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  • 1. Unemployment by type of work sought and search method, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0058-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Number of unemployed persons by type of work sought and seach method, sex and age group, last 5 months.
    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 2. Supplementary unemployment rates, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0077-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Supplementary unemployment rates by sex and age group, last 5 months.
    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 3. Activity prior to unemployment, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0123-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Number of unemployed persons by activity prior to unemployment, sex and age group, last 5 months.
    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 4. Reason for leaving job during previous year, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0125-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Number of unemployed persons and persons not in the labour force by reason for leaving job during previous year, sex and age group, last 5 months.
    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 5. Duration of unemployment, monthly, seasonally adjusted
    Table: 14-10-0342-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Number of unemployed persons by duration of unemployment, sex and age group, last 5 months.

    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 6. Regional unemployment rates used by the Employment Insurance program, three-month moving average, seasonally adjusted
    Table: 14-10-0354-01
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Regional unemployment rates used by the Employment Insurance program, by effective date, current month.

    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 7. Reasons for not looking for work for persons with disabilities, aged 15 years and over
    Table: 13-10-0891-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Every 5 years
    Description: Differences in the number and proportion of persons with disabilities who are not in the labour force, by main reason for not looking for work (grouped), aged 15 years and over, Canada.
    Release date: 2024-03-28
  • 8. Unemployment rates of population aged 15 and over, total and with Indigenous identity, by educational attainment, Canada
    Table: 14-10-0361-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Unemployment rates of population aged 15 and over, by educational attainment, Canada. This table is included in Section E: Transitions and outcomes: Labour market outcomes of the Pan Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP). PCEIP draws from a wide variety of data sources to provide information on the school-age population, elementary, secondary and postsecondary education, transitions, and labour market outcomes. The program presents indicators for all of Canada, the provinces, the territories, as well as selected international comparisons and comparisons over time. PCEIP is an ongoing initiative of the Canadian Education Statistics Council, a partnership between Statistics Canada and the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada that provides a set of statistical measures on education systems in Canada.
    Release date: 2024-03-28
  • 9. Unemployment rates of 25- to 29-year-olds, by educational attainment, Canada and provinces
    Table: 14-10-0362-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Unemployment rates of 25- to 29-year-olds, by educational attainment, Canada and jurisdictions. This table is included in Section E: Transitions and outcomes: Labour market outcomes of the Pan Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP). PCEIP draws from a wide variety of data sources to provide information on the school-age population, elementary, secondary and postsecondary education, transitions, and labour market outcomes. The program presents indicators for all of Canada, the provinces, the territories, as well as selected international comparisons and comparisons over time. PCEIP is an ongoing initiative of the Canadian Education Statistics Council, a partnership between Statistics Canada and the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada that provides a set of statistical measures on education systems in Canada.
    Release date: 2024-03-28
  • 10. Canadian Economic Dashboard and COVID-19
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2020009
    Description:

    This dashboard presents selected data that are relevant for monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 on economic activity in Canada. It includes data on a range of monthly indicators - real GDP, consumer prices, the unemployment rate, merchandise exports and imports, retail sales, hours worked and manufacturing sales -- as well as monthly data on aircraft movements, railway carloadings, and travel between Canada and other countries.

    Estimates are presented from January 2019 to the current reference month for each data series. The information will be updated continuously as new data becomes available, and additional series may be added to the dashboard as circumstances warrant.

    To support the analysis of time series movements in the data, the dashboard reports changes in each series on both a month-over-month and year-over-year basis. For most of the variables reported, information on cumulative changes in the data both prior and subsequent to the end of 2019 is also presented by indexing the level estimates to December 2019, as depicted in the accompanying charts.

    Release date: 2024-01-15
Data (47)

Data (47) (0 to 10 of 47 results)

  • 1. Unemployment by type of work sought and search method, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0058-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Number of unemployed persons by type of work sought and seach method, sex and age group, last 5 months.
    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 2. Supplementary unemployment rates, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0077-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Supplementary unemployment rates by sex and age group, last 5 months.
    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 3. Activity prior to unemployment, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0123-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Number of unemployed persons by activity prior to unemployment, sex and age group, last 5 months.
    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 4. Reason for leaving job during previous year, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0125-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Number of unemployed persons and persons not in the labour force by reason for leaving job during previous year, sex and age group, last 5 months.
    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 5. Duration of unemployment, monthly, seasonally adjusted
    Table: 14-10-0342-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Number of unemployed persons by duration of unemployment, sex and age group, last 5 months.

    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 6. Regional unemployment rates used by the Employment Insurance program, three-month moving average, seasonally adjusted
    Table: 14-10-0354-01
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Regional unemployment rates used by the Employment Insurance program, by effective date, current month.

    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 7. Reasons for not looking for work for persons with disabilities, aged 15 years and over
    Table: 13-10-0891-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Every 5 years
    Description: Differences in the number and proportion of persons with disabilities who are not in the labour force, by main reason for not looking for work (grouped), aged 15 years and over, Canada.
    Release date: 2024-03-28
  • 8. Unemployment rates of population aged 15 and over, total and with Indigenous identity, by educational attainment, Canada
    Table: 14-10-0361-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Unemployment rates of population aged 15 and over, by educational attainment, Canada. This table is included in Section E: Transitions and outcomes: Labour market outcomes of the Pan Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP). PCEIP draws from a wide variety of data sources to provide information on the school-age population, elementary, secondary and postsecondary education, transitions, and labour market outcomes. The program presents indicators for all of Canada, the provinces, the territories, as well as selected international comparisons and comparisons over time. PCEIP is an ongoing initiative of the Canadian Education Statistics Council, a partnership between Statistics Canada and the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada that provides a set of statistical measures on education systems in Canada.
    Release date: 2024-03-28
  • 9. Unemployment rates of 25- to 29-year-olds, by educational attainment, Canada and provinces
    Table: 14-10-0362-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Unemployment rates of 25- to 29-year-olds, by educational attainment, Canada and jurisdictions. This table is included in Section E: Transitions and outcomes: Labour market outcomes of the Pan Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP). PCEIP draws from a wide variety of data sources to provide information on the school-age population, elementary, secondary and postsecondary education, transitions, and labour market outcomes. The program presents indicators for all of Canada, the provinces, the territories, as well as selected international comparisons and comparisons over time. PCEIP is an ongoing initiative of the Canadian Education Statistics Council, a partnership between Statistics Canada and the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada that provides a set of statistical measures on education systems in Canada.
    Release date: 2024-03-28
  • 10. Canadian Economic Dashboard and COVID-19
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2020009
    Description:

    This dashboard presents selected data that are relevant for monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 on economic activity in Canada. It includes data on a range of monthly indicators - real GDP, consumer prices, the unemployment rate, merchandise exports and imports, retail sales, hours worked and manufacturing sales -- as well as monthly data on aircraft movements, railway carloadings, and travel between Canada and other countries.

    Estimates are presented from January 2019 to the current reference month for each data series. The information will be updated continuously as new data becomes available, and additional series may be added to the dashboard as circumstances warrant.

    To support the analysis of time series movements in the data, the dashboard reports changes in each series on both a month-over-month and year-over-year basis. For most of the variables reported, information on cumulative changes in the data both prior and subsequent to the end of 2019 is also presented by indexing the level estimates to December 2019, as depicted in the accompanying charts.

    Release date: 2024-01-15
Analysis (55)

Analysis (55) (40 to 50 of 55 results)

  • 41. Looking for work Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-001-X19980033945
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Unemployed job seekers have changed their approach to looking for work. This article, which presents data for 1977 to 1997, examines job search methods by age, sex, education and duration of unemployment.

    Release date: 1998-09-09
  • 42. The redistribution of overtime hours Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-001-X19970043383
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Would redistributing work hours solve the unemployment problem? This study converts regular paid overtime hours into hypothetical full-time jobs, then distributes them by province, occupation and level of education. It attempts to match these full-time jobs with the unemployed by province and occupation.

    Release date: 1997-12-10
  • 43. Job Turnover and Labour Market Adjustment in Ontario from 1978 to 1993 Archived
    Articles and reports: 11F0019M1997106
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Description:

    This paper documents job turnover and labour market adjustment activities in the Ontario economy from 1978 to 1993. The following highlights the major findings. Both the permanent layoff rate and the total permanent separation rate vary substantially from one industry to another. In 1992, the permanent layoff and total permanent separation rates ranged from 27.3% and 34.2% in construction to only 1.4% and 9.3% in public services, respectively. The permanent layoff rate and the total permanent separation rate also differ noticeably by gender, age and firm size - in most industries, the rates are higher among male workers than among females, higher among younger workers, and higher among smaller employers.

    While the permanent layoff rate increases during business cycle downturns and decreases during business cycle upswings, the reverse trend is observed with the total permanent separation rate. This is because the quit rate and the other permanent separation rate both decline during downturns and rise during upswings, more than offsetting the opposite trend associated with the permanent layoff rate.

    These univariate-tabulation findings are confirmed in the multi-variate logistic regression results on the statistical determinants of permanent layoffs and total permanent separations. In most industries, after controlling for gender, age, firm size and time periods, the estimated likelihood of permanent layoffs is lower among female workers, decreases significantly with age and firm size, increases during recessions and decreases during recovery and expansion in most industries. The patterns of estimated incidence of total permanent separations are very similar to those of permanent layoffs except that total permanent separations decline during business cycle downturns and climb during business cycle upswings.

    Permanently separated workers have had a much more difficult time in finding employment during the most recent recession than any other time in the past 15 years. Almost 40% of those who lost or left a job in 1989 did not have a job in 1993. This is in marked contrast with the experience of the early 1980s, when 29% of permanently separated workers were jobless 3 years after the separation. A very similar trend is found when the analysis is applied to labour market transitions among permanently laid-off workers.

    There is a great deal of out-of-province migration among permanently separated workers who did find a job. Nearly 45% of those who lost or left a job in 1989 and found a job in 1993 were employed outside of Ontario. An identical proportion of permanently laid-off workers is found to be employed in other provinces.

    Release date: 1997-10-31
  • 44. Unemployment in the Stock and Flow Archived
    Articles and reports: 11F0019M1997097
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    A framework for the dynamic analysis of unemployment is presented, and applied to Canadian and U.S. data. The focus of the analysis is upon the distinctionbetween being unemployed and becoming unemployed, that is, between the stock and the flow of unemployment. The share of a particular group in the stock ofunemployed will differ from its share in the flow into unemployment to the extent that the average duration of unemployment for the group differs from the economywide average. An analysis of Canadian and U.S. data leads to a series of stylized facts that permit a deeper understanding of unemployment in the two countries, andof the differences between them. Significant differences in the average duration of unemployment imply that stock shares are not good indicators of flow shares,changes in the stock share of some groups are due to changes in the flow share, while for others they are due to changes in the length of unemployment spells.Explanations of the Canada - U.S. unemployment rate gap should try to accommodate at least three facts uncovered by the analysis: (1) that employer initiatedpermanent separations are the primary means of entry into unemployment in Canada, while labour force entry plays a more important role in the US; (2)unemployment spells are significantly longer in Canada than in the U.S. because of longer spells for most groups regardless of reason for unemployment, not becauseof a compositional difference in the make up of the unemployed; and (3) that longer spell duration and a higher incidence of unemployment contribute about equallyto the trend increase in the Canada - U.S. unemployment differential during the 1980s.

    Release date: 1996-09-30
  • 45. Canada's unemployment mosaic in the 1990s Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-001-X19960012524
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    What does the distribution of unemployment look like in the 1990s? A focus on unemployment rates by census metropolitan area from 1987 to 1995.

    Release date: 1996-03-12
  • 46. The many faces of unemployment Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-001-X19960012527
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    The official unemployment rate released each month is based on individuals. Also released, but less recognized, are family-based rates. Unemployment rates for individuals and families are compared using data from two different sources over the period 1980 to 1993.

    Release date: 1996-03-12
  • 47. The Duration of Unemployment: A User Guide Archived
    Articles and reports: 11F0019M1995084
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    The objective of this paper is to introduce in a new measure of the average duration of unemployment spells using Canadian data. The paper summarizes the work of Corak (1993) and Corak and Heisz (1994) on the average complete duration of unemployment in a non-technical way by focusing on the distinction between it and the average incomplete duration of unemployment, which is regularly released by Statistics Canada. It is pointed out that the latter is a lagging cyclical indicator. The average complete duration of unemployment is a more accurate indicator of prevailing labour market conditions, but some assumptions required in its derivation also imply that it lags actual developments.

    Release date: 1995-12-30
  • 48. A note on Canadian unemployment since 1921 Archived
    Stats in brief: 75-001-X199200387
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    An examination of trends in unemployment rate data as far back as 1921.

    Release date: 1992-09-01
  • 49. Unemployment -- Occupation makes a difference Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-001-X199100486
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    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
  • 50. Then and now: The changing face of unemployment Archived
    Articles and reports: 75-001-X1991001152
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    In 1989, unemployed persons differed greatly from the unemployed in 1980. Not only were they older and better educated, but they were also more apt to be from Western Canada.

    Release date: 1991-03-05
Reference (2)

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  • 1. Alternative Measures of the Average Duration of Unemployment Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 11F0019M1995083
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This paper examines the robustness of a measure of the average complete duration of unemployment in Canada to a host of assumptions used in its derivation. In contrast to the average incomplete duration of unemployment, which is a lagging cyclical indicator, this statistic is a coincident indicator of the business cycle. The impact of using a steady state as opposed to a non steady state assumption, as well as the impact of various corrections for response bias are explored. It is concluded that a non steady state estimator would be a valuable compliment to the statistics on unemployment duration that are currently released by many statistical agencies, and particularly Statistics Canada.

    Release date: 1995-12-30
  • 2. Alternative measures of unemployment Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75-001-X1992004140
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This study illustrates quarterly trends in unemployment rates based on alternative measures. By all of the indicators studies there was an overall increase in unemployment during the early 1990s.

    Release date: 1992-12-01
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