The Canadian Press

By Justin Goulet

Jobless rate up last month in the Lethbridge-Medicine Hat region

Oct 11, 2019 | 9:17 AM

LETHBRIDGE, AB – The latest unemployment numbers have been released by Statistics Canada.

Alberta’s jobless rate for the month of September was listed at 6.6 percent. That’s a decrease from August, when the rate was at 7.2 percent.

In September of 2018, unemployment was at 7.0 percent.

The Lethbridge-Medicine Hat region saw a jump in unemployment, from 7.1 percent in August to 7.6 percent in September.

The following is a breakdown of jobless rates in each of Alberta’s economic regions. In brackets is August’s unemployment rate.

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· Lethbridge-Medicine Hat: 7.6 percent (7.1)

· Camrose – Drumheller: 5.1 percent (5.6)

· Calgary: 7.3 percent (7.4)

· Banff-Jasper-Rocky Mountain House and Athabasca-Grand Prairie-Peace River: 5.9 percent (5.4)

· Red Deer: 8.0 percent (7.3)

· Edmonton: 7.6 percent (7.8)

· Wood Buffalo – Cold Lake: 6.2 percent (6.3)

Focusing on age groups, Statistics Canada noted that unemployment for men and women combined, ages 15-plus, was 6.6 percent. For the youth group (male and female, ages 15-24) – the rate was at 15.5 percent while it was at 5.2 percent for men and women, ages 25 and up.

Canada-wide, the jobless rate was 5.5 percent in September. That’s down from 5.7 percent in August.

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Statistics Canada said the job growth across the nation was largely concentrated in the health care sector and noted gains in the number of public-sector and self-employed workers.