Job vacancies in Canada – 5.6 unemployed people

Canadian businesses reported 243,000 job vacancies in September, little changed compared with 12 months earlier. For every job vacancy, there were 5.6 unemployed people, down from 6.0 in September 2013.

Unemployment-to-job vacancies ratio declines in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island

The ratio in New Brunswick declined from 11.7 to 8.8 in the 12 months to September, as there were fewer unemployed people in the province.

Chart 1 Unemployment-to-job vacancies ratio, all unemployed, by province, three-month average, September 2013 and September 2014

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