Labour Force Survey

CIC News
Published: September 1, 1999

Employment rose by an estimated 40,000 in July following little change in the previous five months and strong growth over most of 1998.

In July, an increase in the number of persons looking for work, mostly among youths, caused the unemployment rate to edge up 0.1 percentage points to 7.7%.

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