Job vacancies in brief, three-month average ending in November 2014
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Released: 2015-02-17
Canadian businesses reported 247,000 job vacancies in November, an increase of 27,000 compared with November 2013. There were 4.8 unemployed people for every job vacancy, down from 5.6 a year earlier. This decline in the ratio was the result of both fewer unemployed people and more job vacancies.
The national job vacancy rate was 1.6% in November, up from 1.5% recorded 12 months earlier.
Note to readers
Monthly data are based on three-month moving averages. For example, data for the current month are based on an average of the data from the current month and the previous two months.
Data on job vacancies are not seasonally adjusted and should only be compared on a year-over-year basis. Given this is a new data series, trends are not yet available; therefore, data should be interpreted with caution.
With each release, data for the current reference month are subject to revision. Data have been revised for the previous month. Users are encouraged to request and use the most up-to-date data for each month.
The differences between estimates presented in the text are statistically significant at the 68% confidence level.
Upcoming revisions
Revised job vacancy statistics will be available with the release of the January data on April 21. This is the result of revisions to the Survey of Employment Payrolls and Hours (SEPH) data, which is the source for job vacancy statistics. The revised SEPH data will be released on March 31.
The job vacancies release for December 2014 will be on March 17, 2015.
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