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  • 1,781. 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.
  • 1,782. 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).
  • 1,783. 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.
  • 1,784. 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.
  • 1,785. 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.
  • 1,786. 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.
  • 1,787. 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.
  • 1,788. 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.
  • 1,789. 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.
  • 1,790. 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?
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  • 11. Retention and recruitment of young skilled workers: Results by province and territory
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400400003
    Description: Since Canada is a vast country with diverse job opportunities available in various locations, some provinces and territories may face challenges and opportunities in retaining and attracting young skilled talent. This article is the first to inform the issue by determining the share of youth who grew up in a certain province or territory and eventually obtained a postsecondary education but left to work in another province or territory. The article also looks at young skilled workers who entered a province or territory to work, as a share of that province or territory’s initial population of homegrown young skilled labour.
    Release date: 2024-04-24
  • 12. Temporary foreign workers in primary agriculture in Canada: Transition from temporary residency to permanent residency and industry retention after transition
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400300001
    Description: The agricultural sector in Canada has relied increasingly on temporary foreign workers (TFWs) to fill the longstanding labour shortage. The number of TFWs in crop production, animal production and aquaculture, and support activities for crop and animal production more than tripled between 2005 and 2020. This study examines the transition to permanent residency (PR) of TFWs in primary agriculture and the retention in the sector among those who obtained PR. The study focuses on TFWs whose first employment was in primary agriculture and who entered the sector between 2005 and 2020.
    Release date: 2024-03-27
  • 13. Foreign workers in Canada: Labour force attachment among temporary residents with paid employment in 2019
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400300005
    Description: 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
  • 14. Immigration and the shifting occupational distribution in Canada, 2001 to 2021
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400300006
    Description: 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
  • 15. The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the postsecondary graduating class of 2020
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20240824692
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-03-22
  • 16. The socioeconomic portrait of the Indigenous farm population in Canada, 2021
    Articles and reports: 96-325-X202100100020
    Description: 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
  • 17. The improvement in the labour market outcomes of recent immigrants since the mid-2010s
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400200004
    Description: 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
  • 18. Early career quality of employment of Indigenous graduates with a bachelor’s degree, 2010 to 2018 cohorts
    Articles and reports: 81-595-M2023005
    Description: 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
  • 19. Ensuring that the Labour Force Survey Remains the Cornerstone of Canada’s Labour Market Information Ecosystem
    Articles and reports: 75-005-M2024001
    Description: 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
  • 20. Temporary foreign workers with lower-skill occupations in the accommodation and food services industry: Transition to permanent residency and industrial retention after transition
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400100001
    Description: 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
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  • 41. Public Service Employee Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4438
    Description: The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat and Statistics Canada are partnering to administer the 2022/2023 Public Service Employee Survey (PSES). This public service-wide survey is designed to provide information to support the continuous improvement of people management practices in the federal public service.
  • 42. Compensation Sector Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4449
    Description: The purpose of the survey is to obtain a profile of members of the compensation community in the Human Resources community of the federal public service.
  • 43. General Social Survey - Education, Work and Retirement
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4500
    Description: The two primary objectives of the General Social Survey (GSS) are: to gather data on social trends in order to monitor changes in the living conditions and well being of Canadians over time; and to provide information on specific social policy issues of current or emerging interest. This survey monitored changes in education, work and retirement, and examined the relationships between these three main activities.
  • 44. Federal Jurisdiction Workplace Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5076
    Description: The purpose of the Federal Jurisdiction Workplace Survey is to produce statistical information on the characteristics of workplaces under federal labour jurisdiction.
  • 45. Security Intelligence Review Committee Employee Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5083
    Description: The primary objective of the survey is to obtain the views of all Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC) employees about their workplace. The information will allow managers and employees to initiate concrete actions in the agency, and compare their results with the rest of the Public Service.
  • 46. National Energy Board Employee Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5085
    Description: The primary objective of the survey is to obtain the views of all National Energy Board (NEB) employees about their workplace. The information will allow managers and employees to initiate concrete actions in the agency, and compare their results with the rest of the Public Service.
  • 47. Canadian Food Inspection Agency Employee Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5086
    Description: The primary objective of the survey is to obtain the views of all Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) employees about their workplace. The information will allow managers and employees to initiate concrete actions in the agency, and compare their results with the rest of the Public Service.
  • 48. Canada Revenue Agency Employee Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5087
    Description: The primary objective of the survey is to obtain the views of all Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) employees about their workplace. The information will allow managers and employees to initiate concrete actions in the agency, and compare their results with the rest of the Public Service.
  • 49. Language of Work Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5134
    Description: The survey is sponsored by the Office of the Official Language Commissioner (OCOL). As part of its mandate, the OCOL reviews the use of both official languages in federal institutions. The evaluation is done for employees in a minority situation (i.e., English in Quebec and French in New Brunswick and in bilingual areas of Ontario).
  • 50. Indian Claims Commission Employee Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5139
    Description: The primary objective of the survey is to obtain the views of all Indian Claims Commission (ICC) employees about their workplace.
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