Employment rose by 48,000 (+0.3%) in January, building on gains observed in the latter part of 2016. The unemployment rate fell by 0.1 percentage points to 6.8%.
On a year-over-year basis, employment rose by 276,000 (+1.5%), with most of the increase occurring from August to January.
Following a significant increase in December, full-time employment held steady in January. Compared with 12 months earlier, full-time employment was up 86,000 (+0.6%), with increases totalling 141,000 since August.
Despite little change in January, part-time employment was up on a year-over-year basis (+190,000 or +5.6%). In January, 19.6% of employed persons worked part time, compared with 18.8% the same month a year earlier.
In the 12 months to January, the number of hours worked declined by 0.8%. In general, changes in actual hours worked reflect a number of factors, including changes in the composition of employment by full-time/part-time status, industry, occupation, age and sex.
Chart 1
Employment
From December to January, employment increased among core-aged men and women (25 to 54 years old). There was little overall employment change among the other demographic groups.
Compared with December, employment rose in Ontario, British Columbia, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador. In contrast, there were fewer people working in New Brunswick. Employment was little changed in the remaining provinces.
Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at The Daily — Labour Force Survey, January 2017
Job Market Monitor 
Discussion
No comments yet.