Labour Force Survey, January 2024 [Canada]

The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is a monthly survey of Canadian households carried out by Statistics Canada. It was developed after the Second World War to satisfy a need for reliable and timely data on the labour market due to the massive labour market changes involved in the transition from a war to peace-time economy. The objectives of the LFS have been to divide the working-age population into three mutually exclusive labour force status categories (employed, unemployed, and not in the labour force) and to provide descriptive and explanatory data on each of these groups. 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 LFS is the source of Canada's official unemployment rates, including the rates used by Employment and Social Development Canada in the calculation of Employment Insurance (EI) eligibility and benefit criteria. Data from the survey also provide information on major labour market trends, such as shifts in employment across industrial sectors, hours worked and labour force participation. 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, data on wage rates, union status, job permanency and establishment size are also produced.

劳动力调查（Labour Force Survey，以下简称LFS）是加拿大统计局（Statistics Canada）面向加拿大家庭开展的月度调查。该调查于第二次世界大战后启动，旨在满足战后从战争经济向和平经济转型过程中，劳动力市场出现剧烈变动背景下，对可靠且及时的劳动力市场数据的需求。
LFS的核心目标是将劳动年龄人口划分为三类互斥的劳动力状态类别：就业、失业以及非劳动力，并为每一类群体提供描述性与解释性数据。该调查在数据采集完成仅10天后便发布结果，因此LFS估算数据是首个发布的主要月度经济数据序列。
LFS是加拿大官方失业率数据的来源，其中包括加拿大就业与社会发展部（Employment and Social Development Canada）用于核算就业保险（Employment Insurance，以下简称EI）资格与福利标准的失业率数据。该调查采集的数据还可用于研判主要劳动力市场趋势，例如各工业部门的就业结构变动、工作时长以及劳动力参与率情况。
LFS还可按行业、职业、公共与私营部门、工作时长等维度提供就业估算数据，且所有数据均可结合多种人口特征进行交叉分类。相关估算数据覆盖加拿大全国、各省、各地区以及大量省以下行政区域。针对雇员群体，该调查还会提供薪资水平、工会身份、岗位持久性以及用工单位规模相关数据。