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  • 21. Labour force characteristics of immigrants by country of birth, three-month moving average, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0088-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Number of immigrants in the labour force (employment and unemployment) and not in the labour force, unemployment rate, participation rate, and employment rate, by country of birth, immigrant status, sex, and age group, last 5 months.
    Release date: 2024-09-06
  • 22. Labour force characteristics by educational degree, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0117-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    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 educational degree, sex and age group, last 5 months.
    Release date: 2024-09-06
  • 23. 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: 2024-09-06
  • 24. 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: 2024-09-06
  • 25. Reason for not looking for work, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0127-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Number of persons not in the labour force by reason for not looking for work, sex and age group, last 5 months.
    Release date: 2024-09-06
  • 26. Unemployment rate and employment rate by type of student during summer months, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality, last 5 months
    Table: 14-10-0286-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Unemployment rate and employment rate by type of student during summer months, sex and age group, last 5 months. Data are also available for the standard error of the estimate and the standard error of the year-over-year change.

    Release date: 2024-09-06
  • 27. Labour force characteristics by type of student during summer months, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0286-02
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    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 type of student during summer months, sex and 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: 2024-09-06
  • 28. Labour force characteristics by province and type of student during summer months, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0286-03
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    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 province, type of student during summer months, sex, and 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: 2024-09-06
  • 29. Labour force characteristics, monthly, seasonally adjusted and trend-cycle, last 5 months
    Table: 14-10-0287-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment), unemployment rate, participation rate and employment rate by data type (seasonally adjusted and trend-cycle), sex and age group, 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: 2024-09-06
  • 30. Labour force characteristics by age group, monthly, seasonally adjusted
    Table: 14-10-0287-02
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment), unemployment rate, participation rate and employment rate by age group and sex. 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: 2024-09-06
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  • 1. Closing the gap? Assessing the labour market outcomes of unpartnered mothers in Canada
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X202400100006
    Description: Using data from the Labour Force Survey, this study assesses the degree to which employment and hourly wage rates of unpartnered mothers with young children have caught up to their partnered peers between 1997 and 2023. Focusing on mothers aged 18 to 49 with at least one child aged 5 or younger, the analysis examines differences between partnered (i.e., currently married or living common law) and unpartnered mothers, with disaggregation by unpartnered mothers who have never been married and those who were previously married. The study also examines employment and wage gaps by various diverse groups, such as the experiences of immigrant mothers, as well as Indigenous mothers.
    Release date: 2024-09-11
  • 2. Study: Closing the gap? Assessing the labour market outcomes of mothers in one-parent families with young children
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202425538265
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-09-11
  • 3. Trends in employment and hourly earnings of mothers of young children, 1997 to 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024031
    Description: This infographic uses data from the Labour Force Survey to look at trends in employment and wage among mothers with young children (age 5 and under). Special attention is paid to differences based on partnership status of mothers.
    Release date: 2024-09-11
  • 4. Labour Force Survey August 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20242503587
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-09-06
  • 5. Experimental Estimates of Potential Artificial Intelligence Occupational Exposure in Canada
    Articles and reports: 11F0019M2024005
    Description: This study provides experimental estimates of the number and percentage of workers in Canada potentially susceptible to AI-related job transformation based on the complementarity-adjusted AI occupational exposure index.
    Release date: 2024-09-03
  • 6. Payroll employment, earnings and hours, and job vacancies June 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20242423555
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-08-29
  • 7. Most prevalent jobs of young master’s degree graduates by detailed field of study
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400800001
    Description: Investing in a postsecondary education is an important decision in the lives of young people, because it may lead to significantly higher lifetime earnings, which may vary substantially across different disciplines. The purpose of this short article is to present results for master’s degree graduates aged 25 to 34 collected on the 2021 Census of Population. Only individuals who worked during the census reference week (May 2 to 8, 2021) and who completed a Canadian master’s degree program are included.
    Release date: 2024-08-28
  • 8. Canadian labour force: What will happen once baby boomers retire?
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X202400100005
    Description: This study uses various demographic scenarios to examine the effects of different immigration levels and labour force participation rates on the size and composition of the Canadian labour force to 2041. These scenarios take into account the targets of the 2024–2026 Immigration Levels Plan, published in November 2023 by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, as well as recent demographic developments, such as those related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the increase in the number of permanent and temporary immigrants admitted to Canada in 2022 and 2023.
    Release date: 2024-08-06
  • 9. Study: Canadian labour force: What happens after the baby boomers retire?
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202421938366
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-08-06
  • 10. Employability, 2023
    Articles and reports: 14-28-0001202400100004
    Description: In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the employability indicator is the number of employees who feel it would be easy for them to find a job of a similar salary if they lost or quit their current job, expressed as a percentage of all employed persons.
    Release date: 2024-07-25
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  • 31. Help Wanted Index Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2606
    Description: The Help-wanted Index measures changes in the demand for labour relative to a base-year.
  • 32. 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.
  • 33. Survey of Information Technology Occupations
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2939
    Description: This survey is conducted to collect statistical information on employment trends in information technology (IT) occupations.
  • 34. Employment Dynamics
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2946
    Description: 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.
  • 35. Labour Force Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3701
    Description: 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.
  • 36. Survey of Annual Work Patterns
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3801
    Description: The purpose of the Survey of Annual Work Patterns was to examine three important activities during the year, namely: working, looking for work and going to school.
  • 37. Survey of Work History
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3804
    Description: The purpose of the survey is to adequately assess the current state of both the labour force and the labour force market.
  • 38. Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3889
    Description: At the heart of the survey's objectives is the understanding of the economic well-being of Canadians: what economic shifts do individuals and families live through, and how does it vary with changes in their paid work, family make-up, receipt of government transfers or other factors?
  • 39. Survey of Persons Not in the Labour Force
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4400
    Description: The purpose of this survey was to find out more about the activities, previous work force attachment and future plans of persons not presently in the labour force; information was also collected on the plans of non-student youth and the retirement circumstances of retired people.
  • 40. Changes in Employment Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4423
    Description: The main purpose of this survey is to evaluate various programs run by Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC), such as the Employment Insurance Program and job skills and training programs. HRDC needs to examine these programs to assess their accessibility and usefulness. Another use is to measure the impact of changes made to the Employment Insurance law in the last few years on their clientele.
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