Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Aboriginal labour force data

Question

A student is looking for annual data (1995 to 2005) on unemployment and employment rates for off-reserve and on-reserve
Aboriginal Peoples in the Wood Buffalo-Cold Lake Economic Region.

She also needs on-reserve unemployment and employment rate data for the Cold Lake First Nations - Cold Lake 149, 149A, 149B
Reserve, annual rates from 1995-2005. The data we've been able to find is from the 2001 Census.

Answer

The Labour Force Survey (LFS) does not collect information specifically for Aboriginal persons. As you know, the LFS has a sample of only ca. 50,000 households and only covers the provinces in Canada. The Canadian Territories are excluded from the sampling universe as are persons residing on Indian reserves.

The best option for your user is to use data from the 1996 and 2001 Census of population.

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