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  • 1. Labour market outcomes for college and university graduates: Interactive tool
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2019031
    Description: This interactive tool details the median employment income earned by postsecondary graduates two and five years after obtaining their educational qualification.
    Release date: 2024-04-17
  • 2. Historical (real-time) releases of employment and average weekly earnings (including overtime) for all employees by industry, monthly, seasonally adjusted
    Table: 14-10-0331-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Historical releases of employment and average weekly earnings (including overtime) for all employees by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), last 5 months.
    Release date: 2024-04-15
  • 3. Historical (real-time) releases of employment and average weekly earnings (including overtime) for all employees by province and territory, monthly, seasonally adjusted
    Table: 14-10-0332-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Historical releases of employment and average weekly earnings (including overtime) for all employees by province, territory and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), last 5 months.
    Release date: 2024-04-15
  • 4. Railway industry employees and employee compensation, by major occupational group
    Table: 23-10-0060-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Annual railway industry employees and employee compensation (average number of employees) by major occupational group (general services, road maintenance, equipment maintenance and transportation).
    Release date: 2024-04-12
  • 5. Railway industry summary statistics on employment, by occupational categories and mainline companies
    Table: 23-10-0061-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Annual railway industry summary statistics on employment, by occupational categories (managerial and supervisory; professional, scientific, technical and staff assistants; clerical; running trades; working foremen; craftsmen, tradesmen, lead hands, service workers and helpers; labourers, including building attendants and coach cleaners) and mainline companies (Canadian National and Canadian Pacific, VIA Rail).
    Release date: 2024-04-12
  • 6. Labour Force Survey in brief: Interactive app
    Data Visualization: 14-20-00012018001
    Description:

    This interactive visualization application provides a comprehensive picture of the Canadian labour market using the most recent Labour Force Survey data available. The estimates are seasonally adjusted and available by province, sex, age group and industry. Historical estimates, going back 5 years, are also included for monthly employment changes and unemployment rates. The interactive application allows users to quickly and easily explore and personalize the information presented. Combine multiple provinces, sexes and age groups to create your own labour market domains of interest.

    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 7. Labour Market Indicators, by province and census metropolitan area, seasonally adjusted
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2017001
    Description: This web application provides access to Statistics Canada’s Labour Market Indicators for Canada, by province and by census metropolitan area. This dynamic application allows users to view geographical rankings for each labour market indicator and to create quick and easy reports with interactive maps and charts that can be easily copied into other programs. All provincial and CMA estimates used in this application are seasonally adjusted, 3-month moving averages. Labour Force Survey data at the provincial level published each month in The Daily are seasonally adjusted monthly estimates.
    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 8. Labour Market Indicators, by province, territory and economic region, unadjusted for seasonality
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2017002
    Description: This web application provides access to Statistics Canada’s Labour Market Indicators for Canada, by province, territory and economic region (ER). This dynamic application allows users to view a snapshot of key labour market indicators, observe geographical rankings for each indicator using an interactive map and table, and easily copy data into other programs. The provincial and ER estimates used in this application from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) are three-month moving averages, unadjusted for seasonality. The provincial, territorial and ER estimates used in this application from the Job Vacancy and Wage Survey (JVWS) are quarterly data, unadjusted for seasonality. Historical estimates are available in this application, with data going back 10 years for the LFS and from the first quarter of 2016 for JVWS.
    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 9. Canadian Labour Market Observatory
    Data Visualization: 14-20-0001
    Description:

    The Canadian Labour Market Observatory consists of interactive data visualization applications showcasing the vast amount of publicly available labour market information. The fully interactive applications allow Canadians to quickly and easily personalize the information in a way that is relevant to them and their interests.

    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 10. Labour Force Survey: Public Use Microdata File
    Public use microdata: 71M0001X
    Description: This public use microdata file (PUMF) contains non-aggregated data for a wide variety of variables collected from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). The LFS collects monthly information on the labour market activities of Canada's working age population. This product is for users who prefer to do their own analysis by focusing on specific subgroups in the population or by cross-classifying variables that are not in our catalogued products.

    Monthly files are available back to 2006 and can be directly downloaded. For reference periods prior to 2006, files are available by request through Statistics Canada's Electronic File Transfer (EFT) service and date back to 1976.

    Release date: 2024-04-05
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  • 41. Do university-educated immigrants recover economically from a slow start?
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202300500003
    Description: The selection of highly educated immigrants is based in part on the premise that they can better adapt to the labour market and will have, on average, better economic outcomes than less-educated immigrants. Earlier research indicates that this is the case. However, some university-educated immigrants have a slow start in the initial years after immigration. Little Canadian research has considered whether these immigrants eventually catch up with similarly educated immigrants who have early economic success. Likewise, it is unknown whether they outperform less-educated immigrants. Using the Longitudinal Immigration Database, this study looks at the long-term economic outcomes of university-educated economic principal applicant immigrants who immigrated at the ages of 20 to 44 during the period from 1990 to 2014 by their earnings level in the initial years after immigration.
    Release date: 2023-05-24
  • 42. Canadian regional labour statistics and inter-regional movements of paid workers, 2001 to 2021
    Articles and reports: 13-605-X202300100003
    Description: This paper focuses on the new regional labour statistics built based on the economic regions where people work. It reviews the methodology in creating these new experimental regional labour statistics. The data allow us to analyse regional labour markets as well as to track the flows of workers from one economic region to other regions.

    This paper is the first that compares such statistics over an entire a decade (2010 with 2021) and investigates the extent that the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions affected employment and labour movements among regional economies.
    Release date: 2023-05-18
  • 43. Representation of persons with disabilities in executive positions 2016 to 2019
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202309436784
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2023-04-04
  • 44. Experimental Environmental, Social and Governance Dashboard
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202308734343
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2023-03-28
  • 45. Interjurisdictional employment in Canada, 2002 to 2019
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202300300004
    Description: This article presents an overview of interjurisdictional employment in Canada over the 2002-to-2019 period. Interjurisdictional employees are individuals who maintain their primary residence in their home province or territory while working outside this province or territory. The results are based on Statistics Canada’s Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamic Database and pertain to employees aged 18 or older earnings at least $1,000 in 2016 dollars within Canada.
    Release date: 2023-03-22
  • 46. Portrait of Women by the Relative Remoteness of their Communities, Series 4: Labour Characteristics
    Articles and reports: 45-20-00022023001
    Description: Using data from the 2016 Census of Population and the updated Remoteness Index Classification, this paper focuses on the employment and unemployment rates, full-time employment, representation in industries and occupations, and the employment income of women by the relative remoteness of their communities.
    Release date: 2023-03-20
  • 47. Analysis on businesses majority-owned by women, first quarter of 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-621-M2023005
    Description: Canadian businesses face many different obstacles in their day-to-day operations. Several factors such as size, industry of operation and region of operation can cause businesses to experience different obstacles affecting their ability to sell to their markets. The obstacles experienced by businesses owned by different segments of the population can also vary. The challenges of businesses majority-owned by women are illustrated within this article. It involves an examination of the data produced by the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions.
    Release date: 2023-03-16
  • 48. Labour market outcomes of Indigenous journeypersons in Canada
    Articles and reports: 81-595-M2022001
    Description: This study analyses the representation of First Nations people, Métis and Inuit journeypersons in the skilled trades population and their labour market outcomes in term of earnings comparatively to the rest of journeyperson population.
    Release date: 2023-03-13
  • 49. Job quality of racialized Canadians with a bachelor's degree
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2023013
    Description: The infographic uses data from the integrated file of the Postsecondary Student Information System, the 2016 Census and the T1 Family File to compare the job quality of racialized graduates with a bachelor's degree with that of non-racialized and non-Indigenous graduates two years after graduation. Job quality indicators include employment income, unionization rate, and employer pension plan coverage rate.
    Release date: 2023-02-27
  • 50. Measuring the value of women’s contribution to the Canadian economy: New insights based on recent work
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202300200001
    Description: Women play a key role in the Canadian economy as workers and entrepreneurs, and as providers of unpaid household work. Women are important contributors to the labour market. In this article, recent Statistics Canada research that focuses on improving our estimates of women’s contribution to the economy – through both paid and unpaid work – is summarized.
    Release date: 2023-02-22
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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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