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The lowest level of national unemployment came in 1947 with a 2.2% unemployment rate, a result of the smaller pool of available workers caused by casualties from the Second World War. The highest level of unemployment throughout Canada was set in December 1982, when the early 1980s recession resulted in 13.1% of the adult population being out ...
Canada added 418,500 jobs in July, mostly in the part-time sector, and the unemployment rate fell to 10.9% as the economy continued to reopen, Statistics Canada said on Friday. Analysts in a ...
Statistics Canada says the unemployment rate fell to 5.3 per cent, the lowest level since record keeping began in 1976.
Unemployment rate (2021) [1] This is a list of countries by unemployment rate.Methods of calculation and presentation of unemployment rate vary from country to country. Some countries count insured unemployed only, some count those in receipt of welfare benefit only, some count the disabled and other permanently unemployable people, some countries count those who choose (and are financially ...
The Canadian economy added twice as many jobs as expected in December and the unemployment rate hit a 22-month low, official data showed on Friday, though the survey was taken before the Omicron ...
In a June 7, 2008 article in The Globe and Mail, Heather Scoffield wrote that for the first time since 1982, Canada's unemployment rate was lower than that of the United States. Scoffield said that this indicated that the economic recession was "less painful in Canada" where the May unemployment rate was 6.1% while the US rate was 5.5%. [37]
This is a list of OECD countries by long-term unemployment rate published by the OECD. This indicator refers to the number of persons who have been unemployed for one year or more as a percentage of the labour force (the sum of employed and unemployed persons).
Unemployment in Ontario is the measure indicating the number of Ontarians "without work, are available for work, and are actively seeking work". [1] The rate of unemployment is measured by Statistics Canada using a Labour Force Survey. In September 2018 approximately 452,900 people were deemed unemployed in Ontario.