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This publication provides the most current monthly labour market statistics. Each month, this publication contains a brief commentary highlighting recent developments in the Canadian labour market. It also includes a series of charts and tables on a variety of labour force characteristics, such as employment and unemployment for Canada, the provinces, metropolitan areas and economic regions.

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Content note

Tables contained in this publication include: labour force characteristics by age and sex (this includes working age population, labour force, employment, full/part-time employment, unemployment, participation rate, unemployment rate, employment rate and part-time rate); employment by class of worker (public sector, private sector and self-employed) and by industry; labour force characteristics by province, by metropolitan area and by economic region; average usual hours and wages of employees by age and sex, union coverage, job permanency and occupation groups; and regional unemployment rates used by the Employment Insurance Plan

History note

This unilingual product replaces the bilingual print version, catalogue no. 71-001-PPB and Internet version, catalogue no. 71-001-PIB.

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Keywords

earnings, hours of work, labour force, not in the labour force, self-employed persons, unions.

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Some bilingual products have changed to separate English and French products. In these cases, back issues are bilingual and the more recent issues are unilingual.

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