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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 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; Nova Scotia; Prince Edward Island; Newfoundland and Labrador ...), Labour force characteristics (10 items: Population; Labour force; Full-time employment; Employment ...), Urban and rural areas (8 items: Total urban and rural areas; Urban core; Urban fringe; 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 table contains 5016 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; Prince Edward Island; Newfoundland and Labrador; Nova Scotia ...), Urban and rural areas (8 items: Total urban and rural areas; Census metropolitan area and census agglomeration; Urban core; Urban fringe ...), Class of worker (3 items: Total employed; all classes of workers; Self-employed; Employees ...), 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 5016 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 ...), Urban and rural areas (8 items: Total urban and rural areas; Census metropolitan area and census agglomeration; Urban core; Urban fringe ...), Class of worker (3 items: Total employed; all classes of workers; Employees; Self-employed ...), North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (19 items: Total employed; all industries; Agriculture; Forestry; fishing; mining; quarrying; oil and gas; Goods-producing sector ...).

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This table contains 28215 series, with data for years 1987 - 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: Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; Nova Scotia; Canada ...), Days lost (5 items: Total; days lost (including maternity leave);Own illness or disability; Other personal (including maternity leave);Total; days lost (excluding maternity leave) ...), North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (19 items: Total; all industries; Forestry; fishing; mining; quarrying; oil and gas; Agriculture; Goods-producing sector ...), Sex (3 items: Both sexes; Females; Males ...), Age group (9 items: 15 years and over;25 to 44 years;15 to 24 years;25 years and over ...).

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This table contains 49005 series, with data for years 1987 - 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; Nova Scotia; Prince Edward Island ...), Days lost (5 items: Total days lost (including maternity leave);Own illness or disability; Total days lost (excluding maternity leave);Other personal (including maternity leave) ...), National Occupational Classification for Statistics (NOC-S) (33 items: Total; all occupations; Other management occupations; Senior management occupations; Management occupations ...), Sex (3 items: Both sexes; Males; Females ...), Age group (9 items: 15 years and over;15 to 24 years;25 to 44 years;25 years and over ...).

Description: Labour force survey estimates (LFS), employment by National Occupational Classification for Statistics (NOC-S), seasonally adjusted

Description: Number of employees by weekly wage distributions, National Occupational Classification for Statistics (NOC-S), type of work and sex, last 5 months.

Description: Number of employees by weekly wage distributions, National Occupational Classification for Statistics (NOC-S), type of work and sex, last 5 years.

Description: Number of employees by hourly wage distributions, National Occupational Classification for Statistics (NOC-S), type of work and sex, last 5 months.

Description: Number of employees by hourly wage distributions, National Occupational Classification for Statistics (NOC-S), type of work and sex, last 5 years.

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

Description: This article draws on data from the Census of Population for May 2016 and May 2021 and from supplements to the Labour Force Survey for May 2022 and May 2023 to provide an updated picture of commuting in Canada.

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

Description: Using new data from the Labour Force Survey, this article explores how the COVID-19 pandemic and increasing levels of unmet labour demand in the health care industry have affected the health care labour force. Specifically, this article looks at various aspects of employment quality among health care workers, including absences, overtime and wages, and changes in work quality over the course of the pandemic. The article proceeds to explore how these changing job characteristics affected health care workers and their likelihood to leave their current positions.

Description: Using data from the Labour Force Survey, this infographic examines the employment experiences of health care workers during the pandemic, including illness-related work absences and overtime. It also explore how these changing job characteristics affected health care workers and their likelihood to leave their current positions.

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

Description: In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the Average weekly working hours indicator is the average hours usually worked per week by workers in their main job, not including overtime.

Description: In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the Involuntary part-time work rate indicator is the number of persons whose reason for working part-time in their main job is business conditions or could not find work with 30 or more hours, expressed as a percentage of the total number of persons working part-time at their main job.

Description: In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the Commuting time indicator refers to the average length of time, in minutes, usually required by a person to travel to their place of work in their main job (one way). The data are for all employed persons aged 15 and over who have a usual place of work located in Canada. Employed persons who worked from home or worked outside of Canada are excluded.

Description: In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the Distribution of weekly working hours indicator is the number of employed persons whose usual work hours in all jobs fall in the following standardized bands: (1) less than 15 hours, (2) from 15 to less than 30 hours, (3) from 30 to less than 35 hours, (4) from 35 to less than 40 hours, (5) from 40 to less than 45 hours, (6) from 45 to less than 50 hours and (7) more than 50 hours per week, expressed as a percentage of all employed persons.

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.