Name: Usual hours worked by job type (main or all jobs), monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
Creator: Statistics Canada
License: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada

Usual hours worked by job type (main or all jobs), monthly, unadjusted for seasonality — AI AnalysisStatistics Canada Table 14100030 provides 50 years of monthly data (1976–2026) on usual hours worked by Canadians, spanning 234,570 records across 11 regions, 2 job types, 3 gender categories, and 9 age groups. The dataset is heavily right-skewed — with a median of 30.3 versus a mean of 2,158 — reflKey Findings

The dataset contains 234,570 records spanning January 1976 to February 2026, organized across 5,940 unique time series vectors and 11 geographic regions including a national total and all provinces.

The distribution is strongly right-skewed, with a median value of 30.3 far below the mean of 2,157.98 and a standard deviation of 15,865.75, driven by the coexistence of person-count records (up to 11,199.3 thousand) and hours-based records (up to 445,026.5 hours) in the same dataset.

Total employment in Canada (all genders, 15+) grew by approximately 20.8% between January 1976 and July 1979, with the full 50-year series ranging from a low of ~9,271K to a high of ~11,199K persons employed.

A notable gender gap exists: Men+ report a higher mean of 2,220.60 and median of 28.8 hours compared to Women+ with a mean of 1,063.41 and median of 21.7 hours, reflecting structural differences in usual hours worked.

Outlier detection using the 3×IQR method (bounds: -301.1 to 413.6) flagged 34,002 records — approximately 13.6% of the dataset — as extreme values, with anomalous months in the time series likely corresponding to recessions and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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