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Canada: Own-account workers, female

8.98percent · 2016+10.4% since 2006

Own-account workers are workers who, working on their own account or with one or more more partners, hold the types of jobs defined as "self-employment jobs" and have not engaged on a continuous basis any employees to work for them. Own account workers are a subcategory of "self-employed". Reported as: modeled ILO estimate. Annual figures for Canada from 1991 to 2016.

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Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20168.978
20159.082
20148.942
20139.037
20128.733
20118.573
20108.72
20098.969
20088.394
20078.375
20068.129
20058.236
20048.077
20038.253
20028.264
20017.945
20008.66
19999.281
19989.528
19979.318
19968.458
19957.882
19947.736
19937.278
19926.678
19916.188

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Published by World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Own-account workers, female. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-own-account-workers-female (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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