Canada / Job vacancies down by 26,000 in a year

Canadian businesses had 210,000 job vacancies in February, a decrease of 26,000 from February 2012. There were 6.4 unemployed people for every job vacancy, up from 5.9 one year earlier.

The increase in the ratio of unemployment to job vacancies was a result of a faster decrease in the number of job vacancies than in the number of unemployed people.

The national job vacancy rate was 1.5% in February, down from 1.7% 12 months earlier.

Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor

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