Table 14 
Students and other persons aged 15 to 24 by province, unadjusted for seasonality 

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Students and other persons aged 15 to 24 by province, unadjusted for seasonality
  Population Labour force Employment  Full-time employment Part-time employment Unemployment Participation
rate		 Unemployment rate Employment
rate
  thousandsthousandsthousandsthousandsthousandsthousands %%%
Students1                  
Newfoundland and Labrador                  
August 2017 27.4 15.3 12.8 7.2 5.6 2.5 55.8 16.3 46.7
August 2018 31.1 19.9 18.0 9.4 8.6 1.9 64.0 9.5 57.9
Prince Edward Island                  
August 2017 9.1 6.6 6.3 3.9 2.4 0.3 72.5 4.5 69.2
August 2018 9.2 7.4 7.1 5.1 2.0 0.3 80.4 4.1 77.2
Nova Scotia                  
August 2017 56.3 37.1 30.7 15.0 15.7 6.5 65.9 17.5 54.5
August 2018 52.5 36.2 32.2 18.0 14.2 4.0 69.0 11.0 61.3
New Brunswick                  
August 2017 43.9 29.2 26.1 15.4 10.7 3.1 66.5 10.6 59.5
August 2018 37.4 26.4 23.8 13.6 10.2 2.6 70.6 9.8 63.6
Quebec                  
August 2017 574.5 365.0 320.9 138.8 182.1 44.1 63.5 12.1 55.9
August 2018 532.1 351.7 319.5 161.4 158.1 32.2 66.1 9.2 60.0
Ontario                  
August 2017 1,008.4 580.1 511.5 219.2 292.3 68.5 57.5 11.8 50.7
August 2018 1,021.9 577.0 506.4 235.4 271.0 70.6 56.5 12.2 49.6
Manitoba                  
August 2017 81.2 49.2 43.0 18.5 24.5 6.2 60.6 12.6 53.0
August 2018 87.8 56.3 50.1 20.5 29.7 6.1 64.1 10.8 57.1
Saskatchewan                  
August 2017 68.0 40.7 34.8 14.5 20.4 5.8 59.9 14.3 51.2
August 2018 66.8 42.1 35.7 17.5 18.2 6.5 63.0 15.4 53.4
Alberta                  
August 2017 234.7 137.1 111.2 51.6 59.6 25.9 58.4 18.9 47.4
August 2018 246.4 144.1 122.4 55.5 66.9 21.7 58.5 15.1 49.7
British Columbia                  
August 2017 293.2 174.2 155.1 58.2 96.9 19.1 59.4 11.0 52.9
August 2018 286.8 153.6 137.6 52.6 85.0 16.0 53.6 10.4 48.0
Other persons2                  
Newfoundland and Labrador                  
August 2017 27.2 22.0 19.2 15.7 3.5 2.7 80.9 12.3 70.6
August 2018 22.9 17.6 14.8 10.9 3.9 2.8 76.9 15.9 64.6
Prince Edward Island                  
August 2017 8.6 7.8 7.2 6.4 0.8 0.6 90.7 7.7 83.7
August 2018 8.8 7.9 7.4 5.9 1.5 x 89.8 x 84.1
Nova Scotia                  
August 2017 52.2 42.6 35.1 26.1 9.0 7.5 81.6 17.6 67.2
August 2018 55.6 48.8 40.1 34.1 5.9 8.7 87.8 17.8 72.1
New Brunswick                  
August 2017 37.9 31.9 28.6 25.0 3.6 3.3 84.2 10.3 75.5
August 2018 43.2 36.5 32.2 27.8 4.5 4.3 84.5 11.8 74.5
Quebec                  
August 2017 338.5 287.1 264.8 217.6 47.4 22.1 84.8 7.7 78.2
August 2018 368.3 309.3 288.4 227.2 61.2 20.9 84.0 6.8 78.3
Ontario                  
August 2017 776.4 636.0 577.8 427.8 150.0 58.2 81.9 9.2 74.4
August 2018 784.2 648.6 579.8 454.7 125.1 68.8 82.7 10.6 73.9
Manitoba                  
August 2017 84.2 72.2 65.4 52.0 13.4 6.9 85.7 9.6 77.7
August 2018 77.9 64.7 59.2 49.1 10.1 5.5 83.1 8.5 76.0
Saskatchewan                  
August 2017 65.7 56.3 50.4 41.4 9.0 5.9 85.7 10.5 76.7
August 2018 65.7 54.6 48.7 39.2 9.5 6.0 83.1 11.0 74.1
Alberta                  
August 2017 275.0 237.6 207.7 158.4 49.4 29.8 86.4 12.5 75.5
August 2018 259.9 225.0 201.6 160.5 41.0 23.4 86.6 10.4 77.6
British Columbia                  
August 2017 287.5 247.3 225.3 180.1 45.2 22.0 86.0 8.9 78.4
August 2018 296.1 258.6 233.4 185.2 48.2 25.2 87.3 9.7 78.8
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suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act
Source(s):
Table 14-10-0286-03 (formerly CANSIM table 282-0006).

Table note 1

Students are persons aged 15 to 24 who attended school full-time in March and who are planning to return to school in the fall.

Table note 2

Other persons are all other youths aged 15 to 24 who are not included in the student population.
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