Provincial and Territorial Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by Income and by Expenditure Accounts

Level of employment of economy, number

Level of employment refers to all persons, both employees and self-employed persons, engaged in some productive activity that falls within the production boundary of the System of National Accounts and that is undertaken by a resident institutional unit.

Economy refers to the entire set of resident institutional units. It is divided into sectors that consists of groups of resident institutional units. An institutional unit is resident in a country when it has a centre of economic interest in the economic territory of that country. It is said to have a centre of economic interest when there exists some location - dwelling, place of production or other premises - within the economic territory on, or from, which it engages, and intends to continue to engage, in economic activities and transactions on a significant scale either indefinitely or over a finite period of time.

The data for this variable are reported using the following measurements:

  • Whole number
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