Following strong gains in recent months, employment
was little changed in July, with large full-time declines mostly offset
by part-time gains. The unemployment rate edged up 0.1 percentage points
to 8.0%.
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Since the start of the upward trend in July 2009, employment has risen by 2.3% (+394,000).
Large full-time declines (-139,000) in July were mostly offset by part-time gains (+130,000). July's strong part-time increase brings total gains in part time to 177,000 since July 2009. Over the same period, full-time employment has grown by 216,000.
Factory employment rose by 29,000 in July, the largest increase for that sector in two years. With this increase, manufacturing employment returned to its level of a year earlier.
Since the start of the upward trend in employment in July 2009, the industries with the fastest rates of growth were construction (+8.6%); professional, scientific and technical services (+7.5%); and health care and social assistance (+6.2%). Over the same period, the fastest declines were observed in agriculture (-4.9%) and "other services" (-3.0%) such as repair and maintenance.
There was virtually no change in the number of public or private sector employees in July, nor in self-employment. Over the past 12 months, employment has grown by 3.2% in the private sector and by 2.6% in the public sector, while self-employment has fallen by 1.5%.
Workers aged 55 and over had the fastest rate of employment growth (+5.7%) over the past 12 months. During the same period, employment grew by 1.6% among workers aged 25 to 54 and 2.0% among youths 15 to 24.
www.statcan.gc.ca
Since the start of the upward trend in July 2009, employment has risen by 2.3% (+394,000).
Large full-time declines (-139,000) in July were mostly offset by part-time gains (+130,000). July's strong part-time increase brings total gains in part time to 177,000 since July 2009. Over the same period, full-time employment has grown by 216,000.
Factory employment rose by 29,000 in July, the largest increase for that sector in two years. With this increase, manufacturing employment returned to its level of a year earlier.
Since the start of the upward trend in employment in July 2009, the industries with the fastest rates of growth were construction (+8.6%); professional, scientific and technical services (+7.5%); and health care and social assistance (+6.2%). Over the same period, the fastest declines were observed in agriculture (-4.9%) and "other services" (-3.0%) such as repair and maintenance.
There was virtually no change in the number of public or private sector employees in July, nor in self-employment. Over the past 12 months, employment has grown by 3.2% in the private sector and by 2.6% in the public sector, while self-employment has fallen by 1.5%.
Workers aged 55 and over had the fastest rate of employment growth (+5.7%) over the past 12 months. During the same period, employment grew by 1.6% among workers aged 25 to 54 and 2.0% among youths 15 to 24.
www.statcan.gc.ca
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