Employment and unemployment

Key indicators

Selected geographical area: Canada

Average weekly earnings - Canada
(March 2024)

$1,235.68

4.2%

(12-month change)
Jobs held by men, environmental and clean technology products sector - Canada
(2022)

233,296

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Jobs held by women, environmental and clean technology products sector - Canada
(2022)

94,210
Average hourly wage, environmental and clean technology products sector—full-time jobs - Canada
(2022)

$54.12
Average hourly wage, environmental and clean technology products sector—part-time jobs - Canada
(2022)

$36.93
Employment - Canada
(April 2024)

20,491,000

0.4%

(monthly change)
Unemployment rate - Canada
(April 2024)

6.1%

0.0 pts

(monthly change)
Participation rate for the population aged 25 to 54 years - Canada
(2021 Census of Population)

85.6%
Percentage of immigrants in the labour force aged 25 to 54 years - Canada
(2021 Census of Population)

27.7%
Workers using more than one language regularly at work - Canada
(2021 Census of Population)

11.7%
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%
% of workers using English or French at work - Canada
(2016 Census of Population)

99.2%
% of workers using more than one language at work - Canada
(2016 Census of Population)

15.4%

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1,771. The labour market: Mid-year report [1989] Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X19890032279
Geography: Canada
Description:
Employment growth moderated considerably this year, and shifted its focus westward: more than half the growth occurred in British Columbia. An up-to-date look at labour market developments in the first six months of 1989.
Release date: 1989-09-30
1,772. Unionization and women in the service sector Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X19890032280
Geography: Canada
Description:
Trade unionism is adapting, as the service sector and women's share of employment expand. This study looks at unionization among women in the service sector during the 1980s. Trends by occupation and industry are examined for full-time and part-time workers, as are the earnings of unionized and non-unionized workers.
Release date: 1989-09-30
1,773. Job ads: A leading indicator? Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X19890032282
Geography: Canada
Description:
The Help-wanted Index measures job ads as an indicator of labour demand. The index is considered a leading indicator of labour market conditions and of general economic activity. This study looks at the performance of the index during the last three business cycles.
Release date: 1989-09-30
1,774. Youth for hire Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X19890022273
Geography: Canada
Description:
A comparison of youth labour market conditions in 1977 and 1987 shows several important changes. Demographic shifts and rising school attendance rates are among the influences examined. The diverse experiences of students and out-of-school youths, of teenagers and young adults, are highlighted.
Release date: 1989-06-30
1,775. Canada's unemployment mosaic Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X19890022274
Geography: Canada
Description:
From 1985 to 1988, the national unemployment rate declined sharply but regional patterns varied considerably. The unemployment rate and other labour market measures for 40 sub-provincial areas are used in this study of the increase in regional unemployment disparities observed in recent years.
Release date: 1989-06-30
1,776. On maternity leave Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X19890022275
Geography: Canada
Description:
The fertility rate continues to decline but interest in maternity leave is growing as more women of child bearing age join the labour force. This article looks at maternity absences among working women by age, education and province. It also explores the links between the fertility rate and maternity absences and between compensation and length of absence.
Release date: 1989-06-30
1,777. 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.
1,778. 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).
1,779. 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.
1,780. 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.

Data (915)

Data (915) (60 to 70 of 915 results)

61. Labour force characteristics by territory, three-month moving average, seasonally adjusted and unadjusted, last 5 months
Table: 14-10-0292-01
Geography: 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 territory, 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: 2024-05-10
62. Labour force characteristics by territory, three-month moving average, seasonally adjusted
Table: 14-10-0292-02
Geography: Province or territory
Frequency: Monthly
Description: Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment), unemployment rate, participation rate and employment rate by territory, sex and age group. 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: 2024-05-10
63. Employment by occupation, monthly, seasonally adjusted, last 5 months
Table: 14-10-0310-01
Geography: Canada
Frequency: Monthly
Description: 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: 2024-05-10
64. Employment by occupation, monthly, seasonally adjusted
Table: 14-10-0310-02
Geography: Canada
Frequency: Monthly
Description: 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: 2024-05-10
65. Average usual hours and wages by selected characteristics, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality, last 5 months
Table: 14-10-0320-01
Geography: Canada
Frequency: Monthly
Description: 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: 2024-05-10
66. 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: 2024-05-10
67. 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: 2024-05-10
68. Employment by industry, monthly, seasonally adjusted and unadjusted, and trend-cycle, last 5 months
Table: 14-10-0355-01
Geography: Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Monthly
Description:
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: 2024-05-10
69. Employment by industry, monthly, seasonally adjusted
Table: 14-10-0355-02
Geography: Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Monthly
Description:
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: 2024-05-10
70. Labour force characteristics by visible minority group, three-month moving averages, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
Table: 14-10-0373-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Monthly
Description:
Labour force characteristic estimates by visible minority group, age group, and sex.

Release date: 2024-05-10

Analysis (830)

Analysis (830) (10 to 20 of 830 results)

11. 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
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. The short-term labour market outcomes of blended visa office-referred refugees
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400100003
Description: 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
19. Temporary foreign workers with lower-skill occupations in the food manufacturing industry: Transition to permanent residency and industrial retention after transition
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400100004
Description: 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
20. Most prevalent jobs of young bachelor’s degree graduates by detailed field of study
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202301200002
Description: Investing in a postsecondary education is one of the most important decisions made by people over their lifetime. Understanding the potential outcomes associated with specific postsecondary academic programs may help inform young people, but most of the available information focuses on earnings. While important, earnings say little about what postsecondary graduates are likely to do in their career, which may factor heavily in their decision-making process. This article presents the most prevalent jobs held by graduates of Canadian bachelor’s degree programs aged 25 to 34 using the 2021 Census of Population.
Release date: 2023-12-21

Reference (57)

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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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