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An overview of the goods sectorThere are seven main industry groupings, or sub-sectors, within the goods sector:
Table 1 shows the ranking of these industries, based on employment in 2005. The biggest employer is manufacturing, with 198,200 workers. Construction (168,000) is ranked second and agriculture (38,700), third among the goods-producing industries. About a fifth of the province's work force is employed in goods industries. Only two of the ten biggest employer industries in the province are in the goods sector. You should note that ranking the industries based on their share of employment gives a different result from a ranking that's based on their share of total GDP. For example, agriculture is the third largest employer in the goods sector, but would be sixth if GDP were used as a basis for comparison. As was discussed previously, some industries (such as agriculture) use a lot of labour to produce their output, so employment and GDP rankings can be quite different. Table 2 summarizes some of the key economic and labour force variables for industries within this sector.
Data
Source: Statistics Canada & BC Stats Table 1
Data
Source: Statistics Canada
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