What proportion of Canadian workers are employed in service industries?

Discover Canada records this in one direct sentence about Canada's modern economy. The guide writes: Service industries provide thousands of different jobs in areas like transportation, education, health care, construction, banking, communications, retail services, tourism and government. More than 75% of working Canadians now have jobs in service industries. The proportion the test wants is therefore about 75% — more than three in four Canadian workers are in service industries.

Two precise commitments. Discover Canada commits Canadian service-industry employment to TWO specific facts: (1) more than 75% of working Canadians have jobs in service industries; (2) service industries cover a wide named range of areas. So the source pinpoints the proportion and the breadth of the sector.

Service industries cover a wide named range. Discover Canada commits service industries to NINE specific named areas: transportation, education, health care, construction, banking, communications, retail services, tourism, and government. So the named scope of services is broad — covering everything from teaching and nursing to banking, retail, and government work. The named range explains why services employ such a high share of the workforce — virtually every industry depends on services.

Service industries form one of three named industry types. Discover Canada commits Canada's economy to "three main types of industries". The other two named types are manufacturing industries — which produce "technology, automobiles, machinery, food, clothing and many other goods" — and natural-resources industries (forestry, fishing, agriculture, mining, energy, named elsewhere in Discover Canada). So Canada's modern economy combines a dominant service sector (over 75% of workers) with smaller manufacturing and natural-resources sectors. The largest international trading partner is the United States, with which Canada has the biggest bilateral trading relationship in the world. The named service-industry growth reflects Canada's economic transition from a primarily resource-based economy in earlier centuries to a modern post-industrial economy. So when the test asks the proportion of Canadian workers in service industries, the source-precise answer is more than 75%.

The question is testing whether new citizens know the proportion of Canadian workers in service industries. Discover Canada commits to one figure: more than 75%. The right test answer matches that.

The wrong answer choices each substitute a different proportion. The first choice — about 50% — is far below the named figure. The second choice — about 60% — is also below the named figure. The fourth choice — about 90% — overstates the source's named figure. Only about 75% — the source's exact named threshold — matches.