Rural-urban differences across Canada's watersheds : Différences rurales-urbaines entre les bassins hydrographiques au Canada

Labour force activity and rates of employment There is a striking difference in the employment provide information on the strength of the rates when we compare census urban and census economy within the different types of watersheds rural residents within a watershed. [...] Note that the employment intensity is individuals are recorded as employed in the similar in the census rural areas and the census mining sector in “highly rural” watersheds out of urban areas in most types of watersheds. [...] The extremely high intensity seen amongst the census urban workforce in “highly rural” Figure 4. The intensity of employment in mining is similar in census urban and census rural. [...] The the intensity of employment in manufacturing is watershed type that is most intensive in “other” lower – for both the census rural and the census manufacturing employment is the “highly urban” urban workforce. [...] In rural greater is the share of the workforce employed in watersheds, the census rural workforce has a unskilled occupations, and in rural watersheds, the higher intensity of workers in unskilled census rural workforce is even more likely to have occupations.