Census In Brief

2.35 Economic sector amongst the employed aged 15 - 65 years by province*

	Eastern Cape	Free State	Gauteng	Kwazulu- Natal	Mpuma- langa	Northern Cape	Northern Province	North West	Western Cape	South Africa
Agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing	70,470	102,335	36,094	118,071	102,863	48,646	83,019	81,707	171,144	814,350
Mining and quarrying	7,154	123,191	168,065	15,860	55,703	18,556	27,625	121,556	3,836	541,546
Manufacturing	97,035	43,774	327,588	265,701	59,158	8,812	27,912	55,119	234,875	1,119,973
Electricity, gas and water supply	5,598	7,363	36,522	14,103	17,800	2,397	6,954	7,532	11,064	109,334
Construction	43,635	32,122	158,359	85,021	41,540	10,402	42,790	38,885	102,375	555,129
Wholesale and retail trade	83,818	62,953	351,762	169,861	70,836	23,099	58,582	86,418	190,723	1,098,051
Transport, storage and communication	32,851	32,011	170,093	86,900	27,100	9,963	25,409	31,167	68,159	483,652
Financial, insurance, real estate and business services	35,181	26,045	318,708	98,602	21,102	7,733	20,851	25,199	126,734	680,156
Community, social and personal services	183,188	108,512	421,125	255,539	80,423	39,724	127,189	122,951	242,032	1,580,684
Private households	102,863	104,342	308,037	173,558	69,568	26,887	77,355	93,890	96,602	1,053,103
Unspecified	125,025	58,526	267,889	287,357	59,830	19,305	72,443	60,862	126,631	1,077,868
Total	786,818	701,175	2,564,243	1,570,573	605,925	215,523	570,129	725,287	1,374,174	9,113,847

* Excluding institutions

Percentage of the employed aged 15 - 65 years by economic sector – October 1996*

• The community, social and personal service sector (including the public sector ) employs 31% of working people in the country.