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Unemployment-to-job-vacancy ratio has been steady since August

Infographic description

The title of the infographic is "Unemployment-to-job-vacancy ratio has been steady since August"

This is a linear chart.

The first vertical axis shows the rate of job vacancies as a percentage of total labour demanded (the sum of filled and vacant positions) from 0.0% to 6.0% by increments of 0.5 percentage points.

The secondary vertical axis shows the unemployment-to-job-vacancy ratio from 0.5 to 4.0 by increments of 0.5.

The horizontal axis shows each month from January 2019 to November 2022.

The royal blue line represents the rate of job vacancies in the last 47 months, with January 2019 to May 2019 at 3.3%, June 2019 to August 2019 at 3.2%, September 2019 to December 2019 at 3.1%, January 2020 at 3.5%, February 2020 at 3.4%, March 2020 at 3.1%, April 2020 to September 2020 omitted because data was not collected during this period of the pandemic, October 2020 at 3.7%, November 2020 to January 2021 at 3.6%, February 2021 at 3.9%, March 2021 to April 2021 at 4.0%, May 2021 at 4.1%, June 2021 at 4.8%, July 2021 at 5.0%, August 2021 at 5.3%, September 2021 at 5.5%, October 2021 at 5.4%, November 2021 at 5.3%, December 2021 at 5.6%, January 2022 at 5.4%, February 2022 at 5.3%, March 2022 to May 2022 at 5.7%, June 2022 to July 2022 at 5.5%, August 2022 to September 2022 at 5.2%, October 2022 at 4.9%, and November 2022 at 4.8%.

The black line represents the ratio of unemployment to job vacancies last the 47 months, with January 2019 to February 2019 at 2.2, March 2019 to April 2019 at 2.1, May 2019 at 2.0, June 2019 at 2.1, July 2019 to October 2019 at 2.2, November 2019 at 2.4, December 2019 at 2.3, January 2020 at 1.9, February 2020 at 2.0, March 2020, at 2.9, April 2020 to September 2020 omitted because data was not collected during this period of the pandemic, October 2020 at 3.3, November 2020 at 3.1, December 2020 at 3.2, January 2021 at 3.4, February 2021 at 2.7, March 2021 at 2.4, April 2021 at 2.5, May 2021 at 2.4, June 2021 at 2.0, July 2021 at 1.9, August 2021 to September 2021 at 1.6, October 2021 at 1.5, November 2021 at 1.4, December 2021 at 1.3, January 2022 at 1.5, February 2022 at 1.2, March 2022 to May 2022 at 1.1, June 2022 to July 2022 at 1.0, and August 2022 to November 2022 at 1.2.

Note(s): Job Vacancy and Wage Survey data collection was suspended for the second and third quarters of 2020; therefore, data for these reference periods are not available. Data are adjusted for seasonality.

Source(s): Job Vacancy and Wage Survey (5217), table 14-10-0406-01 and custom tabulation.