The Daily Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Press Release
Job vacancies, third quarter 2018
There were 551,000 job vacancies in Canada in the third quarter, up 83,000 (+17.8%) from the third quarter of 2017. Over the same period, the job vacancy rate increased 0.4 percentage points to 3.3%. This was the eighth consecutive quarter with a year-over-year increase in both the number of job vacancies and the job vacancy rate.
StatsCannabis data availability: Crowdsourced cannabis prices, fourth quarter 2018
The government of Canada legalized the production and sale of cannabis for non-medical purposes on October 17, 2018. Prior to legalization, Statistics Canada updated the StatsCannabis crowdsourcing application to try and capture changes in consumer behaviours due to the new legalized status of cannabis for non-medical use. These updates included new questions related to the source of supply (legal or illegal) and first time use. These new questions were in addition to the original questions related to price, location, consumption, quality and quantity purchased.
Value added in exports, 2014
The value added in exports for 2014 are now available. The data for 2013 have been revised.
New products
Statistics Canada – Data Visualization Products: “Labour Market Indicators, by province, territory and economic region, unadjusted for seasonality”
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