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• New Brunswick's employment rate rose to 59.2% in 2007, closing the gap with the national average to just 4.3 percentage points, the smallest difference in three decades. Employment in the province grew by 7,400 (+2.1%) in 2007, pushing the unemployment rate down 1.3 percentage points to 7.5%.

• The province's largest employment increases in 2007 were in the goods-producing sector, almost half of them in construction. In the services-producing sector, gains in health care and social assistance and information, culture and recreation were partially offset by losses in business, building and other support services.

• Since 1976, New Brunswick has had the largest increase in employment rates among women. In 2007, over half (56.2%) of women were working, compared with slightly more than a third (34.0%) in 1976. In spite of this, the employment rate among New Brunswick women is still 2.9 percentage points below the national average for women.

• The unemployment rate in New Brunswick declined sharply in 2007 (-1.3 percentage points) to 7.5%, the lowest rate for the province in three decades. The participation rate was 64.0% in 2007, up 0.3 percentage points from the previous year, its highest level in more than 30 years.

Chart C.6
Employment rates in New Brunswick, 1976 to 2007

Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, CANSIM table 282-0002.