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There needs to be significantly more information for economy and industry. This section is sorely lacking, and once it's expanded, there should be a sub-article created. --Arch26 08:56, 12 April 2006 (UTC) Some of the new sub-articles such as Sports in Calgary, Festivals in Calgary, and Military in Calgary need work. --Arch26 08:56, 12 April 2006 (UTC) References need to be added to the new "References" section. --Arch26 08:56, 12 April 2006 (UTC) The "Politics" section is missing information on local politics. --Arch26 08:59, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

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Contents 1 History: proposed merge and split 2 Peer review request 3 workforce by industry table? 3.1 2001 data

[edit] History: proposed merge and split

Please, go look at History of Alberta. It is currently pathetic. It needs help. This article's history is quite long. I propose narrowing the scope of the history section here and transferring some of the material (for example, about early exploration, oil boom, etc.) to History of Alberta. I also suggest we take as much as possible from the History sections of Edmonton, Lethbridge et all as well. If you are interested in helping please join Wikipedia:WikiProject Alberta! Thanks. Kevlar67 00:04, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Peer review request

I've submitted a Peer review request, please add comments at Wikipedia:Peer review/Calgary.--Qyd 18:27, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] workforce by industry table?

Should a table be included in the economy section?

Industry	Workforce	Distribution(%)
Agriculture	&&&&&&&&&&&&4300.04,300	0.7
Forestry, Fishing, Mining and Oil & Gas	&&&&&&&&&&&41500.041,500	6.4
Utilities	&&&&&&&&&&&&3700.03,700	0.6
Construction	&&&&&&&&&&&56500.056,500	8.7
Manufacturing	&&&&&&&&&&&46600.046,600	7.2
Retail Trade	&&&&&&&&&&&71700.071,700	11.0
Wholesale Trade	&&&&&&&&&&&25700.025,700	4.0
Transportation and Warehousing	&&&&&&&&&&&46300.046,300	7.1
Finance, Insurance, Real Estate and Leasing	&&&&&&&&&&&41300.041,300	6.4
Professional, Scientific and Technical Services	&&&&&&&&&&&71700.071,700	11.0
Business, Building and Other Support Services	&&&&&&&&&&&24400.024,400	3.8
Educational Services	&&&&&&&&&&&39900.039,900	6.1
Health Care and Social Assistance	&&&&&&&&&&&59900.059,900	9.2
Information, Culture and Recreation	&&&&&&&&&&&31400.031,400	4.8
Accomodation and Food Services	&&&&&&&&&&&36900.036,900	5.7
Other Services	&&&&&&&&&&&26900.026,900	4.1
Public Administration	&&&&&&&&&&&17900.017,900	2.8
Total	&&&&&&&&&&649300.0649,300	100.0

• This data comes from Calgary Economic Development (2005). Labour Force / Employment. Retrieved on March 9, 2007.. It should be condensed maybe? --Qyd 18:30, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Is this a fairly standard breakdown by category? One thing that is a minor annoyance on Wikipedia for me is the lack of standardization across articles. One thing I like to do is compare similar article pages for slightly different things. eg: compare the Vancouver article to the Calgary article to the Saskatoon article ... If I was a brave enough editor, I would sit down and try to match up the sections and the order (keeping in mind that some article subjects have unique characteristics (it would be useless to talk about the Float Plane industry in Calgary for example)). Anyway, given that your source is the Calgary Economic Development authority, if you do insert it, it might be worth taking a look at other cities labour force breakdown to ensure similar categories. just my two cents. Thomas Dzubin _Talk 19:32, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't like that many categories either, that was just the data at the source; it would probably be more usefull with fewer types (Industry, agriculture, services, retail, administration maybe). --Qyd 23:29, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2001 data

Economy[1][2]
Rate	Calgary	Alberta	Canada
Employment	73.9%	71.6%	63.4%
Unemployment rate	3.1%	3.5%	6.1%
Participation rate	76.3%	74.1%	67.5%
Average male earnings	$45,306	$40,797	$38,347
Average female earnings	$26,573	$23,218	$24,390

Industry[3]
Industry	Calgary	Alberta
Agriculture	31,820	184,105
Manufacturing	82,385	264,940
Trade	82,910	258,740
Finance	33,605	84,335
Health and education	131,145	316,265
Business services	131,145	316,265
Other services	86,125	314,545
Total	521,675	1,681,985

This table uses census 2001 data, would be nice to have the 2006 profiles. (the layout is borrowed from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, and other communities in the BC Peace River country use this kind of tables)--Qyd 17:04, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I like it. Nice & succinct. Thomas Dzubin _Talk 22:17, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

I ended up using just rates (%) for employment by industry, using the 2001 numbers, as StatCan will release the 2006 labor statistics only in 2008.--Qyd 14:36, 12 March 2007 (UTC)