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Employment, payrolls and average weekly earnings 1939-1946 with index numbers of employment, 1921-1938 /

17 Sep 2013

Industrial Classification.- The first step in the revision was the re- grouping of the records back to 1939, so far as was possible, according to the headings of the Canadian Standard Industrial Classification. [...] The percentage relationships were ascertained between the monthly index numbers of employment and payrolls for 1947 (a) computed on the 1939 base from data obtained in the new tabulation of establishment data reclassified according to indU8try, and (b) computed on the former basis from the originally tabulated data, rearranged according to the Standard Industrial Classification. [...] As previously mentioned, the introduction of the payroll series in 1941, together with changes in industry classification and the inclusion of data for the various branches of the finance group from 1939, re8ulted in some loss of comparability in the figures on employment before and after that year. [...] A third test compared the computed index numbers of employment, averaged for particular areas and industries in 1940 and 1941, with the corresponding annual index numbers, calculated on the 1939 base from a retabulation of the annual average data of employment and payrolls, required to obtain the statistics of average weekly wages and salaries in those years. [...] In 1941, there was rather greater variation in the two sets of figures, probably due to the disruption in the series which followed the institution of the payroll series early in the year.
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Pages
44
Published in
Ottawa

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