The federal authority also found that the number of vacancies in March hardly fluctuated in all federal states. (Photo: The Canadian Press)
OTTAWA — The number of job vacancies in Canada fell slightly in March, down 2.1 percent, or 17,300, to 815,300, the lowest since August 2021.
According to Statistics Canada, the cumulative decline in the number of job vacancies has increased to 56,300, or 6.5%, since last January, and to 187,900, or 18.7%, since the peak of more than a million job vacancies in May 2022.
The federal agency says March saw a decline in the number of job vacancies in administration, support, waste management and sanitation, and transportation and storage.
In the education sector, on the other hand, the number of vacancies rose by 8,600.
Statistics Canada reports that the number of job vacancies was little changed in March in most other sectors, including those that contribute most to the total number of job vacancies. This applied to health and social care, accommodation and catering services, retail, construction and manufacturing.
The federal authority also found that the number of vacancies in March hardly fluctuated in all federal states.
The job vacancy rate, which is the number of job vacancies as a percentage of total labor demand, fell 0.2 percentage point to 4.5% in March in Canada, the lowest level since June 2021.
The highest rates in March were recorded in Prince Edward Island (5.3%), British Columbia (5.2%) and Quebec (5%).
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