TORONTO, Oct. 15, 2020 /CNW/ -- Employment in
Canada decreased by 240,800 jobs
from August to September according to the September
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.
September 2020 Report
Highlights*
Total Canada Nonfarm Payroll Employment1:
-240,800
Industry Snapshot:
- Goods Producing:
- Manufacturing - 45,800
- Construction - 16,900
- Natural Resources and Mining
3,100
- Service Providing:
- Trade/Transportation and Utilities -
94,500
- Information - 1,800
- Finance/Real Estate - 5,200
- Professional/Business Services -
27,600
-
Professional/Technical - 15,300
- Management of Companies
1,100
- Administrative and Support
- 13,400
- Education & Health Care -
59,500
- Educational Services
- 15,700
- Health
Care - 43,800
- Leisure and Hospitality - 11,200
- Other Services2 18,500
* Sum of components may not equal total, due to rounding.
"The labour market continued to post a decline in employment,"
said Ahu Yildirmaz, vice president and co-head of the ADP Research
Institute. "The biggest job losses were in the trade,
transportation and utilities; education and healthcare; and
manufacturing sectors."
The August total of jobs added was revised from -205,400 to
-770,600.
The October 2020 ADP Canada
National Employment Report will be released at 8:30a.m.ET on November 19,
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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the world of work, and to derive reliable economic indicators from
these insights. We offer these findings to the world at large as
our unique contribution to making the world of work better and more
productive, and to bring greater awareness to the economy at
large.
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1 Including 14 industries (cf. report
methodology)
2 Including public administration
SOURCE ADP, Inc.