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Ugly Job Numbers to End 2013

Friday our friends at Stats Canada published their monthly Labour Force Survey for December 2013, and it was not good news (at all). Canada lost 46,000 and the unemployment rate jumped 3/10 of a percent to 7.2, which is not a nice way to end 2013.

The better news is that there were 102,000 more jobs in 2013, but even with that good news, that is the lowest job growth number (for a year) since 2009. I guess that is like complaining about dwindling profits; at least we are still creating jobs.

Employment Numbers Canada
Employment for the Past little While

The report also includes an extensive study of the year in employment, well worth a read (don’t just believe what the talking heads (or bloggers) tell you, go form your own opinions).

Unemployment Rate in Canada
Unemployment in Canada for Past Little While

Now that is a nasty spike in a previously good looking graph (for the last little while).

The Big Table

The report from Stats Canada is quite extensive and it includes lots of really good info and here is one of their big tables outlining employment. Normally I include the by Age table, however, this month I’ll change it up and have jobs by category.

Employment by class of worker and industry (based on NAICS1) Seasonally adjusted

 

Nov 2013

Dec 2013

Nov to
Dec 2013

Dec 2012
to Dec 2013

Nov to
Dec 2013

Dec 2012
to Dec 2013

 Thousands

change in thousands

% change

Class of worker

Employees

15,109.1

15,101.1

-8.0

85.1

-0.1

0.6

Self-employed

2,706.4

2,668.5

-37.9

16.9

-1.4

0.6

Public/private sector employees

Public

3,602.2

3,620.4

18.2

-28.1

0.5

-0.8

Private

11,507.0

11,480.7

-26.3

113.2

-0.2

1.0

All industries

17,815.5

17,769.6

-45.9

102.0

-0.3

0.6

Goods-producing sector

3,905.6

3,881.8

-23.8

2.4

-0.6

0.1

Agriculture

309.1

299.3

-9.8

-14.0

-3.2

-4.5

Natural resources3

385.7

377.7

-8.0

20.3

-2.1

5.7

Utilities

157.2

157.9

0.7

12.9

0.4

8.9

Construction

1,315.4

1,301.3

-14.1

24.8

-1.1

1.9

Manufacturing

1,738.1

1,745.6

7.5

-41.6

0.4

-2.3

Services-producing sector

13,909.9

13,887.8

-22.1

99.6

-0.2

0.7

Trade

2,700.9

2,696.3

-4.6

5.5

-0.2

0.2

Transportation and warehousing

872.4

868.9

-3.5

8.8

-0.4

1.0

Finance, insurance, real estate and leasing

1,132.8

1,134.2

1.4

14.7

0.1

1.3

Professional, scientific and technical services

1,356.7

1,368.8

12.1

85.5

0.9

6.7

Business, building and other support services

725.8

712.8

-13.0

13.9

-1.8

2.0

Educational services

1,298.3

1,279.8

-18.5

-44.0

-1.4

-3.3

Health care and social assistance

2,182.2

2,204.3

22.1

30.4

1.0

1.4

Information, culture and recreation

800.8

806.0

5.2

10.6

0.6

1.3

Accommodation and food services

1,148.5

1,132.5

-16.0

20.0

-1.4

1.8

Other services

775.9

760.9

-15.0

-15.7

-1.9

-2.0

Public administration

915.7

923.3

7.6

-30.0

0.8

-3.1

1.North American Industry Classification System.

2.Average standard error for change in two consecutive months. See “Sampling variability of estimates” in the section “About the Labour Force Survey” at the end of the publication Labour Force Information (Catalogue number71-001-X) for further explanations.

3.Also referred to as forestry, fishing, mining, quarrying, oil and gas.

Note(s): 

Related CANSIM tables 282-0088 and 282-0089. The sum of individual categories may not always add up to the total as a result of rounding.

The 2013 Job Picture

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