| 1 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
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| 2 | note 1 that declined the most over time, canada, 1996 to 2016 |  |  |  |  |  |
| 3 |  | workers |  | percent change in number of workers | proportion of workers aged 55 and over |  |
| 4 |  | 1996 | 2016 | 1996 to 2016 | 1996 | 2016 |
| 5 |  | number |  | percent |  |  |
| 6 | occupation |  |  |  |  |  |
| 7 | industrial sewing machine operators | 60,900 | 16,200 | -73 | 11.7 | 41.6 |
| 8 | service station attendants | 41,300 | 16,800 | -59 | 3.2 | 14.0 |
| 9 | data entry clerks | 82,000 | 34,000 | -59 | 6.2 | 20.9 |
| 10 | banking, insurance and other financial clerks | 54,200 | 23,600 | -56 | 5.8 | 20.0 |
| 11 | supervisors, general office and administrative support workers | 27,300 | 12,700 | -54 | 9.4 | 21.9 |
| 12 | accounting and related clerks | 251,400 | 140,900 | -44 | 9.9 | 26.7 |
| 13 | electronics assemblers, fabricators, inspectors and testers | 24,400 | 14,300 | -42 | 6.5 | 29.0 |
| 14 | labourers in wood, pulp and paper processing | 35,300 | 21,200 | -40 | 6.0 | 21.8 |
| 15 | mechanical assemblers and inspectors | 17,300 | 10,500 | -40 | 8.4 | 23.0 |
| 16 | couriers, messengers and door-to-door distributors | 43,400 | 26,700 | -38 | 7.9 | 30.1 |
| 17 | sales and account representatives - wholesale trade | 173,400 | 108,800 | -37 | 12.3 | 25.9 |
| 18 | nursery and greenhouse workers | 23,500 | 14,800 | -37 | 11.1 | 26.1 |
| 19 | advertising, marketing and public relations managers | 103,400 | 66,300 | -36 | 10.8 | 12.4 |
| 20 | survey interviewers and statistical clerks | 25,700 | 17,100 | -34 | 13.0 | 35.2 |
| 21 | home child care providers | 129,200 | 85,800 | -34 | 9.7 | 20.3 |
| 22 | managers in agriculture | 226,900 | 152,300 | -33 | 40.4 | 51.7 |
| 23 | purchasing and inventory control workers | 41,700 | 28,100 | -33 | 7.2 | 21.5 |
| 24 | fishermen/women | 21,300 | 15,000 | -30 | 13.2 | 31.5 |
| 25 | supervisors, finance and insurance office workers | 26,100 | 18,500 | -29 | 6.6 | 22.6 |
| 26 | labourers in metal fabrication | 18,400 | 13,300 | -28 | 7.7 | 21.2 |
| 27 | mail, postal and related workers | 39,000 | 28,100 | -28 | 11.7 | 32.9 |
| 28 | machining tool operators | 14,500 | 10,600 | -27 | 9.1 | 24.3 |
| 29 | tailors, dressmakers, furriers and milliners | 21,600 | 16,200 | -25 | 22.4 | 47.9 |
| 30 | customer services representatives - financial institutions | 95,100 | 73,200 | -23 | 3.8 | 16.2 |
| 31 | butchers, meat cutters and fishmongers - retail and wholesale | 24,400 | 18,800 | -23 | 10.4 | 26.4 |

Question: by what percentage did the number of industrial sewing machine operators decrease from 1996 to 2016?
Answer: 73

Question: by what percentage did the number of service station attendants decline between 1996 and 2016?
Answer: 59

Question: by what percentage did the number of data entry clerks decline between 1996 and 2016?
Answer: 59

Question: by what percentage did the number of banking, insurance and other financial clerks decline between 1996 and 2016?
Answer: 56