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  • 51. Employment by occupation, economic regions, three-month moving average, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0431-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Economic region
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Number of employees by province, economic region and National Occupational Classification (NOC), last 5 months.
    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 52. Labour force characteristics, selected census subdivisions, three-month moving averages, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0445-01
    Geography: Census subdivision
    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 for selected census subdivisions. Data are also available for the standard error of the estimate and the standard error of the year-over-year change.
    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 53. 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
  • 54. Labour force characteristics by sex and detailed age group, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0017-01
    Geography: Canada, 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 sex and detailed age group, last 5 months.
    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 55. Labour force characteristics by province, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0017-02
    Geography: Canada, 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 sex and detailed age group. Data are presented for 24 months earlier, 12 months earlier and current month, as well as 24-month and year-over-year level change and percentage change.
    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 56. Labour force characteristics by educational attainment, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0019-01
    Geography: Canada, 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 educational attainment, sex and age group, last 5 months.
    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 57. Unemployment rate, participation rate, and employment rate by type of student during school months, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0021-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Unemployment rate, participation rate, and employment rate by type of student during school months, sex and age group, last 5 months.
    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 58. Labour force characteristics by industry, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0022-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment) and unemployment rate, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), sex and age group, last 5 months.
    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 59. Employment by class of worker, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0026-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Number of employees by class of worker, North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and sex, last 5 months.
    Release date: 2024-04-05
  • 60. Multiple jobholders by industry, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0045-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Number of multiple jobholders by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), sex and age group, last 5 months.
    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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  • 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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