Canada's Changing Labour Force, 2006 Census: Findings

• Highlights
• Overview of Canada's changing labour force
• National picture
  • Goods industries
    • Fastest growth in mining and oil and gas extraction
    • Largest decline in manufacturing employment
  • Service industries
    • Retail trade employment approaching parity with manufacturing
  • Occupations
    • Oil and gas workers: Small group with fastest growth in employment
    • Largest job gains reflect increased retail and housing activity
    • Most prevalent occupations: No longer truck drivers for men
    • Declines: Large losses in manufacturing occupations
  • Education and the labour market
    • Lowest unemployment rate among those who studied education
• The provinces and territories
  • Westernmost provinces leading the way in employment growth
  • Unemployment rates drop in Manitoba and Saskatchewan
  • Employment growth below national average in Atlantic Canada
  • Central Canada: Large-scale declines in manufacturing dampened growth in both Ontario and Quebec
  • Subprovincial trends
    • Barrie leads employment growth among metropolitan areas
    • Toronto: Gains in health care and social assistance and financial services offset manufacturing losses
    • Montréal's growth hampered by losses in manufacturing
    • Vancouver: Employment growth outstrips gains in Montréal, Toronto
    • Ottawa–Gatineau: Declines in telecommunications offset by boost in federal public service employment
    • Calgary: Lowest unemployment rate of all census metropolitan areas
    • Ontario: Manufacturing losses in industrial census metropolitan areas
  • Unemployment
    • Highest unemployment rates in Atlantic Canada and the North, but rates falling
    • Unemployment rates low across much of the West
  • Mobility in the workforce
    • Labour mobility highest in North and Alberta
  • The aging workforce
    • Baby boomers edging closer to retirement
    • Farmers, real estate agents and bus drivers were among occupations with the oldest workers
  • Aboriginal peoples in the workforce
    • Despite labour market improvement, Aboriginal peoples still less likely to be employed
    • Unemployment rates decline more rapidly for Aboriginal peoples
  • Immigrants in the workforce
    • Immigrants made up over one-fifth of Canada's labour force in 2006
    • Majority of recent immigrants went to Ontario's labour market
    • Labour market conditions improved for recent immigrant men and women
  • Unpaid work
    • Men increased their participation in unpaid work
    • More adults spending time looking after seniors

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