Canada – 6.2 unemployed people for every job vacancy in July 2014

In July, there were 223,000 job vacancies among Canadian businesses, relatively unchanged compared with July 2013. There were 6.2 unemployed people for every job vacancy, little changed from 12 months earlier.

The national job vacancy rate was 1.5% in July, similar to the rate observed a year earlier.

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