Name: Small area estimates of labour force characteristics for sub-provincial areas, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
Creator: Statistics Canada
License: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada

Small area estimates of labour force characteristics for sub-provincial areas, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality — AI AnalysisStatistics Canada Table 14100480 provides monthly labour force estimates across 659 sub-provincial areas from November 2021 to June 2024, tracking Employment, Employment Rate, and Unemployment Rate with associated confidence intervals across 250,000 records. Employment figures are highly skewed — raKey Findings

The dataset covers 659 unique sub-provincial areas across Canada over 32 monthly periods, yielding 250,000 records that capture fine-grained regional labour market conditions.

Employment is highly right-skewed, with a median of just 5,170 persons versus a mean of 32,558, and values ranging from 10 to nearly 3.7 million persons — driven by large urban centres like Toronto CMA at the top.

Employment Rate and Unemployment Rate show a strong negative correlation (r = -0.71), making them the most informative pair for assessing sub-provincial labour market health, while total Employment count has only weak relationships with either rate measure.

Aggregate employment across all sub-provincial areas declined 22.8% from approximately 19.4 million (November 2021) to 15.0 million (June 2024), though this trend may partly reflect seasonal patterns given the data is unadjusted for seasonality.

Employment Rate is relatively stable and normally distributed with a mean and median both near 56% and a standard deviation of only 9 percentage points, while Unemployment Rate is right-skewed with a median of 6% but reaching as high as 43% in some areas.

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