1,658,475 2,068,875 3,855,648 4,135,008
  Average, per establishment 76 92 174 174
  Average, per wage-earner 3.06 3.97 6.67 10.82
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1947.