Canada / 6.4 unemployed people for every job vacancy ( 5.2 a year ago)

In August, there were 219,000 job vacancies among Canadian businesses, a decline of 51,000 compared with August 2012. There were 6.4 unemployed people for every job vacancy, up from 5.2 one year earlier. The increase in the ratio of unemployment to job vacancies was all the result of the decline in job vacancies.

The national job vacancy rate was 1.5% in August, down from 1.8% 12 months earlier.

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