On Friday our friends at Stats Canada published their monthly Employment Survey, and as usual it is chocked full of interesting numbers and some telling commentary.
To quote Stats Canada:
Compared with October 2012, employment increased by 1.2% or 214,000, with gains in full-time and part-time work. Over the same period, the number of hours worked rose by 1.4%.
So year over year not a bad bit of job growth for Canada.
For we older folks, in fact, there are 144,000 jobs (year over year) in the men and women over 55 years of age, which means old folks are finding jobs, not nearly as many for the young folks.
The Big Table
The big table again shows that older folks are finding jobs, and those seem to be part-time, so are we all turning into Wal-Mart greeters and Home Depot lumber department guys? My personal experience suggests it is still pretty darn tough for the 20-30 year olds to find substantive jobs to build on.
Labour force characteristics by age and sex – Seasonally adjusted
|
Sept 2013 |
Oct  2013 |
Std err1 |
Sept to |
Oct 2012 to Oct 2013 |
Sept to |
Oct 2012 to |
|
|
thousands (except rates) |
change in thousands (except rates) |
% change |
|||||
| Both sexes, 15 years and over |
|
||||||
| Population |
28,762.9 |
28,791.6 |
… |
28.7 |
376.8 |
0.1 |
1.3 |
| Labour force |
19,105.7 |
19,118.9 |
29.2 |
13.2 |
142.3 |
0.1 |
0.7 |
| Employment |
17,780.7 |
17,793.9 |
28.9 |
13.2 |
213.8 |
0.1 |
1.2 |
| Full-time |
14,421.8 |
14,437.8 |
39.0 |
16.0 |
156.2 |
0.1 |
1.1 |
| Part-time |
3,358.9 |
3,356.2 |
35.7 |
-2.7 |
57.6 |
-0.1 |
1.7 |
| Unemployment |
1,325.0 |
1,325.0 |
25.1 |
0.0 |
-71.4 |
0.0 |
-5.1 |
| Participation rate |
66.4 |
66.4 |
0.1 |
0.0 |
-0.4 |
… |
… |
| Unemployment rate |
6.9 |
6.9 |
0.1 |
0.0 |
-0.5 |
… |
… |
| Employment rate |
61.8 |
61.8 |
0.1 |
0.0 |
-0.1 |
… |
… |
| Part-time rate |
18.9 |
18.9 |
0.2 |
0.0 |
0.1 |
… |
… |
| Youths, 15 to 24 years | |||||||
| Population |
4,447.0 |
4,445.0 |
… |
-2.0 |
-12.1 |
0.0 |
-0.3 |
| Labour force |
2,824.7 |
2,840.2 |
17.3 |
15.5 |
7.0 |
0.5 |
0.2 |
| Employment |
2,461.3 |
2,459.9 |
15.8 |
-1.4 |
38.4 |
-0.1 |
1.6 |
| Full-time |
1,286.0 |
1,284.7 |
18.6 |
-1.3 |
22.2 |
-0.1 |
1.8 |
| Part-time |
1,175.3 |
1,175.2 |
19.5 |
-0.1 |
16.1 |
0.0 |
1.4 |
| Unemployment |
363.4 |
380.3 |
14.9 |
16.9 |
-31.4 |
4.7 |
-7.6 |
| Participation rate |
63.5 |
63.9 |
0.4 |
0.4 |
0.3 |
… |
… |
| Unemployment rate |
12.9 |
13.4 |
0.5 |
0.5 |
-1.1 |
… |
… |
| Employment rate |
55.3 |
55.3 |
0.4 |
0.0 |
1.0 |
… |
… |
| Part-time rate |
47.8 |
47.8 |
0.7 |
0.0 |
-0.1 |
… |
… |
| Men, 25 years and over | |||||||
| Population |
11,906.1 |
11,921.5 |
… |
15.4 |
195.2 |
0.1 |
1.7 |
| Labour force |
8,613.0 |
8,627.1 |
15.1 |
14.1 |
68.7 |
0.2 |
0.8 |
| Employment |
8,080.1 |
8,083.8 |
16.3 |
3.7 |
76.8 |
0.0 |
1.0 |
| Full-time |
7,444.2 |
7,460.4 |
22.0 |
16.2 |
55.1 |
0.2 |
0.7 |
| Part-time |
635.9 |
623.4 |
17.7 |
-12.5 |
21.7 |
-2.0 |
3.6 |
| Unemployment |
532.9 |
543.4 |
14.5 |
10.5 |
-8.0 |
2.0 |
-1.5 |
| Participation rate |
72.3 |
72.4 |
0.1 |
0.1 |
-0.6 |
… |
… |
| Unemployment rate |
6.2 |
6.3 |
0.2 |
0.1 |
-0.1 |
… |
… |
| Employment rate |
67.9 |
67.8 |
0.1 |
-0.1 |
-0.5 |
… |
… |
| Part-time rate |
7.9 |
7.7 |
0.2 |
-0.2 |
0.2 |
… |
… |
| Women, 25 years and over | |||||||
| Population |
12,409.8 |
12,425.1 |
… |
15.3 |
193.7 |
0.1 |
1.6 |
| Labour force |
7,668.0 |
7,651.6 |
16.6 |
-16.4 |
66.7 |
-0.2 |
0.9 |
| Employment |
7,239.3 |
7,250.3 |
16.5 |
11.0 |
98.7 |
0.2 |
1.4 |
| Full-time |
5,691.7 |
5,692.7 |
25.4 |
1.0 |
78.9 |
0.0 |
1.4 |
| Part-time |
1,547.6 |
1,557.6 |
23.8 |
10.0 |
19.8 |
0.6 |
1.3 |
| Unemployment |
428.6 |
401.3 |
13.4 |
-27.3 |
-32.0 |
-6.4 |
-7.4 |
| Participation rate |
61.8 |
61.6 |
0.1 |
-0.2 |
-0.4 |
… |
… |
| Unemployment rate |
5.6 |
5.2 |
0.2 |
-0.4 |
-0.5 |
… |
… |
| Employment rate |
58.3 |
58.4 |
0.1 |
0.1 |
-0.1 |
… |
… |
| Part-time rate |
21.4 |
21.5 |
0.3 |
0.1 |
0.0 |
… |
… |
…
not applicable
1. Average standard error for change in two consecutive months. See “Sampling Errors” in the section “About the Labour Force Survey” at the end of the publication Labour Force Information (Catalogue number71-001-X) for further explanations.
Note(s):Â
Related CANSIM table 282-0087. The sum of individual categories may not always add to the total as a result of rounding.
