Table 14 
Students and other persons aged 15 to 24 by province, unadjusted for seasonality 

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Students and other persons aged 15 to 24 by province, unadjusted for seasonality
  Population Labour force Employment  Full-time employment Part-time employment Unemployment Participation
rate		 Unemployment rate Employment
rate
  thousandsthousandsthousandsthousandsthousandsthousands %%%
Students1                  
Newfoundland and Labrador                  
August 2019 28.0 17.7 14.9 8.7 6.1 2.8 63.2 15.8 53.2
August 2020 29.9 20.0 17.8 8.2 9.7 2.2 66.9 11.0 59.5
Prince Edward Island                  
August 2019 9.5 7.5 7.5 4.1 3.4 x 78.9 x 78.9
August 2020 10.6 8.1 7.4 4.9 2.5 0.7 76.4 8.6 69.8
Nova Scotia                  
August 2019 55.7 39.7 33.2 17.2 16.0 6.4 71.3 16.1 59.6
August 2020 60.8 36.6 28.7 10.9 17.8 7.9 60.2 21.6 47.2
New Brunswick                  
August 2019 39.6 28.7 25.1 14.8 10.3 3.5 72.5 12.2 63.4
August 2020 41.3 26.8 23.3 11.9 11.4 3.5 64.9 13.1 56.4
Quebec                  
August 2019 537.4 375.3 337.3 151.2 186.2 37.9 69.8 10.1 62.8
August 2020 576.2 433.7 350.4 167.7 182.7 83.4 75.3 19.2 60.8
Ontario                  
August 2019 1,061.2 639.9 558.5 251.8 306.7 81.4 60.3 12.7 52.6
August 2020 1,040.6 620.4 423.4 179.7 243.7 197.0 59.6 31.8 40.7
Manitoba                  
August 2019 75.8 45.9 39.9 18.0 21.9 6.0 60.6 13.1 52.6
August 2020 90.1 57.0 45.9 23.1 22.8 11.2 63.3 19.6 50.9
Saskatchewan                  
August 2019 63.5 37.6 32.2 13.4 18.8 5.4 59.2 14.4 50.7
August 2020 66.5 40.2 32.2 14.9 17.3 8.0 60.5 19.9 48.4
Alberta                  
August 2019 254.8 153.5 122.9 59.6 63.2 30.7 60.2 20.0 48.2
August 2020 275.6 174.3 115.6 49.3 66.2 58.8 63.2 33.7 41.9
British Columbia                  
August 2019 301.2 178.7 158.3 62.3 95.9 20.5 59.3 11.5 52.6
August 2020 303.2 180.3 133.5 45.5 88.0 46.8 59.5 26.0 44.0
Other persons2                  
Newfoundland and Labrador                  
August 2019 25.3 21.1 17.2 14.3 2.9 3.9 83.4 18.5 68.0
August 2020 23.3 18.7 15.9 12.4 x 2.8 80.3 15.0 68.2
Prince Edward Island                  
August 2019 9.3 8.7 8.1 7.4 x x 93.5 x 87.1
August 2020 8.8 7.7 6.7 6.0 0.8 1.0 87.5 13.0 76.1
Nova Scotia                  
August 2019 52.4 46.0 39.6 31.8 7.9 6.4 87.8 13.9 75.6
August 2020 48.0 41.4 34.8 27.2 7.6 6.7 86.3 16.2 72.5
New Brunswick                  
August 2019 40.5 36.7 32.8 28.4 4.3 3.9 90.6 10.6 81.0
August 2020 38.8 33.0 29.6 23.5 6.0 3.4 85.1 10.3 76.3
Quebec                  
August 2019 356.9 315.2 292.7 240.2 52.5 22.5 88.3 7.1 82.0
August 2020 313.6 272.3 240.2 187.8 52.4 32.1 86.8 11.8 76.6
Ontario                  
August 2019 772.2 651.9 578.4 442.6 135.8 73.5 84.4 11.3 74.9
August 2020 802.6 653.1 505.9 385.5 120.4 147.2 81.4 22.5 63.0
Manitoba                  
August 2019 91.1 77.6 67.7 56.5 11.2 9.9 85.2 12.8 74.3
August 2020 76.0 65.7 57.8 43.4 14.5 7.9 86.4 12.0 76.1
Saskatchewan                  
August 2019 68.0 59.1 52.3 42.4 10.0 6.8 86.9 11.5 76.9
August 2020 64.9 55.7 48.8 37.8 11.0 6.9 85.8 12.4 75.2
Alberta                  
August 2019 253.0 221.5 198.8 160.6 38.1 22.7 87.5 10.2 78.6
August 2020 236.2 193.3 153.0 115.9 37.2 40.3 81.8 20.8 64.8
British Columbia                  
August 2019 289.4 250.6 227.8 179.4 48.4 22.8 86.6 9.1 78.7
August 2020 293.6 241.3 194.3 128.7 65.7 47.0 82.2 19.5 66.2
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suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act
Source(s):
Table 14-10-0286-03 (formerly CANSIM table 282-0006).

Table note 1

Students are persons aged 15 to 24 who attended school full-time in March and who are planning to return to school in the fall.

Table note 2

Other persons are all other youths aged 15 to 24 who are not included in the student population.
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