TORONTO, May 21, 2020 /CNW/ -- Employment in
Canada decreased by 226,700 jobs
from March to April according to the April 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.
April 2020 Report
Highlights*
Total Canada Nonfarm Payroll Employment1:
-226,700
Industry Snapshot:
- Goods Producing:
- Manufacturing -6,700
- Construction -300
- Natural Resources and
Mining -6,300
- Service Providing:
- Trade/Transportation and
Utilities -81,200
- Information 1,100
- Finance/Real Estate -24,900
- Professional/Business
Services -16,900
-
Professional/Technical -2,700
- Management of
Companies 5,700
- Administrative and
Support -19,900
- Education & Health
Care -20,700
- Educational
Services -27,700
- Health
Care 7,000
- Leisure and
Hospitality -57,900
- Other
Services2 -13,000
* Sum of components may not equal total, due to rounding.
"The labour market experienced a sharp decline in April as a
result of COVID-19," said Ahu Yildirmaz, vice president and co-head
of the ADP Research Institute. "The industries hardest hit by job
losses were trade, leisure and hospitality, education and
finance."
The March total of jobs added was revised up from -177,300 to
-17,200.
The May 2020 ADP Canada
National Employment Report will be released at 8:30a.m.ET on June 18,
2020.
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