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November 16, 2021UK LABOUR FORCE SURVEY, SEPTEMBER 2021 
The UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported today that the unemployment rate for the three-month period July 2021 to September 2021 averaged 4.3%.
The UK employment rate among those aged 16-64 averaged 75.4% from July to September 2021. This remained 1.1 percentage points lower than the pre-pandemic period (December 2019-February 2020). The UK economic inactivity rate among those aged 16-64 averaged 21.1% from July to September 2021, up 0.9 percentage points from pre-pandemic levels.
From August to October 2021, the number of job vacancies in the UK was 1,172,000, which is 388,000 above pre-pandemic levels. This is another new high and the third consecutive month in which UK job vacancies were over one million.
The impact of COVID-19 was more apparent in falling employment and labour force in Canada and Nova Scotia. In October 2021 Canada's employment increased while labour force contracted, which drove the unemployment rate down. Nova Scotia reported modest growth in employment but a larger gain in the labour force which pushed up the unemployment rate.
Sources: UK Office for National Statistics: Labour Market Overview
Statistics Canada Table 14-10-0287-02 Labour force characteristics by age group, monthly, seasonally adjusted
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