By CKPGToday

Prince George’s unemployment rate down year-over-year

Feb 8, 2019 | 1:35 PM

PRINCE GEORGE — Good news on the jobs front in Prince George.

According to Statistics Canada, the unemployment rate last month was 6 per cent, down from 7 per cent in January 2018.

Positive news in the Cariboo too where the unemployment rate dropped to 5.9 per cent from 7.3 per cent year-over-year.

(StatsCan warns with unadjusted data, one cannot make month-to-month comparisons since different seasonal factors influence each month).

Provincially, B.C. continued to have the lowest unemployment rate in the country for the 17th month in a row in January, at 4.7 per cent while nationally, Canada’s unemployment rate was 5.8 per cent.

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