Unemployment rate, monthly, seasonally adjusted
Monthly unemployment rate from Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey (table 14-10-0287-01): unemployed persons as a percentage of the labour force, seasonally adjusted, both sexes, age 15 and over, for Canada and the 10 provinces. The LFS is Canada's official monthly household survey of labour market activity (~100,000 households). Coverage 1976-01 to the present with no upstream gaps. Caveats: seasonally adjusted estimates only — the monthly SA table publishes Canada and the 10 provinces only (the territories' monthly figures are 3-month moving averages in a separate table, not included here); the latest months are occasionally revised. Statistics Canada Open Licence (commercial reuse allowed); source: Statistics Canada.
- Source
- Statistics Canada
- Rows
- 6,688
- Columns
- 4
- Source cadence
- Monthly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 26, 2026
- Theme
- economy
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| month | string | Reference month of the rate, as an ISO date (first of the month). |
| country_code | string | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code for Canada (CAN) — the join key for the 'Enrich with public data' feature. |
| geo_name | string | Geography: Canada or one of the 10 provinces, as published by Statistics Canada (the monthly seasonally adjusted table covers Canada and the provinces only). |
| unemployment_rate_pct | float | Unemployment rate: unemployed persons as a percentage of the labour force, seasonally adjusted, both sexes, age 15 and over. Percent, bounded 0-100; no upstream gaps in the published history. (unit: percent) |
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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/statcan_labour/statcan_lfs_unemployment_rate_monthly" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/statcan_labour/statcan_lfs_unemployment_rate_monthly").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/statcan_labour/statcan_lfs_unemployment_rate_monthly
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Statistics Canada. (2026). Unemployment rate, monthly, seasonally adjusted [Data set, snapshot 20260926T052422Z-c437c215f84a, sha256 c437c215f84a]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-26, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/statcan_labour/statcan_lfs_unemployment_rate_monthly?snapshot=20260926T052422Z-c437c215f84a
@misc{dz_statcan_labour_statcan_lfs_unemployment__c437c215,
title = {{Unemployment rate, monthly, seasonally adjusted}},
author = {{Statistics Canada}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/statcan_labour/statcan_lfs_unemployment_rate_monthly?snapshot=20260926T052422Z-c437c215f84a}},
note = {Snapshot 20260926T052422Z-c437c215f84a, sha256 c437c215f84a83a6618d582a20d6012e71f9550ca12e41054ce729574e1cfbeb; accessed 2026-09-26}
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