The Daily, Tuesday, September 27, 2005. Employment Insurance

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Employment Insurance

The number of Canadians (adjusted for seasonality) receiving regular Employment Insurance benefits in July fell by an estimated 5.9% from June. All provinces showed a decline. The drops were related largely to lower-than-normal increases in the seasonally unadjusted figures. Due to timing issues, many of the new July claimants may have been required to wait until after the reference week to receive payments.

Also on a seasonally adjusted basis, regular benefit payments in July totalled $708.5 million, while the number of people making initial and renewal claims was 249,830.

Employment Insurance statistics

July 2005

June 2005

July 2004

June to July 2005

July 2004 to July 2005

seasonally adjusted

% change

Regular beneficiaries

490,950^p

521,990^r

533,400

-5.9

-8.0

Regular benefits paid ($ millions)

708.5^p

702.8^r

704.4

0.8

0.6

Initial and renewal claims received ('000)

249.8^p

227.4^r

233.9

9.9

6.8

unadjusted

All beneficiaries ('000)¹

711.5^p

680.2^p

760.4

Regular beneficiaries ('000)

448.7^p

411.3^p

495.2

Initial and renewal claims received ('000)

310.3

181.8

295.4

Payments ($ millions)

984.3

995.3

986.2

year-to-date (January to July)

2005

2004

2004 to 2005

% change

Claims received ('000)

1,603.8

1,602.0

0.1

Payments ($ millions)

9,051.3

9,197.5

-1.6

^r	Revised figures.
^p	Preliminary figures.
1.	"All beneficiaries" includes all claimants receiving regular benefits (for example, as a result of layoff) or special benefits (for example, as a result of illness) and are representative of data for the Labour Force Survey reference week which is usually the week containing the 15th day of the month.

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 15th day of the month. The regular benefit payments series measures the total of all monies received by individuals for the entire month.

Number of beneficiaries receiving regular benefits

July 2005^p

June to July 2005

July 2004 to July 2005

seasonally adjusted

% change

Canada

490,950

-5.9

-8.0

Newfoundland and Labrador

37,910

-1.0

4.6

Prince Edward Island

8,340

-4.4

7.1

Nova Scotia

29,920

-2.0

0.9

New Brunswick

34,750

-1.6

0.8

Quebec

169,210

-7.5

0.3

Ontario

116,000

-11.6

-14.8

Manitoba

11,370

-7.6

-12.3

Saskatchewan

10,610

-1.5

-11.7

Alberta

19,870

-7.2

-32.3

British Columbia

47,640

-3.7

-16.6

Yukon Territory

950

1.1

3.3

Northwest Territories

750

0.0

-8.5

Nunavut

360

-2.7

^p	Preliminary figures.
Note:	The number of beneficiaries includes all claimants who received regular benefits for the Labour Force Survey reference week, usually containing the 15th day of the month.

Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2604.

Data on Employment Insurance for August will be released on October 25.

For general information or to order data, contact Client Services (613-951-4090; 1-866-873-8788; labour@statcan.gc.ca). To enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Gilles Groleau (613-951-4091), Labour Statistics Division.