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Tuesday, May 27, 2003 Employment InsuranceMarch 2003 (preliminary)The estimated number of Canadians (adjusted for seasonality) receiving regular Employment Insurance benefits in March moved up a slight 0.7% from February to 535,160. This was the first monthly rise in five months and was primarily due to increases in Ontario (+3.1%), Alberta (+2.3%) and British Columbia (+1.3%). Quebec remained virtually unchanged, increasing only 0.2%. Also on a seasonally adjusted basis, regular benefit payments in March totalled $809.1 million, while the number of people making initial and renewal claims was 249,310.
Note: Employment Insurance Statistics Program data are produced from an administrative data source and may, from time to time, be affected by changes to the Employment Insurance Act or administrative procedures. The number of beneficiaries is a measure of all persons who received Employment Insurance benefits for the week containing the fifteenth day of the month. The regular benefit payments series measures the total of all monies received by individuals for the entire month.
Available on CANSIM: tables 276-0001 to 276-0006, 276-0009, 276-0011, 276-0015 and 276-0016. Information on methods and data quality available in the Integrated Meta Data Base: survey number 2604. For general information or to order data, contact Client Services (1-866-873-8788; 613-951-4090; labour@statcan.gc.ca). To enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Gilles Groleau (613-951-4091) or Jamie Brunet (613-951-6684), Labour Statistics Division. |
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