Table 4
Number of unemployed, number of job vacancies, and unemployment-to-job vacancies ratio, by province and territory

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Number of unemployed, number of job vacancies, and unemployment-to-job vacancies ratio, by province and territory

Table summary
This table displays the results of number of unemployed three-month average ending in september 2011, number of unemployed, number of job vacancies and unemployment-to-job vacancies, calculated using thousands and ratio units of measure (appearing as column headers).

  Three-month average ending in September 2011
  Number of unemployed Number of job vacancies Unemployment-to-job vacancies
  thousands ratio
Canada 811.7 248.1 3.3
Newfoundland and Labrador 22.7 2.9 7.8
Prince Edward Island 6.8 0.7 9.4
Nova Scotia 29.1 5.3 5.5
New Brunswick 24.9 4.3 5.8
Quebec 170.5 51.7 3.3
Ontario 316.3 90.1 3.5
Manitoba 24.8 9.6 2.6
Saskatchewan 16.9 11.0 1.5
Alberta 83.6 45.8 1.8
British Columbia 112.4 25.6 4.4
Yukon 0.7 0.4 1.6
Northwest Territories 1.5 0.5 3.4
Nunavut 1.4 0.2 6.9