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Labour Force Activity

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Unemployment Rate

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Country	Province (change)	DHA (change)	County (change)	CHB (change)	Community (change)
Canada	Nova Scotia	Pictou County Health Authority	Pictou County	Central and East Pictou	New Glasgow

Labour
Labour Force Activity
New Glasgow
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1996 Census

2001 Census

2006 Census

Percent
Change
1996 - 2006

Total Reporting

9,703

100.0

9,765

100.0

9,875

100.0

1.8

In the Labour Force

5,473

n/a

5,651

n/a

6,064

n/a

10.8

Employed

4,735

48.8

4,854

49.7

5,586

56.6

18.0

Unemployed

736

7.6

801

8.2

470

4.8

-36.1

Not in the Labour Force

4,241

43.7

4,117

42.2

3,790

38.4

-10.6

Participation Rate

n/a

56.4

n/a

57.9

n/a

61.4

8.9

Employment Rate

n/a

48.8

n/a

49.7

n/a

56.6

16.0

Unemployment Rate

n/a

13.4

n/a

14.2

n/a

7.8

-41.8

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The above data are derived from the Census long form (20% of the population).

Please note that a value of 0 may represent a true zero count, unavailable data or suppressed data.

Detailed data are suppressed for communities with population less than 100.

Source: Nova Scotia Community Counts web page - data modeled from Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006.

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