Job vacancies in Canada – 7.0 Unemployed people for every job vacancy in February, up from 6.3 one year earlier

There were 194,000 job vacancies among Canadian businesses in February, a decline of 21,000 compared with February 2013. There were 7.0 unemployed people for every job vacancy, up from 6.3 one year earlier. This increase in the ratio of unemployment to job vacancy was mostly the result of the decline in job vacancies.

The national job vacancy rate was 1.3% in February, down from 1.5% a year earlier.

via The Daily — Job vacancies in brief, three-month average ending in February 2014.