by The Canadian Press - Story: 76805
Jun 20, 2012 / 6:04
am
Statistics Canada says there was an average of 248,000 job
vacancies in the country in three-month period ended in March, up 19,000 from
the same period in 2011.
However, it says there were just 5.8 unemployed people for
every vacancy, down from 6.5 in March 2011.
The agency says the decline in the ratio of unemployment to
job vacancies was a result of both the increase in vacancies and a decline in
the number of unemployed people.
There were 16 people for every vacancy in Newfoundland and
Labrador in March, 13.6 in New Brunswick and 10.2 in Nova Scotia, little
changed from the previous year.
The ratios in Ontario and Quebec were also little changed at
7.6 and 7.2 respectively, while Alberta had the lowest ratio, with 1.8 people
out of work for every job vacancy.
The construction sector had the biggest decline in the
unemployment-to-job vacancies ratio, with 8.3 unemployed people for every vacant
job in the quarter ended in March, down from 14.4 in the same period a year
earlier.
