Canada – 6.0 unemployed people for every job vacancy in August 2014

Canadian businesses reported 234,000 job vacancies in August, relatively unchanged compared with August 2013. There were 6.0 unemployed people for every job vacancy, little changed from 12 months earlier.

The national job vacancy rate was 1.5% in August, the same as the rate observed a year earlier.

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