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  • 51. Youth not in employment, education or training: Recent trends
    Articles and reports: 81-595-M2025001
    Description: This fact sheet examines changes in employment, unemployment and rates of youth not in employment, education or training (NEET) among persons aged 15 to 29, by condensed academic year (October to March) over the past years (2018/2019 to 2023/2024). To contextualize the changing NEET rate, this paper will first describe trends in youth labour market conditions. Results are subsequently presented by age group, sex at birth, racialized group, and immigrant status, highlighting the impacts of changing economic conditions on NEET rates across various demographic groups.
    Release date: 2025-05-01
  • 52. Recent trends in United States temporary foreign workers in Canada
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202500400006
    Description: The movement of temporary foreign workers between the United States and Canada represents a critical yet understudied aspect of North American labour mobility. This article examines recent trends in the number of temporary foreign workers from the U.S. to Canada, their employment patterns, industrial distribution and earnings.
    Release date: 2025-04-23
  • 53. Workforce renewal in health occupations
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X202500100006
    Description: Using data from the Labour Force Survey, this study examines employment trends in health occupations between 1998 and 2024. Data from the 2021 Census of Population are used to better understand the extent to which younger workers could replace those approaching retirement age. The role of immigration in mitigating the impacts of an aging health workforce is also explored.
    Release date: 2025-04-10
  • 54. Economic and fiscal performance of immigrant-owned firms in Canada
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202500200002
    Description: Canada has one of the highest shares of immigrants among developed countries. In 2021, immigrants made up nearly one-quarter (23.0%) of the population—the largest proportion among G7 nations. Therefore, understanding the impact of immigrant-owned businesses on the Canadian economy is essential. This article highlights key findings from two recent studies that explore the labour productivity and fiscal contributions of immigrant-owned firms.
    Release date: 2025-02-26
  • 55. A comparison of immigrant and Canadian-born data scientists: Sociodemographic characteristics and earnings
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202500200003
    Description: This study uses the 2021 Census of Population to answer the following questions: To what extent do immigrants contribute to the labour supply of data scientists in Canada? How do immigrant and Canadian-born data scientists differ in sociodemographic characteristics? And given the high demand for data scientists, are the earnings gaps between immigrants and Canadian-born individuals smaller relative to those among all workers?
    Release date: 2025-02-26
  • 56. Employed persons with disabilities or long-term conditions
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025024
    Description: This infographic highlights key findings on accessibility barriers among employed persons aged 15 to 64 with disabilities or long-term conditions. The population covered by the Survey Series on Accessibility - Experiences with Accessibility and Employment (SSA-EAE) comprised those who participated in the 2022 Canadian Survey on Disability (CSD) and who agreed to participate in future surveys. A series of screening questions were asked in the SSA-EAE to confirm a disability or long-term condition among participants. Only those who had a disability or long-term condition at the time of collection were surveyed.
    Release date: 2025-02-12
  • 57. Education and employment experiences of youth with disabilities, 2022
    Stats in brief: 89-654-X2025001
    Description: Using data from the 2022 Canadian Survey on Disability (CSD), this fact sheet examines the combinations of educational and employment statuses among youth aged 15 to 24. It also provides insight into how disability-related (disability type, severity and cooccurrence) and sociodemographic characteristics (region, gender, 2SLGBTQ+, racialized group and immigration status) impact these combinations.
    Release date: 2025-01-27
  • 58. Updated methodology to estimate interjurisdictional employees
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202500100003
    Description: Interjurisdictional employees (IJEs) are individuals who work in other regions while maintaining their primary residence in their home province or territory. Since 2021, Statistics Canada has released the annual IJE estimates using data from the Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database (CEEDD) via the Common Output Data Repository (CODR). This article describes an updated methodology to estimate interjurisdictional employees and compare the old and new methodology using the IJE estimates from 2002 to 2020.
    Release date: 2025-01-22
  • 59. Women who work in seniors’ homes: Work-related injuries and illnesses and retention rates before the COVID-19 pandemic
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202500100004
    Description: While a large body of research has identified several correlates of employee turnover, little is currently known regarding the degree to which employees who work in community care facilities for the elderly leave the nursing and residential care facilities subsector or the health care and social assistance sector in a given year. This study fills this information gap using data from the 2016 Census of Population integrated with Statistics Canada’s Longitudinal Worker File. Sample size limitations restricted the focus of the study to women, who represent the vast majority of employees who work in seniors’ homes.
    Release date: 2025-01-22
  • 60. Workforce Insights: Demographics in the publishing industries subsector, 2015 to 2023
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025002
    Description: This paper leverages administrative data to examine the distribution of the workforce by gender, age and full-time work status from 2015 to 2023 for the newspaper, periodical, and book publishers industries.
    Release date: 2025-01-09
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  • 31. 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.
  • 32. 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).
  • 33. 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.
  • 34. 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.
  • 35. 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.
  • 36. 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.
  • 37. 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.
  • 38. 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.
  • 39. 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.
  • 40. 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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