Labour Market Information

Labour Market Bulletin Overview*

 
While Colchester is listed with “Northern Nova Scotia” (we are actualy more Central vs Northern) in the federal government’s monthly statistics, its business operators and their employees have worked hard to give Colchester the most diversified economy among the counties that make up the federal government’s statistical region. Colchester’s location, just one hour from the capital city of Halifax, means unemployment here generally runs between 7 and 9 per cent.  Rates rarely exceed those averages, except during global downturns.

Colchester also has one of the most reliable workforces among countries surveyed by KPMG Business Consultants. For the latest snapshot of the Colchester and Northern Nova Scotia Labour Market.

Visit the Labour Market Bulletin and select Northern Nova Scotia for the monthly bulletin for Truro:::Colchester.

*This report is an analysis of three month moving average data from Statistics Canada’s monthly Labour Force Survey. The reader should be cautioned that because of relatively small sample sizes in subprovincial regions, data reliability might be an issue.

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