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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: Interprovincial labour mobility serves as a useful mechanism for advancing labour market adjustment across Canada. The current paper contributes to this discussion by using linked Census and administrative data to measure inter-provincial labour mobility at the 4-digit National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2021 level. To generate timely indicators, this work produces predicted experimental mobility estimates by updating the 2021/2022 reference estimates from the linked Census–administrative file with more current demographic information from the Labour Force Survey. The methodology outlined in this paper offers a practical approach for producing such predicted indicators on an ongoing basis and for tracking emerging mobility patterns across Canada's labour market.

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

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.

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This table contains 9450 series, with data for years 1996 - 2000 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (35 items: St. John's; Newfoundland and Labrador; Saint John; New Brunswick; Moncton; New Brunswick; Halifax; Nova Scotia ...), Labour force characteristics (10 items: Population; Labour force; Full-time employment; Employment ...), Sex (3 items: Both sexes; Males; Females ...), Age group (9 items: 25 to 44 years;15 to 24 years;25 years and over;15 years and over ...).

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This table contains 9450 series, with data for years 1996 - 2000 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (35 items: St. John's; Newfoundland and Labrador; Moncton; New Brunswick; Saint John; New Brunswick; Halifax; Nova Scotia ...), Labour force characteristics (10 items: Population; Labour force; Full-time employment; Employment ...), Sex (3 items: Both sexes; Males; Females ...), Age group (9 items: 15 years and over;15 to 24 years;25 years and over;25 to 44 years ...).

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This table contains 665 series, with data for years 1996 - 2000 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (35 items: Saint John; New Brunswick; Halifax; Nova Scotia; Moncton; New Brunswick; St. John's; Newfoundland and Labrador ...), North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (19 items: Goods-producing sector; Total employed; all industries; Agriculture; Forestry; fishing; mining; quarrying; oil and gas ...).

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This table contains 665 series, with data for years 1996 - 2000 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (35 items: St. John's; Newfoundland and Labrador; Halifax; Nova Scotia; Moncton; New Brunswick; Saint John; New Brunswick ...), North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (19 items: Total employed; all industries; Goods-producing sector; Forestry; fishing; mining; quarrying; oil and gas; Agriculture ...).

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This table contains 1155 series, with data for years 1996 - 2000 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (35 items: St. John's; Newfoundland and Labrador; Moncton; New Brunswick; Saint John; New Brunswick; Halifax; Nova Scotia ...), National Occupational Classification for Statistics (NOC-S) (33 items: Total employed; all occupations; Other management occupations; Management occupations; Senior management occupations ...).

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This table contains 1155 series, with data for years 1996 - 2000 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (35 items: Saint John; New Brunswick; Halifax; Nova Scotia; Moncton; New Brunswick; St. John's; Newfoundland and Labrador ...), National Occupational Classification for Statistics (NOC-S) (33 items: Total employed; all occupations; Management occupations; Other management occupations; Senior management occupations ...).

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This table contains 368 series, with data for years 1996 - 2000 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (46 items: Corner Brook; Newfoundland and Labrador; Charlottetown; Prince Edward Island; Summerside; Prince Edward Island; Truro; Nova Scotia ...), Labour force characteristics (8 items: Population; Employment; Unemployment; Labour force ...).

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This table contains 644 series, with data for years 1996 - 2000 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (46 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; St. John's; Newfoundland and Labrador ...), Labour force characteristics (7 items: Unemployment; Population; Labour force; Employment ...), Seasonal adjustment (2 items: Seasonally adjusted; Unadjusted ...).

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This table contains 42 series, with data for years 1996 - 2000 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (3 items: Montréal; Quebec; Toronto; Ontario; Vancouver; British Columbia ...), Labour force characteristics (7 items: Population; Unemployment; Employment; Labour force ...), Seasonal adjustment (2 items: Seasonally adjusted; Unadjusted ...).

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This table contains 23760 series, with data for years 2011 - 2014 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (11 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; Nova Scotia ...), Labour force characteristics (10 items: Population; Labour force; Employment; Full-time employment ...), Urban and rural areas (8 items: Total urban and rural areas; Urban fringe; Urban core; Census metropolitan area and census agglomeration ...), Sex (3 items: Both sexes; Females; Males ...), Age group (9 items: 15 years and over;15 to 24 years;25 years and over;25 to 44 years ...).

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This article provides information on the evolution of the minimum wage since 1975, the average hourly wage, and on the ratio between these two indicators. The article also sheds light on the increase in the proportion of paid workers earning minimum wage between 1997 and 2013, as well as the characteristics of workers most likely to be paid at this minimum rate.

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This article in the Economic Insights series discusses a number of questions that are relevant to the interpretation and analysis of the monthly estimates of net employment growth that are published using data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). Intended as a reference document for users of the LFS data, it examines the volatility and precision associated with these estimates.

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

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Canada's oil reserves are concentrated in three Canadian provinces: Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador. Oil prices received by Canadian oil producers more than doubled between 2001 and 2008. The proportion of young men employed in the oil industry differs markedly across provinces and education levels. Taken together, these facts suggest that the increases in world oil prices observed between 2001 and 2008 may have induced cross-educational and cross-provincial variation in labour demand and male wage growth in Canada. Using data from the Canadian Labour Force Survey, this study exploits this variation in wage growth in order to estimate the elasticity of young men's labour market participation and school enrollment with respect to wages.

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

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In Canada, unionization rates declined in the 1980s and the 1990s, but remained relatively stable over the 2000s. However, the rates evolved differently across various characteristics, including gender, age groups, provinces, and industries. In this analysis, unionization rates are examined across various characteristics over the last three decades.

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

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Absences from work can be expressed in terms of days lost per year, on the basis of Labour Force Survey data. In this In Brief, the new data on work absences for 2012 are introduced, and the differences between private and public sector employees' absences are examined in more detail.

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The social and economic well-being of young people currently generates a lot of interest. Are young people different from previous generations? Do they experience more difficulties in the labour market? Are some doing better than others?

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This article in the Economic Insights series examines the differences between youth and adults in terms of unemployment inflow and outflow rates, for a better understanding of the gap between the unemployment rates of youth and adults. Data from the Labour Force Survey from 1977 to 2012 are used for this analysis. The article is part of a series of Economic Insights articles providing information on the evolution of Canada's economy.

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.