Following a drop in March, employment was about the same in April and the unemployment rate remained at 7.2%, as well (according to Stats Canada).
The report’s heartening news is that 163,000 more people were working full-time compared to this time last year.
More interestingly public sector employment increased 2.6% or 94,000 jobs, while growth in self-employment was 2.2% (+59,000), which is not as heartening, it would be better to hear there were more private sector jobs. The Public Sector growth simply means more taxes and bigger government (IMHO (and I am a Civil Servant)) we need to stop growing the government, and get the Private Sector to create more jobs.
Big Table
Our friends at Stats Canada publish a plethora of really useful information with these monthly studies which I strongly urge you to go over and read. However, I like to include one of their really big tables of information:
Labour force characteristics by age and sex Seasonally adjusted
| March 2013 | April 2013 | Std error1 | March to April 2013 |
April 2012 to April 2013 |
March to April 2013 |
April 2012 to April 2013 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| thousands (except rates) | change in thousands (except rates) | % change | |||||
| Both sexes, 15 years and over | |||||||
| Population | 28,551.2 | 28,588.7 | … | 37.5 | 346.7 | 0.1 | 1.2 |
| Labour force | 19,016.6 | 19,016.1 | 29.1 | -0.5 | 150.7 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| Employment | 17,641.9 | 17,654.4 | 28.7 | 12.5 | 162.5 | 0.1 | 0.9 |
| Full-time | 14,319.0 | 14,355.0 | 38.2 | 36.0 | 183.9 | 0.3 | 1.3 |
| Part-time | 3,323.0 | 3,299.4 | 35.1 | -23.6 | -21.5 | -0.7 | -0.6 |
| Unemployment | 1,374.7 | 1,361.7 | 25.2 | -13.0 | -11.7 | -0.9 | -0.9 |
| Participation rate | 66.6 | 66.5 | 0.1 | -0.1 | -0.3 | … | … |
| Unemployment rate | 7.2 | 7.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | -0.1 | … | … |
| Employment rate | 61.8 | 61.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | -0.1 | … | … |
| Part-time rate | 18.8 | 18.7 | 0.2 | -0.1 | -0.3 | … | … |
| Youths, 15 to 24 years | |||||||
| Population | 4,452.5 | 4,451.2 | … | -1.3 | -6.0 | 0.0 | -0.1 |
| Labour force | 2,851.2 | 2,839.5 | 17.2 | -11.7 | -4.9 | -0.4 | -0.2 |
| Employment | 2,446.9 | 2,428.1 | 15.9 | -18.8 | -18.2 | -0.8 | -0.7 |
| Full-time | 1,285.7 | 1,292.0 | 18.5 | 6.3 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
| Part-time | 1,161.1 | 1,136.2 | 19.4 | -24.9 | -20.1 | -2.1 | -1.7 |
| Unemployment | 404.4 | 411.4 | 15.1 | 7.0 | 13.2 | 1.7 | 3.3 |
| Participation rate | 64.0 | 63.8 | 0.4 | -0.2 | 0.0 | … | … |
| Unemployment rate | 14.2 | 14.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.5 | … | … |
| Employment rate | 55.0 | 54.5 | 0.4 | -0.5 | -0.4 | … | … |
| Part-time rate | 47.5 | 46.8 | 0.7 | -0.7 | -0.5 | … | … |
| Men, 25 years and over | |||||||
| Population | 11,796.8 | 11,815.9 | … | 19.1 | 176.8 | 0.2 | 1.5 |
| Labour force | 8,549.5 | 8,567.0 | 15.1 | 17.5 | 72.8 | 0.2 | 0.9 |
| Employment | 8,024.7 | 8,042.6 | 16.3 | 17.9 | 88.6 | 0.2 | 1.1 |
| Full-time | 7,414.7 | 7,416.7 | 21.6 | 2.0 | 72.3 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| Part-time | 609.9 | 625.9 | 17.4 | 16.0 | 16.4 | 2.6 | 2.7 |
| Unemployment | 524.8 | 524.4 | 14.7 | -0.4 | -15.8 | -0.1 | -2.9 |
| Participation rate | 72.5 | 72.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | -0.5 | … | … |
| Unemployment rate | 6.1 | 6.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | -0.3 | … | … |
| Employment rate | 68.0 | 68.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -0.2 | … | … |
| Part-time rate | 7.6 | 7.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | … | … |
| Women, 25 years and over | |||||||
| Population | 12,302.0 | 12,321.5 | … | 19.5 | 175.8 | 0.2 | 1.4 |
| Labour force | 7,615.9 | 7,609.6 | 16.5 | -6.3 | 82.9 | -0.1 | 1.1 |
| Employment | 7,170.4 | 7,183.7 | 16.4 | 13.3 | 92.0 | 0.2 | 1.3 |
| Full-time | 5,618.5 | 5,646.4 | 25.0 | 27.9 | 109.8 | 0.5 | 2.0 |
| Part-time | 1,551.9 | 1,537.4 | 23.6 | -14.5 | -17.7 | -0.9 | -1.1 |
| Unemployment | 445.5 | 425.9 | 13.4 | -19.6 | -9.1 | -4.4 | -2.1 |
| Participation rate | 61.9 | 61.8 | 0.1 | -0.1 | -0.2 | … | … |
| Unemployment rate | 5.8 | 5.6 | 0.2 | -0.2 | -0.2 | … | … |
| Employment rate | 58.3 | 58.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | -0.1 | … | … |
| Part-time rate | 21.6 | 21.4 | 0.3 | -0.2 | -0.5 | … | … |
The 2013 Job Picture
- Less Jobs in January in Canada not a good start to 2013.
- More Jobs in February in Canada which is better than January.
- Job Picture Less Rosey in March for Canada 2013 seems to have had it’s ups and downs.
- Employment Hovers for April in Canada better than down.
- More Jobs for May in Canada never a bad thing.
- Employment Unchanged for June in Canada, swooning in the summer.
- 39000 Less Jobs in July in Canada ? Oh dear…
- More Part-time Jobs in Canada in August which isn’t a bad thing, but full-time would be better.
- More Working in September in Canada ? Good!
- Some More Jobs in Canada (but not a lot more) for October in 2013
- Better Job News in Canada for November ’tis the season.
- Ugly Job Numbers to End 2013 not the best way to end the year.
If I’m reading this correctly, the female part time rate is significantly higher than the male?
Seems that way.