{
  "id": "unemployment-rate",
  "category": "Work and income",
  "title": "Unemployment rate in Greater Victoria",
  "geography": "Victoria census metropolitan area (Greater Victoria)",
  "scope": "region",
  "levels": [
    "Federal (national survey)",
    "Market and economy-wide factors"
  ],
  "plain_question": "Of the people who are working or looking for work, what share are looking and cannot find a job?",
  "value": 4.8,
  "display_value": "4.8%",
  "unit": "% of the labour force (3-month average, seasonally adjusted)",
  "period": "3 months to October 2026",
  "period_start": "2025-10-01",
  "period_end": "2026-10-01",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "October 2025",
    "previous_value": 4.2,
    "change_percent": 0.6,
    "change_unit": "percentage points"
  },
  "trend": "roughly_flat",
  "trend_basis": "4.8% in the three months to October 2026 compared with 4.2% a year earlier (+0.6 percentage points).",
  "direction_good": "down",
  "right_direction": "A lower number means a smaller share of people who want a job are without one.",
  "caveats": [
    "This comes from the Labour Force Survey, a sample survey, so it is an estimate. For the latest month, the standard error of the year-over-year change is about 0.8 percentage points, so small changes may just be sampling noise.",
    "City-level estimates are noisier than national ones, which is why Statistics Canada publishes a three-month moving average.",
    "The area is the Victoria census metropolitan area, which is larger than the City of Victoria.",
    "The unemployment rate does not show job quality, wages, or people who have stopped looking for work."
  ],
  "series": [
    {
      "period": "2024-11",
      "value": 3.9
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-12",
      "value": 3.7
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-01",
      "value": 3.6
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-02",
      "value": 3.6
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-03",
      "value": 3.7
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-04",
      "value": 3.7
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-05",
      "value": 3.8
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-06",
      "value": 4.0
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-07",
      "value": 4.9
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-08",
      "value": 5.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-09",
      "value": 4.7
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-10",
      "value": 4.2
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-11",
      "value": 4.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-12",
      "value": 4.3
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-01",
      "value": 4.4
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-02",
      "value": 4.5
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-03",
      "value": 4.6
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-04",
      "value": 4.3
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-05",
      "value": 4.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-06",
      "value": 4.4
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-07",
      "value": 5.0
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-08",
      "value": 5.3
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-09",
      "value": 5.3
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-10",
      "value": 4.8
    }
  ],
  "refresh_frequency": "Monthly",
  "data_published": "2026-11-06",
  "source": {
    "name": "Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey",
    "url": "https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/survey/household/3701",
    "dataset_url": "https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/c47567d9-20d2-4b9e-9898-dfb4b7ca7aec",
    "table_url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410045901",
    "table": "14-10-0459-01"
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": "Open Government Licence - Canada",
    "url": "https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada"
  },
  "attribution": "Adapted from Statistics Canada, table 14-10-0459-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11T06:52:40Z"
}