Table 14
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 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| thousands | thousands | thousands | thousands | thousands | thousands | % | % | % | |
| Students1 | |||||||||
| Newfoundland and Labrador | |||||||||
| May 2018 | 28.2 | 13.0 | 10.0 | 2.7 | 7.4 | 3.0 | 46.1 | 23.1 | 35.5 |
| May 2019 | 26.6 | 11.1 | 8.3 | 1.9 | 6.4 | 2.8 | 41.7 | 25.2 | 31.2 |
| Prince Edward Island | |||||||||
| May 2018 | 9.0 | 5.9 | 4.9 | 1.6 | 3.2 | 1.0 | 65.6 | 16.9 | 54.4 |
| May 2019 | 9.0 | 5.5 | 4.6 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 61.1 | 18.2 | 51.1 |
| Nova Scotia | |||||||||
| May 2018 | 51.0 | 26.0 | 20.4 | 4.9 | 15.5 | 5.5 | 51.0 | 21.2 | 40.0 |
| May 2019 | 56.5 | 33.4 | 30.4 | 8.7 | 21.7 | 3.0 | 59.1 | 9.0 | 53.8 |
| New Brunswick | |||||||||
| May 2018 | 39.1 | 23.3 | 19.6 | 6.9 | 12.7 | 3.8 | 59.6 | 16.3 | 50.1 |
| May 2019 | 40.2 | 24.3 | 20.5 | 8.2 | 12.3 | 3.8 | 60.4 | 15.6 | 51.0 |
| Quebec | |||||||||
| May 2018 | 519.5 | 301.0 | 259.4 | 35.4 | 224.0 | 41.6 | 57.9 | 13.8 | 49.9 |
| May 2019 | 539.0 | 317.6 | 282.3 | 47.4 | 234.9 | 35.4 | 58.9 | 11.1 | 52.4 |
| Ontario | |||||||||
| May 2018 | 1,007.0 | 517.7 | 425.6 | 138.7 | 286.9 | 92.1 | 51.4 | 17.8 | 42.3 |
| May 2019 | 1,011.7 | 536.7 | 456.0 | 123.8 | 332.2 | 80.7 | 53.0 | 15.0 | 45.1 |
| Manitoba | |||||||||
| May 2018 | 80.3 | 43.9 | 36.8 | 11.0 | 25.8 | 7.0 | 54.7 | 15.9 | 45.8 |
| May 2019 | 76.3 | 39.1 | 34.1 | 9.8 | 24.2 | 5.1 | 51.2 | 13.0 | 44.7 |
| Saskatchewan | |||||||||
| May 2018 | 64.6 | 33.7 | 27.1 | 8.5 | 18.5 | 6.6 | 52.2 | 19.6 | 42.0 |
| May 2019 | 64.0 | 33.7 | 29.4 | 8.6 | 20.8 | 4.3 | 52.7 | 12.8 | 45.9 |
| Alberta | |||||||||
| May 2018 | 244.2 | 134.5 | 108.8 | 39.4 | 69.4 | 25.7 | 55.1 | 19.1 | 44.6 |
| May 2019 | 246.2 | 118.6 | 96.2 | 24.0 | 72.2 | 22.4 | 48.2 | 18.9 | 39.1 |
| British Columbia | |||||||||
| May 2018 | 275.6 | 134.2 | 121.0 | 26.5 | 94.5 | 13.2 | 48.7 | 9.8 | 43.9 |
| May 2019 | 300.6 | 158.4 | 140.2 | 32.2 | 108.0 | 18.2 | 52.7 | 11.5 | 46.6 |
| Other persons2 | |||||||||
| Newfoundland and Labrador | |||||||||
| May 2018 | 26.1 | 20.5 | 15.5 | 10.4 | 5.1 | 5.0 | 78.5 | 24.4 | 59.4 |
| May 2019 | 26.8 | 21.5 | 17.2 | 12.8 | 4.4 | x | 80.2 | x | 64.2 |
| Prince Edward Island | |||||||||
| May 2018 | 9.0 | 7.7 | 6.5 | 5.4 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 85.6 | 14.3 | 72.2 |
| May 2019 | 9.5 | 8.2 | 7.2 | 6.2 | 0.9 | x | 86.3 | x | 75.8 |
| Nova Scotia | |||||||||
| May 2018 | 57.1 | 47.6 | 40.8 | 30.3 | 10.5 | 6.6 | 83.4 | 13.9 | 71.5 |
| May 2019 | 51.4 | 44.4 | 38.1 | 26.6 | 11.5 | 6.3 | 86.4 | 14.2 | 74.1 |
| New Brunswick | |||||||||
| May 2018 | 42.0 | 34.7 | 30.3 | 25.1 | 5.3 | 4.4 | 82.6 | 12.7 | 72.1 |
| May 2019 | 40.0 | 33.2 | 28.8 | 23.5 | 5.3 | 4.5 | 83.0 | 13.6 | 72.0 |
| Quebec | |||||||||
| May 2018 | 382.9 | 326.5 | 300.3 | 216.4 | 83.9 | 26.3 | 85.3 | 8.1 | 78.4 |
| May 2019 | 357.5 | 307.8 | 290.5 | 208.2 | 82.3 | 17.3 | 86.1 | 5.6 | 81.3 |
| Ontario | |||||||||
| May 2018 | 791.9 | 647.0 | 576.3 | 426.3 | 150.1 | 70.7 | 81.7 | 10.9 | 72.8 |
| May 2019 | 812.2 | 661.5 | 583.6 | 438.6 | 145.0 | 77.9 | 81.4 | 11.8 | 71.9 |
| Manitoba | |||||||||
| May 2018 | 85.4 | 71.7 | 62.8 | 44.8 | 18.0 | 9.0 | 84.0 | 12.6 | 73.5 |
| May 2019 | 90.3 | 74.0 | 67.5 | 47.9 | 19.6 | 6.5 | 81.9 | 8.8 | 74.8 |
| Saskatchewan | |||||||||
| May 2018 | 68.3 | 56.9 | 50.3 | 36.0 | 14.2 | 6.8 | 83.3 | 12.0 | 73.6 |
| May 2019 | 67.6 | 54.6 | 48.1 | 37.7 | 10.3 | 6.5 | 80.8 | 11.9 | 71.2 |
| Alberta | |||||||||
| May 2018 | 261.7 | 212.2 | 190.2 | 145.7 | 44.5 | 21.9 | 81.1 | 10.3 | 72.7 |
| May 2019 | 259.8 | 211.4 | 192.4 | 140.9 | 51.5 | 19.0 | 81.4 | 9.0 | 74.1 |
| British Columbia | |||||||||
| May 2018 | 305.9 | 252.9 | 231.5 | 162.2 | 69.4 | 21.3 | 82.7 | 8.4 | 75.7 |
| May 2019 | 286.8 | 247.0 | 226.6 | 163.3 | 63.3 | 20.4 | 86.1 | 8.3 | 79.0 |
x
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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