Appendix
C: Selected Statistics of Female Employment
in North America 1984-1996
Notes:
– = not available
a The data
for Mexico from 1985 to 1989 and 1991
to 1994 was estimated based on the growth
rate between 1984 and 1990 and between
1990 and 1995.
b
The data for Mexico between 1985-1990
were interpolated using the survey year
data. The data for the United States
from 1994 to 1996 are not directly comparable
with the previous years due to a revision
of the questionnaire of the Current
Population Survey in January of 1994.
In 1996 the questionnaire of the Labor
Force Survey in Canada was revised data
presented are adjusted.
c
The primary sector includes aagriculture,
fishing, forestry and trapping; secondary
sector includes mining, manufacturing,
and construction; and the tertiary sector
includes transportation, utilities,
communications, trade,financial and
social services.
d
The data refer to actual hours worked,
exclude persons who did not work.
e It refers
to the tenure with the current employer
or with the last.
f
For Canada and Mexico the data refer
to the hours worked in the principal
occupation and exclude persons that
did not work. For the United States
the data refer to the hours usually
worked and include persons who have
more than one job.
g
The data for the United States is for
January 1978, January 1998 and February
1996.
h
For the United States, the data exclude
persons that return to the labor force.
For Mexico and Canada it refers to persons
with work experience and includes those
who return to the labor force.
i
The unemployed with work experience
include the job leavers, job losers
and those who return to the labor force.
j For Canada
the data refer to full-time workers
(includes wage and salaried and self-employed).
For the United States, the data refer
to full-time wage and salaried workers.
For Mexico, data refer to full-time
workers who recieved income.
Source:
Canada, Statistics Canada, Labour
Force Survey (LFS) and Survey of Consumer
Finances (SCF); Mexico, STPS/INEGI,
Encuesta Nacional de Empleo (ENE);
United States, Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Current Population Survey (CPS).
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