Where are the scientists and engineers? : Où sont les scientifiques et les ingénieurs?

The study’s main focus is on the employed PhDs, however, the total labour force activity figures are used mainly in the calculation of employment rates as well as in the PhDs growth rate, distribution per 100,000, and in the total growth due to immigration. [...] Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia are the three provinces that were above the Canadian total in terms of the distribution of science and engineering doctorates per 100,000 of the total labour force activity in 2001. [...] As employment in the goods-producing sectors such as manufacturing declines and employment in the knowledge-based service sectors gains more prominence in Canada’s economy, it should be expected that knowledge-workers at the PhD level of education would also tend to be employed in the service-producing sectors and not so much the goods-producing sectors of the economy. [...] In 2001, the goods-producing sector represented 24.6% of the entire employed labour force, 7.4% of all employed PhDs, and 11.5% of the total number of S&E employed PhDs.8. [...] There were more S&E PhDs in the public sector in Edmonton largely due to the fact that almost half of Edmonton’s employed S&E PhDs (48%) were employed in the educational services sector, the highest percentage of the six selected CMAs.