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 2002, so that is heartening news for those on the hunt for jobs, and for those pundits who are claiming that Canada is lagging behind in the “world recovery”.
As the graph shows, we are not back to where we were in 2008, but we are accelerating nicely towards that point on the graph. Now a great deal of the increase is in part time jobs (65000) but 45000 are in Full Time jobs so any increase is a good thing. All of the increase is in the Private Sector, which suggests the alleged Government belt tightening is starting to take hold in all levels of government.
Unemployment figures dropped as well, which is good, but we have a while until we can reach the good times of 2007 in terms of unemployment figures.
The Big Table
For those like me who love seeing all the figures, here they are, there are other tables available at the Stats Canada web site as well.
| March 2010 | April 2010 | Mar to Apr 2010 | Apr 2009 to Apr 2010 |
Mar to Apr 2010 |
Apr 09 to Apr ’10 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seasonally adjusted | ||||||
| thousands | change in thousands | % change | ||||
| Both sexes, 15 years and over | ||||||
| Population | 27,585.2 | 27,618.4 | 33.2 | 400.8 | 0.1 | 1.5 |
| Labour force | 18,478.3 | 18,570.3 | 92.0 | 228.1 | 0.5 | 1.2 |
| Employment | 16,963.2 | 17,071.9 | 108.7 | 223.8 | 0.6 | 1.3 |
| Full-time | 13,724.6 | 13,768.4 | 43.8 | 145.6 | 0.3 | 1.1 |
| Part-time | 3,238.7 | 3,303.5 | 64.8 | 78.3 | 2.0 | 2.4 |
| Unemployment | 1,515.1 | 1,498.3 | -16.8 | 4.1 | -1.1 | 0.3 |
| Participation rate | 67.0 | 67.2 | 0.2 | -0.2 | … | … |
| Unemployment rate | 8.2 | 8.1 | -0.1 | 0.0 | … | … |
| Employment rate | 61.5 | 61.8 | 0.3 | -0.1 | … | … |
| Part-time rate | 19.1 | 19.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | … | … |
| Youths, 15 to 24 years | ||||||
| Population | 4,402.4 | 4,403.5 | 1.1 | 13.4 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Labour force | 2,861.5 | 2,874.6 | 13.1 | -12.2 | 0.5 | -0.4 |
| Employment | 2,415.0 | 2,438.1 | 23.1 | -28.6 | 1.0 | -1.2 |
| Full-time | 1,258.4 | 1,249.9 | -8.5 | -70.9 | -0.7 | -5.4 |
| Part-time | 1,156.7 | 1,188.1 | 31.4 | 42.2 | 2.7 | 3.7 |
| Unemployment | 446.4 | 436.5 | -9.9 | 16.4 | -2.2 | 3.9 |
| Participation rate | 65.0 | 65.3 | 0.3 | -0.5 | … | … |
| Unemployment rate | 15.6 | 15.2 | -0.4 | 0.6 | … | … |
| Employment rate | 54.9 | 55.4 | 0.5 | -0.8 | … | … |
| Part-time rate | 47.9 | 48.7 | 0.8 | 2.2 | … | … |
| Men, 25 years and over | ||||||
| Population | 11,340.0 | 11,355.8 | 15.8 | 196.0 | 0.1 | 1.8 |
| Labour force | 8,255.3 | 8,308.7 | 53.4 | 122.8 | 0.6 | 1.5 |
| Employment | 7,635.5 | 7,707.3 | 71.8 | 159.7 | 0.9 | 2.1 |
| Full-time | 7,066.2 | 7,107.4 | 41.2 | 142.9 | 0.6 | 2.1 |
| Part-time | 569.3 | 599.9 | 30.6 | 16.8 | 5.4 | 2.9 |
| Unemployment | 619.8 | 601.4 | -18.4 | -36.9 | -3.0 | -5.8 |
| Participation rate | 72.8 | 73.2 | 0.4 | -0.2 | … | … |
| Unemployment rate | 7.5 | 7.2 | -0.3 | -0.6 | … | … |
| Employment rate | 67.3 | 67.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 | … | … |
| Part-time rate | 7.5 | 7.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | … | … |
| Women, 25 years and over | ||||||
| Population | 11,842.9 | 11,859.1 | 16.2 | 191.4 | 0.1 | 1.6 |
| Labour force | 7,361.5 | 7,386.9 | 25.4 | 117.3 | 0.3 | 1.6 |
| Employment | 6,912.6 | 6,926.6 | 14.0 | 92.8 | 0.2 | 1.4 |
| Full-time | 5,400.0 | 5,411.0 | 11.0 | 73.4 | 0.2 | 1.4 |
| Part-time | 1,512.7 | 1,515.5 | 2.8 | 19.3 | 0.2 | 1.3 |
| Unemployment | 448.8 | 460.4 | 11.6 | 24.7 | 2.6 | 5.7 |
| Participation rate | 62.2 | 62.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | … | … |
| Unemployment rate | 6.1 | 6.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | … | … |
| Employment rate | 58.4 | 58.4 | 0.0 | -0.2 | … | … |
| Part-time rate | 21.9 | 21.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | … | … |
