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Highlights of Stats Canada’s January 2020 Jobs Report
For Canada
Canada’s unemployment rate is inching downwards; a year ago in January 2019 it was 5.8%, in December 2019 it was 5.6% and in January 2020 it was 5.5% Across the country, the participation rate of the population in the labour force was 65.7% in January 2019, 65.5% in December 2019 and 65.4% in January 35,700 full time jobs were created in January and 1,200 part-time jobs were lost for a net increase of 34,500 new jobs.
For Ontario
- Ontario’s unemployment rate is moving downwards slightly faster than across the country; in January 2019 it mirrored the national rate at 5.8%, in December 2019 it moved downward to 5.3% and in January 2020 it was 5.2%
- The participation rate of Ontario’s population in the labour force was 64.9% in January 2019, 65.1% in December 2019 and 65.1% in January 2020.
- The labour force grew at a faster rate than the population from January 2019 to January 2020; Ontario’s population grew by 1.9% and the labour force grew by 2.3%
- 10,000 full-time jobs and 6,000 part-time jobs were created in Ontario in January 2020
- The employment picture is not entirely even across the province, there are some softer spots; here are the unemployment rates across the province with the bracketed numbers representing the rate in December 2019:
- Ottawa 4.2 (4.2)
- Kingston, Ont. 5.7 (5.8)
- Peterborough, Ont. 7.6 (7.6)
- Oshawa, Ont. 6.7 (6.1)
- Toronto 5.5 (5.6)
- Hamilton, Ont. 4.8 (4.5)
- St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. 5.2 (4.8)
- Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ont. 5.4 (5.2)
- Brantford, Ont. 4.3 (3.8)
- Guelph, Ont. 5.0 (5.6)
- London, Ont. 5.0 (5.6)
- Windsor, Ont. 8.3 (7.6)
- Barrie, Ont. 5.0 (5.2)
- Sudbury, Ont. 5.0 (5.4)
- Thunder Bay, Ont. 5.1 (5.0)