Canada / Job vacancy rate down at 1,4%

In January, there were 200,000 job vacancies among Canadian businesses, a decrease of 22,000 from January 2012. There were 6.5 unemployed people for every job vacancy, compared with 6.1 one year earlier.

The national job vacancy rate was 1.4% in January, down from 1.6% 12 months earlier.

Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor

via The Daily — Job vacancies, three-month average ending in January 2013.