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July 22, 2014JOB VACANCIES, APRIL 2014 In Nova Scotia in April 2014, the three month average number of job vacancies was 4,700, down 200 from a year earlier. In Canada, the number of job vacancies in April 2014 was 227,300, down 7,900 from April 2013.
The Job Vacancy Rate (the number of job vacancies or vacant positions on the last business day of the month as a percentage of labour demand) for Nova Scotia in April 2014 was 1.3, level with a year earlier. The lowest job vacancy rate in Canada this month was in Quebec, at 1.2. Nationally, the job vacancy rate for April 2014 was 1.5, down from 1.6 a year earlier.
In April 2014, the unemployment to job vacancies ratio for Nova Scotia was 10.1, level with April 2013's figure. Within the Atlantic Region, PEI had the highest Unemployment to Job Vacancies ratio at 13.1. Alberta once again has the lowest Unemployment to Job Vacancies ratio (2.3). In Canada, the unemployment to job vacancies ratio for April 2014 was 6.1, up from 6.0 a year ago.
Source: Statistics Canada's Job Vacancies. CANSIM 284-0001 through 284-0004