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  • 51. 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: 2024-04-05
  • 52. 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: 2024-04-05
  • 53. Labour force characteristics by visible minority group and region, three-month moving averages, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0373-02
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Labour force characteristic estimates by visible minority group, region, age group, and sex.

    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 54. Employment and unemployment rate, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0374-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Number of employees and unemployment rate by population centre and rural area, sex and age group, last 5 months.
    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 55. Employment by class of worker and industry, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0376-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Number of employees by class of worker, North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), and population centre and rural area, last 5 months.

    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 56. Labour force characteristics, three-month moving average, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0378-01
    Geography: Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    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 census metropolitan area, sex and age group, last 5 months.
    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 57. Employment by industry, three-month moving average, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0379-01
    Geography: Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Number of employees by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and census metropolitan area, last 5 months.

    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 58. Labour force characteristics, three-month moving average, seasonally adjusted
    Table: 14-10-0380-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment), unemployment rate, participation rate and employment rate by census metropolitan area. 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
  • 59. Labour force characteristics, three month moving average, seasonally adjusted
    Table: 14-10-0380-02
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment), unemployment rate, participation rate and employment rate by census metropolitan area. 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
  • 60. Labour force characteristics, monthly, seasonally adjusted
    Table: 14-10-0383-01
    Geography: Census metropolitan area
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment), unemployment rate, participation rate and employment rate by Montréal, Toronto and Vancouver census metropolitan areas. 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-tomonth change and the standard error of the year-over-year change.

    Release date: 2024-04-05
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  • 31. From high school, into postsecondary education and on to the labour market
    Articles and reports: 81-595-M2023004
    Description: This fact sheet provides metrics on how young Canadians move from largely compulsory secondary education, into and through their postsecondary experiences and finally onto the labour market. It brings together the latest indicators that can provide insight into these pathways.
    Release date: 2023-07-28
  • 32. The changing nature of work since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202300700003
    Description: Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, rapid advances in automation and artificial intelligence were often featured in discussions around the changing nature of work. The concern, which is still present today, centred around the possibility that machines and robots could perform certain tasks more efficiently than humans. The purpose of this study is to update the trends in the changing nature of work with new data covering the pandemic period (up to and including 2022).
    Release date: 2023-07-26
  • 33. The Provincial Nominee Program: Its expansion in Canada
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202300700004
    Description: The Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) was introduced in all provinces, excluding Quebec, and most territories in Canada between 1998 and 2009. Its primary goal was to increase the settlement of economic immigrants outside major Canadian cities and to address the workforce needs of employers, as perceived by the province or territory. This article focuses on the expansion of the PNP in Canada and is part of a series that examines the characteristics and labour market outcomes of PNP immigrants.
    Release date: 2023-07-26
  • 34. Highlights from a new study on the lifetime earnings growth of individuals with childhood-onset disabilities
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202300700006
    Description: For some individuals with a disability, the main labour market challenge is to find employment. Others may find it difficult to retain their jobs or qualify for promotion opportunities. This study offers important new insights into the life-long evolution of the earnings of individuals whose disability started when they were children.
    Release date: 2023-07-26
  • 35. Labour market imbalances: Evidence from the Canadian Economic Tracker
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202300600001
    Description: The Canadian Economic Tracker, released on May 16th 2023, is a new data visualization tool combining selected monthly indicators of economic activity from Statistics Canada’s Common Output Database Repository (CODR) into a unified, customizable interface. The Tracker includes six indicators: business openings and closures, employment and weekly earnings, job vacancies and vacancy rates, gross domestic product, the consumer price index, and the industrial product price index. Each data release for these series is automatically incorporated into the Tracker, ensuring that the statistics remain timely and up to date. This article is the first in a series which will uncover insights that can be collected from the Canadian Economic Tracker.
    Release date: 2023-06-28
  • 36. Inflationary pressures, wages and profits
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202300600005
    Description: The recent period of high inflation has prompted a number of studies examining its causes and consequences. Of particular interest if whether “greedflation”, the situation where businesses are taking the opportunity in a high inflationary environment to increase their prices above their underlying costs of production in order to garner higher profits. This article sheds light on this by investigating how labour costs (primarily wages and salaries), and non-labour costs (primarily returns to capital) are evolving relative to inflation.
    Release date: 2023-06-28
  • 37. Insights on inflation in Canada
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202317937367
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2023-06-28
  • 38. Quality of Employment in Canada
    Journals and periodicals: 14-28-0001
    Description: Statistics Canada's Quality of Employment in Canada publication is intended to provide Canadians and Canadian organizations with a better understanding of quality of employment using an internationally-supported statistical framework. Quality of employment is approached as a multidimensional concept, characterized by different elements, which relate to human needs in various ways. To cover all relevant aspects, the framework identified seven dimensions and twelve sub-dimensions of quality of employment.
    Release date: 2023-06-13
  • 39. Paid Employment, Self-employment and Gig Work in Administrative and Survey Data
    Articles and reports: 11F0019M2023003
    Description: This study combines survey and administrative data to examine the correspondence between paid-employment and self-employment activities reported in each of these data sources by the same individuals. The study also looks at the role of self-employment as a supplemental income source for individuals whose self-declared main labour market activity is wage employment.
    Release date: 2023-06-06
  • 40. Unemployment and job vacancies by education, 2016 to 2022
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202300500001
    Description: The increase in the number of job vacancies observed in Canada over the last few years has attracted considerable attention. This article provides new insights on this issue by comparing the number of job vacancies requiring a given education level with the number of unemployed individuals with such education.
    Release date: 2023-05-24
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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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