Infographic 1
Job vacancies remain on a downward trend in June, pushing the unemployment-to-job vacancy ratio up

Infographic description

The title of the infographic is "Job vacancies remain on a downward trend in June, pushing the unemployment-to-job vacancy ratio up"

This is a linear chart.

The vertical axis on the left shows the number of job vacancies in thousands, by increments of 50. It starts at 700 and ends at 1,050.

The vertical axis on the right shows the unemployment-to-job vacancy ratio, by increments of 0.1. It starts at 0.9 and ends at 2.0.

The horizontal axis shows each month from January 2022 to June 2023.

The black line represents the number of job vacancies (in thousands) in the last 18 months, with 934,800 in January 2022, 918,400 in February 2022, 987,200 in March 2022, 990,100 in April 2022, 999,400 in May 2022, 981,100 in June 2022, 971,400 in July 2022, 920,100 in August 2022, 908,100 September 2022, 881,600 in October 2022, 869,500 in November 2022, 842,700 in December 2022, 858,100 in January 2023, 833,400 in February 2023, 798,400 in March 2023, 780,000 in April 2023, 759,000 in May 2023 and 749,900 in June 2023.

The blue line represents the ratio of unemployment to job vacancies in the last 18 months, with January 2022 at 1.4, February 2022 at 1.2, March 2022 at 1.1, April 2022 at 1.1, May 2022 at 1.1, June 2022 at 1.0, July 2022 at 1.0, August 2022 at 1.2, September 2022 at 1.2, October 2022 at 1.2, November 2022 at 1.2, December 2022 at 1.2, January 2023 at 1.2, February 2023 at 1.3, March 2023 at 1.3, April 2023 at 1.4, May 2023 at 1.4 and June 2023 at 1.5.

Note(s): Data are adjusted for seasonality. The total number of vacancies is equal to the sum of job vacancies in the provinces (excluding the territories) for consistency with the geographic coverage of the Labour Force Survey.

Source(s): Job Vacancy and Wage Survey (5217), table 14-10-0432-01; Labour Force Survey (3701), table 14-10-0287-01.