Table 21.

Unemployed by reason for unemployment, by sex and educational level:

Job losers 1 Job leavers 2 New entrants 3 Re-entrants4
         
Education _Women_ _Men _ Women_ _Men_ _Women_ __Men_ _Women_ _Men_
                 
0 - 8 years 45.6% 70.8% 19.3% 17.5% 7.0% * 28.0% 10.0%
                 
Some high school 35.1 58.1 23.8 21.5 9.1 5.6 32.1 14.8
                 
Some post- 24.3 50.0 29.7 25.0 * * 40.5 18.2
 secondary                
                 
Post-secondary 31.6 53.6 28.9 25.0 * * 36.8 *
  certificate                
               
University degree 31.3 40.0 31.3 35.0 * * * *
                 
Totals 35.0 59.7 24.5 21.6 7.6 4.0 32.7 15.0

* values too small to be of statistical significance.

Source:

Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey Division, The labour force: May, 1978. Special feature: Flows into unemployment. (Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 1978).




Supplementary: Job losers Job leavers Entrants Re-entrants
         
Unemployed women by        
  - prior time status        
    Full-time 36% 31% -- 33%
   Part-time 28% 26% -- 46%
         
  - duration of unemployment
    less than 14 weeks 35% 20% 7% 38%
    14 weeks or more 37% 31% 3% 29%
         
  - by work being sought
    Full-time 35% 26% 7% 32%
   Part-time 14% 16% 16% 54%
         
         
Reasons for leaving last job: Women Men
         
 Own illness 12% 12%
 Personal/family responsibility 17% 5%
 Going to school 4% 7%
 No particular reason 4% 6%
 Changed residence 15% 7%
  Dissatisfied 26% 31%
 Retired -- 3%
 Other 21% 28%



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