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Some More Jobs in Canada (but not a lot more)

In October 2013 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.

Employment Numbers over the Past 5 Years

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.

Unemployment for the past 5 years or so

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 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 2013

Oct 2012 to

Oct 2013

Sept to
Oct 2013

Oct 2012 to
Oct 2013

 

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):

Related CANSIM table 282-0087. The sum of individual categories may not always add to the total as a result of rounding.

The 2013 Job Picture

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