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Labour Force Survey

The Labour Force Survey provides estimates of employment and unemployment which are among the most timely and important measures of performance of the Canadian economy.

Major topics and subtopics

Labour

  • Labour force characteristics by age, sex, educational attainment
  • Employment by industry, occupation, class of worker
  • Unemployment and duration of unemployment, discouragement
  • Usual hours of work and actual hours worked, involuntary part time
  • Work absences and overtime
  • Weekly and hourly wage rates
  • Temporary or permanent employment
  • Unionization
  • Job tenure
  • Multiple job holders
  • Student employment
  • Labour market characteristics of immigrants
  • Labour market characteristics of the Aboriginal population

Secondary topics

Aboriginal Peoples
Education
Ethnic diversity and immigration
Income and earnings

Limited topics

Families and households

Type

Cross-sectional

Sample size

56,000 households

Frequency

Monthly (began as quarterly survey in 1945 and became monthly in October 1952)

Lowest levels of geography

Economic regions and census metropolitan areas; selected census subdivisions

Products and services

  • Basic standard products
  • CANSIM
  • Public use microdata file
  • Customized tabulations
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