Canada : Latest release from the Labour Force Survey,

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Latest release from the Labour Force Survey (PDF)

Friday, December 5, 2008
Released at 7:00 a.m. Eastern time in The Daily
November 2008 (Previous release)

Following little change in October, employment fell by 71,000 in November, with the decrease split between full- and part-time work. The unemployment rate rose 0.1 percentage points to 6.3%.

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Employment

In the first 11 months of 2008, employment increased by 0.8% (+133,000), a slower pace of growth compared with the 2.2% (+361,000) observed during the same period in 2007.

In November, the employment declines were concentrated in Ontario (-66,000), where there was a large drop in full-time work. Nova Scotia (-4,400) also experienced a decline in November, while employment remained relatively stable in the other provinces.

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