Labour Force Survey

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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.

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  • 1. Closing the gap? Assessing the labour market outcomes of unpartnered mothers in Canada
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X202400100006
    Description: Using data from the Labour Force Survey, this study assesses the degree to which employment and hourly wage rates of unpartnered mothers with young children have caught up to their partnered peers between 1997 and 2023. Focusing on mothers aged 18 to 49 with at least one child aged 5 or younger, the analysis examines differences between partnered (i.e., currently married or living common law) and unpartnered mothers, with disaggregation by unpartnered mothers who have never been married and those who were previously married. The study also examines employment and wage gaps by various diverse groups, such as the experiences of immigrant mothers, as well as Indigenous mothers.
    Release date: 2024-09-11
  • 2. Trends in employment and hourly earnings of mothers of young children, 1997 to 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024031
    Description: This infographic uses data from the Labour Force Survey to look at trends in employment and wage among mothers with young children (age 5 and under). Special attention is paid to differences based on partnership status of mothers.
    Release date: 2024-09-11
  • 3. Study: Closing the gap? Assessing the labour market outcomes of mothers in one-parent families with young children
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202425538265
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-09-11
  • 4. Labour Force Survey in brief: Interactive app
    Data Visualization: 14-20-00012018001
    Description:

    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: 2024-09-06
  • 5. 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: 2024-09-06
  • 6. 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: 2024-09-06
  • 7. 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: 2024-09-06
  • 8. 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: 2024-09-06
  • 9. 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: 2024-09-06
  • 10. 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: 2024-09-06
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  • 1. Closing the gap? Assessing the labour market outcomes of unpartnered mothers in Canada
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X202400100006
    Description: Using data from the Labour Force Survey, this study assesses the degree to which employment and hourly wage rates of unpartnered mothers with young children have caught up to their partnered peers between 1997 and 2023. Focusing on mothers aged 18 to 49 with at least one child aged 5 or younger, the analysis examines differences between partnered (i.e., currently married or living common law) and unpartnered mothers, with disaggregation by unpartnered mothers who have never been married and those who were previously married. The study also examines employment and wage gaps by various diverse groups, such as the experiences of immigrant mothers, as well as Indigenous mothers.
    Release date: 2024-09-11
  • 2. Trends in employment and hourly earnings of mothers of young children, 1997 to 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024031
    Description: This infographic uses data from the Labour Force Survey to look at trends in employment and wage among mothers with young children (age 5 and under). Special attention is paid to differences based on partnership status of mothers.
    Release date: 2024-09-11
  • 3. Study: Closing the gap? Assessing the labour market outcomes of mothers in one-parent families with young children
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202425538265
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-09-11
  • 4. Labour Force Survey August 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20242503587
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-09-06
  • 5. More Canadians commuting in 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202423938551
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-08-26
  • 6. Canadian labour force: What will happen once baby boomers retire?
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X202400100005
    Description: This study uses various demographic scenarios to examine the effects of different immigration levels and labour force participation rates on the size and composition of the Canadian labour force to 2041. These scenarios take into account the targets of the 2024–2026 Immigration Levels Plan, published in November 2023 by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, as well as recent demographic developments, such as those related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the increase in the number of permanent and temporary immigrants admitted to Canada in 2022 and 2023.
    Release date: 2024-08-06
  • 7. Study: Canadian labour force: What happens after the baby boomers retire?
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202421938366
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-08-06
  • 8. Long working hours, 2023
    Articles and reports: 14-28-0001202400100001
    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: 2024-07-25
  • 9. Multiple jobholders, 2023
    Articles and reports: 14-28-0001202400100002
    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: 2024-07-25
  • 10. Own-account worker rate, 2023
    Articles and reports: 14-28-0001202400100003
    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: 2024-07-25
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  • 1. Education Indicators in Canada: Handbook for the Report of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 81-582-G
    Description: This handbook complements the tables of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP). It is a guide that provides general descriptions for each indicator and indicator component. PCEIP has five broad indicator sets: a portrait of the school-age population; financing education systems; elementary and secondary education; postsecondary education; and transitions and outcomes.

    The Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP) is a joint venture of Statistics Canada and the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada.

    Release date: 2024-03-28
  • 2. Labour Force Survey Response Rates, September 2023
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75-005-M2023001
    Description: This document provides information on the evolution of response rates for the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and a discussion of the evaluation of two aspects of data quality that ensure the LFS estimates continue providing an accurate portrait of the Canadian labour market.
    Release date: 2023-10-30
  • 3. Improvements to the Labour Force Survey (LFS)
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 71F0031X
    Description:

    This paper introduces and explains modifications made to the Labour Force Survey estimates.

    Release date: 2023-01-30
  • 4. The 2023 Revisions of the Labour Force Survey (LFS)
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 71F0031X2023001
    Description: This document introduces and describes updates to the Labour Force Survey estimates in January 2023. These updates include the transition to National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2021 as well as enhancements to the LFS data processing system.
    Release date: 2023-01-30
  • 5. The 2021 Revisions of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 71F0031X2021001
    Description:

    This paper introduces and explains modifications made to the Labour Force Survey estimates in January 2021. Some of these modifications include the adjustment of all LFS estimates to reflect population counts based on the 2016 Census and includes updates to 2016 Geography classification system.

    Release date: 2021-01-25
  • 6. Guide to the Labour Force Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 71-543-G
    Description:

    The Guide to the Labour Force Survey contains a dictionary of concepts and definitions and covers topics such as survey methodology, data collection, data processing and data quality. It also contains information on products and services, sub-provincial geography descriptions as well as the survey questionnaire.

    Release date: 2020-04-09
  • 7. Transition of Labour Force Survey Data Processing to the Social Survey Processing Environment (SSPE) Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75-005-M2019001
    Description:

    The production of statistics from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) involves many activities, one of which is data processing. This step involves the verification and correction of survey data when required in order to produce microdata files. Beginning in January 2019, LFS processing will be transitioned to a new system, the Social Survey Processing Environment. This document describes the development and testing that preceded the implementation of the new system, and demonstrates that the transition is expected to have minimal impact on LFS estimates and be transparent to users of LFS data.

    Release date: 2019-02-08
  • 8. Methodology of the Canadian Labour Force Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 71-526-X
    Description:

    The Canadian Labour Force Survey (LFS) is the official source of monthly estimates of total employment and unemployment. Following the 2011 census, the LFS underwent a sample redesign to account for the evolution of the population and labour market characteristics, to adjust to changes in the information needs and to update the geographical information used to carry out the survey. The redesign program following the 2011 census culminated with the introduction of a new sample at the beginning of 2015. This report is a reference on the methodological aspects of the LFS, covering stratification, sampling, collection, processing, weighting, estimation, variance estimation and data quality.

    Release date: 2017-12-21
  • 9. History of the Canadian Labour Force Survey, 1945 to 2016 Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 75-005-M2016001
    Description:

    In over 70 years, the methodology and questionnaire, as well as the collection and processing techniques of the Canadian Labour Force Survey have undergone major changes. This document summarizes these changes chronologically and provides references to more detailed information sources. Among the most significant changes were two questionnaire redesigns, which occurred approximately 20 years apart, in 1976 and 1997.

    Release date: 2017-01-06
  • 10. Labour Force Survey Products and Services
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 71-544-X
    Description: This catalogue briefly describes all Labour Force Survey products offered on a monthly, annual and occasional basis. It includes products, uses, general release dates, formats available and prices, as well as special request services and Internet services. It also introduces any changes to products.
    Release date: 2012-07-06
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