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 | |||||||||
| July 2020 | 27.2 | 19.6 | 15.1 | 6.9 | 8.2 | 4.5 | 72.1 | 23.0 | 55.5 |
| July 2021 | 29.1 | 20.2 | 17.4 | 8.6 | 8.8 | 2.8 | 69.4 | 13.9 | 59.8 |
| Prince Edward Island | |||||||||
| July 2020 | 11.2 | 8.6 | 6.9 | 4.4 | 2.5 | 1.7 | 76.8 | 19.8 | 61.6 |
| July 2021 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 7.6 | 5.1 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 81.7 | 10.6 | 73.1 |
| Nova Scotia | |||||||||
| July 2020 | 60.5 | 41.9 | 33.9 | 13.8 | 20.1 | 8.0 | 69.3 | 19.1 | 56.0 |
| July 2021 | 56.9 | 39.8 | 34.6 | 14.8 | 19.8 | 5.2 | 69.9 | 13.1 | 60.8 |
| New Brunswick | |||||||||
| July 2020 | 42.0 | 30.7 | 24.2 | 12.2 | 12.0 | 6.4 | 73.1 | 20.8 | 57.6 |
| July 2021 | 41.8 | 32.5 | 29.4 | 16.6 | 12.8 | 3.1 | 77.8 | 9.5 | 70.3 |
| Quebec | |||||||||
| July 2020 | 572.7 | 436.7 | 357.3 | 161.6 | 195.7 | 79.3 | 76.3 | 18.2 | 62.4 |
| July 2021 | 534.4 | 406.4 | 376.7 | 182.5 | 194.2 | 29.7 | 76.0 | 7.3 | 70.5 |
| Ontario | |||||||||
| July 2020 | 1,044.2 | 634.0 | 419.4 | 201.6 | 217.8 | 214.6 | 60.7 | 33.8 | 40.2 |
| July 2021 | 1,056.7 | 647.7 | 525.7 | 229.1 | 296.6 | 122.0 | 61.3 | 18.8 | 49.7 |
| Manitoba | |||||||||
| July 2020 | 87.5 | 55.6 | 41.2 | 19.8 | 21.5 | 14.4 | 63.5 | 25.9 | 47.1 |
| July 2021 | 84.4 | 55.7 | 49.0 | 26.1 | 22.9 | 6.7 | 66.0 | 12.0 | 58.1 |
| Saskatchewan | |||||||||
| July 2020 | 68.5 | 44.0 | 33.6 | 15.2 | 18.4 | 10.4 | 64.2 | 23.6 | 49.1 |
| July 2021 | 68.8 | 43.4 | 37.3 | 18.5 | 18.8 | 6.1 | 63.1 | 14.1 | 54.2 |
| Alberta | |||||||||
| July 2020 | 277.2 | 169.2 | 115.1 | 49.1 | 65.9 | 54.1 | 61.0 | 32.0 | 41.5 |
| July 2021 | 268.4 | 146.5 | 122.0 | 47.5 | 74.5 | 24.5 | 54.6 | 16.7 | 45.5 |
| British Columbia | |||||||||
| July 2020 | 324.9 | 205.5 | 147.2 | 44.4 | 102.8 | 58.2 | 63.3 | 28.3 | 45.3 |
| July 2021 | 305.9 | 192.0 | 167.2 | 63.3 | 103.9 | 24.8 | 62.8 | 12.9 | 54.7 |
| Other persons2 | |||||||||
| Newfoundland and Labrador | |||||||||
| July 2020 | 28.0 | 20.5 | 16.0 | 10.9 | 5.1 | x | 73.2 | x | 57.1 |
| July 2021 | 25.6 | 21.5 | 18.7 | 14.3 | 4.3 | x | 84.0 | x | 73.0 |
| Prince Edward Island | |||||||||
| July 2020 | 9.5 | 8.7 | 7.6 | 6.2 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 91.6 | 12.6 | 80.0 |
| July 2021 | 10.5 | 9.8 | 8.8 | 7.7 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 93.3 | 10.2 | 83.8 |
| Nova Scotia | |||||||||
| July 2020 | 49.2 | 41.2 | 33.0 | 27.7 | 5.3 | 8.2 | 83.7 | 19.9 | 67.1 |
| July 2021 | 51.7 | 46.1 | 39.2 | 32.1 | 7.2 | 6.9 | 89.2 | 15.0 | 75.8 |
| New Brunswick | |||||||||
| July 2020 | 40.2 | 33.9 | 29.6 | 24.3 | 5.2 | 4.3 | 84.3 | 12.7 | 73.6 |
| July 2021 | 40.2 | 33.6 | 29.5 | 24.2 | 5.3 | 4.1 | 83.6 | 12.2 | 73.4 |
| Quebec | |||||||||
| July 2020 | 335.5 | 283.4 | 237.4 | 191.9 | 45.5 | 45.9 | 84.5 | 16.2 | 70.8 |
| July 2021 | 370.8 | 334.5 | 312.7 | 248.9 | 63.8 | 21.8 | 90.2 | 6.5 | 84.3 |
| Ontario | |||||||||
| July 2020 | 824.8 | 667.8 | 510.4 | 367.3 | 143.0 | 157.4 | 81.0 | 23.6 | 61.9 |
| July 2021 | 797.4 | 665.9 | 578.7 | 423.0 | 155.9 | 87.1 | 83.5 | 13.1 | 72.6 |
| Manitoba | |||||||||
| July 2020 | 81.8 | 68.0 | 60.0 | 44.2 | 15.8 | 8.0 | 83.1 | 11.8 | 73.3 |
| July 2021 | 82.9 | 73.3 | 68.3 | 56.8 | 11.5 | 5.0 | 88.4 | 6.8 | 82.4 |
| Saskatchewan | |||||||||
| July 2020 | 66.0 | 56.9 | 48.6 | 39.2 | 9.5 | 8.2 | 86.2 | 14.4 | 73.6 |
| July 2021 | 65.6 | 55.3 | 50.4 | 40.1 | 10.2 | 4.9 | 84.3 | 8.9 | 76.8 |
| Alberta | |||||||||
| July 2020 | 245.8 | 205.5 | 159.8 | 115.4 | 44.4 | 45.7 | 83.6 | 22.2 | 65.0 |
| July 2021 | 254.2 | 215.4 | 186.3 | 136.1 | 50.2 | 29.1 | 84.7 | 13.5 | 73.3 |
| British Columbia | |||||||||
| July 2020 | 280.7 | 240.4 | 195.8 | 129.5 | 66.3 | 44.6 | 85.6 | 18.6 | 69.8 |
| July 2021 | 293.1 | 251.7 | 226.6 | 160.9 | 65.7 | 25.1 | 85.9 | 10.0 | 77.3 |
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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