Quarterly data on job vacancies, vacancy proportions, and average offered hourly wages by occupation and selected characteristics from Statistics Canada. The dataset covers the last 5 quarters and includes breakdowns by type of work, education sought, experience sought, vacancy duration, position type, and recruitment strategies. It is published under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.
Use Cases
- Analyze wage trends across occupations based on average offered hourly wage data
- Track demand for specific skill sets based on minimum education and experience levels sought
- Compare vacancy rates and recruitment strategies across different types of work
- Monitor changes in labor market conditions over time based on quarterly data
Strengths
- Data covers the last 5 quarters, providing recent temporal coverage
- Includes multiple breakdowns by occupation, work type, education, experience, and recruitment
- Published by Statistics Canada, an authoritative national statistical agency
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
Provenance
- Source
- Statistics Canada
- Time Range
- Last 5 quarters
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-17 12:50:56.668463
- Geography
- Canada