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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: 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.

Description: Unemployment rate, participation rate, and employment rate by type of student during school months, gender and age group, monthly.

Description: Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment) and unemployment rate, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), gender and 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 ...).

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

Description: The papers in this series cover a variety of technical topics related to the Centre for Labour Market Information programs, such as the Labour Force Survey, the Survey of Employment Payrolls and Hours, the Employment insurance Coverage Survey, the Employment Insurance Statistics program as well as data from administrative sources.

Description: Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey (LFS) and Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours (SEPH) both provide measures of employment levels and trends. This technical note provides guidance on interpreting employment data from the two surveys, highlights key considerations when comparing LFS and SEPH data, and outlines factors that can contribute to short-term discrepancies between the two sources.

Description: This study examines differences in employment rates between immigrants with disabilities and Canadian-born persons with disabilities, using pooled data from the Labour Force Survey (January 2022 to December 2024) and the supplementary Disability Labour Market Indicators. The analysis focuses on persons aged 18 to 64 years and compares employment rates across levels of education.

Description: The focus of this portrait is the analysis of the sociodemographic and socioeconomic outcomes of the Filipino populations in Canada. The portrait uses data from the Census of Population (1996 to 2021), the 2011 National Household Survey, the 2020 General Social Survey – Social Identity, and the 2026 Labour Force Survey. An intersectional approach is used to explore the relationships between multiple diversity measures.

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

Description: Using data from the Labour Force Survey and the Survey of Financial Security, this study examines trends in the number of retirements over time, as well as changes in post-retirement employment among older Canadians. Reasons for retirement, as well as selected sociodemographic characteristics associated with working after retirement, are also explored.

Description: Labour Statistics at a Glance features short analytical articles on specific topics of interest related to Canada's labour market. The studies examine recent or historical trends using data produced by the Centre for Labour Market Information, i.e., the Labour Force Survey, the Survey of Employment Payrolls and Hours, the Job Vacancy and Wage Survey, the Employment Insurance Coverage Survey and the Employment Insurance Statistics Program.

Description: Mostly using data from the Labour Force Survey supplement for the third quarter of 2024, the article examines the characteristics and labour market experiences of recent immigrants and non-permanent residents (NPRs) aged 25 to 54 who were of working age when they arrived in Canada.

Description: This handbook complements the tables of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP). It is a guide that provides general descriptions for each indicator and indicator component. PCEIP has five broad indicator sets: a portrait of the school-age population; financing education systems; elementary and secondary education; postsecondary education; and transitions and outcomes.

The Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP) is a joint venture of Statistics Canada and the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada.

Description: The Guide to the Labour Force Survey contains a dictionary of concepts and definitions and covers topics such as survey methodology, data collection, data processing and data quality. It also contains information on products and services, sub-provincial geography descriptions as well as the survey questionnaire.

Description: This paper introduces and explains modifications made to the Labour Force Survey estimates.

Description: This paper introduces and explains modifications made to the Labour Force Survey estimates in January 2025. Some of these modifications include the adjustment of all LFS estimates to reflect population counts based on the 2021 Census and updates to the 2021 Standard Geographical Classification (SGC).

Description: This document provides information on the evolution of response rates for the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and a discussion of the evaluation of two aspects of data quality that ensure the LFS estimates continue providing an accurate portrait of the Canadian labour market.

Description: This document introduces and describes updates to the Labour Force Survey estimates in January 2023. These updates include the transition to National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2021 as well as enhancements to the LFS data processing system.

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This paper introduces and explains modifications made to the Labour Force Survey estimates in January 2021. Some of these modifications include the adjustment of all LFS estimates to reflect population counts based on the 2016 Census and includes updates to 2016 Geography classification system.

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The production of statistics from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) involves many activities, one of which is data processing. This step involves the verification and correction of survey data when required in order to produce microdata files. Beginning in January 2019, LFS processing will be transitioned to a new system, the Social Survey Processing Environment. This document describes the development and testing that preceded the implementation of the new system, and demonstrates that the transition is expected to have minimal impact on LFS estimates and be transparent to users of LFS data.

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The Canadian Labour Force Survey (LFS) is the official source of monthly estimates of total employment and unemployment. Following the 2011 census, the LFS underwent a sample redesign to account for the evolution of the population and labour market characteristics, to adjust to changes in the information needs and to update the geographical information used to carry out the survey. The redesign program following the 2011 census culminated with the introduction of a new sample at the beginning of 2015. This report is a reference on the methodological aspects of the LFS, covering stratification, sampling, collection, processing, weighting, estimation, variance estimation and data quality.

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In over 70 years, the methodology and questionnaire, as well as the collection and processing techniques of the Canadian Labour Force Survey have undergone major changes. This document summarizes these changes chronologically and provides references to more detailed information sources. Among the most significant changes were two questionnaire redesigns, which occurred approximately 20 years apart, in 1976 and 1997.