AI Analysis: Multiple jobholders by usual hours worked at all jobs, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality

Executive Summary

Statistics Canada Table 14100048 reveals a dramatic long-term rise in multiple jobholding in Canada, with the total climbing from roughly 200,000 in 1976 to a record 1,244,800 in February 2025 — a 516.5% increase over 50 years. The data is heavily right-skewed (mean 75.24K vs. median 34.70K persons), with strong correlations (0.94+) between total multiple jobholders and higher-hours categories, and the only major disruption being a sharp -30.5% COVID-19 shock in April 2020.

Key Findings

• Total multiple jobholders grew 516.5%, from about 199,800 in January 1976 to roughly 1,231,700 by mid-2026, peaking at 1,244,800 in February 2025.
• The dataset's distribution is strongly right-skewed, with a mean of 75.24 thousand persons but a median of only 34.70 thousand across 25,451 records.
• The 41-49 hours (all jobs) category correlates most strongly with the overall total (r=0.978), followed closely by the 50+, 35-39, and 40-hour categories (all above 0.94).
• COVID-19 caused the most extreme disruption in the series' history, with a -30.5% month-over-month drop in April 2020, flagging both March and April 2020 as statistical outliers.
• The lowest recorded value (188,500 persons) occurred in August 1976, reflecting the smaller labour force of that era near the start of the series.
• The 'All jobs, total multiple jobholders, all hours' aggregate category has the highest average value at 183.39 thousand persons, as expected for a summary metric.
• Excluding the 2020 pandemic shock, only 2 of 606 monthly observations for the total series were flagged as statistically significant outliers, indicating a generally stable long-term trend.