Employment Insurance Beneficiaries

Employment insurance beneficiaries, unadjusted for seasonality, on a monthly basis for Peel, Brampton, Caledon, and Mississauga. The data begins in January 2000. Important notes about the data found in the description.
This table contains monthly estimates on the number of beneficiaries of the Employment Insurance (EI) program from January 2000 onward.  The data is not adjusted for seasonality.  This means that recurring trends are not adjusted for, such as holidays, institutional decisions, or climatic events.  Changes in the data do not only reflect only changes in the labour market.  The data may also change due to changes in the Employment Insurance Act (for example, a new benefit program is introduced) or administrative practises.
The count of beneficiaries includes those on regular employment insurance and those participating in the three employment benefit programs: Skills Development Program, Job Creation Partnerships Program, and Self-employment Program.
Other documents:

• Statistics Canada - Employment Insurance Statistics - Monthly (EIS) 
• Statistics Canada - Guide to Employment Insurance Statistics (EIS), 2018
• Obtained through the Community Data Program

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• Economic Activity
• Open Data
• Statistics Canada
• beneficiary
• benefits
• economy
• employment insurance
• jobs
• work

Additional Info

• Maturity Level 1 (62%)
• Maturity Level 2 (69%)
• Maturity Level 3 (44%)
• Maturity Level 4 (10%)
• Maturity Level 5 (0%)
• Maturity Level 6 (38%)

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Last Updated	March 24, 2026, 20:52 (UTC)
Created	March 24, 2026, 20:52 (UTC)
Domain / Topic Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Title Title for the Dataset.	Employment Insurance Beneficiaries
Description A description of the dataset.	Employment insurance beneficiaries, unadjusted for seasonality, on a monthly basis for Peel, Brampton, Caledon, and Mississauga. The data begins in January 2000. Important notes about the data found in the description. This table contains monthly estimates on the number of beneficiaries of the Employment Insurance (EI) program from January 2000 onward.  The data is not adjusted for seasonality.  This means that recurring trends are not adjusted for, such as holidays, institutional decisions, or climatic events.  Changes in the data do not only reflect only changes in the labour market.  The data may also change due to changes in the Employment Insurance Act (for example, a new benefit program is introduced) or administrative practises. The count of beneficiaries includes those on regular employment insurance and those participating in the three employment benefit programs: Skills Development Program, Job Creation Partnerships Program, and Self-employment Program. Other documents: Statistics Canada - Employment Insurance Statistics - Monthly (EIS)  Statistics Canada - Guide to Employment Insurance Statistics (EIS), 2018 Obtained through the Community Data Program
Tags / Keywords Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.	Economic Activity Open Data Statistics Canada beneficiary benefits economy employment insurance jobs work
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc) File format of the dataset.
Dataset Size Dataset size in megabytes.	88.0
Metadata Identifier Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry	8fd70a9475794404b3f2b7aba33b71bd
Published Date Published date of the dataset.	2020-04-30
Time Period Data Span (start date) Start date of the data in the dataset.
Time Period Data Span (end date) End date of time data in the dataset.
GeoSpatial Area Data Span A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.

Field	Value
Access category Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).	public
License License used to access the dataset.	Statistics Canada Open License
Limits on use Limits on use of data.
Location Location of the dataset.	https://data.peelregion.ca/datasets/RegionofPeel::employment-insurance-beneficiaries
Data Service Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner Owner of the dataset.	[email protected]_RegionofPeel
Contact Point Who to contact regarding access?	Regional Municipality of Peel
Contact Point Email The email to contact regarding access?	http://www.peelregion.ca/
Publisher Publisher of the dataset.	Regional Municipality of Peel
Publisher Email Email of the publisher.
Author Author of the dataset.	[email protected]_RegionofPeel
Author Email Email of the author.
Accessed At Date the data and metadata was accessed.	2024-01-04

Field	Value
Identifier Unique identifier for the dataset.	8fd70a9475794404b3f2b7aba33b71bd
Language Language(s) of the dataset	English
Link to dataset description A URL to an external document describing the dataset.	https://data.peelregion.ca/datasets/RegionofPeel::employment-insurance-beneficiaries
Persistent Identifier Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
Globally Unique Identifier Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
Contains data about individuals Does the data hold data about individuals?
Contains data about identifiable individuals Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
Contains Indigenous Data Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
Portal Type Platform type of the source portal.

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Version Version of the datatset	None
Source Source of the dataset.	None
Version notes Version notes about the dataset.
Is version of another dataset Link to dataset that it is a version of.
Other versions Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text Provenance Text of the data.	Regional Municipality of Peel
Provenance URL Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
GeoSpatial resolution in meters Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions) Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.

Field	Value
Indigenous Community Permission Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about Indigenous communities from which data is derived.

Field	Value
Number of data rows If tabular dataset, total number of rows.	1144
Number of data columns If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.	4
Number of data cells If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.	4576
Number of data relations If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
Metric for data quality A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.

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