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 December 2012 | Number of job vacancies – Three-month average ending in December 2012 | Unemployment-to-job vacancies – Three-month average ending in December 2012 | Number of unemployed – Three-month average ending in December 2013 | Number of job vacancies – Three-month average ending in December 2013 | Unemployment-to-job vacancies – Three-month average ending in December 2013 | Number of unemployed – December 2012 to December 2013 | Number of job vacancies – December 2012 to December 2013 | Unemployment-to-job vacancies – December 2012 to December 2013 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| thousands | thousands | ratio | thousands | thousands | ratio | change in thousands | change in thousands | change | |
| Canada | 1,257.8 | 220.8 | 5.7 | 1,249.3 | 199.7 | 6.3 | -8.5 | -21.1 | 0.6 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 30.2 | 1.8 | 16.5 | 29.0 | 1.6 | 17.7 | -1.2 | -0.2 | 1.2 |
| Prince Edward Island | 9.3 | 1.1 | 8.1 | 9.8 | 0.5 | 20.2 | 0.5 | -0.6 | 12.1 |
| Nova Scotia | 42.8 | 4.6 | 9.4 | 41.6 | 3.9 | 10.6 | -1.2 | -0.7 | 1.2 |
| New Brunswick | 39.7 | 3.9 | 10.1 | 35.4 | 3.2 | 11.0 | -4.3 | -0.7 | 0.9 |
| Quebec | 308.4 | 40.4 | 7.6 | 304.0 | 41.3 | 7.4 | -4.4 | 0.9 | -0.2 |
| Ontario | 526.9 | 66.3 | 7.9 | 515.9 | 59.2 | 8.7 | -11.0 | -7.1 | 0.8 |
| Manitoba | 31.8 | 9.2 | 3.5 | 34.7 | 8.9 | 3.9 | 2.9 | -0.3 | 0.4 |
| Saskatchewan | 23.2 | 12.7 | 1.8 | 20.0 | 8.3 | 2.4 | -3.2 | -4.4 | 0.6 |
| Alberta | 91.8 | 49.2 | 1.9 | 100.8 | 44.5 | 2.3 | 9.0 | -4.7 | 0.4 |
| British Columbia | 148.7 | 30.7 | 4.8 | 153.0 | 27.3 | 5.6 | 4.3 | -3.4 | 0.8 |
| Yukon | 1.2 | 0.2 | F | 1.0 | 0.2 | 4.6 | -0.2 | 0.0 | F |
| Northwest Territories | 1.8 | 0.5 | 3.9 | 2.0 | F | F | 0.2 | F | F |
| Nunavut | 1.9 | 0.2 | 12.4 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 16.3 | 0.2 | -0.1 | 3.9 |
F
too unreliable to be published
Note(s):
Related CANSIM table 284-0003. The number of unemployed and ratio include all unemployed individuals, regardless of previous work experience.
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