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Description: Number of average usual hours and average actual hours worked in a reference week by type of work (full- and part-time employment), job type (main or all jobs), gender, and age group, monthly.

Description: Number of multiple jobholders by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), gender and age group, monthly.

Description: Number of multiple jobholders by usual hours worked at all jobs and main job, last 5 months.

Description: Number of multiple jobholders by usual hours worked at main job and all jobs, last 5 months.

Description: Number of employed persons by job tenure, type of work (full- and part-time employment), gender, and age group, monthly.

Description: Number of employed persons by job tenure, North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and gender.

Description: Number of unemployed persons by type of work sought and search method, gender and age group, monthly.

Description: Average hourly and weekly wage rate, and median hourly and weekly wage rate by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), type of work, gender, and age group.

Description: Average hourly and weekly wage rate, and median hourly and weekly wage rate by permanent and temporary employees, union coverage, gender, and age group, monthly.

Description: Number of employees by establishment size, North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), gender, and age group, monthly.

Description: The Canadian Labour Market Observatory consists of interactive data visualization applications showcasing the vast amount of publicly available labour market information. The fully interactive applications allow Canadians to quickly and easily personalize the information in a way that is relevant to them and their interests.

Description: This web application provides access to Statistics Canada’s Labour Market Indicators for Canada, by province and by census metropolitan area. This dynamic application allows users to view geographical rankings for each labour market indicator and to create quick and easy reports with interactive maps and charts that can be easily copied into other programs. All provincial and CMA estimates used in this application are seasonally adjusted, 3-month moving averages. Labour Force Survey data at the provincial level published each month in The Daily are seasonally adjusted monthly estimates.

Description: This interactive data visualization provides an overview of employment in rural Canada. The dashboard allows users to compare employment in different industries. Data can be visualized for Canada or for a selected province.

Description: This interactive visualization application provides a comprehensive picture of the Canadian labour market using the most recent Labour Force Survey data available. The estimates are seasonally adjusted and available by province, gender, age group and industry. Historical estimates, going back 5 years, are also included for monthly employment changes and unemployment rates. The interactive application allows users to quickly and easily explore and personalize the information presented. Combine multiple provinces, genders and age groups to create your own labour market domains of interest.

Description: This web application provides access to Statistics Canada’s Labour Market Indicators for Canada, by province, territory and economic region (ER). This dynamic application allows users to view a snapshot of key labour market indicators, observe geographical rankings for each indicator using an interactive map and table, and easily copy data into other programs. The provincial and ER estimates used in this application from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) are three-month moving averages, unadjusted for seasonality. The provincial, territorial and ER estimates used in this application from the Job Vacancy and Wage Survey (JVWS) are quarterly data, unadjusted for seasonality. Historical estimates are available in this application, with data going back 10 years for the LFS and from the first quarter of 2016 for JVWS.

Description: This dashboard displays small area estimates of unemployment rate, employment rate and employment for census metropolitan areas, census agglomerations, and a complementary geography of small communities and rural areas called self-contained labour areas. The dashboard allows users to visually explore the estimates using an interactive map as well as time series charts and tables. Data are unadjusted for seasonality and updated monthly.

Description: This public use microdata file (PUMF) contains non-aggregated data for a wide variety of variables collected from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). The LFS collects monthly information on the labour market activities of Canada's working age population. This product is for users who prefer to do their own analysis by focusing on specific subgroups in the population or by cross-classifying variables that are not in our catalogued products.

Monthly files are available back to 2006 and can be directly downloaded. For reference periods prior to 2006, files are available by request through Statistics Canada's Electronic File Transfer (EFT) service and date back to 1976.

Description: Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment) and not in the labour force, unemployment rate, participation rate, and employment rate, by gender and detailed age group.

Description: Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment) and not in the labour force, unemployment rate, participation rate, and employment rate, by gender and detailed age group. Data are presented for 24 months earlier, 12 months earlier and current month, as well as 24-month and year-over-year level change and percentage change.

Description: Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment) and not in the labour force, unemployment rate, participation rate, and employment rate, by educational attainment, gender and age group, monthly.

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As the fourth goal outlined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Canada and other UN member states have committed to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all by 2030. This 2022 infographic provides an overview of indicators underlying the fourth Sustainable Development Goal in support of Quality Education, and the statistics and data sources used to monitor and report on this goal in Canada.

Description: As the fifth goal outlined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Canada and other UN member states have committed to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls by 2030. This 2022 infographic provides an overview of indicators underlying the fifth Sustainable Development Goal in support of Gender Equality, and the statistics and data sources used to monitor and report on this goal in Canada.

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Full-time employment is an integral part of current financial well-being and can be linked to several other positive outcomes for workers. Using data from the Labour Force Survey, this article analyzes how women's full-time employment rates evolved from 2007 to 2021. It examines the extent to which aggregate statistics on full-time employment mask the distinct experiences of diverse groups of women-namely Indigenous, immigrant and Canadian-born women.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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Full-time employment is an integral part of financial well-being and can be linked to several other positive outcomes for workers. This infographic looks at women's full-time employment rates in Canada and how it has changed from 2007 to 2021. It uses data from the Labour Force Survey to examine the distinct experiences of diverse groups of women, including Indigenous women, immigrant women and non-Indigenous women born in Canada.

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In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the Mental health risk factors indicator is the proportion of employees who report experiencing either severe time pressure or overload of work, violence or the threat of violence, or harassment or bullying.

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In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the Pay gap indicator is based on the self-reported usual hourly wages of paid employees aged 25 to 54 at their main job.

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In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the Discrimination at work indicator is the number of persons who worked at any time in the previous 12 months and who report experiencing discrimination or unfavourable treatment while at work over this period. The estimate is expressed as the proportion of all persons who worked at some point during the previous 12 months.

Description: In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the Average earnings indicator measures the usual average hourly wages of employees at their main job in 2018 constant dollars.

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In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the Employees with low pay indicator measures the proportion of employees earning less than two-thirds of the median hourly earnings (before tax and other deductions) at their main job.

Description: This catalogue briefly describes all Labour Force Survey products offered on a monthly, annual and occasional basis. It includes products, uses, general release dates, formats available and prices, as well as special request services and Internet services. It also introduces any changes to products.

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This paper introduces and explains modifications made to the Labour Force Survey estimates in January 2011. Some of these modifications include the adjustment of all LFS estimates to reflect population counts based on the 2006 Census and updates to industry, occupation and geography classification systems.

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This reference document presents an overview of the different questions used by Statistics Canada to identify Aboriginal peoples. It is divided into three parts. Part one is a brief description of the data sources and their limitations. Part 2 deals with the 2006 census questions used to identify Aboriginal peoples while Part 3 deals with the identification questions used in the Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) and the Aboriginal Children's Survey (ACS).

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This paper is an overview of the activities undertaken by Statistics Canada over the past several decades in the field of measuring and valuing unpaid work in all of its many forms. It was first prepared in the early 1990s when the Agency's accomplishments in the field of unpaid work were not as widely known as Statistics Canada would have liked. With each significant new achievement of the Agency, this note has been updated and further updates will be produced in step with the Agency's continuing outputs in this important area.