Hello there, and thanks for your question.
The Canadian government runs the Statistics Canada site at:
http://www.statcan.ca/start.html
Two of the datasets maintained by Statistics Canada are:
--v2461182 - 282-0002 Labour force survey estimates (LFS), by sex and
detailed age group; Canada; Unemployment (Persons x 1,000); Both
sexes; 15 years and over (Annual, 1976-2002)
--v2461224 - 282-0002 Labour force survey estimates (LFS), by sex and
detailed age group; Canada; Unemployment rate; Both sexes; 15 years
and over (Annual, 1976-2002)
According to these two datasets, unemployment statistics since 1990
for the whole of Canada are as follows:
......
Unemployment Statistics
Year.......1,000's.......%
1990...... 1,156.9...... 8.1
1991...... 1,479.5...... 10.3
1992...... 1,602.3...... 11.2
1993...... 1,647.0...... 11.4
1994...... 1,514.9...... 10.4
1995...... 1,393.1...... 9.4
1996...... 1,436.9...... 9.6
1997...... 1,378.6...... 9.1
1998...... 1,277.3...... 8.3
1999...... 1,190.1...... 7.6
2000...... 1,089.6...... 6.8
2001...... 1,169.6...... 7.2
2002...... 1,277.6...... 7.7
That is, the latest annual figures for 2002 indicate that 1,277,600
people over the age of 15 are unemployed, for an overall unemployment
rate of 7.7%.
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At this Statistics Canada page:
http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/labor07a.htm
you can see the current (2002) population/employment/unemployment data
in additional detail, broken out by province, gender, and several
other factors.
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And at this Statistics Canada page:
http://cansim2.statcan.ca/cgi-win/CNSMCGI.exe?Lang=E&CONTEXT=Canadian%20Statistics%20-%20Labour%20force,%20employed%20and%20unemployed&Array_Pick=1&Detail=1&TblDetail=1&RootDir=CII\&ResultTemplate=CII\CII___&ArrayId=2820002
you can build your own data query and get considerably more detail
about unemployment data, should you desire...Statistics Canada imposes
a small charge for making the data available (I ran a query at the
site in order to generate the information in the tables, above).
I hope this information meets your needs. If anything requires
additional elaboration, just let me know by posting a Request for
Clarification, and I'll be happy to assist you further.
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