Chart 1
Eligibility rate falls in 2023

 Back to main article

Skip interactive chart, go to accessible chart description

Interactive - Selected Image CSV (1 KB)
% 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021 2023
..
not available for a specific reference period
Note(s):
Eligibility rate refers to the number of unemployed people who had accumulated enough insurable hours to be eligible to receive Employment Insurance (EI) benefits, expressed as a proportion of unemployed people who had contributed to the EI program and separated from their job for a reason deemed valid. In 2020 and 2021 it was not possible to calculate the eligibility rate. This was due to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent temporary policy changes related to the EI program, the last of which ended in September 2022.
Source(s):
Employment Insurance Coverage Survey (4428).

Chart description


This is a column clustered chart.

Eligibility rate falls in 2023
  %
2003 83.7
2004 80.4
2005 83.4
2006 82.7
2007 82.3
2008 82.2
2009 86.2
2010 83.9
2011 78.4
2012 81.9
2013 85.8
2014 83.1
2015 82.8
2016 85.4
2017 84.3
2018 87.4
2019 82.4
2020 ..
2021 ..
2022 89.6
2023 83.1
..
not available for a specific reference period
Note(s):
Eligibility rate refers to the number of unemployed people who had accumulated enough insurable hours to be eligible to receive Employment Insurance (EI) benefits, expressed as a proportion of unemployed people who had contributed to the EI program and separated from their job for a reason deemed valid. In 2020 and 2021 it was not possible to calculate the eligibility rate. This was due to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent temporary policy changes related to the EI program, the last of which ended in September 2022.
Source(s):
Employment Insurance Coverage Survey (4428).
Date modified: