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Hours worked per week by wage-earners working specified weekly hours in month of highest employment, by province and industrial group, 1944

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Hours worked per week by wage-earners working specified weekly hours in month of highest employment, by province and industrial group, 1944
  Males
  30 or less 31 to 43 44 45 to 47 48 49 to 50
  number
Canada2 45,414 83,293 76,141 67,306 182,798 80,878
Prince Edward Island 6 26 39 14 128 44
Nova Scotia 1,507 2,481 3,549 1,302 8,174 1,341
New Brunswick 894 1,178 1,913 738 2,755 2,126
Quebec 11,603 25,833 14,465 18,568 57,775 26,314
Ontario 24,599 39,871 23,140 36,684 78,774 43,492
Manitoba 1,620 2,791 5,299 2,006 6,795 3,078
Saskatchewan 514 715 508 508 1,637 1,030
Alberta 824 1,582 1,916 991 3,235 1,567
British Columbia 3,844 8,815 25,312 6,495 23,468 1,886
Yukon and Northwest Territories 3 1 - - 57 -
Industrial Group            
Vegetable products 9,547 7,436 3,702 5,328 13,409 6,867
Animal products1 2,608 4,636 2,457 4,073 5,719 6,414
Textiles and textile products 2,353 6,955 5,868 3,758 8,634 12,974
Wood and paper products 8,416 12,538 12,155 11,152 31,884 11,667
Iron and its products 15,040 36,421 40,727 30,380 72,720 28,652
Non-ferrous metal products 2,855 6,200 3,239 5,653 23,854 9,635
Non-metallic mineral products 1,231 2,536 3,397 1,183 8,061 1,361
Chemicals and allied products 2,426 5,159 2,721 3,004 16,856 2,144
Miscellaneous industries 938 1,412 1,875 2,775 1,661 1,164
  51 to 54 55 56 to 64 65 or Older Total wage-earners Average hours worked per week
  number
Canada1 100,621 42,214 128,751 42,618 850,031 40.1
Prince Edward Island 218 39 117 227 858 56.3
Nova Scotia 3,441 905 6,363 1,848 30,911 50.0
New Brunswick 3,616 510 4,971 959 19,660 51.1
Quebec 37,517 20,198 61,236 21,359 294,868 81.1
Ontario 45,906 18,755 44,438 15,781 371,440 48.1
Manitoba 2,537 459 2,909 716 28,210 47.2
Saskatchewan 1,289 351 2,788 328 9,668 50.9
Alberta 2,849 441 2,855 373 16,633 48.9
British Columbia 3,248 556 3,059 1,023 77,706 45.2
Yukon and Northwest Territories - - 15 4 80 50.3
Industrial group            
Vegetable products 11,774 4,243 14,795 8,176 85,277 49.4
Animal products1 5,348 2,437 3,481 896 38,069 47.6
Textiles and textile products 4,269 4,133 4,789 1,632 55,365 48.0
Wood and paper products 18,765 9,641 44,111 7,202 167,531 50.7
Iron and its products 39,539 17,716 47,401 20,237 348,833 49.1
Non-ferrous metal products 7,760 2,286 6,078 1,524 69,084 48.2
Non-metallic mineral products 2,763 684 3,339 1,215 25,770 48.5
Chemicals and allied products 9,113 605 4,071 1,429 47,528 48.0
Miscellaneous industries 1,290 469 686 307 12,577 46.1
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1947.