The Daily Thursday, November 14, 2019
Press Release
November 14, 2019
Employment Insurance Coverage Survey, 2018
In 2018, about 1.1 million Canadians were unemployed at some point in the year. Of these, 63.9% (709,000) had contributed to the Employment Insurance program.
New Housing Price Index, September 2019
New house prices were up 0.2% nationally in September—the largest increase in two years.
Price trends in key Canadian housing markets, third quarter 2019
Today, Statistics Canada is introducing the new Residential Property Price Index (RPPI) that can be used to track the change in the average price of homes in six select census metropolitan areas (CMAs). According to this measure, while residential property prices have risen by 9.2% from the first quarter of 2017 to the third quarter of 2019, with much of the increase occurring prior to the second quarter of 2018.
Biannual Survey of Suppliers of Business Financing, first half of 2019
The total value of outstanding credit granted to Canadian corporations at the end of the first half of 2019 was $957.7 billion, up $39.4 billion (+4.3%) from the second half of 2018. Compared with the same period in 2018, total business credit outstanding increased by $80.8 billion.
Stocks of frozen and chilled meats, October 1, 2019
Stocks of frozen and chilled meats in cold storage totalled 115 255 tonnes as of October 1, down from July 1, 2019 (120 665 tonnes).
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