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Employment in the BC Agri-Food Chain: 1993-2002
|
1993 |
1994 |
1995 |
1996 |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
| Agriculture & Related Services* |
34,300 |
30,700 |
25,600 |
30,100 |
33,200 |
33,100 |
28,600 |
29,700 |
25,900 |
30,100 |
| Primary Fishing |
6,300 |
6,200 |
4,500 |
5,100 |
5,400 |
3,500 |
3,800 |
4,700 |
5,400 |
3,300 |
| Food & Beverage Processing |
22,200 |
26,900 |
22,100 |
24,400 |
25,500 |
25,800 |
21,700 |
23,800 |
26,200 |
27,000 |
| Food Service |
86,100 |
93,100 |
106,000 |
111,200 |
113,000 |
117,100 |
116,600 |
123,800 |
124,200 |
129,200 |
| Retail Food** |
46,200 |
50,000 |
57,600 |
55,100 |
52,300 |
56,600 |
58,600 |
62,500 |
62,900 |
64,400 |
| Specialized Retail (Health
Food)*** |
2,400 |
2,800 |
3,700 |
4,000 |
4,100 |
5,200 |
5,600 |
1,473 |
1,935 |
2,764 |
| Floral & Garden Retail |
3,900 |
3,900 |
5,000 |
4,500 |
5,300 |
3,600 |
4,500 |
3,600 |
4,100 |
4,500 |
| Wholesale Trade (Farm & Food) |
15,400 |
17,800 |
1,940 |
17,400 |
17,900 |
14,300 |
16,400 |
16,600 |
15,400 |
16,800 |
| Transportation and Storage**** |
4,100 |
3,500 |
3,500 |
3,300 |
3,200 |
3,200 |
2,800 |
2,700 |
1,200 |
1,531 |
| Other Support Services ***** |
1,500 |
1,800 |
2,200 |
1,300 |
400 |
400 |
400 |
400 |
300 |
684 |
| Total |
222,400 |
236,700 |
249,600 |
256,400 |
260,300 |
262,800 |
259,000 |
267,800 |
273,600 |
280,279 |
| Total excluding Fishing |
216,100 |
230,500 |
245,100 |
251,300 |
254,900 |
259,300 |
255,200 |
269,273 |
267,535 |
276,979 |
|
*Agriculture jobs include, 1,900 jobs in aquaculture [The North
American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) codes
aquaculture within the agriculture industry]. |
| **Includes vending
machine operators |
| ***Based on a BCMAFF
survey of health food stores in 33 significant urban centres in
British Columbia |
|
****Based on a BCMAFF survey of grain and food hauling railways,
food trucking and grain elevatores |
| *****Based on a BCMAFF
survey of banks, credit unions, realtors, fertilizer/chemical
manufacturers and leather/hide tanners. |
|
Source: Except where noted, data are from NAICS coded industry statistics
produced by Statistics Canada's Laborforce Survey and
benchmarked to the 1996 Census that are produced by Statistics
Canada's Labour Force Survey.. |
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