Better Employment Numbers
So some very good news from Stats Canada with 109,000 “new” jobs in April, which is very good news in a very murky time for economic news. This is the biggest increase since August of… Read More »Better Employment Numbers
Stats Canada has a large amount of great reports not just about the Canadian economy but about Canadian consumers and they are well worth reading.
So some very good news from Stats Canada with 109,000 “new” jobs in April, which is very good news in a very murky time for economic news. This is the biggest increase since August of… Read More »Better Employment Numbers
Statistical analysis can be a tool, but it can also be used to fool you.
Explore the March 2010 Canada unemployment report: employment rose by 18,000 jobs, yet the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 8.2%.
Inflation for February 2010 was quite low around 1.9% year over year. This was back in the days of low wage increases too, so no one got rich
These are the employment numbers from February 2010. The economy was slowly recovering, but things were still not great.