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P.E.I. trading some part-time positions for full-time jobs, April stats show

The month of April showed some better opportunities for Islanders looking for full-time work.

Unemployment rate up slightly but Island economy added another 500 full-time jobs

Kevin Yarr · CBC News ·
Post-pandemic job recovery continued slowly in April, according to data released Friday by Statistics Canada. (Lynne Sladky/AP)

The month of April showed some better opportunities for Prince Edward Islanders looking for full-time work.

Statistics Canada released its Labour Force Survey for April on Friday morning.

It showed numbers largely steady across the board for P.E.I., with the unemployment rate up just 0.1 percentage point to 8.2.

Both the labour force and the number of jobs were down a little, but overall the economy added another 500 full-time jobs for a total of 66,300.

At the same time there were 800 fewer part-time jobs, down to 12,600.

The unemployment rate on the Island is just about right on the national average of 8.1 per cent.

The national rate rose 0.6 percentage points as the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic hit hard in Ontario, where the rate was up 1.5 percentage points to 9.0.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kevin Yarr

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Kevin Yarr is the early morning web journalist at CBC P.E.I. Kevin has a specialty in data journalism, and how statistics relate to the changing lives of Islanders. He has a BSc and a BA from Dalhousie University, and studied journalism at Holland College in Charlottetown. You can reach him at kevin.yarr@cbc.ca.

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