February unemployment rates: Canadian cities
Posted March 9, 2012 7:55 am.
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OTTAWA – The national unemployment rate was 7.4 per cent in February.
Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities, but cautions the figures may fluctuate widely because they are based on small statistical samples (previous month in brackets):
- St. John’s, N.L. – 7.6 (7.8)
- Halifax, N.S. – 5.8 (5.4)
- Moncton, N.B. – 6.6 (7.1)
- Saint John, N.B. – 7.8 (7.6)
- Saguenay, Que. – 6.3 (5.6)
- Sherbrooke, Que. – 7.0 (6.8)
- Trois-Rivieres, Que. – 8.1 (8.5)
- Montreal, Que. – 9.2 (9.0)
- Gatineau, Que. – 6.1 (6.6)
- Ottawa, Ont. – 6.0 (5.7)
- Kingston, Ont. – 7.1 (6.6)
- Peterborough, Ont. – 7.5 (7.2)
- Oshawa, Ont. – 7.4 (7.4)
- Toronto, Ont. – 8.6 (8.6)
- Hamilton, Ont. – 5.9 (6.0)
- St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. – 7.6 (7.3)
- Kitchener, Ont. – 6.7 (6.9)
- Brantford, Ont. – 8.2 (8.1)
- Guelph, Ont. – 5.5 (5.5)
- London, Ont. – 8.8 (9.0)
- Windsor, Ont. – 10.7 (10.9)
- Barrie, Ont. – 8.7 (9.5)
- Sudbury, Ont. – 6.6 (6.4)
- Thunder Bay, Ont. – 5.6 (6.2)
- Winnipeg, Man. – 5.8 (5.8)
- Regina, Sask – 4.4 (4.4)
- Saskatoon – 6.0 (5.9)
- Calgary, Alta. – 5.2 (5.4)
- Edmonton, Alta. – 5.3 (5.0)
- Kelowna, B.C. – 8.2 (8.5)
- Abbotsford, B.C. – 10.5 (10.1)
- Vancouver, B.C. – 6.7 (7.0)
- Victoria, B.C. – 5.3 (5.7)
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