Indicator 8.2.1 Employment rate

Employment rate

No specific target

This indicator measures the employment rate. The employment rate is the number of persons employed expressed as a percentage of the population 15 years of age and over.

Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory, Economic region, Census metropolitan area

Percentage

The employment rate for a particular group (age, sex, marital status, etc.) is the number of employed persons in that group expressed as a percentage of the labour force for that group. Estimates are percentages, rounded to the nearest tenth.

Excluded from the coverage are: persons living on reserves and other Aboriginal settlements in the provinces; full-time members of the Canadian Armed Forces, the institutionalized population, and households in extremely remote areas with very low population density. Estimates for Canada (total) are a sum of the provincial totals and exclude the territories. Estimates for proportions by sex and age groups exclude the territories.

The Indigenous population estimates presented in this table are the result of a projection based on 2016 population counts; they are not population estimates. When possible, the projection was calibrated to reflect recent trends observed for the total Canadian population, but it relies primarily on assumptions about the components of growth and, as such, a certain level of uncertainty is associated with it. As an example of the level of uncertainty, the projected Indigenous population in 2015 varies by 96,000 people between the five scenarios presented in the Statistics Canada report Projections of the Aboriginal Population and Households in Canada, 2011 to 2036.

According to the Employment Equity Act, visible minorities are “persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour.” Visible minority n.i.e includes persons with a write-in response such as Guyanese, West Indian, Tibetan, Polynesian, Pacific Islander. The abbreviation “n.i.e.” means “not included elsewhere”. Multiple visible minorities includes persons who gave more than one visible minority group by checking two or more mark-in responses, for example, Black and South Asian.

Landed immigrants refer to people who are, or have been, landed immigrants in Canada. A landed immigrant is a person who has been granted the right to live in Canada permanently by immigration authorities. Canadian citizens by birth and non-permanent residents (persons from another country who live in Canada and have a work or study permit, or are claiming refugee status, as well as family members living here with them) are not landed immigrants.