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Canadian Labour Stats

• Employment Insurance, March 2013
  The number of people receiving regular Employment Insurance benefits continued to trend down for the fifth consecutive month in March, declining slightly by 1.0% (-5,200) to 523,700. Compared with a year earlier, the number of beneficiaries was down 8.1%.
• Construction Union Wage Rate Index, April 2013
  The Construction Union Wage Rate Index (including supplements) for Canada was unchanged in April compared with the previous month. The composite index increased 2.5% compared with April 2012.
• Job vacancies, three-month average ending in February 2013
  Canadian businesses had 210,000 job vacancies in February, a decrease of 26,000 from February 2012. There were 6.4 unemployed people for every job vacancy, up from 5.9 one year earlier.
• Health region level unemployment rates, population estimates, and dependency ratios, 2012
  Data on health region level unemployment rates, population estimates, and dependency ratios are now available for 2012.
• Hours worked and labour productivity in the provinces and territories, 2012
  Preliminary 2012 data and revised 2007 to 2011 data on provincial and territorial labour productivity and its related variables for the business sector by industry are now available.