Name: Employment by establishment size, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
Creator: Statistics Canada
License: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada

Employment by establishment size, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality — AI AnalysisStatistics Canada's Table 14100067 tracks monthly employment across establishment sizes from January 1997 to February 2026, covering 156,281 records across 11 regions, 19 industries, and 5 establishment size categories. Total Canadian employment grew 5.5% over nearly three decades, from approximatelKey Findings

Total Canadian employment grew 5.5% over the full period, rising from 10,921K to 11,523K persons between January 1997 and February 2026.

Large establishments (500+ employees) posted the strongest relative growth at +8.8% (1,338.7K to 1,456.6K), while medium-large firms (100–500 employees) had the weakest at +4.4%.

Small businesses (fewer than 20 employees) remain the single largest employment category at 4,005.6K persons, representing the largest share of total employment throughout the entire period.

The dataset is strongly right-skewed, with a mean employment of 58.0K persons nearly 9x higher than the median of 6.3K, and a standard deviation of 279.6K reflecting extreme variability driven by large establishments.

All five establishment size categories are near-perfectly correlated (r≥0.997), with '20–99 employees' and 'Total employees' showing the strongest relationship at r=0.999, indicating employment across all business sizes rises and falls together.

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