ADP Canada National Employment Report: Employment in Canada Increased by 32,700 Jobs in February 2018

TORONTO, March 15, 2018 /CNW/ - Employment in Canada increased by 32,700 jobs from January to February according to the February ADP^® Canada National Employment Report. Broadly distributed to the public each month, free of charge, the ADP Canada National Employment Report is produced by the ADP Research Institute^®. The report, which is derived from actual ADP payroll data, measures the change in total nonfarm payroll employment each month on a seasonally-adjusted basis.   

February 2018 Report Highlights

View the ADP Canada National Employment Report Infographic at www.ADP.ca/NER

Total Canada Nonfarm Payroll Employment¹: 32,700

Industry Snapshot:

• Goods Producing:
• Manufacturing -3,300  
• Construction 5,200          
• Natural Resources and Mining -100
  
  
• Service Providing:
• Trade/Transportation and Utilities 9,500                                   
• Information 0
• Finance/Real Estate 1,600
• Professional/Business Services 3,200
• Professional/Technical 2,600
• Management of Companies -1,100
• Administrative and Support 1,700                       
• Education & Health Care 16,000
• Educational Services 8,100
• Health Care 7,900
• Leisure and Hospitality -1,300           
• Other Services² 2,000           

"February was a strong month for job growth in Canada," said Ahu Yildirmaz, vice president and co-head of the ADP Research Institute. "The education and healthcare industry had particularly significant growth, in fact it accounted for half of all of the jobs added this month. We also saw notable gains in trade, and construction."

¹ Including 14 industries (cf. report methodology)
² Including public administration

The January total of jobs added was revised down from 10,700 to -2,300.

To obtain additional information about the ADP Canada National Employment Report, supporting data and the schedule of future release dates, or to subscribe to the monthly email alerts and RSS feeds, please visit www.ADP.ca/NER.

The March 2018 ADP Canada National Employment Report will be released at 8:30a.m.ET on April 19, 2018.

About the ADP Canada National Employment Report

The ADP Canada National Employment Report is a monthly measure of the change in total Canada nonfarm payroll employment derived from actual, anonymous payroll data of client companies served by ADP Canada. The report, which measures more than two million workers in Canada, is produced by the ADP Research Institute^®, a specialized group within the company that provides insights around employment trends and workforce strategy.

Each month, the ADP Research Institute issues the ADP Canada National Employment Report as part of the company's commitment to adding deeper insights into the labour market in Canada and providing businesses, governments and others with a source of credible and valuable information.  The ADP Canada National Employment Report is broadly distributed to the public each month, free of charge.

For a description of the underlying data and the statistical model used to create this report, please see "ADP Canada National Employment Report: Development Methodology".

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