Labour Force Data from 1964-Present

Question

An economics graduate student would like to find monthly Labour Force data, specifically Average Hours worked, and number of people employed, dating back to 1964. He has found the LFS data via CANSIM dating back to 1976, and earlier data appears only to be available annually.

Is anyone aware of another source?

Answers

1. StatsCan has monthly hours worked data from 1966 to 1975 on paper only. It is based on the very survey questionnaire which is not comparable to the survey from 1976 to present.

2. Stats Can print publication 71-001 has hours worked as a categorical variable and number of people employed, as far back as 1950, at least in all the monthly issues I checked. You would need to compute mid-points and multiply by the number of employed in each category, to come up with a monthly overall average, but with some key-punching grunt work, Excel will compute a monthly average nicely.