Labour Force Survey Job Permanency

The permanency dataset includes the number of self-employed, but primarily focuses on employees: those who do paid work for others. There is further classification of employees into full-time, part-time, permanent, and temporary status. The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is the only survey conducted by Statistics Canada designed to provide the official unemployment rate every month, with a monthly sample size of approximately 56,000 households. It is the earliest and most timely indicator of the pulse of the labour market in Canada. Statistics Canada provides a Guide to the Labour Force Survey.
Note: This dataset primarily focuses on employees: those who do paid work for others. Therefore, totals do not align to totals in Labour Force Characteristics dataset, which focuses on everyone in the labour force.
Definitions

  • Employee - A person who does paid work for others.
  • Work - Includes any work for pay or profit, that is, paid work in the context of an employer-employee relationship or self-employment. It also includes work performed by those working in family business without pay (unpaid family workers).
  • Permanent - A permanent job is one that is expected to last as long as the employee wants it, business conditions permitting. That is, there is no predetermined termination date.
  • Temporary - A temporary job has a predetermined end date, or will end as soon as a specified project is completed. Information is collected to allow the sub-classification of temporary jobs into four groups: seasonal; temporary, term or contract, including work done through a temporary help agency; casual job; and other temporary work.
  • Employment - Employed persons are those who, during the reference week, did any work for pay or profit or had a job and were absent from work. 
  • Self-employment - Working owners of an incorporated business, farm or professional practice, or working owners of an unincorporated business, farm or professional practice. The latter group also includes self-employed workers who do not own a business (such as babysitters and newspaper carriers). Self-employed workers are further subdivided by those with or without paid help. Also included among the self-employed are unpaid family workers. They are persons who work without pay on a farm or in a business or professional practice owned and operated by another family member living in the same dwelling. They represented approximately 1% of the self-employed in 2016.
  • Unemployment - Unemployed persons are those who, during reference week, were without work, were available for work and were either on temporary layoff, had looked for work in the past four weeks or had a job to start within the next four weeks.

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

The permanency dataset includes the number of self-employed, but primarily focuses on employees: those who do paid work for others. There is further classification of employees into full-time, part-time, permanent, and temporary status. The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is the only survey conducted by Statistics Canada designed to provide the official unemployment rate every month, with a monthly sample size of approximately 56,000 households. It is the earliest and most timely indicator of the pulse of the labour market in Canada. Statistics Canada provides a Guide to the Labour Force Survey.
Note: This dataset primarily focuses on employees: those who do paid work for others. Therefore, totals do not align to totals in Labour Force Characteristics dataset, which focuses on everyone in the labour force.
Definitions

  • Employee - A person who does paid work for others.
  • Work - Includes any work for pay or profit, that is, paid work in the context of an employer-employee relationship or self-employment. It also includes work performed by those working in family business without pay (unpaid family workers).
  • Permanent - A permanent job is one that is expected to last as long as the employee wants it, business conditions permitting. That is, there is no predetermined termination date.
  • Temporary - A temporary job has a predetermined end date, or will end as soon as a specified project is completed. Information is collected to allow the sub-classification of temporary jobs into four groups: seasonal; temporary, term or contract, including work done through a temporary help agency; casual job; and other temporary work.
  • Employment - Employed persons are those who, during the reference week, did any work for pay or profit or had a job and were absent from work. 
  • Self-employment - Working owners of an incorporated business, farm or professional practice, or working owners of an unincorporated business, farm or professional practice. The latter group also includes self-employed workers who do not own a business (such as babysitters and newspaper carriers). Self-employed workers are further subdivided by those with or without paid help. Also included among the self-employed are unpaid family workers. They are persons who work without pay on a farm or in a business or professional practice owned and operated by another family member living in the same dwelling. They represented approximately 1% of the self-employed in 2016.
  • Unemployment - Unemployed persons are those who, during reference week, were without work, were available for work and were either on temporary layoff, had looked for work in the past four weeks or had a job to start within the next four weeks.
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Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc)
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Dataset Size
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16.0
Metadata Identifier
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2662faf209204bb18ea2d5d55dfff7ff
Published Date
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2020-04-16
Time Period Data Span (start date)
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Time Period Data Span (end date)
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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
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Location
Location of the dataset.
https://data.peelregion.ca/datasets/RegionofPeel::labour-force-survey-job-permanency
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
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http://www.peelregion.ca/
Publisher
Publisher of the dataset.
Regional Municipality of Peel
Publisher Email
Email of the publisher.
Author
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[email protected]_RegionofPeel
Author Email
Email of the author.
Accessed At
Date the data and metadata was accessed.
2020-05-07
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Identifier
Unique identifier for the dataset.
2662faf209204bb18ea2d5d55dfff7ff
Language
Language(s) of the dataset
English
Link to dataset description
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https://data.peelregion.ca/datasets/RegionofPeel::labour-force-survey-job-permanency
Persistent Identifier
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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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Provenance Text
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Statistics Canada
Provenance URL
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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
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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
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19
Number of data columns
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14
Number of data cells
If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
266
Number of data relations
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Number of entities
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Number of data properties
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