Labour Force Survey: 2011 year-end review

The labour market continued to recover through most of 2011, but there were signs of weakness towards the end of the year (Chart A). Employment increased by 1.3% from December 2010 to September 2011 then fell by 0.3% before recovering somewhat in December 2011, for a 12-month increase of 1.1%. This...

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Published inPerspectives on labour and income Vol. 24; no. 2; p. 1
Main Authors Wannell, Ted, Usalcas, Jeannine
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ottawa Statistics Canada 01.07.2012
Subjects
Age groups
Aging
Economic conditions
Economic statistics
Employment
Immigrants
Labor force
Labor market
Manufacturing
Native North Americans
Noncitizens
Occupations
Population growth
Recessions
Retailing industry
Trends
Unemployment
Women
Workers
Year in review
Canada
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Summary:The labour market continued to recover through most of 2011, but there were signs of weakness towards the end of the year (Chart A). Employment increased by 1.3% from December 2010 to September 2011 then fell by 0.3% before recovering somewhat in December 2011, for a 12-month increase of 1.1%. This represented a net gain of 190,000 jobs over December 2010, all in full-time employment. Youth have much more ground to make up to regain their pre-recession employment rate. Their employment rate fell by 0.3 percentage points over the year and remained more than 5 percentage points below their pre-recession high. As a result, the unemployment rate for youth from 15 to 24 increased from 14.0% in December 2010 to 14.4% in March 2011, before easing back to 14.1% in December 2011 (Chart C). With the slack labour market conditions for youth, the proportion of 15- to 24-year-olds attending school increased from 59.8% in the fall of 2008 to 61.8% in the fall of 2011. In 2011, the employment rate among Aboriginal peoples increased by 2.7 percentage points after declining 5.6 percentage points from 2008 to 2010 (Table 3). Employment rates increased for all age groups except for those 55 and over in 2011, with the largest absolute increase among prime-age Aboriginal peoples. Employment increased for both First Nations living off-reserve and Métis over the year.
ISSN:0840-8750
1492-496X