Labour Force Characteristics

This data set describes the labour force, the total number of persons of working age who are available for work, capable of working, and are either gainfully employed or seeking employment during a specified time period.

This data set describes the labour force, the total number of persons of working age who are available for work, capable of working, and are either gainfully employed or seeking employment during a specified time period.   This data set also provides the annual average of Region of Peel residents employed within varying industries.   The source of the data is Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey (LFS), a monthly survey of households.  The full documentation can be found on the Guide to the Labour Force Survey page at Statistics Canada.   NB - Due to data revisions, data prior to 2011 is not comparable to the data from 2011 to present.

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Domain / Topic
Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Title
Title for the Dataset.
Labour Force Characteristics
Description
A description of the dataset.

This data set describes the labour force, the total number of persons of working age who are available for work, capable of working, and are either gainfully employed or seeking employment during a specified time period.

This data set describes the labour force, the total number of persons of working age who are available for work, capable of working, and are either gainfully employed or seeking employment during a specified time period.   This data set also provides the annual average of Region of Peel residents employed within varying industries.   The source of the data is Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey (LFS), a monthly survey of households.  The full documentation can be found on the Guide to the Labour Force Survey page at Statistics Canada.   NB - Due to data revisions, data prior to 2011 is not comparable to the data from 2011 to present.
Tags / Keywords
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Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc)
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Dataset Size
Dataset size in megabytes.
16.0
Metadata Identifier
Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
f60689ce61674954a6c4fa4fecc750e8
Published Date
Published date of the dataset.
2025-07-16
Time Period Data Span (start date)
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Time Period Data Span (end date)
End date of time data in the dataset.
GeoSpatial Area Data Span
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Access category
Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
public
License
License used to access the dataset.
Open Data Licence for The Regional Municipality of Peel (Version 1.0)
Limits on use
Limits on use of data.
Location
Location of the dataset.
https://data.peelregion.ca/datasets/RegionofPeel::labour-force-characteristics
Data Service
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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.
2025-08-20
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Identifier
Unique identifier for the dataset.
f60689ce61674954a6c4fa4fecc750e8
Language
Language(s) of the dataset
English
Link to dataset description
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https://data.peelregion.ca/datasets/RegionofPeel::labour-force-characteristics
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Contains data about individuals
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Contains data about identifiable individuals
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Contains Indigenous Data
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Version
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None
Source
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None
Version notes
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Is version of another dataset
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Other versions
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Provenance Text
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Regional Municipality of Peel
Provenance URL
Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution
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GeoSpatial resolution in meters
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GeoSpatial resolution (in regions)
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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.
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Number of data rows
If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
24
Number of data columns
If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
21
Number of data cells
If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
504
Number of data relations
If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities
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Number of data properties
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Data quality
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