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| Year and month | Employment, percent change | Unemployment rate | Composite leading index, percent change | Housing starts '000s | Consumer price index, percent change | Real gross domestic product, percent change | Retail sales volume, percent change | Merchandise exports, percent change | Merchandise imports, percent change | |
| CANSIM: | V2062811 | V2062815 | V7688 | V730390 | V41690914 | V41881175 | V21645485 | V191490 | V183406 | |
| 2006 | 1.9 | 6.3 | 5.3 | 229 | 2.0 | 2.9 | 5.3 | 0.8 | 4.2 | |
| 2007 | 2.3 | 6.0 | 4.8 | 228 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 5.2 | 2.1 | 2.7 | |
| 2006 | J | 0.0 | 6.4 | 0.4 | 235 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 1.9 | 2.3 |
| A | 0.0 | 6.5 | 0.4 | 211 | 0.3 | 0.3 | -0.2 | -0.7 | 0.5 | |
| S | 0.1 | 6.4 | 0.3 | 201 | -0.5 | -0.3 | 0.3 | -0.9 | -3.2 | |
| O | 0.2 | 6.2 | 0.3 | 224 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | -2.6 | 0.8 | |
| N | 0.1 | 6.3 | 0.4 | 230 | 0.3 | 0.1 | -0.6 | 4.0 | 1.8 | |
| D | 0.4 | 6.1 | 0.3 | 220 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 6.5 | 2.3 | |
| 2007 | J | 0.4 | 6.2 | 0.5 | 259 | 0.3 | 0.3 | -0.1 | -1.9 | -1.4 |
| F | 0.1 | 6.1 | 0.5 | 201 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | -1.6 | 0.0 | |
| M | 0.3 | 6.1 | 0.4 | 218 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 2.1 | 3.3 | |
| A | 0.0 | 6.2 | 0.4 | 220 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.5 | -3.5 | |
| M | 0.1 | 6.0 | 0.5 | 237 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 1.6 | -1.7 | -2.2 | |
| J | 0.3 | 6.1 | 0.3 | 226 | 0.0 | 0.3 | -0.4 | -2.9 | 1.2 | |
| J | 0.0 | 6.0 | 0.4 | 222 | 0.0 | 0.1 | -0.7 | 0.7 | 5.0 | |
| A | 0.1 | 6.0 | 0.2 | 231 | -0.1 | 0.2 | 1.1 | -1.0 | -4.3 | |
| S | 0.3 | 5.9 | 0.3 | 277 | 0.3 | 0.0 | -0.9 | -2.1 | 1.2 | |
| O | 0.4 | 5.8 | 0.0 | 226 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.1 | -1.8 | -3.3 | |
| N | 0.1 | 5.9 | -0.1 | 230 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 3.3 | 1.6 | |
| D | 0.0 | 6.0 | -0.3 | 185 | 0.3 | -0.7 | 0.6 | -4.7 | 0.0 | |
| 2008 | J | 0.3 | 5.8 | 0.1 | 216 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 4.1 | 2.8 |
| F | 0.3 | 5.8 | -0.3 | 244 | 0.1 | -0.3 | -0.6 | 4.4 | -1.2 | |
| M | 0.1 | 6.0 | -0.1 | 243 | 0.0 | -0.2 | 0.5 | 1.0 | -2.4 | |
| A | 0.1 | 6.1 | 0.1 | 219 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 3.7 | |
| M | 0.0 | 6.1 | 0.2 | 226 | 0.7 | -0.1 | 0.1 | 5.4 | 4.0 | |
| J | 0.0 | 6.2 | 0.0 | 216 | 0.8 | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| J | -0.3 | 6.1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |