A quick look at January unemployment (previous month in brackets):
Unemployment rate: 7.6 per cent (7.5)
Number unemployed: 1,421,200 (1,399,800 )
Number working: 17,357,00 (17,354,700)
Youth (15-24 years) unemployment: 14.5 (14.1)
Men (25 plus) unemployment: 6.6 per cent (6.6)
Women (25 plus) unemployment: 6.0 per cent (6.0)
Provinces
Here's what happened provincially (previous month in brackets):
- Newfoundland 13.5 (12.7)
- Prince Edward Island 12.2 (11.2)
- Nova Scotia 8.4 (7.8)
- New Brunswick 9.5 (9.4)
- Quebec 8.4 (8.7)
- Ontario 8.1 (7.7)
- Manitoba 5.4 (5.4)
- Saskatchewan 5.0 (5.2)
- Alberta 4.9 (4.9)
- British Columbia 6.9 (7.0)
Cities
Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities but cautions the figures may fluctuate widely because they are based on small statistical samples. (Previous month in brackets.)
- St. John's, N.L. 7.8 (7.3)
- Halifax 5.4 (5.4)
- Moncton, N.B. 7.1 (7.5)
- Saint John, N.B. 7.6 (7.6)
- Saguenay, Que. 5.6 (5.8)
- Quebec 5.0 (4.7)
- Sherbrooke, Que. 6.8 (6.7)
- Trois-Rivieres, Que. 8.5 (9.1)
- Montreal 9.0 (8.8)
- Gatineau, Que. 6.6 (7.1)
- Ottawa 5.7 (6.1)
- Kingston, Ont. 6.6 (6.3)
- Peterborough, Ont. 7.2 (7.3)
- Oshawa, Ont. 7.4 (7.3)
- Toronto 8.6 (8.6)
- Hamilton 6.0 (6.4)
- St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. 7.3 (7.4)
- Kitchener, Ont. 6.9 (6.6)
- Brantford, Ont. 8.1 (7.4)
- Guelph, Ont. 5.5 (5.2)
- London, Ont. 9.0 (9.6)
- Windsor, Ont. 10.9 (10.5)
- Barrie, Ont. 9.5 (10.3)
- Sudbury, Ont. 6.4 (5.7)
- Thunder Bay, Ont. 6.2 (7.0)
- Winnipeg 5.8 (5.7)
- Regina 4.4 (4.0)
- Saskatoon 5.9 (5.4)
- Calgary 5.4 (5.5)
- Edmonton 5.0 (4.9)
- Kelowna, B.C. 8.5 (8.0)
- Abbotsford, B.C. 10.1 (9.1)
- Vancouver 7.0 (6.9)
- Victoria 5.7 (5.9)