Labour Force Survey, July 2007 [Canada] [Rebased, 2023 Revisions]

The Labour Force Survey provides estimates of employment and unemployment which are among the timeliest and important measures of performance of the Canadian economy. With the release of the survey results only 10 days after the completion of data collection, the LFS estimates are the first of the major monthly economic data series to be released. The Canadian Labour Force Survey was developed following the Second World War to satisfy a need for reliable and timely data on the labour market. Information was urgently required on the massive labour market changes involved in the transition from a war to a peace-time economy. The main objective of the LFS is to divide the working-age population into three mutually exclusive classifications - employed, unemployed, and not in the labour force - and to provide descriptive and explanatory data on each of these. LFS data are used to produce the well-known unemployment rate as well as other standard labour market indicators such as the employment rate and the participation rate. The LFS also provides employment estimates by industry, occupation, public and private sector, hours worked and much more, all cross-classifiable by a variety of demographic characteristics. Estimates are produced for Canada, the provinces, the territories and a large number of sub-provincial regions. For employees, wage rates, union status, job permanency and workplace size are also produced. These data are used by different levels of government for evaluation and planning of employment programs in Canada. Regional unemployment rates are used by Employment and Social Development Canada to determine eligibility, level and duration of insurance benefits for persons living within a particular employment insurance region. The data are also used by labour market analysts, economists, consultants, planners, forecasters and academics in both the private and public sector.<br><br>This public use microdata file contains non-aggregated data for a wide variety of variables collected from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). It contains both personal characteristics for all individuals in the household and detailed labour force characteristics for household members 15 years of age and over. The personal characteristics include age, sex, marital status, educational attainment, and family characteristics. Detailed labour force characteristics include employment information such as class of worker, usual and actual hours of work, employee hourly and weekly wages, industry and occupation of current or most recent job, public and private sector, union status, paid or unpaid overtime hours, job permanency, hours of work lost, job tenure, and unemployment information such as duration of unemployment, methods of job search and type of job sought. Labour force characteristics are also available for students during the school year and during the summer months as well as school attendance whether full or part-time and the type of institution.<br><br><b>LFS revisions</b>: Labour force surveys are revised on a periodic basis, either to adopt the most recent geography, industry and occupation classifications; to use new observations to fine-tune seasonal adjustment factors; or to introduce methodological enhancement. Prior LFS revisions were conducted in 2011, 2015 and 2021. The most recent revisions to the LFS were conducted in 2023. The first major change was a transition to the National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2021 V1.0, with all LFS series from 1987 onwards having been revised to the new classification. The second major change were methodological enhancements to LFS data processing, applied to all LFS series beginning Jan 2006. The third major change was a revision of seasonal adjustment factors, applied to LFS series Jan 2002 onward. A list of prior versions of this LFS dataset can be found under the ‘Versions’ tab.

本公共使用微观数据文件包含从劳动力调查（Labour Force Survey, LFS）收集的各类变量的非聚合数据。劳动力调查每月收集加拿大劳动年龄人口的劳动力市场活动信息。本产品面向希望通过聚焦特定人群亚组或交叉分类未纳入编目产品的变量开展自主分析的用户。该文件包含家庭所有成员的个人特征，以及15岁及以上家庭成员的详细劳动力特征。个人特征包括年龄、性别、婚姻状况、教育程度及家庭特征。详细劳动力特征包括就业信息（如劳动者类别、通常与实际工作时长、雇员时薪与周薪、当前或最近一份工作的行业与职业、公共与私营部门、工会会员身份、有偿或无偿加班时长、工作稳定性、误工时长、工作年限）及失业信息（如失业持续时间、求职方式与目标工作类型）。此外，该文件还包含学生在学年及夏季的劳动力特征，以及就学情况（全日制或非全日制）和院校类型信息。上述及更多信息可按省份及加拿大三大普查大都市区（蒙特利尔、多伦多、温哥华）获取。本文件为月度文件，可回溯至1976年。劳动力调查修订说明：劳动力调查估算值已根据2011年人口普查的人口计数进行调整，并包含对2011年地理分类系统的更新，修订范围回溯至2001年。