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Percentage variation in employment, salaries and wages, and gross value of products in the main industrial groups compared for significant years, 1829 to 1944

Percentage variation in employment, salaries and wages, and gross value of products in the main industrial groups compared for significant years, 1829 to 1944
  1933 compared with 1929 1939 compared with 1929 1944 compared with 1939
  Employees Salaries and wages Gross value of products Employees Salaries and wages Gross value of products Employees Salaries and wages Gross value of products
Vegetable products -17.2 -28.5 -44.8 9.2 0.0 -23.0 27.0 72.0 86.0
Animal products -21.5 -25.2 -43.3 2.5 9.9 -6.0 35.8 89.4 132.0
Textile products -7.9 -23.3 -30.7 16.5 4.0 -8.0 21.0 74.0 98.0
Wood and paper products -36.1 -46.8 -52.9 -12.0 -14.0 -200.0 31.0 71.0 82.0
Iron and its products -48.6 -64.5 -72.6 -15.3 -22.2 -30.0 237.0 414.0 358.0
Non-ferrous metals -36.6 -48.4 -41.9 11.8 9.5 39.0 133.0 201.0 133.0
Non-metallic minerals -42.0 -50.5 -42.8 -21.3 -22.8 -13.0 35.0 79.0 100.0
Chemicals -7.8 -17.2 -33.0 35.3 35.0 13.0 261.0 332.0 351.0
Miscellaneous products -22.6 -37.3 -52.9 4.0 4.7 -18.0 108.0 210.0 247.0
Average, all industries -29.7 -43.9 -49.7 -1.3 -5.1 -10.5 85.8 175.1 161.1
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1947.