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  • 21. Employment by class of worker, monthly, seasonally adjusted
    Table: 14-10-0288-02
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Number of employees by class of worker 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: 2024-04-05
  • 22. Labour force characteristics by industry, monthly, seasonally adjusted, last 5 months
    Table: 14-10-0291-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment) and unemployment rate by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), 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: 2024-04-05
  • 23. Labour force characteristics by industry, monthly, seasonally adjusted
    Table: 14-10-0291-02
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment) and unemployment rate 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: 2024-04-05
  • 24. 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: 2024-04-05
  • 25. 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: 2024-04-05
  • 26. 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: 2024-04-05
  • 27. 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: 2024-04-05
  • 28. 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: 2024-04-05
  • 29. 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
  • 30. 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
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  • 1. Employment by choice and necessity among Canadian-born and immigrant seniors
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400400002
    Description: Many seniors work past their mid-60s for various reasons. Some find it necessary to keep working because of inadequate retirement savings, mortgage payments, unforeseen expenses, or the responsibility to support children and other family members in Canada or abroad. Others choose to work to provide a sense of personal fulfillment, stay active and remain engaged. This article uses data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and examines the degree to which Canadian-born and immigrant seniors aged 65 to 74 worked by choice or necessity in 2022.
    Release date: 2024-04-24
  • 2. 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
  • 3. Economic and Social Reports April 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202411522588
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-04-24
  • 4. Labour Force Survey March 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20240963587
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 5. Payroll employment, earnings and hours, and job vacancies January 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20240883555
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-03-28
  • 6. 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
  • 7. 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
  • 8. 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
  • 9. 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
  • 10. 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
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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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