Job vacancies in brief, three-month average ending in August 2014
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Released: 2014-11-18
Canadian businesses reported 234,000 job vacancies in August, relatively unchanged compared with August 2013. There were 6.0 unemployed people for every job vacancy, little changed from 12 months earlier.
The national job vacancy rate was 1.5% in August, the same as the rate observed a year 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.
The job vacancies release for September will be on December 12.
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