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In September, 480,370 Canadians received regular Employment Insurance (EI) benefits, down 5,080 or 1.0% from August, after seasonal adjustment. During the month, regular benefit payments increased 5.5% to $772.4 million.
The number of Canadians receiving regular EI benefits rose by 3.9% or 13,100 between September 2007 and September 2008. The number of men receiving benefits increased 5.7% while the number of women receiving benefits rose 1.7%.
Provincially, Ontario (+14.0%) and British Columbia (+11.2%) had the largest year-over-year increases in regular EI beneficiaries. These advances were partly offset by declines in some other regions.
In the census metropolitan areas, the largest year-over-year increases in the number of regular beneficiaries occurred in Oshawa (+96.4%) and Windsor (+30.4%). Among those census metropolitan areas where the number of regular beneficiaries went down, Saskatoon (-19.8%) and Thunder Bay (-19.7%) had the largest year-over-year decreases.
Note: 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 14th to the 20th of September. This coincides with the reference week of the Labour Force Survey for September. The regular benefit payments figure measures the total of all monies paid to individuals during the month. Month-to-month comparisons are made based on seasonally adjusted data, which removes the effects of seasonal variations.
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 October will be released on December 19.
For more information, or to order data, contact Client Services (toll-free 1-866-873-8788; 613-951-4090; labour@statcan.gc.ca). To enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Gilles Groleau (613-951-4091), Labour Statistics Division.
Table 1
Employment Insurance statistics
Table 2
Number of beneficiaries receiving regular benefits
