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Canadian input-output and census data is used from 1961, 1971, and 1981 to decompose employment changes during each decade into 9 sources. The goals are to identify: the main sources of growth in aggregate employment, factors which facilitated the more rapid growth of employment in the 1970s, and some reasons for intersectoral shifts of employment and changes in occupational composition of employment. The share of information-related jobs in total employment grew more rapidly during the 1960s than the 1970s. Most of the growth in the share of information workers in total employment has derived from changes in the occupational mix. However, differences in growth rates of employment between industries, related to differences in the rates of change in hours worked, labor productivity, final demand and changes in the input-output matrix, have also contributed to this shift toward information-related occupations.