Labour
Key indicators
Selected geographical area: Canada
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494,0701.5%
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5.6%
(12-month change)
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2,654-1.1%
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209,029-0.9%
(annual change)
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24.3%
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22.8
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1,000,505-49.2%
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811,430-26.2%
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Proportion of adults aged 25 to 54 years who worked full year full time in 2015 - Canada
(2016 Census of Population)49.8% -
7.4%
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Proportion of adults aged 65 years and over who worked full year full time in 2015 - Canada
(2016 Census of Population)5.9% -
11.5%
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99.2%
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6.9%
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15.4%
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24.1
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44.8
Subject
- Limit subject index to Commuting to work
- Limit subject index to Earnings, wages and non-wage benefits
- Limit subject index to Earnings and wages by occupation, industry or sector
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- Limit subject index to Earnings by age or sex
- Limit subject index to Earnings of immigrants
- Limit subject index to Education, skills and earnings
- Limit subject index to Minimum wage or low-paid work
- Limit subject index to Non-wage benefits
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- Limit subject index to Globalization and the labour market
- Limit subject index to Hours of work and work arrangements
- Limit subject index to Job training and apprenticeship programs
- Limit subject index to Job vacancies, labour mobility and layoffs
- Limit subject index to Unionization and industrial relations
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- Limit subject index to Workplace health and work absences
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- Data Visualization: 14-20-00012018001Description:
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, sex, 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, sexes and age groups to create your own labour market domains of interest.
Release date: 2024-11-08 - Stats in brief: 11-001-X20243133587Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2024-11-08
- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2017001Description: 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.Release date: 2024-11-08
- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2017002Description: 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.Release date: 2024-11-08
- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024025Description: 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.Release date: 2024-11-08
- Data Visualization: 14-20-0001Description:
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.
Release date: 2024-11-08 - Public use microdata: 71M0001XDescription: 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.
Release date: 2024-11-08 - Table: 14-10-0017-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription: Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment) and not in the labour force, unemployment rate, participation rate, and employment rate, by sex and detailed age group, last 5 months.Release date: 2024-11-08
- Table: 14-10-0017-02Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription: Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment) and not in the labour force, unemployment rate, participation rate, and employment rate, by sex 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.Release date: 2024-11-08
- Table: 14-10-0019-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription: 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, sex and age group, last 5 months.Release date: 2024-11-08
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- Data Visualization: 14-20-00012018001Description:
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, sex, 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, sexes and age groups to create your own labour market domains of interest.
Release date: 2024-11-08 - Data Visualization: 71-607-X2017001Description: 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.Release date: 2024-11-08
- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2017002Description: 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.Release date: 2024-11-08
- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024025Description: 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.Release date: 2024-11-08
- Data Visualization: 14-20-0001Description:
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.
Release date: 2024-11-08 - Public use microdata: 71M0001XDescription: 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.
Release date: 2024-11-08 - Table: 14-10-0017-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription: Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment) and not in the labour force, unemployment rate, participation rate, and employment rate, by sex and detailed age group, last 5 months.Release date: 2024-11-08
- Table: 14-10-0017-02Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription: Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment) and not in the labour force, unemployment rate, participation rate, and employment rate, by sex 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.Release date: 2024-11-08
- Table: 14-10-0019-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription: 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, sex and age group, last 5 months.Release date: 2024-11-08
- Table: 14-10-0021-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription: Unemployment rate, participation rate, and employment rate by type of student during school months, sex and age group, last 5 months.Release date: 2024-11-08
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- 1,661. Hard at work ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X1992001153Geography: CanadaDescription:
The number of Canadians working 50 or more hours per week has risen dramatically since 1975. Who are these people, where do they work and what do they do? Is money the main reason why they work so many hours?
Release date: 1992-03-03 - 1,662. Absences from work revisited ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X199200127Geography: CanadaDescription:
This study updates and analyses data on different aspects of work absence among full-time paid workers.
Release date: 1992-03-03 - 1,663. Literacy in the workplace [1989] ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X199200141Geography: CanadaDescription:
Employment growth in the 1980s strongly favoured workers with good literacy skills. Labour market opportunities may continue to diminish for workers with inadequate literacy skills.
Release date: 1992-03-03 - 1,664. Juggling school and work ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X19920017Geography: CanadaDescription:
An examination of student employment rates during the school year, the amount of time spent working, and the type of work that students do.
Release date: 1992-03-03 - 1,665. Marriage, money and retirement ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X1991004123Geography: CanadaDescription:
Is income the determining factor in taking an early retirement? This article sheds new light on the retirement decision-making process.
Release date: 1991-12-02 - 1,666. On non-wage labour income ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X199100439Geography: CanadaDescription:
Non-wage benefits now represent 10% of a worker's total compensation package. Which industries offer the highest supplementary benefits, and how are they funded?
Release date: 1991-12-02 - 1,667. A note on self-employment ArchivedStats in brief: 75-001-X199100451Geography: CanadaDescription:
Self-employment is an increasingly popular form of non-standard work.
Release date: 1991-12-02 - 1,668. A note on the work sharing program ArchivedStats in brief: 75-001-X199100462Geography: CanadaDescription:
How does the Work Sharing Program prevent layoffs?
Release date: 1991-12-02 - 1,669. Unemployment -- Occupation makes a difference ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X199100486Geography: CanadaDescription:
Throughout the boom years of the late 1980s and the recession of 1990-91, certain occupations maintained high levels of unemployment. This article examines how labour market indicators vary according to occupation.
Release date: 1991-12-02 - 1,670. Non-standard work arrangements ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X199100497Geography: CanadaDescription:
Non-standard or "atypical work" has become more common in Canada. The author describes various types of non-standard employment, and shows how prevalent these types of work arrangement are in certain industries.
Release date: 1991-12-02
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- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 37-20-0001Description: These reference guides are intended for users of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The guide provides an overview of the Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) and the Registered Apprenticeship Information System (RAIS), the general methodology used to create longitudinal indicators, and important technical information for users.Release date: 2024-08-15
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 73-506-GDescription: The Guide to Employment Insurance Statistics (EIS) summarizes the survey methodology and data source and includes a dictionary of concepts and definitions used by the program.Release date: 2024-07-18
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75-514-G2024001Description: The Guide to the Job Vacancy and Wage Survey contains a dictionary of concepts and definitions, and covers topics such as survey methodology, data collection, processing, and data quality.Release date: 2024-06-18
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75-514-GDescription: The Guide to the Job Vacancy and Wage Survey contains a dictionary of concepts and definitions, and covers topics such as survey methodology, data collection, processing, and data quality. The guide covers both components of the survey: the job vacancy component, which is quarterly, and the wage component, which is annual.Release date: 2024-06-18
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 72-203-GDescription: The Guide to the Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours contains a dictionary of concepts and definitions and covers topics such as survey methodology, data collection and processing, and data quality. It also provides information on products and services, as well as the survey questionnaire.Release date: 2024-03-28
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00032021030Description: This video is designed to give you a basic understanding of the commuting concepts. It will help you understand the definition of commuting, the target population of commuting questions and why commuting questions are asked. It also describes the census questions that collect data on the three subtopics of commuting.Release date: 2023-10-04
- 7. Guide to the Job Vacancy and Wage Survey, 2023 ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75-514-G2023001Description: The Guide to the Job Vacancy and Wage Survey contains a dictionary of concepts and definitions, and covers topics such as survey methodology, data collection, processing, and data quality.Release date: 2023-05-25
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00032021029Description: This video is designed to give you a basic understanding of the Labour questions and concepts. It introduces the three subtopics of data that are collected from the 14 questions on labour. It will help you understand the target population of labour data, why labour questions are asked, and the reference periods of labour questions.Release date: 2023-03-29
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 71F0031X2023001Description: 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.Release date: 2023-01-30
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 71F0031XDescription:
This paper introduces and explains modifications made to the Labour Force Survey estimates.
Release date: 2023-01-30
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