Table 1
Number of unemployed, number of job vacancies, and unemployment-to-job vacancies ratio, by province and territory
| Number of unemployed – Three-month average ending in March 2012 | Number of job vacancies – Three-month average ending in March 2012 | Unemployment-to-job vacancies – Three-month average ending in March 2012 | Number of unemployed – Three-month average ending in March 2013 | Number of job vacancies – Three-month average ending in March 2013 | Unemployment-to-job vacancies – Three-month average ending in March 2013 | Number of unemployed – March 2012 to March 2013 | Number of job vacancies – March 2012 to March 2013 | Unemployment-to-job vacancies – March 2012 to March 2013 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| thousands | thousands | ratio | thousands | thousands | ratio | change in thousands | change in thousands | change | |
| Canada | 1,448.3 | 245.1 | 5.9 | 1,414.2 | 221.2 | 6.4 | -34.1 | -23.9 | 0.5 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 37.3 | 2.2 | 16.6 | 35.0 | 1.6 | 21.8 | -2.3 | -0.6 | 5.2 |
| Prince Edward Island | 10.8 | 1.3 | 8.5 | 11.6 | 1.1 | 10.4 | 0.8 | -0.2 | 1.9 |
| Nova Scotia | 44.9 | 4.3 | 10.4 | 51.2 | 4.1 | 12.5 | 6.3 | -0.2 | 2.1 |
| New Brunswick | 42.2 | 3.0 | 13.9 | 46.2 | 3.7 | 12.6 | 4.0 | 0.7 | -1.3 |
| Quebec | 382.1 | 53.1 | 7.2 | 358.3 | 47.7 | 7.5 | -23.8 | -5.4 | 0.3 |
| Ontario | 568.0 | 71.7 | 7.9 | 575.2 | 65.7 | 8.8 | 7.2 | -6.0 | 0.9 |
| Manitoba | 36.8 | 8.9 | 4.1 | 33.8 | 9.0 | 3.8 | -3.0 | 0.1 | -0.3 |
| Saskatchewan | 28.6 | 10.3 | 2.8 | 22.5 | 11.7 | 1.9 | -6.1 | 1.4 | -0.9 |
| Alberta | 113.2 | 62.7 | 1.8 | 105.7 | 46.3 | 2.3 | -7.5 | -16.4 | 0.5 |
| British Columbia | 178.5 | 26.8 | 6.7 | 169.9 | 29.3 | 5.8 | -8.6 | 2.5 | -0.9 |
| Yukon | 1.8 | 0.3 | 6.2 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 5.6 | -0.3 | 0.0 | -0.6 |
| Northwest Territories | 2.1 | 0.3 | 6.9 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 3.5 | -0.2 | 0.2 | -3.4 |
| Nunavut | 2.1 | 0.1 | 15.0 | 1.6 | F | F | -0.5 | F | F |
F
too unreliable to be published
Note(s):
The number of unemployed and ratio include all unemployed individuals, regardless of previous work experience.
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