The following is excerpted from a 13 October 2011 report by Statistics Canada.

In 2010, about 27% of working adults, roughly 3.7 million people, described their lives on most days as 'quite a bit' or 'extremely' stressful, meaning that they went through a regular day feeling a high level of stress. Another 6.3 million (46%) said they were 'a bit' stressed.

This study shows that highly stressed workers' demographic and socioeconomic characteristics differed depending on the source of their stress...

This report is available in its entirety on the Statistics Canada website at:

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/111013/dq111013c-eng.htm

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