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  • 21. Jobs in Canada: Navigating changing local labour markets
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202233432995
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2022-11-30
  • 22. The impact of firm closures and job loss on participation in gig work: A causal analysis
    Articles and reports: 11F0019M2022001
    Description:

    This study uses data from the Statistics Canada Longitudinal Worker File linked to Canadian census records to examine the impact of firm closures and involuntary job loss on entry into gig work. The analysis distinguishes between the actions of those who experienced an actual layoff associated with a firm closure and those who worked in a closing firm but did not necessarily wait until the closure (“impending layoff”).

    Release date: 2022-09-27
  • 23. Study: Unmasking differences in women’s full-time employment
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202226936184
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2022-09-26
  • 24. Working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic: How rates in Canada and the United States compare
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202200800001
    Description:

    As COVID-19 began to spread throughout Canada and the United States in early 2020, many employees were asked to work from home to help control the spread of the virus. COVID restrictions were more stringent in Canada than in the U.S., at least throughout 2021, and the degree to which Canadian and U.S. employees worked from home during the pandemic may have differed across countries. The goal of this paper is to fill this information gap and analyze the trends in work from home rates between the two countries from May 2020 to December 2021.

    Release date: 2022-08-24
  • 25. Exploring the business dynamics of self-employed child care service providers
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202200800003
    Description:

    Child care in Canada is essential for supporting paid employment for parents, particularly women who do the majority of child care work. This paper examines the characteristics and evolution of the population of small home daycares and their operators that are ubiquitous throughout Canada. It fills an information gap in the current understanding of the child care market in Canada by providing information about the entrepreneurs that run home child cares, their families and their incomes.

    Release date: 2022-08-24
  • 26. Long working hours, 1976 to 2021
    Articles and reports: 14-28-0001202000100009
    Description:

    In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the Long working hours indicator is the number of employed persons who usually work 49 hours or more per week at their main and second job (if applicable), expressed as a percentage of all employed persons.

    Release date: 2022-05-30
  • 27. 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
  • 28. Job tenure, 1976 to 2021
    Articles and reports: 14-28-0001202000100013
    Description:

    In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the Job tenure indicator is the number of employed persons with job tenures of less than 1 year, 1 year to less than 5 years, 5 years to less than 10 years, and 10 years or more, expressed as a percentage of all employed persons.

    Release date: 2022-05-30
  • 29. Own-account worker rate, 1976 to 2021
    Articles and reports: 14-28-0001202000100014
    Description:

    In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the Own-account worker rate indicator is the proportion of the employed population who are own-account workers. Own-account workers are defined as private-sector workers, who are self-employed and either unincorporated or incorporated without employees.

    Release date: 2022-05-30
  • 30. The long-term wage growth of teleworkers before the COVID-19 pandemic
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202200500001
    Description:

    One commonly held view of telework is that prior to COVID-19, teleworkers might have been promoted less often than other employees or might have declined job offers for high-paying jobs that did not offer the opportunity to work from home. Such scenarios imply that prior to COVID-19, employees working from home would have experienced lower wage growth in the long term than other employees. This study assesses whether this is the case using integrated data from Statistics Canada’s Longitudinal Worker File (LWF) and the 2006 and 2016 Censuses of Population.

    Release date: 2022-05-25
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  • 1. Producing Hours Worked for the SNA in Order to Measure Productivity: The Canadian Experience Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 15-206-X2006004
    Description:

    This paper provides a brief description of the methodology currently used to produce the annual volume of hours worked consistent with the System of National Accounts (SNA). These data are used for labour input in the annual and quarterly measures of labour productivity, as well as in the annual measures of multifactor productivity. For this purpose, hours worked are broken down by educational level and age group, so that changes in the composition of the labour force can be taken into account. They are also used to calculate hourly compensation and the unit labour cost and for simulations of the SNA Input-Output Model; as such, they are integrated as labour force inputs into most SNA satellite accounts (i.e., environment, tourism).

    Release date: 2006-10-27
  • 2. Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Man-hours
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2603
    Description: This survey is an establishment census survey designed to gather data on employment, payrolls and paid-hours from larger employers (companies or establishments of 20 or more employees).
  • 3. Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2612
    Description: The Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours provides a monthly portrait of the amount of earnings, as well as the number of jobs (i.e., occupied positions) and hours worked by detailed industry at the national, provincial and territorial levels.
  • 4. Labour Force Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3701
    Description: The Labour Force Survey provides estimates of employment and unemployment. With the release of the survey results only 10 days after the completion of data collection, the LFS estimates are the first of the major monthly economic data series to be released. LFS data are used to produce the well-known unemployment rate as well as other standard labour market indicators such as the employment rate and the participation rate.
  • 5. Survey on Work Reduction
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3831
    Description: The survey collected data to estimate hours of work that would be made available from voluntary work reduction and to determine the preference for various reduced work time patterns.
  • 6. Survey of Self-employment
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3850
    Description: The survey was conducted by Statistics Canada on behalf of Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC). It collected data on the socio-demographic characteristics of the self-employed, as well as the hours they work, previous work experience, participation in dental, health and disability plans, income security, and their attitudes towards self-employment.
  • 7. 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.
  • 8. Survey of Work Arrangements
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3884
    Description: This survey collects information on work schedules, hours of work, flexible hours, home-based work, as well as on employee benefits and wages.
  • 9. Aboriginal Entrepreneurs Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5048
    Description: The objective of the Aboriginal Entrepreneurs Survey (AES) was to provide updated information on self-employed Aboriginal people and their businesses.
  • 10. General Social Survey: Canadians at Work and Home
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5221
    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. The mandate of the GSS "Canadians at Work and Home" is to explore people's views about work, home, leisure and well-being, and the relationships between these. Data from this survey will help decision makers select the programs and policies that will best serve Canadians.
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