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  • 1. Payroll employment, earnings and hours, and job vacancies February 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20251143555
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-04-24
  • 2. Workforce Insights: Demographics in the publishing industries subsector, 2015 to 2023
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025002
    Description: This paper leverages administrative data to examine the distribution of the workforce by gender, age and full-time work status from 2015 to 2023 for the newspaper, periodical, and book publishers industries.
    Release date: 2025-01-09
  • 3. Child care centre workers serving children aged 0 to 5 years in Canada, 2021 to 2022
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202401200004
    Description: In 2021, the federal government of Canada committed over $27.2 billion in funding through bilateral agreements with the provinces and territories towards building a Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care system. As part of these agreements, a multilateral workforce strategy was proposed in recognition of the central role of child care workers in providing high quality child care services, and the need to attract and retain qualified and committed individuals in the sector. This study fills information gaps related to the centre-based child care workforce providing care to children aged 0 to 5 years.
    Release date: 2024-12-19
  • 4. Workforce insights: Demographics in the arts, entertainment and recreation sector from 2015 to 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-621-M2024016
    Description: This paper leverages administrative data to examine the distribution of the workforce by gender, age, and full-time work status from 2015 to 2023 for the performing arts, spectator sports and related industries, and the amusement and recreation industries. 
    Release date: 2024-11-28
  • 5. Study: Arts, Entertainment and Recreation Industries 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202433339163
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-11-28
  • 6. Access to managerial occupations, 2023
    Articles and reports: 14-28-0001202400100005
    Description: In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the Access to managerial occupations indicator is the percentage of employees who are working in a management occupation. The article focuses on demographic groups who may experience barriers in accessing these types of jobs.
    Release date: 2024-10-15
  • 7. Workforce utilization of Canadian men with a nursing education
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400900001
    Description: Little is known about the workforce utilization of Canadian men with a nursing education, who accounted for 12% of people eligible to practise nursing in 2021 (Canadian Institute for Health Information, 2022). This article compares racialized and White men aged 25 to 64 years with a nursing education in terms of their skill utilization in the workforce.
    Release date: 2024-09-25
  • 8. Foreign workers in Canada: Distribution of paid employment by industry
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202301200005
    Description: Different industrial sectors depend on temporary foreign workers (TFWs) to varying degrees because of unique levels of labour shortages and specific skill requirements. Analyzing the role of TFWs across industrial sectors in Canada provides empirical evidence to inform the formulation of policies and strategies that support the needs of Canadian businesses and the well-being of TFWs. This article uses linked administrative data to analyze the distribution of TFWs across industries and their proportion in the workforce within each industry from 2010 to 2020.
    Release date: 2023-12-21
  • 9. Chipping away at economic growth: Jobs, gross domestic product, and research in the semiconductor industry
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2023016
    Description: This research study examines the economic impact of the semiconductor industry in Canada in 2020 as it relates to several economic concepts, such as sales and revenue, employment, research and development, and international trade. The study is based on a custom list of 561 firms in the industry provided by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada.
    Release date: 2023-11-10
  • 10. Experimental Environmental, Social and Governance Dashboard Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202308734343
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2023-03-28
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  • 1. National Occupational Classification (NOC)
    Classification: 12-583-X
    Description:

    This publication provides a systematic classification structure to identify and categorize the entire range of occupational activity in Canada. Definitions and occupational titles are provided for each unit group. An alphabetical index of the occupational titles classified to the unit group level is also included.

    Release date: 2021-09-21
  • 2. Occupation, 2001 Census Technical Report (Reference Products: 2001 Census) Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 92-388-X
    Description:

    This report contains basic conceptual and data quality information to help users interpret and make use of census occupation data. It gives an overview of the collection, coding (to the 2001 National Occupational Classification), edit and imputation of the occupation data from the 2001 Census. The report describes procedural changes between the 2001 and earlier censuses, and provides an analysis of the quality level of the 2001 Census occupation data. Finally, it details the revision of the 1991 Standard Occupational Classification used in the 1991 and 1996 Censuses to the 2001 National Occupational Classification for Statistics used in 2001. The historical comparability of data coded to the two classifications is discussed. Appendices to the report include a table showing historical data for the 1991, 1996 and 2001 Censuses.

    Release date: 2004-07-15
  • 3. Industry (Based on 1980 Standard Industrial Classification [SIC]), 2001 Census Technical Report (Reference Products: 2001 Census) Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 92-391-X
    Description:

    This report contains basic conceptual and data quality information intended to facilitate the use and interpretation of census industry data. It provides an overview of the industry processing cycle, including elements such as regional processing, edit and imputation, and the tabulation of error rates. A detailed explanation of the automated coding systems used in the 2001 Census is also documented, in addition to notable changes in the imputation procedures. The report concludes with summary tables that indicate the level of data quality in the 2001 Census industry data. Appendices to the report contain historical data going back to the 1971 Census.

    Release date: 2004-06-02
  • 4. Industry (Based on 1997 North American Industry Classification System [NAICS]), 2001 Census Technical Report (Reference Products: 2001 Census) Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 92-389-X
    Description:

    This report contains basic conceptual and data quality information intended to facilitate the use and interpretation of census industry data. It provides an overview of the industry processing cycle, including elements such as regional processing, edit and imputation, and the tabulation of error rates. Notable changes in the industrial classification structure are discussed as well as differences in the coding procedures from the previous census (1996). The report concludes with summary tables that indicate the level of data quality in the 2001 Census industry data.

    Release date: 2004-05-04
  • 5. Proposed Linkage of Occupation and Major Field of Study for SLID Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M1996005
    Description:

    This paper examines a new variable which would show whether a person's job is related to his or her postsecondary education. This variable would help to explain other characteristics measured in the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID), such as wages, supervisory roles, and job stability.

    Release date: 1997-12-31
  • 6. The Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) Content Evaluation, the Authority Series: Supervision and Management Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75F0002M1993009
    Description:

    This paper presents an analysis of the questions in the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) relating to supervision and management. It uses data collected in January 1993.

    Release date: 1995-12-30
  • 7. Standard Occupational Classification Archived
    Classification: 12-565-X
    Description:

    The Standard Occupational Classification provides a systematic classification structure to identify and categorize the entire range of occupational activity in Canada. This up-to-date classification is based upon, and easily related to, the National Occupational Classification. It consists of 10 broad occupational categories which are subdivided into major groups, minor groups and unit groups. Definitions and occupational titles are provided for each unit group. An alphabetical index of the occupational titles classified to the unit group level is also included.

    Release date: 1993-08-23
  • 8. Public Sector Employment
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 1713
    Description: The objective of this program is to provide data on employment (number of employees, wages and salaries) in the public sector, i.e. the federal, provincial, territorial and local general governments, health and social service institutions, universities, colleges, vocational and trade institutions, school boards, and government business enterprises.
  • 9. Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Man-hours
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2603
    Description: This survey is an establishment census survey designed to gather data on employment, payrolls and paid-hours from larger employers (companies or establishments of 20 or more employees).
  • 10. Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2612
    Description: The Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours provides a monthly portrait of the amount of earnings, as well as the number of jobs (i.e., occupied positions) and hours worked by detailed industry at the national, provincial and territorial levels.
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