question: by what percentage did the number of industrial sewing machine operators decrease from 1996 to 2016?
table.cells: workers percent change in number of workers proportion of workers aged 55 and over
table.cells: 1996 2016 1996 to 2016 1996 2016
table.cells: number percent
table.cells: occupation
table.cells: industrial sewing machine operators 60,900 16,200 -73 11.7 41.6
table.cells: service station attendants 41,300 16,800 -59 3.2 14.0
table.cells: data entry clerks 82,000 34,000 -59 6.2 20.9
table.cells: banking, insurance and other financial clerks 54,200 23,600 -56 5.8 20.0
table.cells: supervisors, general office and administrative support workers 27,300 12,700 -54 9.4 21.9
table.cells: accounting and related clerks 251,400 140,900 -44 9.9 26.7
table.cells: electronics assemblers, fabricators, inspectors and testers 24,400 14,300 -42 6.5 29.0
table.cells: labourers in wood, pulp and paper processing 35,300 21,200 -40 6.0 21.8
table.cells: mechanical assemblers and inspectors 17,300 10,500 -40 8.4 23.0
table.cells: couriers, messengers and door-to-door distributors 43,400 26,700 -38 7.9 30.1
table.cells: sales and account representatives - wholesale trade 173,400 108,800 -37 12.3 25.9
table.cells: nursery and greenhouse workers 23,500 14,800 -37 11.1 26.1
table.cells: advertising, marketing and public relations managers 103,400 66,300 -36 10.8 12.4
table.cells: survey interviewers and statistical clerks 25,700 17,100 -34 13.0 35.2
table.cells: home child care providers 129,200 85,800 -34 9.7 20.3
table.cells: managers in agriculture 226,900 152,300 -33 40.4 51.7
table.cells: purchasing and inventory control workers 41,700 28,100 -33 7.2 21.5
table.cells: fishermen/women 21,300 15,000 -30 13.2 31.5
table.cells: supervisors, finance and insurance office workers 26,100 18,500 -29 6.6 22.6
table.cells: labourers in metal fabrication 18,400 13,300 -28 7.7 21.2
table.cells: mail, postal and related workers 39,000 28,100 -28 11.7 32.9
table.cells: machining tool operators 14,500 10,600 -27 9.1 24.3
table.cells: tailors, dressmakers, furriers and milliners 21,600 16,200 -25 22.4 47.9
table.cells: customer services representatives - financial institutions 95,100 73,200 -23 3.8 16.2
table.cells: butchers, meat cutters and fishmongers - retail and wholesale 24,400 18,800 -23 10.4 26.4