Canada Employment Rate

## What this measures

The share of people aged 15 and over who have a job, seasonally adjusted.

## Why it matters

Unlike job counts, it adjusts for population growth, so it shows whether job creation is keeping up with the number of people.

## How to read it

A falling employment rate while employment rises means jobs are growing slower than the population. Ageing pulls the all-ages rate down over time; the prime-age rate avoids that.

## 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 v2062817), "Labour force characteristics, monthly, seasonally adjusted; Employment rate; 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.