Number of employment insurance beneficiaries by type of income benefit

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Number of employment insurance beneficiaries by type of income benefit
  2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
  annual average
Total income benefits1 750,343 1,056,316 982,816 848,893 796,868
Sickness 60,984 62,174 61,597 62,718 64,154
Maternity 48,145 48,788 47,133 47,138 47,717
Fishing 12,595 12,118 11,542 11,739 11,551
Work sharing 4,755 48,343 30,953 7,303 5,401
Adoption 1,092 1,085 1,026 956 897
Parental 111,354 113,868 112,455 111,098 112,248
Regular 486,326 733,984 684,179 582,994 534,748
Training 22,991 33,233 31,380 23,059 18,815
Job creation 439 512 414 280 204
Self-employment assistance 1,635 2,185 2,107 1,588 1,118
Note:
Calendar effect in July 2012: The number of beneficiaries is a measure of all people who received EI benefits during the reference week of the Labour Force Survey (LFS). In the majority of cases, the LFS reference week is the second full week of the month. In the case of July 2012, however, the reference week was July 15th to 21st, which was the third full week. As a result of this rare occurrence, many claimants whose employment ended in June this year had served the mandatory two-week waiting period for EI in time to be counted as beneficiaries. This produced an artificially high number of beneficiaries in July. This calendar effect was accounted for in the seasonally adjusted data at the national, provincial and territorial level. However, this ‘calendar effect’ was not removed from unadjusted data. Year-over-year comparisons of unadjusted data should therefore be interpreted with caution.
1. The number of beneficiaries receiving total income benefits excludes employment insurance claimants receiving employment and support measures benefits.
Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM, table 276-0001.
Last modified: 2013-02-21.

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