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In May, 457,020 Canadians received regular Employment Insurance benefits, down 5,330 or 1.2% from April. Regular benefit payments totalled $706.9 million in May.
Compared with May 2007, the number of Canadians receiving regular benefits declined 3.2%. The decline was 2.3% among men, and 4.7% among women.
The number of regular beneficiaries fell in the majority of census metropolitan areas compared with May 2007. The declines were most notable in Saskatoon (-42.6%) and Regina (-32.9%). Among those CMAs where the number of regular beneficiaries went up, Oshawa (+54.5%), St. Catharines–Niagara (+25.8%) and London (+19.3%) had the largest year-over-year increases.
Note: The annual revision to the seasonally adjusted series has been completed back to January 2005 with this release. Unadjusted series are not affected by this revision.
Estimates of regular beneficiaries by census metropolitan area and by census agglomeration are now available on CANSIM back to January 1997.
Employment Insurance Statistics Program data are produced from an administrative data source and may, from time to time, be affected by changes to the Employment Insurance Act or administrative procedures. The number of beneficiaries is a measure of all persons who received Employment Insurance benefits from the 11th to the 17th of the month. This coincides with the reference week of the Labour Force Survey. The regular benefit payments figure measures the total of all monies paid to individuals during the month.
Available on CANSIM: tables 276-0001 to 276-0006, 276-0009, 276-0011, 276-0015 and 276-0016.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2604.
Data on Employment Insurance for June will be released on August 26.
For general information or to order data, contact Client Services (613-951-4090; toll-free 1-866-873-8788; labour@statcan.gc.ca). To enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Peter Lorenz (613-951-4167), Labour Statistics Division.
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