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 2020 30.8 20.7 18.5 8.6 9.9 2.1 67.2 10.1 60.1
August 2021 31.3 19.2 17.0 6.4 10.6 2.3 61.3 12.0 54.3
Prince Edward Island                  
August 2020 11.2 8.7 8.0 5.2 2.7 0.8 77.7 9.2 71.4
August 2021 10.0 7.7 7.2 5.0 2.2 0.5 77.0 6.5 72.0
Nova Scotia                  
August 2020 61.6 37.5 29.6 11.3 18.3 7.9 60.9 21.1 48.1
August 2021 56.9 38.1 33.6 13.0 20.6 4.5 67.0 11.8 59.1
New Brunswick                  
August 2020 42.0 27.4 23.7 12.2 11.6 3.6 65.2 13.1 56.4
August 2021 41.6 29.4 27.4 15.4 12.0 2.0 70.7 6.8 65.9
Quebec                  
August 2020 587.9 445.6 358.4 172.7 185.7 87.2 75.8 19.6 61.0
August 2021 555.2 389.1 366.4 156.5 209.9 22.7 70.1 5.8 66.0
Ontario                  
August 2020 1,049.9 628.1 433.1 184.7 248.4 195.1 59.8 31.1 41.3
August 2021 1,058.6 635.7 546.7 225.6 321.1 89.1 60.1 14.0 51.6
Manitoba                  
August 2020 92.2 58.2 46.9 23.8 23.1 11.3 63.1 19.4 50.9
August 2021 86.7 54.4 49.6 25.5 24.1 4.8 62.7 8.8 57.2
Saskatchewan                  
August 2020 68.3 40.6 32.4 15.1 17.3 8.2 59.4 20.2 47.4
August 2021 66.0 40.1 35.3 17.9 17.5 4.7 60.8 11.7 53.5
Alberta                  
August 2020 281.9 178.2 119.2 51.4 67.8 59.0 63.2 33.1 42.3
August 2021 272.0 151.3 129.1 46.8 82.3 22.2 55.6 14.7 47.5
British Columbia                  
August 2020 307.0 181.5 133.7 45.9 87.9 47.8 59.1 26.3 43.6
August 2021 302.5 198.7 178.5 68.1 110.4 20.2 65.7 10.2 59.0
Other persons2                  
Newfoundland and Labrador                  
August 2020 24.3 19.5 16.7 13.0 x 2.8 80.2 14.4 68.7
August 2021 23.4 19.8 16.7 12.8 3.8 3.1 84.6 15.7 71.4
Prince Edward Island                  
August 2020 9.4 8.2 7.2 6.4 0.9 1.0 87.2 12.2 76.6
August 2021 11.0 9.8 8.6 8.0 x 1.2 89.1 12.2 78.2
Nova Scotia                  
August 2020 48.1 41.9 35.4 27.7 7.6 6.6 87.1 15.8 73.6
August 2021 51.8 45.1 40.3 32.7 7.6 4.8 87.1 10.6 77.8
New Brunswick                  
August 2020 40.1 34.2 30.5 24.4 6.2 3.6 85.3 10.5 76.1
August 2021 40.5 33.1 29.7 26.7 3.0 3.4 81.7 10.3 73.3
Quebec                  
August 2020 320.7 279.2 245.6 191.7 53.8 33.6 87.1 12.0 76.6
August 2021 349.6 294.2 272.1 228.6 43.5 22.1 84.2 7.5 77.8
Ontario                  
August 2020 819.3 669.8 523.4 399.3 124.1 146.4 81.8 21.9 63.9
August 2021 793.8 670.0 582.3 450.5 131.8 87.8 84.4 13.1 73.4
Manitoba                  
August 2020 76.9 66.6 58.7 44.2 14.4 8.0 86.6 12.0 76.3
August 2021 80.6 70.5 65.3 55.5 9.9 5.2 87.5 7.4 81.0
Saskatchewan                  
August 2020 66.2 56.4 49.5 38.8 10.7 7.0 85.2 12.4 74.8
August 2021 68.4 61.0 55.4 46.0 9.4 5.6 89.2 9.2 81.0
Alberta                  
August 2020 241.2 197.6 157.1 119.0 38.2 40.3 81.9 20.4 65.1
August 2021 251.2 213.4 180.3 132.6 47.7 33.1 85.0 15.5 71.8
British Columbia                  
August 2020 298.8 246.1 198.7 132.1 66.5 47.6 82.4 19.3 66.5
August 2021 296.6 242.9 213.4 159.5 53.9 29.5 81.9 12.1 71.9
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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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