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                  
May 2019 26.6 11.1 8.3 1.9 6.4 2.8 41.7 25.2 31.2
May 2020 24.6 9.6 5.6 1.9 3.7 4.0 39.0 41.7 22.8
Prince Edward Island                  
May 2019 9.0 5.5 4.6 2.1 2.5 1.0 61.1 18.2 51.1
May 2020 9.5 5.0 3.3 1.7 1.6 1.7 52.6 34.0 34.7
Nova Scotia                  
May 2019 56.5 33.4 30.4 8.7 21.7 3.0 59.1 9.0 53.8
May 2020 57.9 28.3 21.0 5.1 16.0 7.3 48.9 25.8 36.3
New Brunswick                  
May 2019 40.2 24.3 20.5 8.2 12.3 3.8 60.4 15.6 51.0
May 2020 39.9 22.3 15.3 4.6 10.7 7.0 55.9 31.4 38.3
Quebec                  
May 2019 539.0 317.6 282.3 47.4 234.9 35.4 58.9 11.1 52.4
May 2020 538.2 299.6 188.6 52.0 136.6 111.1 55.7 37.1 35.0
Ontario                  
May 2019 1,011.7 536.7 456.0 123.8 332.2 80.7 53.0 15.0 45.1
May 2020 1,044.1 445.2 260.3 95.7 164.5 184.9 42.6 41.5 24.9
Manitoba                  
May 2019 76.3 39.1 34.1 9.8 24.2 5.1 51.2 13.0 44.7
May 2020 88.5 42.2 30.2 8.7 21.5 12.0 47.7 28.4 34.1
Saskatchewan                  
May 2019 64.0 33.7 29.4 8.6 20.8 4.3 52.7 12.8 45.9
May 2020 63.0 27.8 15.8 6.2 9.5 12.1 44.1 43.5 25.1
Alberta                  
May 2019 246.2 118.6 96.2 24.0 72.2 22.4 48.2 18.9 39.1
May 2020 256.4 112.6 57.8 13.2 44.6 54.8 43.9 48.7 22.5
British Columbia                  
May 2019 300.6 158.4 140.2 32.2 108.0 18.2 52.7 11.5 46.6
May 2020 305.7 119.5 66.6 20.4 46.2 52.9 39.1 44.3 21.8
Other persons2                  
Newfoundland and Labrador                  
May 2019 26.8 21.5 17.2 12.8 4.4 x 80.2 x 64.2
May 2020 28.6 19.6 15.0 11.7 3.3 x 68.5 x 52.4
Prince Edward Island                  
May 2019 9.5 8.2 7.2 6.2 0.9 x 86.3 x 75.8
May 2020 9.7 8.4 7.0 6.1 0.9 1.3 86.6 15.5 72.2
Nova Scotia                  
May 2019 51.4 44.4 38.1 26.6 11.5 6.3 86.4 14.2 74.1
May 2020 50.7 36.1 28.1 20.6 7.5 8.1 71.2 22.4 55.4
New Brunswick                  
May 2019 40.0 33.2 28.8 23.5 5.3 4.5 83.0 13.6 72.0
May 2020 40.3 30.9 22.3 x 2.3 8.7 76.7 28.2 55.3
Quebec                  
May 2019 357.5 307.8 290.5 208.2 82.3 17.3 86.1 5.6 81.3
May 2020 352.9 289.3 215.2 176.5 38.8 74.1 82.0 25.6 61.0
Ontario                  
May 2019 812.2 661.5 583.6 438.6 145.0 77.9 81.4 11.8 71.9
May 2020 800.7 575.7 423.0 326.9 96.1 152.7 71.9 26.5 52.8
Manitoba                  
May 2019 90.3 74.0 67.5 47.9 19.6 6.5 81.9 8.8 74.8
May 2020 78.3 60.5 47.9 35.5 12.5 12.5 77.3 20.7 61.2
Saskatchewan                  
May 2019 67.6 54.6 48.1 37.7 10.3 6.5 80.8 11.9 71.2
May 2020 68.5 52.5 40.6 31.8 8.8 12.0 76.6 22.9 59.3
Alberta                  
May 2019 259.8 211.4 192.4 140.9 51.5 19.0 81.4 9.0 74.1
May 2020 254.8 193.0 140.5 103.8 36.7 52.5 75.7 27.2 55.1
British Columbia                  
May 2019 286.8 247.0 226.6 163.3 63.3 20.4 86.1 8.3 79.0
May 2020 290.7 212.4 167.1 116.5 50.6 45.3 73.1 21.3 57.5
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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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