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  • 1. Employment Insurance September 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20253243537
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-11-20
  • 2. Employment Insurance Coverage Survey 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20253022987
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-10-29
  • 3. Exploring the reach of the Canada child benefit: Two coverage rate monitoring strategies
    Articles and reports: 75F0002M2025006
    Description: A prerequisite for the eligibility and receipt of Canada's many social benefit programs is participation in the tax system. Each year, as many as 1 in 10 Canadians do not file their taxes in a timely fashion and as a result miss out - at least temporarily - on benefits to which they could be entitled. The Canada child benefit (CCB), which replaced the Canada child tax benefit (CCTB) in July 2016, is a means-tested tax-free monthly government benefit program available to families with a registered child. This study looks at the CCB coverage using two coverage rate monitoring strategies. It supports ongoing work across several federal agencies to examine the reach of the tax and benefit system.
    Release date: 2025-06-25
  • 4. Social assistance recipients in Canada: Documenting the filing patterns of recipients
    Articles and reports: 75F0002M2025005
    Description: By combining data from administrative files, such as the T5007 slip that provides information about receipt of social assistance (SA) with data on income tax returns (T1), this paper aims to document the rate of non-filers among those who have received social assistance by different sociodemographic variables. This paper also investigates the potential eligibility of non-filers for the GST and HST and Climate Action Incentive non-refundable credit.
    Release date: 2025-05-15
  • 5. Recent trends in social assistance in Ontario
    Articles and reports: 75F0002M2025002
    Description: Using a recent and rich database – the Ontario Social Assistance Files created by Statistics Canada – this report examines the overall and disaggregated trends in social assistance in Ontario and how the trends varied under different social assistance programs and across different groups of Ontarians for the period from 2003 to 2019.
    Release date: 2025-01-30
  • 6. Partners’ uptake of parental benefits: An upward trend?
    Stats in brief: 89-28-0001202200100010
    Description: Using the Employment Insurance Coverage Survey, this paper studies the share of spouses or partners of biological or adoptive mothers who claimed or intended to claim parental benefits from 2006 to 2022.
    Release date: 2024-05-15
  • 7. The likelihood and timing of mothers returning to work after parental leave
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202300300002
    Description: Paid maternity and parental leave help new mothers continue their careers after childbirth or adoption, as continuing employment after becoming a parent became widely common. Historically, an extension of parental leave led Canadian mothers to spend a longer time at home and increased job continuity with their pre-birth employer. This study aims to examine the likelihood and timing of mothers returning to work after parental leave, using more recent data from the Employment Insurance Coverage Survey before the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Release date: 2023-03-22
  • 8. From adaptability to vulnerability: Changes in admission criteria and refugee participation in social assistance
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202200300002
    Description:

    The 2002 Immigration Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) replaced the Immigration Act, 1976 as the primary legislation guiding immigration in Canada. This article summarizes results from a recent study that compared the long-term use of social assistance among resettled refugees arriving under pre-IRPA guidelines (1997 to 2001), during the transition period (2002 to 2004), and post-IRPA (2005 to 2009). The authors used the Longitudinal immigration database (IMDB) to determine whether resettled refugees arriving after the introduction of IRPA were more likely to rely on social assistance than earlier cohorts.

    Release date: 2022-03-23
  • 9. Workers with disabilities receiving payments from the Canada Emergency Response Benefit program, 2020 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2021083
    Description: Using data from the 2017 Canadian Survey on Disability (CSD) and the 2020 Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) program, this infographic provides a profile of Canadian workers with disabilities who received CERB payments during the period from March 15 to September 26, 2020. The focus of the analysis is on workers who had employment or self-employment income of at least $5,000 in 2019.
    Release date: 2021-12-01
  • 10. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the skilled trades: Canada Emergency Response Benefit
    Articles and reports: 81-595-M2021006
    Description:

    The COVID-19 pandemic had large impacts on those in the skilled trades, as these jobs often require hands-on and close-proximity interactions. Using data from the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform, this study examines the pandemic's impacts by investigating the proportion of journeypersons who received the CERB among those who certified between 2008 and 2019. By examining the proportions across trades, geography and population groups, this study can provide further insight into how the pandemic affected those in the skilled trades and how the impacts were different across trades and groups.

    Release date: 2021-11-08
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  • 1. Guide to Employment Insurance Statistics (EIS)
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 73-506-G
    Description: The Guide to Employment Insurance Statistics (EIS) summarizes the survey methodology and data source and includes a dictionary of concepts and definitions used by the program.
    Release date: 2024-07-18
  • 2. Employment Insurance Statistics - Monthly
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2604
    Description: This survey is conducted to release the official statistics which report on the operation of the Employment Insurance Program.
  • 3. Unemployment Insurance Statistics (Annual)
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2610
    Description: The published data provided by this survey provided detailed information on contributors and beneficiaries for the purpose of employment and economic research by government departments.
  • 4. Survey of Maternity Leave
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3851
    Description: The February 1985 supplement to the Labour Force Survey (LFS) is being conducted by Statistics Canada on behalf of Employment and Immigration Canada (EIC). The Survey of Maternity Leave concerns women who stop working due to pregnancy and/or the birth of a child. The Government of Canada, and in particular EIC, is currently reviewing their policies concerning maternity leave benefits. In order to do this, they require more detailed information than is currently available.
  • 5. Labour Market Activity Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3853
    Description: The objectives of this survey were to: measure the frequency and number of job changes occurring in the Canadian labour market over one-, two- and three-year periods; provide information on the characteristics of jobs held (wage rates, usual work schedules, etc.); identify groups of people who would benefit from EIC programs; and identify participants of specific EIC programs.
  • 6. Self-Sufficiency Project
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3898
    Description: The Self-Sufficiency Project was designed to determine the effectiveness of an earnings supplement to single-parents in receipt of Income Assistance who found full-time jobs and agreed to leave the Income Assistance Program.
  • 7. Employment Insurance Coverage Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4428
    Description: The Employment Insurance Coverage Survey provides a meaningful picture of who does or does not have access to EI benefits among the jobless and those in a situation of underemployment. The survey also covers access to maternity and parental benefits.
  • 8. Community Employment Innovation Project
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 4445
    Description: The Community Employment Innovation Project (CEIP) is a research demonstration project that is testing a new approach to the income security system for individuals on Employment Insurance (EI) or Income Assistance (IA). Individuals who agreed to take part in the study had a chance to be offered an opportunity to participate in community employment for three years. The CEIP is conducted in the Regional Municipality of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

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