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6.4%0.2 pts(monthly change)
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Percentage of immigrants in the labour force aged 25 to 54 years - Canada
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11.7%
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Proportion of adults aged 25 to 54 years who worked full year full time in 2015 - Canada
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Proportion of adults aged 65 years and over who worked full year full time in 2015 - Canada
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99.2%
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- Data Visualization: 14-20-00012019001Description: This interactive visualization application provides a comprehensive picture of the Canadian labour market using the most recent data from the Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours (SEPH). The estimates are seasonally adjusted and available by province and largest industrial sector. Historical estimates, going back 10 years, are also included. The interactive application allows users to quickly and easily explore and personalize the information presented. Combine multiple provinces and industrial sectors to create your own labour market domains of interest.Release date: 2024-07-25
- Data Visualization: 14-20-0001Description:
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: 2024-07-25 - Articles and reports: 14-28-0001202400100004Description: In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the employability indicator is the number of employees who feel it would be easy for them to find a job of a similar salary if they lost or quit their current job, expressed as a percentage of all employed persons.Release date: 2024-07-25
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X20242073555Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2024-07-25
- Journals and periodicals: 14-28-0001Description: 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: 2024-07-25
- Table: 14-10-0201-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription: Number of employees by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and type of employee, last 5 months.Release date: 2024-07-25
- Table: 14-10-0201-02Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription:
Number of employees by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) in the energy sector and type of employee.
Release date: 2024-07-25 - Table: 14-10-0220-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: MonthlyDescription: Number of employees and average weekly earnings (including overtime) for all employees by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), last 5 months.Release date: 2024-07-25
- Table: 14-10-0220-02Geography: CanadaFrequency: MonthlyDescription:
Number of employees and average weekly earnings (including overtime) for all employees in the automotive industry, based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), last 5 months.
Release date: 2024-07-25 - Table: 14-10-0221-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: MonthlyDescription: Number of employees, average hourly and weekly earnings, and average weekly hours by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and type of employee, last 5 months.Release date: 2024-07-25
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- Table: 14-10-0372-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: MonthlyDescription:
Number of job vacancies and payroll employees, and job vacancy rate by two-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code, last 5 months.
Release date: 2024-07-25 - Table: 14-10-0406-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: MonthlyDescription:
Number of job vacancies and payroll employees, and job vacancy rate by two-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code, last 5 months.
Release date: 2024-07-25 - Table: 14-10-0331-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: MonthlyDescription: 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: 2024-07-15
- Table: 14-10-0332-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription: 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: 2024-07-15
- Data Visualization: 14-20-00012018001Description:
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: 2024-07-05 - Data Visualization: 71-607-X2017001Description: 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: 2024-07-05
- 17. Labour Market Indicators, by province, territory and economic region, unadjusted for seasonalityData Visualization: 71-607-X2017002Description: 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: 2024-07-05
- Public use microdata: 71M0001XDescription: 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: 2024-07-05 - Table: 14-10-0017-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription: 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: 2024-07-05
- Table: 14-10-0017-02Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: MonthlyDescription: 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: 2024-07-05
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- 831. Immigrants in product fabricating ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X19890042287Geography: CanadaDescription:
Immigrant workers are over-represented in "product fabricating" occupations, which include, for example, garment workers and mechanics. This profile of immigrants in fabricating jobs looks at age, education, period of immigration and knowledge of English or French. It also compared the employment income of immigrant and non-immigrant workers in product fabricating occupations.
Release date: 1989-12-20 - 832. Unemployment: A tale of two sources ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X19890042288Geography: CanadaDescription:
Unemployment estimates from the Labour Force Survey, source of the official unemployment rate, are quite different from counts of the number of Unemployment Insurance beneficiaries. This piece reviews the conceptual differences between the two data sources and quantifies many of the factors that create the discrepancies.
Release date: 1989-12-20 - 833. The labour market: Mid-year report [1989] ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X19890032279Geography: CanadaDescription:
Employment growth moderated considerably this year, and shifted its focus westward: more than half the growth occurred in British Columbia. An up-to-date look at labour market developments in the first six months of 1989.
Release date: 1989-09-30 - 834. Unionization and women in the service sector ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X19890032280Geography: CanadaDescription:
Trade unionism is adapting, as the service sector and women's share of employment expand. This study looks at unionization among women in the service sector during the 1980s. Trends by occupation and industry are examined for full-time and part-time workers, as are the earnings of unionized and non-unionized workers.
Release date: 1989-09-30 - 835. Job ads: A leading indicator? ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X19890032282Geography: CanadaDescription:
The Help-wanted Index measures job ads as an indicator of labour demand. The index is considered a leading indicator of labour market conditions and of general economic activity. This study looks at the performance of the index during the last three business cycles.
Release date: 1989-09-30 - 836. Youth for hire ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X19890022273Geography: CanadaDescription:
A comparison of youth labour market conditions in 1977 and 1987 shows several important changes. Demographic shifts and rising school attendance rates are among the influences examined. The diverse experiences of students and out-of-school youths, of teenagers and young adults, are highlighted.
Release date: 1989-06-30 - 837. Canada's unemployment mosaic ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X19890022274Geography: CanadaDescription:
From 1985 to 1988, the national unemployment rate declined sharply but regional patterns varied considerably. The unemployment rate and other labour market measures for 40 sub-provincial areas are used in this study of the increase in regional unemployment disparities observed in recent years.
Release date: 1989-06-30 - 838. On maternity leave ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X19890022275Geography: CanadaDescription:
The fertility rate continues to decline but interest in maternity leave is growing as more women of child bearing age join the labour force. This article looks at maternity absences among working women by age, education and province. It also explores the links between the fertility rate and maternity absences and between compensation and length of absence.
Release date: 1989-06-30
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- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 37-20-0001Description: These reference guides are intended for users of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The guide provides an overview of the Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) and the Registered Apprenticeship Information System (RAIS), the general methodology used to create longitudinal indicators, and important technical information for users.Release date: 2024-04-17
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 71F0031XDescription:
This paper introduces and explains modifications made to the Labour Force Survey estimates.
Release date: 2023-01-30 - 3. Overview of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform and Associated Datasets, 2022 ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 37-20-00012022004Description:
This technical reference guide (updated to include the 2022 datasets) is intended for users of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The data for the products associated with this issue are derived from integrating Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) administrative data with other administrative data on earnings. Statistics Canada has derived a series of annual indicators on the labour market outcomes of public postsecondary graduates including median employment income by educational qualification, field of study, age group and gender for Canada, the provinces and the territories combined.
Release date: 2022-06-06 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 37-20-00012021005Description:
This technical reference guide is intended for users of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The data for the products associated with this issue are derived from integrating Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) administrative data with other administrative data on earnings. Statistics Canada has derived a series of annual indicators on the labour market outcomes of public postsecondary graduates including median employment income by educational qualification, field of study, age group and sex for Canada, the provinces and the territories combined.
Release date: 2021-10-21 - 5. Overview of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP) and Associated Datasets ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 37-20-00012021006Description:
This technical reference guide is intended for users of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The data for the products associated with this issue are derived from integrating Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) administrative data with other administrative data on earnings. Statistics Canada has derived a series of annual indicators on the labour market outcomes of public postsecondary graduates including median employment income by educational qualification, field of study, age group and gender for Canada, the provinces and the territories combined.
Release date: 2021-10-21 - Classification: 12-583-XDescription:
This publication provides a systematic classification structure to identify and categorize the entire range of occupational activity in Canada. Definitions and occupational titles are provided for each unit group. An alphabetical index of the occupational titles classified to the unit group level is also included.
Release date: 2021-09-21 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 37-20-00012020004Description:
This technical reference guide is intended for users of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The data for the products associated with this issue are derived from integrating Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) administrative data with other administrative data on earnings. Statistics Canada has derived a series of annual indicators on the labour market outcomes of public postsecondary graduates including median employment income by educational qualification, field of study, age group and sex for Canada, the provinces and the territories combined.
Release date: 2020-11-05 - 8. Updated content for the 2021 Census of Population: Education, labour, commuting, and Veterans ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00012020004Description:
This fact sheet offers a concise overview of updated—new or modified—content for the 2021 Census of Population that is specific to the theme of education, labour, commuting, and Veterans, which includes the following topics: education, labour market conditions, commuting to work, and Veteran and military service. The changes considered for these topics are explained, along with the resulting approach for 2021.
Release date: 2020-07-20 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 37-20-00012020001Description:
This technical reference guide is intended for users of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The data for the products associated with this release are derived from integrating the Registered Apprenticeship Information System (RAIS) 2008 to 2017 data with other administrative data on earnings. Statistics Canada has derived a series of indicators on educational pathways and labour market outcomes for registered apprentices by select trades, cohorts of apprentices, by sex, for Canada, all provinces, the Atlantic region, and for grouped territories.
Release date: 2020-03-16 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 37-20-00012019002Description:
This technical reference guide is intended for users of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The data for the products associated with this issue are derived from integrating Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) administrative data with other administrative data on earnings. Statistics Canada has derived a series of annual indicators on the labour market outcomes of public postsecondary graduates including median employment income by educational qualification, field of study, age group and sex for Canada, the provinces and the territories combined.
Release date: 2019-12-04
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