January unemployment rates: Canadian provinces
Posted February 3, 2012 8:07 am.
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Canada’s national unemployment rate was 7.6 per cent in January.
Here’s what happened provincially (previous month in brackets):
- Newfoundland 13.5 (12.7)
- Prince Edward Island 12.2 (11.2)
- Nova Scotia 8.4 (7.8)
- New Brunswick 9.5 (9.4)
- Quebec 8.4 (8.7)
- Ontario 8.1 (7.7)
- Manitoba 5.4 (5.4)
- Saskatchewan 5.0 (5.2)
- Alberta 4.9 (4.9)
- British Columbia 6.9 (7.0)