LABOUR FORCE STATISTICS REPORT APRIL 2018

LABOUR FORCE STATISTICS REPORT APRIL 2018 MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS MAY 11, 2018

CHARTS 1. UNEMPLOYMENT RATES, CANADA AND PROVINCES 2. YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT RATES, CANADA AND PROVINCES 3. TOTAL EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES 4. MANITOBA EMPLOYMENT BY INDUSTRY TABLES 1. PRINCIPAL LABOUR FORCE INDICATORS, MANITOBA AND CANADA 2. UNEMPLOYMENT RATES, CANADA AND PROVINCES 3. UNEMPLOYMENT RATES BY AGE AND SEX 4. YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT RATES, CANADA AND PROVINCES 5. SELECTED CITY UNEMPLOYMENT RATES 6. TOTAL EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES 6A. FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES 6B. PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES 6C. PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES 6D. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES 6E. MANUFACTURING EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES 7. MANITOBA EMPLOYMENT BY INDUSTRY Note All tables and charts contain seasonally adjusted data unless otherwise specified (I.e. part of table 1 and table 5)

CHART 1. UNEMPLOYMENT RATES CANADA AND PROVINCES (JAN - APR 2018) 16.0 14.0 PERCENT 14.2 12.0 10.6 10.0 8.0 6.0 4.8 5.5 5.5 5.8 5.8 6.0 6.7 7.6 8.3 4.0 2.0 0.0 B.C. ONT QUE CAN SASK MAN ALTA N.S. N.B. PEI NFLD 20.0 PERCENT CHART 2. YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT RATES CANADA AND PROVINCES (JAN - APR 2018) 18.0 16.0 14.8 14.9 16.2 17.3 14.0 12.0 10.9 11.0 11.5 11.9 12.9 10.0 9.4 8.0 7.7 6.0 4.0 2.0 0.0 B.C. QUE SASK CAN ONT MAN ALTA PEI N.B. NFLD N.S. DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA DATA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS

CHART 3. TOTAL EMPLOYMENT CANADA AND PROVINCES (JAN - APR 18/17) 3.0 2.5 PERCENT 2.6 2.0 1.5 1.8 1.8 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.4 1.0 0.5 0.7 0.4 0.0-0.5-1.0-1.5 PEI ALTA QUE ONT B.C. CAN N.S. MAN N.B. SASK NFLD -0.4-1.0 CHART 4. MANITOBA EMPLOYMENT BY INDUSTRY (JAN - APR 18/17) 20.0 15.0 10.0 PERCENT 14.5 9.6 5.0 3.4 3.0 0.0-5.0-10.0-0.1-0.3-1.9-2.7-3.7-3.9-5.8-15.0-11.7-20.0-25.0-20.5 AGRIC ACC & OTHER PROF & MGMT EDUC & HLTH TRADE TRANSP FINANCE CONST INFO PUB ADM MFG FOREST UTIL DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA DATA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS

TABLE 1: PRINCIPAL LABOUR FORCE INDICATORS, MANITOBA AND CANADA MANITOBA CANADA APR 18 MAR 18 APR 17 APR 18 MAR 18 APR 17 LABOUR FORCE seas. adj. 689,500 685,800 677,300 19,758,700 19,746,900 19,584,900 actual 685,500 680,200 672,400 19,611,200 19,540,300 19,416,700 EMPLOYMENT seas. adj. 647,200 643,100 641,300 18,603,700 18,604,800 18,325,400 part time 130,300 130,600 123,000 3,422,200 3,452,200 3,522,200 men 42,100 41,100 41,400 1,149,800 1,177,900 1,259,300 women 88,200 89,600 81,600 2,272,400 2,274,300 2,262,900 full time 517,000 512,500 518,300 15,181,500 15,152,700 14,803,200 men 299,500 297,800 297,500 8,581,000 8,583,600 8,338,300 women 217,500 214,700 220,800 6,600,600 6,569,100 6,464,900 actual 641,700 636,800 635,900 18,417,700 18,317,400 18,097,000 UNEMPLOYMENT seas. adj. 42,300 42,600 36,000 1,155,000 1,142,100 1,259,500 actual 43,800 43,400 36,400 1,193,400 1,222,900 1,319,700 UNEMPLOYMENT RATE seas. adj. 6.1 6.2 5.3 5.8 5.8 6.4 actual 6.4 6.4 5.4 6.1 6.3 6.8 PARTICIPATION RATE seas. adj. 67.4 67.1 67.0 65.4 65.5 65.7 actual 67.0 66.6 66.5 64.9 64.8 65.1 DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS

TABLE 1 (CONTINUED): PRINCIPAL LABOUR FORCE INDICATORS, MANITOBA AND CANADA MANITOBA CANADA PERCENT CHANGE PERCENT CHANGE LABOUR FORCE APR 18/ APR 18/ CHANGE APR 18/ APR 18/ CHANGE MAR 18 APR 17 JAN-APR 18 JAN-APR 17 18/17 MAR 18 APR 17 JAN-APR 18 JAN-APR 17 18/17 seas. adj. 0.5% 1.8% 684,500 677,100 1.1% 0.1% 0.9% 19,733,200 19,589,100 0.7% actual 0.8% 1.9% 678,100 670,700 1.1% 0.4% 1.0% 19,515,300 19,378,100 0.7% EMPLOYMENT seas. adj. 0.6% 0.9% 643,800 639,100 0.7% 0.0% 1.5% 18,584,500 18,298,100 1.6% part time -0.2% 5.9% 130,300 121,200 7.5% -0.9% -2.8% 3,449,000 3,515,200-1.9% men 2.4% 1.7% 41,300 40,500 2.0% -2.4% -8.7% 1,172,000 1,243,600-5.8% women -1.6% 8.1% 89,000 80,700 10.3% -0.1% 0.4% 2,277,000 2,271,600 0.2% full time 0.9% -0.3% 513,600 517,900-0.8% 0.2% 2.6% 15,135,600 14,783,000 2.4% men 0.6% 0.7% 298,600 297,700 0.3% 0.0% 2.9% 8,564,900 8,340,500 2.7% women 1.3% -1.5% 215,000 220,300-2.4% 0.5% 2.1% 6,570,700 6,442,500 2.0% actual 0.8% 0.9% 635,800 631,700 0.6% 0.5% 1.8% 18,310,000 18,016,100 1.6% UNEMPLOYMENT seas. adj. -0.7% 17.5% 40,700 38,000 7.0% 1.1% -8.3% 1,148,700 1,291,000-11.0% actual 0.9% 20.3% 42,300 39,000 8.5% -2.4% -9.6% 1,205,300 1,362,000-11.5% seas. adj. -0.1pts 0.8pts 6.0 5.6 0.3 pts 0.0pts -0.6pts 5.8 6.6-0.7 pts actual 0.0pts 1.0pts 6.3 5.8 0.4 pts -0.2pts -0.7pts 6.2 7.1-0.9 pts PARTICIPATION RATE seas. adj. 0.3pts 0.4pts 67.0 67.2-0.1 pts -0.1pts -0.3pts 65.5 65.8-0.3 pts actual 0.4pts 0.5pts 66.4 66.5-0.1 pts 0.1pts -0.2pts 64.7 65.1-0.3 pts DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA NOTE: Year-to-date averages are rounded to the nearest hundred, whereas MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS year-to-date percent change calculations are based on the unrounded averages.

TABLE 2: UNEMPLOYMENT RATES, CANADA AND PROVINCES APR 18 MAR 18 APR 17 JAN-APR 18 JAN-APR 17 MANITOBA 6.1 6.2 5.3 6.0 5.6 CANADA 5.8 5.8 6.4 5.8 6.6 NFLD. 14.5 14.2 14.2 14.2 14.4 P.E.I. 11.2 10.3 9.9 10.6 10.0 N.S. 6.7 7.4 8.4 7.6 8.2 N.B. 8.0 8.0 8.4 8.3 8.6 QUEBEC 5.4 5.6 6.4 5.5 6.4 ONTARIO 5.6 5.5 5.9 5.5 6.2 SASK. 6.3 5.8 6.4 5.8 6.2 ALBERTA 6.7 6.3 7.9 6.7 8.3 B.C. 5.0 4.7 5.4 4.8 5.3 6.1 6.2 5.3 6.0 5.6 * MANITOBA RANK 4 5 1 5 2 DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS * Ranking is in ascending order from the lowest unemployment rate to the highest

TABLE 3: UNEMPLOYMENT RATES BY AGE AND SEX: MANITOBA CANADA APR 18 MAR 18 APR 17 APR 18 MAR 18 APR 17 JAN-APR 18 JAN-APR 17 JAN-APR 18 JAN-APR 17 BOTH SEXES 6.1 6.2 5.3 6.0 5.6 5.8 5.8 6.4 5.8 6.6 15-24 11.9 11.9 10.9 11.9 12.1 11.1 10.9 11.6 11.0 12.4 25+ 5.0 5.1 4.3 4.8 4.4 5.0 4.9 5.6 5.0 5.7 MEN 6.8 6.9 5.9 6.6 6.1 6.3 6.1 7.0 6.2 7.2 15-24 14.1 14.7 12.5 14.3 13.7 12.6 12.3 13.3 12.5 14.2 25+ 5.5 5.5 4.7 5.2 4.7 5.3 5.1 6.0 5.2 6.0 WOMEN 5.3 5.5 4.7 5.2 5.1 5.3 5.4 5.8 5.4 6.0 15-24 9.6 9.1 9.3 9.3 10.3 9.4 9.4 9.8 9.4 10.5 25+ 4.5 4.8 3.8 4.4 4.1 4.6 4.8 5.2 4.8 5.3 DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS

TABLE 4: YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT RATES, CANADA AND PROVINCES - 15 TO 24 YEARS OF AGE APR 18 MAR 18 APR 17 JAN-APR 18 JAN-APR 17 MANITOBA 11.9 11.9 10.9 11.9 12.1 CANADA 11.1 10.9 11.6 11.0 12.4 NFLD. 16.3 15.8 15.7 16.2 18.0 P.E.I. 15.7 15.3 14.0 14.8 15.6 N.S. 16.4 16.0 14.5 17.3 15.2 N.B. 13.7 13.5 14.5 14.9 14.8 QUEBEC 9.6 9.8 10.4 9.4 10.3 ONTARIO 11.6 11.2 12.2 11.5 13.9 SASK. 11.0 11.0 10.9 10.9 10.8 ALBERTA 12.5 13.3 13.3 12.9 13.5 B.C. 8.7 7.3 9.3 7.7 9.4 11.9 11.9 10.9 11.9 12.1 * MANITOBA RANK 5 5 3 5 4 DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS * Ranking is in ascending order from the lowest unemployment rate to the highest

TABLE 5: SELECTED CITY UNEMPLOYMENT RATES ACTUAL THREE MONTH MOVING AVERAGES MONTHLY MONTHLY ACTUAL APR 18 APR 17 JAN-APR 18 JAN-APR 17 APR 18 APR 17 APR 18 APR 17 WINNIPEG 6.8 5.6 6.7 6.3 6.8 6.1 6.5 6.1 VANCOUVER 4.6 5.0 4.3 5.0 4.3 4.9 4.1 4.8 EDMONTON 7.2 7.9 6.9 8.5 6.8 8.5 6.6 8.2 CALGARY 7.0 9.8 7.8 9.3 7.7 9.2 8.0 9.2 REGINA 6.6 5.3 5.7 5.3 5.9 4.9 5.7 4.6 SASKATOON 7.7 8.1 7.1 8.2 7.3 8.1 6.7 7.7 TORONTO 6.0 6.2 5.8 6.8 5.9 6.7 5.9 6.8 OTTAWA 3.7 5.3 4.4 5.2 4.2 5.3 4.4 5.3 MONTREAL 6.0 7.1 6.4 7.1 6.4 7.2 6.1 6.8 HALIFAX 5.6 7.0 6.4 7.1 6.3 7.4 5.6 6.7 ST. JOHN'S 9.0 8.3 9.0 8.9 8.9 8.4 8.6 8.2 * WINNIPEG RANK 7 4 7 4 7 4 7 4 (OUT OF 11 CITIES) DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS * Ranking is in ascending order from the lowest unemployment rate to the highest

TABLE 6: TOTAL EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES APR 18 MAR 18 APR 17 JAN-APR 18 JAN-APR 17 CHANGE MANITOBA 647,200 643,100 641,300 643,800 639,100 0.7% CANADA 18,603,700 18,604,800 18,325,400 18,584,500 18,298,100 1.6% NFLD. 222,900 223,500 226,000 223,900 226,200-1.0% P.E.I. 75,000 75,200 73,800 75,100 73,200 2.6% N.S. 457,700 455,000 449,700 455,600 449,200 1.4% N.B. 355,100 354,000 352,100 353,900 352,500 0.4% QUEBEC 4,265,800 4,279,600 4,193,000 4,268,900 4,193,400 1.8% ONTARIO 7,208,500 7,199,200 7,075,100 7,192,300 7,072,100 1.7% SASK. 565,800 570,700 568,100 568,100 570,300-0.4% ALBERTA 2,323,300 2,325,100 2,286,800 2,319,900 2,278,000 1.8% B.C. 2,482,400 2,479,500 2,459,400 2,483,000 2,444,200 1.6% DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS NOTE: Year-to-date averages are rounded to the nearest hundred, whereas year-to-year percent change calculations are based on the unrounded averages.

TABLE 6A. FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES APR 18 MAR 18 APR 17 JAN-APR 18 JAN-APR 17 CHANGE MANITOBA 517,000 512,500 518,300 513,600 517,900-0.8% CANADA 15,181,500 15,152,700 14,803,200 15,135,600 14,783,000 2.4% NFLD. 191,200 191,000 193,100 190,900 191,400-0.3% P.E.I. 63,000 62,500 62,400 62,600 62,000 1.0% N.S. 376,200 375,100 365,900 374,400 363,600 2.9% N.B. 304,600 302,500 302,400 303,400 301,600 0.6% QUEBEC 3,493,500 3,515,000 3,350,400 3,496,100 3,367,400 3.8% ONTARIO 5,893,200 5,873,700 5,751,600 5,871,100 5,741,100 2.3% SASK. 463,100 467,400 464,200 466,100 467,100-0.2% ALBERTA 1,915,700 1,906,800 1,867,100 1,911,700 1,850,000 3.3% B.C. 1,964,300 1,946,100 1,927,900 1,945,900 1,920,900 1.3% DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS NOTE: Year-to-date averages are rounded to the nearest hundred, whereas year-to-year percent change calculations are based on the unrounded averages.

TABLE 6B. PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES APR 18 MAR 18 APR 17 JAN-APR 18 JAN-APR 17 CHANGE MANITOBA 130,300 130,600 123,000 130,300 121,200 7.5% CANADA 3,422,200 3,452,200 3,522,200 3,449,000 3,515,200-1.9% NFLD. 31,800 32,500 32,900 33,000 34,800-5.2% P.E.I. 12,000 12,700 11,400 12,500 11,200 11.6% N.S. 81,600 79,900 83,800 81,300 85,600-5.1% N.B. 50,500 51,500 49,700 50,500 50,800-0.6% QUEBEC 772,400 764,600 842,700 772,800 826,000-6.4% ONTARIO 1,315,200 1,325,500 1,323,500 1,321,300 1,331,000-0.7% SASK. 102,800 103,300 103,900 102,100 103,300-1.2% ALBERTA 407,600 418,300 419,800 408,300 428,000-4.6% B.C. 518,100 533,400 531,500 537,100 523,300 2.6% DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS NOTE: Year-to-date averages are rounded to the nearest hundred, whereas year-to-year percent change calculations are based on the unrounded averages.

TABLE 6C. PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES APR 18 MAR 18 APR 17 JAN-APR 18 JAN-APR 17 CHANGE MANITOBA 482,700 480,000 480,900 482,400 478,200 0.9% CANADA 14,829,600 14,817,100 14,626,000 14,822,600 14,618,400 1.4% NFLD. 159,400 160,200 163,800 160,400 165,000-2.8% P.E.I. 55,700 56,000 54,000 55,700 53,600 3.9% N.S. 345,700 342,300 334,500 343,700 335,200 2.6% N.B. 266,400 266,300 265,600 266,600 266,700 0.0% QUEBEC 3,320,800 3,322,700 3,284,200 3,319,400 3,283,000 1.1% ONTARIO 5,850,700 5,846,500 5,744,700 5,847,700 5,748,900 1.7% SASK. 424,900 428,700 430,800 425,400 431,500-1.4% ALBERTA 1,890,000 1,882,500 1,849,100 1,883,800 1,842,600 2.2% B.C. 2,033,300 2,031,900 2,018,200 2,037,700 2,013,800 1.2% DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS NOTE: Year-to-date averages are rounded to the nearest hundred, whereas year-to-year percent change calculations are based on the unrounded averages.

TABLE 6D. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES APR 18 MAR 18 APR 17 JAN-APR 18 JAN-APR 17 CHANGE MANITOBA 164,500 163,100 160,400 161,500 160,900 0.3% CANADA 3,774,100 3,787,700 3,699,400 3,761,900 3,679,700 2.2% NFLD. 63,500 63,300 62,200 63,600 61,200 3.8% P.E.I. 19,300 19,200 19,800 19,500 19,600-0.9% N.S. 112,000 112,700 115,200 111,900 114,100-1.9% N.B. 88,700 87,700 86,500 87,400 85,800 1.8% QUEBEC 945,000 956,900 908,800 949,500 910,400 4.3% ONTARIO 1,357,800 1,352,700 1,330,400 1,344,600 1,323,100 1.6% SASK. 140,900 142,000 137,300 142,700 138,900 2.8% ALBERTA 433,300 442,600 437,700 436,200 435,300 0.2% B.C. 449,100 447,600 441,200 445,300 430,400 3.5% DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS NOTE: Year-to-date averages are rounded to the nearest hundred, whereas year-to-year percent change calculations are based on the unrounded averages.

TABLE 6E. MANUFACTURING EMPLOYMENT, CANADA AND PROVINCES APR 18 MAR 18 APR 17 JAN-APR 18 JAN-APR 17 CHANGE MANITOBA 62,200 59,600 65,300 60,900 64,600-5.8% CANADA 1,744,600 1,745,400 1,709,000 1,753,500 1,694,900 3.5% NFLD. 9,100 10,200 8,000 9,800 8,400 16.8% P.E.I. 6,600 6,600 6,500 6,600 6,300 4.7% N.S. 31,100 30,900 30,100 31,200 28,500 9.7% N.B. 32,700 33,300 31,100 32,800 30,200 8.5% QUEBEC 488,600 489,900 488,400 494,600 485,400 1.9% ONTARIO 772,000 780,800 763,200 781,400 760,100 2.8% SASK. 28,700 29,000 28,100 28,300 28,300 0.0% ALBERTA 134,400 129,800 121,300 130,500 113,100 15.3% B.C. 178,400 175,400 170,000 177,200 170,000 4.2% DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS NOTE: Year-to-date averages are rounded to the nearest hundred, whereas year-to-year percent change calculations are based on the unrounded averages.

TABLE 7: MANITOBA EMPLOYMENT BY INDUSTRY: YEAR-TO-DATE-AVERAGES PERCENT APR 18 MAR 18 APR 17 JAN-APR 18 JAN-APR 17 CHANGE CANADA PERCENT CHANGE AGRICULTURE 26,800 26,400 22,400 26,300 23,000 14.5% -1.2% FORESTRY, FISHING & MINING 6,700 6,400 7,500 6,600 7,500-11.7% 3.2% UTILITIES 7,200 7,300 9,600 7,600 9,500-20.5% 0.4% CONSTRUCTION 46,200 46,200 49,300 47,400 48,700-2.7% 2.9% MANUFACTURING 62,200 59,600 65,300 60,900 64,600-5.8% 3.5% TRADE 89,400 90,200 91,500 89,900 90,000-0.1% 1.1% TRANSPORTATION SERVICES 37,600 36,700 37,400 37,000 37,200-0.3% 5.1% FINANCE, INSURANCE, REAL ESTATE 36,000 37,000 36,700 36,500 37,200-1.9% 0.2% & LEASING PROFESSIONAL & ADMINISTRATIVE 47,100 47,700 46,900 47,900 46,300 3.4% 1.2% SERVICES EDUCATION & HEALTH SERVICES 159,100 156,200 150,500 155,600 151,000 3.0% 1.2% INFORMATION, CULTURE & RECREATION 23,300 23,000 23,400 22,700 23,600-3.7% 0.2% ACCOMMODATION & OTHER SERVICES 72,400 74,500 67,500 73,500 67,100 9.6% 1.7% PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 33,300 32,000 33,400 32,100 33,400-3.9% -0.5% TOTAL: ALL INDUSTRIES 647,200 643,100 641,300 643,800 639,100 0.7% 1.6% TOTAL: GOODS PRODUCING 149,200 145,800 153,900 148,600 153,200-3.0% 2.8% TOTAL: SERVICE PRODUCING 498,000 497,300 487,300 495,200 485,800 1.9% 1.2% DATA SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA MANITOBA BUREAU OF STATISTICS NOTE: Year-to-date averages are rounded to the nearest hundred, whereas year-to-date percent change calculations are based on the unrounded averages.