INTERNATIONAL Canada: Natural resources tops new jobs figures
9 July 2012
Natural resources was the stand-out sector as Canadian unemployment dropped slightly to 7.2% in June, with a further 181,000 people entering employment across the country compared to the same month in 2011.
Mon, 9 Jul 2012
Natural resources was the stand-out sector as Canadian unemployment dropped slightly to 7.2% in June, with a further 181,000 people entering employment across the country compared to the same month in 2011.
Government agency Statistics Canada shows that this rise in employed people was down to a 221,500 rise in those in full-time work, offset by 40,000 fewer people in part-time work.
Despite seeing a fall of 1.3% in the number of people it employed, the natural resources industry saw a 10.9% rise in jobs between June 2011 and June 2012, to a total of 373,800, although it faces a loss in total jobs over the next three years, an industry body claimed recently.
Over the year, employment in goods-producing sectors rose 2.3%, while the three-times larger services sector saw a more marginal rise of 0.7%.
The only other sectors seeing a rise of 3% or greater in the number of people employed were ‘other services’ at 8.4%, educational services at 6.9% and manufacturing at 3%.
The information, culture and recreation sector saw employment drop by 5%.
Of all provinces, Newfoundland and Labrador had the fastest year-over-year employment growth rate at 4.0%, followed by Alberta (+2.7%), British Columbia (+2.3%) and Saskatchewan (+2.1%).
Natural resources was the stand-out sector as Canadian unemployment dropped slightly to 7.2% in June, with a further 181,000 people entering employment across the country compared to the same month in 2011.
Government agency Statistics Canada shows that this rise in employed people was down to a 221,500 rise in those in full-time work, offset by 40,000 fewer people in part-time work.
Despite seeing a fall of 1.3% in the number of people it employed, the natural resources industry saw a 10.9% rise in jobs between June 2011 and June 2012, to a total of 373,800, although it faces a loss in total jobs over the next three years, an industry body claimed recently.
Over the year, employment in goods-producing sectors rose 2.3%, while the three-times larger services sector saw a more marginal rise of 0.7%.
The only other sectors seeing a rise of 3% or greater in the number of people employed were ‘other services’ at 8.4%, educational services at 6.9% and manufacturing at 3%.
The information, culture and recreation sector saw employment drop by 5%.
Of all provinces, Newfoundland and Labrador had the fastest year-over-year employment growth rate at 4.0%, followed by Alberta (+2.7%), British Columbia (+2.3%) and Saskatchewan (+2.1%).
