{
  "id": "employment-rate",
  "category": "Work and income",
  "title": "Employment rate in Greater Victoria",
  "geography": "Victoria census metropolitan area (Greater Victoria)",
  "scope": "region",
  "levels": [
    "Market and economy-wide factors",
    "Federal and provincial economic policy"
  ],
  "plain_question": "What share of people aged 15 and over have a job?",
  "value": 61.4,
  "display_value": "61.4%",
  "unit": "% of people 15 and over with a job (3-month average, seasonally adjusted)",
  "period": "3 months to October 2026",
  "period_start": "2025-10-01",
  "period_end": "2026-10-01",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "October 2025",
    "previous_value": 63.4,
    "change_percent": -2.0,
    "change_unit": "percentage points"
  },
  "trend": "roughly_flat",
  "significance": {
    "significant": false,
    "margin": 4.1,
    "text": "Statistics Canada's standard error of the year-over-year change is 2.1 points, so the 95% margin is about 4.1 points; the -2.0-point change is smaller than that."
  },
  "trend_basis": "61.4% in the three months to October 2026 against 63.4% a year earlier (-2.0 points; 95% survey margin about 4.1 points).",
  "direction_good": "up",
  "right_direction": "A higher share means more people have work.",
  "since_text": "Ages 25 to 54, yearly average: 87.7% in 2025 (86.9% in 2024).",
  "caveats": [
    "This comes from the Labour Force Survey, a sample survey. The standard error of the year-over-year change is 2.1 points, as Statistics Canada publishes it, so changes smaller than about 4.1 points may be sampling noise.",
    "The rate for everyone 15 and over falls as the population ages, because more people are retired. The 25 to 54 line, from the yearly table 14-10-0461-01, is less affected by that.",
    "The area is the Victoria census metropolitan area, which is larger than the City of Victoria."
  ],
  "charts": [
    {
      "title": "Employment rate, Greater Victoria, yearly average (%)",
      "fmt": "dec1",
      "unit": "%",
      "lines": [
        {
          "name": "Ages 25 to 54",
          "area": "cma",
          "series": [
            {
              "period": "2011",
              "value": 82.7
            },
            {
              "period": "2012",
              "value": 82.8
            },
            {
              "period": "2013",
              "value": 83.6
            },
            {
              "period": "2014",
              "value": 83.5
            },
            {
              "period": "2015",
              "value": 82.2
            },
            {
              "period": "2016",
              "value": 84.3
            },
            {
              "period": "2017",
              "value": 86.8
            },
            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 86.5
            },
            {
              "period": "2019",
              "value": 86.1
            },
            {
              "period": "2020",
              "value": 82.1
            },
            {
              "period": "2021",
              "value": 86.1
            },
            {
              "period": "2022",
              "value": 87.9
            },
            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 86.8
            },
            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 86.9
            },
            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 87.7
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "Ages 15 and over",
          "area": "cma",
          "series": [
            {
              "period": "2011",
              "value": 60.6
            },
            {
              "period": "2012",
              "value": 61.7
            },
            {
              "period": "2013",
              "value": 61.0
            },
            {
              "period": "2014",
              "value": 59.3
            },
            {
              "period": "2015",
              "value": 59.4
            },
            {
              "period": "2016",
              "value": 61.1
            },
            {
              "period": "2017",
              "value": 62.8
            },
            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 63.1
            },
            {
              "period": "2019",
              "value": 61.9
            },
            {
              "period": "2020",
              "value": 59.1
            },
            {
              "period": "2021",
              "value": 60.6
            },
            {
              "period": "2022",
              "value": 61.4
            },
            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 61.9
            },
            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 64.7
            },
            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 64.0
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "series": [
    {
      "period": "2021-10",
      "value": 59.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2021-11",
      "value": 60.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2021-12",
      "value": 60.4
    },
    {
      "period": "2022-01",
      "value": 61.4
    },
    {
      "period": "2022-02",
      "value": 61.7
    },
    {
      "period": "2022-03",
      "value": 62.5
    },
    {
      "period": "2022-04",
      "value": 62.3
    },
    {
      "period": "2022-05",
      "value": 61.8
    },
    {
      "period": "2022-06",
      "value": 61.5
    },
    {
      "period": "2022-07",
      "value": 60.9
    },
    {
      "period": "2022-08",
      "value": 60.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2022-09",
      "value": 60.0
    },
    {
      "period": "2022-10",
      "value": 60.6
    },
    {
      "period": "2022-11",
      "value": 61.4
    },
    {
      "period": "2022-12",
      "value": 61.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-01",
      "value": 60.7
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-02",
      "value": 60.4
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-03",
      "value": 60.4
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-04",
      "value": 60.0
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-05",
      "value": 59.7
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-06",
      "value": 59.8
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-07",
      "value": 60.6
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-08",
      "value": 62.0
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-09",
      "value": 63.0
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-10",
      "value": 64.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-11",
      "value": 63.9
    },
    {
      "period": "2023-12",
      "value": 64.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-01",
      "value": 63.6
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-02",
      "value": 63.5
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-03",
      "value": 63.6
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-04",
      "value": 63.9
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-05",
      "value": 65.0
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-06",
      "value": 65.6
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-07",
      "value": 66.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-08",
      "value": 65.9
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-09",
      "value": 65.3
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-10",
      "value": 64.5
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-11",
      "value": 64.0
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-12",
      "value": 64.5
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-01",
      "value": 64.8
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-02",
      "value": 65.3
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-03",
      "value": 65.0
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-04",
      "value": 65.4
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-05",
      "value": 65.2
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-06",
      "value": 64.8
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-07",
      "value": 64.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-08",
      "value": 63.3
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-09",
      "value": 63.3
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-10",
      "value": 63.4
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-11",
      "value": 63.7
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-12",
      "value": 63.2
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-01",
      "value": 62.9
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-02",
      "value": 63.0
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-03",
      "value": 62.7
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-04",
      "value": 62.0
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-05",
      "value": 61.0
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-06",
      "value": 60.3
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-07",
      "value": 59.9
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-08",
      "value": 59.9
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-09",
      "value": 60.2
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-10",
      "value": 61.4
    }
  ],
  "refresh_frequency": "Monthly",
  "data_published": "2026-11-06",
  "source": {
    "name": "Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, tables 14-10-0459-01 (monthly) and 14-10-0461-01 (yearly)",
    "url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410045901",
    "dataset_url": "https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/c47567d9-20d2-4b9e-9898-dfb4b7ca7aec",
    "table_url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410045901",
    "table": "14-10-0459-01",
    "publisher_page": "https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/survey/household/3701",
    "locator": "Table 14-10-0459-01: Victoria, British Columbia, Employment rate, Estimate, Seasonally adjusted, October 2026",
    "also": [
      {
        "name": "Table 14-10-0461-01: Victoria, Employment rate, 25 to 54 years, annual",
        "url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410046101"
      }
    ]
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": "Open Government Licence - Canada",
    "url": "https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada"
  },
  "attribution": "Adapted from Statistics Canada, table 14-10-0459-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:22:07Z",
  "licence_type": "open",
  "source_tier": 1,
  "measure_kind": "outcome",
  "better_measure": null,
  "status_rule": {
    "rule": "One rule for every measure: a change smaller than 5% of the earlier value, or smaller than the agency's own margin of error, is “About the same”; no change is calculated across a marked break in a series; homelessness estimates, prices, staffing and comparison pages are shown for context without a label.",
    "reason": "Statistics Canada's standard error of the year-over-year change is 2.1 points, so the 95% margin is about 4.1 points; the -2.0-point change is smaller than that.",
    "threshold_percent": 5.0
  },
  "changes": {
    "year": {
      "period": "October 2025",
      "value": 63.4,
      "text": "vs Oct 2025: -2.0 points"
    },
    "five_year": {
      "period": "2021-10",
      "value": 59.1,
      "comparable": true,
      "text": "vs Oct 2021: +2.3 points"
    }
  },
  "direction": {
    "type": "outcome",
    "rule": "Outcome measures read Better, Worse or About the same; published government targets read Ahead of, On or Behind target; value-judgement measures read Rising, Falling or Steady in a neutral colour. A change smaller than the agency's own margin of error, or otherwise smaller than 5% of the earlier value, is About the same (or Steady). No change is calculated across a marked break in a series.",
    "key": "same",
    "label": "About the same",
    "arrow": "▼",
    "rel": -3.1545741324921135,
    "delta": -2.0,
    "vs": "October 2025",
    "cur": "3 months to October 2026",
    "why": "Statistics Canada's standard error of the year-over-year change is 2.1 points, so the 95% margin is about 4.1 points; the -2.0-point change is smaller than that.",
    "change": "2.0 pt",
    "one_year": "−2.0 pt",
    "five": {
      "period": "2021-10",
      "comparable": true,
      "delta": 2.299999999999997,
      "text": "+2.3 pt",
      "years": 5
    },
    "sig_based": true
  },
  "decided_by": [
    {
      "body": "NONE",
      "name": "No government decides this directly",
      "note": "Employers and workers decide hiring."
    },
    {
      "body": "BOC",
      "name": "Bank of Canada",
      "decides": "Conducts monetary policy. Its law asks it to reduce swings in production, trade, prices and employment where it can.",
      "laws": [
        {
          "key": "boce",
          "label": "Bank of Canada Act, preamble",
          "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/B-2/FullText.html"
        },
        {
          "key": "boc21",
          "label": "Bank of Canada Act, s. 21",
          "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/B-2/FullText.html"
        }
      ],
      "last": null,
      "next": null
    }
  ],
  "main_decision_maker": "No government decides this directly"
}