Facts and figures about employment in Canada in month of October
A quick look at October unemployment (previous month in brackets):
Unemployment rate: 7.3 per cent (7.1)
Number unemployed: 1,374,200 (1,334,200 )
Number working: 17,345,600 (17,399,600)
Youth (15-24 years) unemployment: 14.1 (14.0)
Men (25 plus) unemployment: 6.3 per cent (6.1)
Women (25 plus) unemployment: 5.9 per cent (5.6)
By province and territory
Here's what happened provincially (previous month in brackets):
- Newfoundland 12.9 (13.5)
- Prince Edward Island 11.2 (11.4)
- Nova Scotia 8.6 (8.4)
- New Brunswick 9.4 (8.9)
- Quebec 7.7 (7.3)
- Ontario 8.1 (7.6)
- Manitoba 5.2 (5.5)
- Saskatchewan 4.1 (4.6)
- Alberta 5.1 (5.4)
- British Columbia 6.6 (6.7)
By city
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. 7.1 (6.6)
- Halifax 6.0 (6.2)
- Moncton, N.B. 6.8 (7.1)
- Saint John, N.B. 5.9 (5.7)
- Saguenay, Que. 6.5 (6.6)
- Quebec 4.6 (4.4)
- Sherbrooke, Que. 7.0 (7.1)
- Trois-Rivieres, Que. 8.8 (8.7)
- Montreal 8.1 (8.0)
- Gatineau, Que. 6.8 (6.3)
- Ottawa 5.6 (5.0)
- Kingston, Ont. 5.8 (6.1)
- Peterborough, Ont. 10.1 (10.9)
- Oshawa, Ont. 7.2 (7.2)
- Toronto 8.3 (7.9)
- Hamilton 6.6 (6.7)
- St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. 8.2 (8.3)
- Kitchener, Ont. 6.8 (6.7)
- Brantford, Ont. 8.8 (9.1)
- Guelph, Ont. 4.1 (4.3)
- London, Ont. 9.2 (9.0)
- Windsor, Ont. 10.5 (9.6)
- Barrie, Ont. 11.7 (10.7)
- Sudbury, Ont. 5.8 (6.3)
- Thunder Bay, Ont. 6.9 (6.0)
- Winnipeg 5.8 (6.0)
- Regina 3.8 (4.4)
- Saskatoon 5.4 (5.7)
- Calgary 5.6 (5.9)
- Edmonton 5.4 (5.3)
- Kelowna, B.C. 7.5 (7.3)
- Abbotsford, B.C. 7.9 (8.0)
- Vancouver 6.8 (7.1)
- Victoria 6.1 (6.3)