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Job vacancies on a downward trend since May 2022 while unemployment-to-job vacancy ratio levels off in March 2023

Infographic description

The title of the infographic is "Job vacancies on a downward trend since May 2022 while unemployment-to-job vacancy ratio levels off in March 2023"

This is a linear chart.

The vertical axis on the left shows the number of job vacancies by increments of 50,000.

The vertical axis on the right shows the unemployment-to-job vacancy ratio by increments of 0.1.

The horizontal axis shows each month from January 2022 to March 2023.

The black line represents the number of job vacancies (in thousands) in the last 15 months, with 938,200 in January 2022, 921,400 in February 2022, 990,000 in March 2022, 993,600 in April 2022, 1,003,200 in May 2022, 984,200 in June 2022, 975,000 in July 2022, 923,200 in August 2022, 911,900 September 2022, 886,200 in October 2022, 869,500 in November 2022, 849,900 in December 2022, 871,600 in January 2023, 832,600 in February 2023 and 815,300 in March 2023.

The blue line represents the ratio of unemployment to job vacancies in the last 15 months, with January 2022 at 1.4, February 2022 at 1.2, March 2022 to May 2022 at 1.1, June 2022 to July 2022 at 1.0, August 2022 to January 2023 at 1.2, and February 2023 to March 2023 at 1.3.

Note(s): Data are adjusted for seasonality.

Source(s): Job Vacancy and Wage Survey (5217), table 14-10-0406-01, and Labour Force Survey (3701), table 14-10-0287-01.