{"id":250765,"date":"2025-10-30T20:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/250765\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:01:10","slug":"statistics-canada-says-number-of-job-vacancies-in-august-fell-to-lowest-since-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/250765\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics Canada says number of job vacancies in August fell to lowest since 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada says the number of job vacancies in Canada in August edged down 2.4 per cent from July to reach their lowest figure since 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The agency says the 457,400 vacancies was the lowest number since August 2017, excluding the April-to-September 2020 period when data was unavailable during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">On a year-over-year basis, job vacancies were down 15.2 per cent in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Statistics Canada says the job vacancy rate \u2014 which corresponds to the number of vacant positions as a proportion of total labour demand \u2014 was 2.6 per cent in August, unchanged from July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The job vacancy rate in August 2024 was 3.0 per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The agency says there were 3.5 unemployed persons for every job vacancy in August, the highest unemployment-to-job vacancy ratio since November 2016, excluding the April-to-September period in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 30, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada says the number of job vacancies in Canada in August edged down 2.4 per&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,27709,50],"class_list":["post-250765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-job-vacancies","tag-statistics-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}