Canada Employment (LFS)

## What this measures

The number of people in Canada aged 15 and over who worked in the reference week, employees and self-employed together, seasonally adjusted.

## Why it matters

It is the monthly jobs number Canada reports, usually on the same Friday as the U.S. payroll report.

## How to read it

Compare the change over three or twelve months with population growth: recent immigration has made a monthly gain of tens of thousands the level needed just to keep the employment rate steady.

## What it does not say

It comes from the Labour Force Survey, a household survey of about 65,000 households, so one month's change carries sampling error; read three-month moves. It does not count people on reserves or in the territories.

## Source

Statistics Canada, table 14-10-0287-01 (vector v2062811), "Labour force characteristics, monthly, seasonally adjusted; Employment; Total - Gender; 15 years and over". Palanor pulls it from Statistics Canada's Web Data Service every day and rewrites recent periods so revisions carry through.

Source: Statistics Canada. Reproduced and distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada Open Licence.