Therefore, the data on unemployment may not be totally accurate. If such data are used to assist in the determination of target quotas or to decide on a woman's admission to a training program, errors could be made. The CEIC appears to believe that women are quitters, although this writer could obtain no data to support this "fact".

A distinction is made between structural unemployment or the mismatching of supply and demand through (eg.) lack of training, inflated educational/training requirements, geographic immobility; cyclical unemployment or an insufficient aggregate demand in the economy through (eg.) recession; frictional unemployment or variations as job seekers are being matched with available jobs through (eg.) seasonal unemployment, student summer unemployment; and insurance-induced unemployment or the result of legislation affecting the status of the unemployed through (eg.) sick leave, maternity leave, strikes, etc. Women are viewed as less susceptible than men to cyclical and frictional unemployment (although this will change as participation rates increase); as more susceptible to structural unemployment; and as equally but differentially affected by insurance-induced unemployment:¹ Since the Manpower Division has decided to divert training funds away from solving unemployment of any kind and to direct funds toward employment growth in favourable regions, it seems likely that the structural unemployment women experience will remain unalleviated and will grow steadily worse.

9. The manner in which Manpower Training allowances are paid and the amount of these allowances are currently undergoing change. These changes involve:

(a) the rates which govern training allowances have been changed effective October 2nd, 1978. These changes are as follows (see Appendix B, p. C-78):

^1. M. Gunderson, "Work patterns" in G.C.A.Cook (ed.) Opportunity for choice. (Ottawa: Information Canada, 1976), p. 107.