Ontario construction 2024: 16.8% hold university degree (vs 41.7% all sectors); 27.4% self-employed (vs 13.5% all)

Claim (Ontario, 2024):

• 16.8% of those employed in construction held a university degree, versus 41.7% across all Ontario sectors — a ~25-point gap.
• Self-employment is roughly twice as common in construction (27.4%) as in the all-industries average (13.5%).

Source: Job Bank (Canada), citing Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey custom tabulations for Ontario, 2024.

Confidence: Verified.

For Candid: The educational gap is the structural reason MBA frameworks, funnel-language, and CMO-style strategic vocabulary do not read as expertise to this audience — they read as the dialect of a class the GC has either consciously declined to join or has been told he could not join. The self-employment doubling is why the owner-operator identity ([[down-reveley-2004-owner-operator-identity-trade-not-firm]]) is statistically — not just culturally — the right buyer persona for a Candid pitch.