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Percentage distribution of the population 14 years of age or older in the labour force and non-labour force categories, by sex, 1946 and 1956 to 1965
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| Labour force | Not in labour force | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population | Agriculture | Non-agriculture | Unemployed | Total | Women keeping house | People going to school | Other | Total | |
| thousands | % | ||||||||
| Males | |||||||||
| 19461 | 4,400 | 23.4 | 58.6 | 3.1 | 85.1 | - | 5.5 | 9.4 | 14.8 |
| 1956 | 5,398 | 13.7 | 65.4 | 3.2 | 82.2 | - | 6.2 | 11.6 | 17.8 |
| 1957 | 5,559 | 12.8 | 65.1 | 4.4 | 82.3 | - | 6.4 | 11.4 | 17.7 |
| 1958 | 5,684 | 11.7 | 63.3 | 6.6 | 81.7 | - | 6.8 | 11.6 | 18.4 |
| 1959 | 5,785 | 11.3 | 64.2 | 5.6 | 81.0 | - | 7.2 | 11.7 | 19.0 |
| 1960 | 5,890 | 10.7 | 63.4 | 6.6 | 80.7 | - | 7.5 | 11.7 | 19.3 |
| 1961 | 5,991 | 10.4 | 62.7 | 6.7 | 79.8 | - | 8.1 | 12.1 | 20.2 |
| 1962 | 5,094 | 9.8 | 63.8 | 5.4 | 79.1 | - | 8.6 | 12.3 | 20.9 |
| 1963 | 6,215 | 9.3 | 64.2 | 5.0 | 78.5 | - | 9.0 | 12.5 | 21.5 |
| 1964 | 6,351 | 8.8 | 65.1 | 4.2 | 78.1 | - | 9.5 | 12.4 | 21.9 |
| 1965 | 6,505 | 8.0 | 66.4 | 3.4 | 77.9 | - | 9.9 | 12.3 | 22.1 |
| Females | |||||||||
| 19461 | 4,379 | 3.6 | 20.6 | 0.6 | 24.7 | 63.2 | 5.1 | 7.0 | 75.3 |
| 1956 | 5,409 | 0.7 | 23.7 | 0.5 | 24.9 | 64.9 | 5.5 | 4.7 | 75.1 |
| 1957 | 5,564 | 0.7 | 24.5 | 0.6 | 25.8 | 63.9 | 5.7 | 4.5 | 74.2 |
| 1958 | 5,703 | 0.9 | 24.4 | 0.9 | 26.2 | 63.2 | 6.1 | 4.5 | 73.8 |
| 1959 | 5,820 | 0.8 | 25.1 | 0.8 | 26.7 | 62.4 | 6.4 | 4.5 | 73.3 |
| 1960 | 5,942 | 0.8 | 26.0 | 1.0 | 27.9 | 61.0 | 6.6 | 4.5 | 72.1 |
| 1961 | 6,061 | 1.0 | 26.6 | 1.1 | 28.7 | 59.9 | 6.9 | 4.5 | 71.3 |
| 1962 | 6,186 | 1.0 | 27.1 | 1.0 | 29.0 | 59.1 | 7.4 | 4.5 | 71.0 |
| 1963 | 6,320 | 1.1 | 27.5 | 1.0 | 29.6 | 58.1 | 7.9 | 4.4 | 70.4 |
| 1964 | 6,466 | 1.1 | 28.5 | 0.9 | 30.5 | 56.9 | 8.3 | 4.3 | 69.5 |
| 1965 | 6,623 | 1.1 | 29.4 | 0.8 | 31.3 | 55.6 | 8.6 | 4.5 | 68.7 |
| Notes: - Comparable figures for 1947 to 1955 are given in Canada Year Book, 1962, pp. 710-711. - Many terms used in the Canada Year Books are no longer used today for reasons such as their offensive connotations, changes in place name or organization name, or terms becoming obsolete. These terms have been left as they appear in the original yearbooks. |
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| 1. Excludes Newfoundland. | |||||||||
| Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1967. | |||||||||
