Labour Force Survey, August 2005

Employment increased by 28,000 in August, the result of gains in full-time work. This brings the increase in employment over the past 12 months to 234,000 (+1.5%). The unemployment rate remained unchanged from July at 6.8%.

The rate of growth in employment in Canada in the last year has been similar to that in the United States (+1.7%).

Full-time employment increased by 36,000 in August. Over the past 12 months, all of the increase in employment has come from full-time work (+242,000 or 1.9%).