Statistics Canada failing to tell whole story about Canada’s job market, CLC says

Canadian Press ^ | March 6, 2014 | Julian Beltrame

[george76]

The Canadian Labour Congress is asking Statistics Canada to change the way it reports on unemployment, saying a more fulsome analysis of the data it collects would paint a very different picture of the country’s labour market.

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The biggest omission, says the CLC, is the category economists call “underemployment,” which captures part-time workers who want to be full time, along with the involuntary self-employed and other underutilized workers.

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The most telling number is that the employment rate — the number working as a percentage of the total in the age group — is down to 54.5% from about 60% in 2008

[Revel]

Looks like they are going for a new “Fudge factor”.

[Para-Ord.45]

Statistics Canada failing to tell whole story about Canada’s job market, Communist Labour Congress says

THERE, fixed it !

[FAA]

“fulsome”

Never heard that word before. But I don’t speak Canadian either, so.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

The word’s been around for quite a while — but, it doesn’t mean what the writer thinks it means. Apparently, the writer doesn’t speak Canadian either.

[beelzepug]

“fulsome”

A place where time keeps draggin’ on.

[familyop]

Yes, it's done much the way that it's done in the U.S. There are a couple of other interesting articles about the upside linked at the Post page. Canada does produce more, relative to the size of its population, and exports much more to the U.S. than it imports from the U.S.

Outlook for Canadian factories improving, consumers still spending
http://business.financialpost.com/2014/03/03/outlook-for-canadian-factories-improving-consumers-still-spending/

Outlook for Canadian factories improving, consumers still spending
http://business.financialpost.com/2014/02/28/canada-gdp-surges-2-9-in-final-quarter-blowing-past-expectations/

[familyop]

Oops. Little correction here.

Outlook for Canadian factories improving, consumers still spending
http://business.financialpost.com/2014/03/03/outlook-for-canadian-factories-improving-consumers-still-spending/

Canadian economy ends year with a bang as growth blows past expectations
http://business.financialpost.com/2014/02/28/canada-gdp-surges-2-9-in-final-quarter-blowing-past-expectations/

[Carry_Okie]

Of course, these are very likely the same statistical metrics used as when the left was in power.

They just can't stand the improvement.