TORONTO, April 18, 2019 /CNW/ -- Employment in
Canada increased by 13,200 jobs
from February to March according to the March
ADP® Canada National Employment
Report. Broadly distributed to the public each month,
free of charge, the ADP Canada National Employment Report is
produced by the ADP Research Institute®. The
report, which is derived from actual ADP payroll data, measures the
change in total nonfarm payroll employment each month on a
seasonally-adjusted basis.
March 2019 Report
Highlights*
Total Canada Nonfarm Payroll Employment1:
13,200
Industry Snapshot:
- Goods Producing:
- Manufacturing 9,300
- Construction 1,200
- Natural Resources and Mining -1,100
- Service Providing:
- Trade/Transportation and Utilities
-700
- Information -1,500
- Finance/Real Estate -1,400
- Professional/Business Services 2,100
-
- Professional/Technical -800
- Management of Companies 400
- Administrative and Support
2,500
- Education & Health Care 2,700
-
- Educational Services 2,300
- Health Care 400
- Leisure and Hospitality
1,200
- Other Service2
1,500
* Sum of components may not equal total, due to rounding.
"We saw modest gains in the month of March," said Ahu
Yildirmaz, vice president and co-head of the ADP Research
Institute. "Leading job growth was manufacturing, which
posted the strongest gains in a year. Construction and
professional services rebounded while natural resources and mining,
trade, information and financial services continued to
struggle."
The February total of jobs added was revised down from 36,200 to
-21,200.
The April 2019 ADP Canada
National Employment Report will be released at 8:30a.m.ET on May 16,
2019.
About the ADP Canada National Employment
Report
The ADP Canada National Employment Report
is a monthly measure of the change in total Canada nonfarm payroll employment derived from
actual, anonymous payroll data of client companies served by ADP
Canada. The report, which measures more than two million workers in
Canada, is produced by the ADP
Research Institute®, a specialized group within the
company that provides insights around employment trends and
workforce strategy.
Each month, the ADP Research Institute issues the ADP Canada
National Employment Report as part of the company's commitment
to adding deeper insights into the labour market in Canada and providing businesses, governments
and others with a source of credible and valuable
information. The ADP Canada National Employment Report
is broadly distributed to the public each month, free of
charge.
For a description of the underlying data and the statistical
model used to create this report, please see "ADP Canada
National Employment Report: Development Methodology".
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1 Including 14 industries (cf. report
methodology)
2 Including public administration
SOURCE ADP, LLC