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20,514,000-0.0%(monthly change)
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$1,251.774.2%(12-month change)
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85.6%
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Percentage of immigrants in the labour force aged 25 to 54 years - Canada
(2021 Census of Population)27.7% -
11.7%
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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% -
Proportion of adults aged 65 years and over who worked full year full time in 2015 - Canada
(2016 Census of Population)5.9% -
99.2%
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15.4%
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- Table: 41-10-0062-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Disability status, global disability severity class and labour force status by First Nations people living off reserve, Métis and Inuit, age group and gender, population aged 15 years and over, Canada, provinces and territories.Release date: 2024-08-14
- Table: 14-10-0331-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: MonthlyDescription: Historical releases of employment and average weekly earnings (including overtime) for all employees by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), last 5 months.Release date: 2024-08-12
- Table: 14-10-0332-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription: Historical releases of employment and average weekly earnings (including overtime) for all employees by province, territory and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), last 5 months.Release date: 2024-08-12
- 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: 2024-08-09 - Stats in brief: 11-001-X20242223587Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2024-08-09
- 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: 2024-08-09
- 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: 2024-08-09
- 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: 2024-08-09 - 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: 2024-08-09 - 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: 2024-08-09
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- Table: 14-10-0310-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: MonthlyDescription: Number of employees by National Occupational Classification (NOC), last 5 months. Data are also available for the standard error of the estimate, the standard error of the month-to-month change and the standard error of the year-over-year change.Release date: 2024-08-09
- Table: 14-10-0310-02Geography: CanadaFrequency: MonthlyDescription: Number of employees by National Occupational Classification (NOC). Data are presented for 12 months earlier, previous month and current month, as well as year-over-year and month-to-month level change and percentage change. Data are also available for the standard error of the estimate, the standard error of the month-to-month change and the standard error of the year-over-year change.Release date: 2024-08-09
- Table: 14-10-0320-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: MonthlyDescription: Average usual hours and wages of employees (full- and part-time) by age group, sex, union coverage, job permanency, and National Occupational Classification (NOC), last 5 months.Release date: 2024-08-09
- Table: 14-10-0342-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription:
Number of unemployed persons by duration of unemployment, sex and age group, last 5 months.
Release date: 2024-08-09 - Table: 14-10-0354-01Frequency: MonthlyDescription:
Regional unemployment rates used by the Employment Insurance program, by effective date, current month.
Release date: 2024-08-09 - 46. Employment by industry, monthly, seasonally adjusted and unadjusted, and trend-cycle, last 5 monthsTable: 14-10-0355-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription:
Number of employees by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and data type (seasonally adjusted, trend-cycle and unadjusted), last 5 months. Data are also available for the standard error of the estimate, the standard error of the month-to-month change and the standard error of the year-over-year change.
Release date: 2024-08-09 - Table: 14-10-0355-02Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription:
Number of employees by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Data are presented for 12 months earlier, previous month and current month, as well as year-over-year and month-to-month level change and percentage change. Data are also available for the standard error of the estimate, the standard error of the month-to-month change and the standard error of the year-over-year change.
Release date: 2024-08-09 - Table: 14-10-0373-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription:
Labour force characteristic estimates by visible minority group, age group, and sex.
Release date: 2024-08-09 - Table: 14-10-0373-02Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription:
Labour force characteristic estimates by visible minority group, region, age group, and sex.
Release date: 2024-08-09 - Table: 14-10-0374-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription: Number of employees and unemployment rate by population centre and rural area, sex and age group, last 5 months.Release date: 2024-08-09
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- Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400300005Description: Temporary residents constitute an important supply of labour for the Canadian economy. However, some of them do not work in a given year, even when holding a valid work permit. This article estimates the share of temporary residents who had paid employment but were “weakly attached” to the Canadian labour market in 2019.Release date: 2024-03-27
- Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400300006Description: Research generally supports the idea that technological change has favoured the demand for workers in occupations requiring higher levels of education and skills and negatively affected employment in occupations requiring lower skill levels. This article assesses the changes over the past two decades in the occupational skill level of employment in Canada, with a focus on the role of immigration in the changing occupational structure.Release date: 2024-03-27
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X20240824692Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2024-03-22
- Articles and reports: 96-325-X202100100020Description: Indigenous Peoples are an integral part of the farm population and have been contributing to the agricultural landscape of what is now Canada for many centuries before the arrival of settlers. This article provides a socioeconomic portrait of the Indigenous farm population, touching on population changes, gender, age, education, type of farming activity and income.Release date: 2024-03-07
- Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400200004Description: Several factors may have contributed to the improved labour market outcomes for recent immigrants since the mid-2010s, such as the expansion of the two-step immigration selection process and the introduction of the Express Entry system in 2015. This article presents updated analyses regarding the employment and earnings outcomes of recent immigrants. It also discusses factors that might influence these outcomes in the near term.Release date: 2024-02-28
- Articles and reports: 81-595-M2023005Description: Using a database that integrates anonymized data from the Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) with data from the 2016 Census, the 2021 Census and the T1 Family File (T1FF), this article will examine demographic characteristics of Indigenous graduates at the bachelor level, as well as certain job quality indicators, such as annual employment income level, unionization rate and pension plan coverage rate, at the beginning of their career, that is two years after graduating.Release date: 2024-02-21
- Articles and reports: 75-005-M2024001Description: From 2010 to 2019, the Labour Force Survey (LFS) response rate – or the proportion of selected households who complete an LFS interview – had been on a slow downward trend, due to a range of social and technological changes which have made it more challenging to contact selected households and to persuade Canadians to participate when they are contacted. These factors were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in the suspension of face-to-face interviewing between April 2020 and fall 2022. Statistics Canada is committed to restoring LFS response rates to the greatest extent possible. This technical paper discusses two initiatives that are underway to ensure that the LFS estimates continue to provide an accurate and representative portrait of the Canadian labour market.Release date: 2024-02-16
- Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400100001Description: In recent years, foreign workers have become an important source of labour in the accommodation and food services industry in Canada. This study examines the characteristics of temporary foreign workers with lower-skill occupations who had their first Canadian employment in the accommodation and food services industry from 2000 to 2020, as well as their cumulative rates of transition to permanent residency and retention in that industry. This study also compares these outcomes with those of temporary foreign workers with higher-skill occupations and study permit holders employed in the industry.Release date: 2024-01-24
- Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400100003Description: In 2013, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada introduced a new refugee resettlement category called the Blended Visa Office-Referred Program. This admission stream combined the core principles of IRCC’s Government-Assisted Refugees program and the Private Sponsorship of Refugees program. This study asks two questions. First, what are the economic outcomes of BVOR refugees who have been admitted to Canada since 2013? Second, how do these outcomes compare with those of other resettled refugees who were admitted through the GAR and Private Sponsorship of Refugees programs?Release date: 2024-01-24
- Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400100004Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on the roles played by temporary foreign workers with lower-skill occupations in the food manufacturing sector, and concerns have been raised about whether they have sufficient pathways to become permanent residents and whether they stay in the sector after obtaining their permanent residency. This study focuses on these workers and examines their transition to permanent residency and their industrial retention after immigration.Release date: 2024-01-24
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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: 2024-04-17
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 71F0031XDescription:
This paper introduces and explains modifications made to the Labour Force Survey estimates.
Release date: 2023-01-30 - Classification: 12-583-XDescription:
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 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 1713Description: 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.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2603Description: 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).
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2606Description: The Help-wanted Index measures changes in the demand for labour relative to a base-year.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2612Description: 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.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2939Description: This survey is conducted to collect statistical information on employment trends in information technology (IT) occupations.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2946Description: The Employment Dynamics is a compilation of statistical tables on employment, payroll and the number of businesses with employees for Canada, the provinces and territories.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3701Description: The Labour Force Survey provides estimates of employment and unemployment. With the release of the survey results only 10 days after the completion of data collection, the LFS estimates are the first of the major monthly economic data series to be released. LFS data are used to produce the well-known unemployment rate as well as other standard labour market indicators such as the employment rate and the participation rate.
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