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A note on anticipating employment trends in manufacturing

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Educators are concerned that student employment may be associated with an increased likelihood of dropping out of high school before a certificate or diploma is earned. This article analyses the effects of work during the school year on the risk of dropping out.

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This study examines how Canadian productivity is measured and what factors affect it. In addition, trends in productivity over the last 30 years are discussed.

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An up-to-date look at RRSP contributions and benefits.

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A look at some of the basic retirement planning done by working Canadians aged 45 to 64 and at the financial resources that will enable them to enjoy retirement.

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This article outlines trends since the mid-1970s in the labour market activity of female lone parents. Comparisons are made with wives in two-parent families.

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This article assesses the occurrence of non-standard work schedules by selected characteristics of shift work schedules by selected characteristics of shift workers and their main reasons for working shift.

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This study analyses growth in the number of women teaching full time at Canada's universities, from 1960 onwards.

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By the end of 1992, a recovery appeared to be increasing its hold on the Canadian economy. A firming of employment and a pick-up in real wages helped to fuel higher household spending in the second half of the year. However, these positive developments were not enough to prevent the annual average unemployment rate from rising to a nine-year high of 11.3%

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The characteristics of people who moved in 1987 to look for work, start a new job or take a transfer are profiled.

Description: This table contains 29 series, with data starting from 1953 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada), Assets and liabilities (29 items: Total assets; Total, Government of Canada, direct and guaranteed securities; Government of Canada, Treasury Bills; Total, Government of Canada, bonds; ...).

Description: Historical (real-time) releases of merchandise imports and exports with data for years 1988 - current.

Description: Industrial chemical and synthetic resins annual production, in tonnes.

Description: Chemicals and synthetic resins products annual production, data in tonnes.

Description: Canadian passenger bus and urban transit industries, total revenue and total passenger trips by Urban transit agency, selected Canadian Urban transit agencies, monthly.

Description: The investment in residential and non-residential building construction represents the spending value of building construction by households, enterprises and governments for buildings.

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Monthly credit aggregates for the household sector, by category.

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Monthly credit aggregates for the private non-financial corporations sector, by category.

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Monthly credit aggregates for the assets of the financial corporation sector, by category.

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Selected credit estimates including loans and debt securities and other financial instruments by creditor (lender) and debtor (borrower) sectors, seasonally adjusted and non-seasonally adjusted.

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Are winter vacations from work becoming more popular? Do vacation patterns differ by age, sex industry or job tenure? These are among the questions addressed in this study. Trends since the 1950s are also briefly reviewed.

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The Help-wanted Index measures job ads as an indicator of labour demand. The index is considered a leading indicator of labour market conditions and of general economic activity. This study looks at the performance of the index during the last three business cycles.

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"Discouraged workers" are persons who want a job but are not seeking one because they believe no suitable work is available. This not summarizes findings on discouraged workers from the Survey of Job Opportunities conducted in March 1989.

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A comparison of youth labour market conditions in 1977 and 1987 shows several important changes. Demographic shifts and rising school attendance rates are among the influences examined. The diverse experiences of students and out-of-school youths, of teenagers and young adults, are highlighted.

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From 1985 to 1988, the national unemployment rate declined sharply but regional patterns varied considerably. The unemployment rate and other labour market measures for 40 sub-provincial areas are used in this study of the increase in regional unemployment disparities observed in recent years.

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The fertility rate continues to decline but interest in maternity leave is growing as more women of child bearing age join the labour force. This article looks at maternity absences among working women by age, education and province. It also explores the links between the fertility rate and maternity absences and between compensation and length of absence.

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How does the temporary help worker differ from the 'average worker'? This profile covers characteristics such as age, sex, material status, education, occupation and earnings, with some surprising results. The role played by temporary help agencies as employers and workers adjust to changes in the business cycle is also examined.

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The purpose of this article is to inform Travel-log readers of the availability of a new analytical tool - the National Tourism Indicators. These estimates, which measure trends in tourism in Canada, are placed in perspective here, taking into account the concepts and definitions used in developing them.

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The employment/population ratio is a good barometer of the state of the economy and an important though little-used labour market indicator. This article takes a look at the ratio's strengths and limitations, as well as its variation since 1946. Provincial and international comparisons are included.

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This paper examines the robustness of a measure of the average complete duration of unemployment in Canada to a host of assumptions used in its derivation. In contrast to the average incomplete duration of unemployment, which is a lagging cyclical indicator, this statistic is a coincident indicator of the business cycle. The impact of using a steady state as opposed to a non steady state assumption, as well as the impact of various corrections for response bias are explored. It is concluded that a non steady state estimator would be a valuable compliment to the statistics on unemployment duration that are currently released by many statistical agencies, and particularly Statistics Canada.

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An overview is presented of several surveys on training and education developed by Statistics Canada.

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This study illustrates quarterly trends in unemployment rates based on alternative measures. By all of the indicators studies there was an overall increase in unemployment during the early 1990s.