Human Resources committee  I'll maybe let Marc address it. It's not what we call a “help wanted index”, where we go to postings—online postings or newspaper postings. It's attached to one of our monthly employment surveys. I'll let Marc explain it a bit more.

Human Resources committee  We do have that. Chart 5 shows the unemployment rate by occupation group across Canada.

Human Resources committee  We do have it by province, but we don't have it with us.

Human Resources committee  Yes. We can send that to you.

Human Resources committee  We did a study a number of years back called the longitudinal survey of immigrants in Canada. There were questions on barriers to employment. Among some of the highest indicated were foreign credential recognition and lack of Canadian work experience. That survey is a couple of y

Human Resources committee  In what sense do you mean?

Human Resources committee  It's a fairly new data source, so we don't have a full year of data or trend data. But we could break down this chart for you by industry.

Human Resources committee  It's the change in employment over time.

Human Resources committee  It's an index.

Human Resources committee  It's like a base number so that you can do comparative analysis across the different occupations.

Human Resources committee  Returning to the job vacancy slide, the number of unfulfilled vacancies provides another potential measure of unmet labour. This is a measure that StatsCan had not collected for many years, but with funding from HRSDC for the development and initial collection in January 2011, we

Human Resources committee  This type of data on job vacancies will also provide important information on the relationship between the number of vacancies and unemployment. For example, an increase in the number of vacancies at the same time as an increase in unemployment—or even if unemployment remains fla

Human Resources committee  Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is Tracey Leesti, and I'm director of the labour statistics division at Statistics Canada. I'm joined by Josée Bégin, director for the centre for education statistics; Marc Lachance, assistant director, labour statistics division; and Kathryn M