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  • 31. Labour Force Survey April 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20241313587
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-05-10
  • 32. 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: 2024-05-10
  • 33. 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: 2024-05-10
  • 34. 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: 2024-05-10
  • 35. 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: 2024-05-10
  • 36. 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: 2024-05-10
  • 37. 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: 2024-05-10
  • 38. 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: 2024-05-10
  • 39. 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: 2024-05-10
  • 40. Unemployment by type of work sought and search method, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
    Table: 14-10-0058-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Number of unemployed persons by type of work sought and seach method, sex and age group, last 5 months.
    Release date: 2024-05-10
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  • 81. Impact of the low-fee universal childcare program in Quebec, 1998 to 2015
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2022043
    Description:

    This infographic provides information on the effects of the low-cost childcare launched in Quebec in 1997 on paid employment.

    Release date: 2022-07-27
  • 82. Entering postsecondary education after job loss: Family-level considerations
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202200600003
    Description:

    Every year, thousands of Canadian workers lose their job. The opportunities for coping with job loss through postsecondary education (PSE) transitions might be unequally distributed across Canadian families, perhaps even more so than across Canadian workers. Using data from Statistics Canada’s Longitudinal Worker File (LWF), the T1 Family File (T1FF), the Post-Secondary Information System (PSIS), and the 2006 Census of Population, this study quantifies the degree to which the likelihood of entering PSE or a new field of study after job loss varies, all else equal, across types of family units and, among dual-earner couples, with the earnings or the risk of job loss of the spouse.

    Release date: 2022-06-22
  • 83. Immigration as a source of labour supply
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202217335784
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2022-06-22
  • 84. Research to Insights: Immigration as a Source of Labour Supply
    Stats in brief: 11-631-X2022003
    Description:

    This presentation examines the contribution of immigration in addressing labour supply challenges. It also explores short-term pressures on the labour supply as businesses emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and the structural trends that point to persistent labour supply challenges over the longer term.

    Release date: 2022-06-22
  • 85. Analysis on businesses majority-owned by women, second quarter of 2022
    Stats in brief: 11-621-M2022009
    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: 2022-06-09
  • 86. Discrimination at work, 2016
    Articles and reports: 14-28-0001202000100005
    Description:

    In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the Discrimination at work indicator is the number of persons who worked at any time in the previous 12 months and who report experiencing discrimination or unfavourable treatment while at work over this period. The estimate is expressed as the proportion of all persons who worked at some point during the previous 12 months.

    Release date: 2022-05-30
  • 87. Multiple jobholders, 1976 to 2021
    Articles and reports: 14-28-0001202000100011
    Description:

    In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the Multiple jobholder indicator is the number of employed persons who reported holding more than one job simultaneously during the reference week of the survey, expressed as a percentage of all employed persons.

    Release date: 2022-05-30
  • 88. Employment rate of mothers and fathers, 1976 to 2021
    Articles and reports: 14-28-0001202000100012
    Description:

    In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the Employment rate of mothers and fathers indicator is the percentage of mothers and fathers who are in employment.

    Release date: 2022-05-30
  • 89. Relationships with co-workers, 2016
    Articles and reports: 14-28-0001202000100018
    Description:

    In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the relationship with co-workers indicator is the proportion of employees who report that their colleagues or co-workers often or always help and support them.

    Release date: 2022-05-30
  • 90. Relationship with supervisor, 2016
    Articles and reports: 14-28-0001202000100019
    Description:

    In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the Relationship with supervisor indicator is the proportion of employees who report that their supervisor often or always helps and supports them.

    Release date: 2022-05-30
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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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