Figures lie Liars figure

We've all no doubt seen the latest job figures and as bad as they are they hide the true nature of the crisis. For starters StatsCan considers 30 hours worked to be full time skewing the ratio between full and part time work. Secondly those numbers are seasonally adjusted making them in my books meaningless.

For a true picture of the jobs situation in Canada we need to look at the unadjusted rate of employment and those numbers paint a much worse picture . It doesn't matter which demographic one chooses to peruse the numbers are bad, highlighting Canada's very serious employment crisis.

The media has ignored this and the government has chosen only to highlight the numbers that make them look good but there can be no doubt this is a crisis.

If we choose to look at the 15 to 64 age group we can see that employment  actually decreased in December by over 118 thousand jobs from November and has in fact fallen every in month since August

Actually the employment rate as this chart  from PressProgress shows hasn't yet recovered to it's level of before the crash

 In a perverse sense today's horrific numbers may prove beneficial as they make it far more difficult to ignore the jobs crisis and put to lie the contention from pundits like Coyne that the Conservatives have done a good job managing the economy.

Geography = Canada Labour force characteristics = Employment ³

Sex = Both sexes In 1000s

Age group	2013
	August	September	October	November	December
footnotes
15 years and over	18,027.6	17,848.2	17,829.2	17,800.0	17,681.5
15 to 24 years	2,761.3	2,377.0	2,372.5	2,345.2	2,346.6
25 years and over	15,266.3	15,471.2	15,456.7	15,454.8	15,334.9
25 to 44 years	7,665.6	7,763.8	7,754.5	7,753.4	7,696.0
45 to 64 years	6,968.2	7,050.8	7,041.4	7,033.6	6,970.5
45 years and over	7,600.6	7,707.4	7,702.2	7,701.3	7,638.9
25 to 54 years	11,888.1	12,040.0	12,019.5	12,016.5	11,912.8
55 years and over	3,378.2	3,431.1	3,437.2	3,438.3	3,422.1
15 to 64 years	17,395.1	17,191.6	17,168.4	17,132.2	17,013.0
15 to 19 years	981.7	777.8	774.0	775.5	791.2
20 to 24 years	1,779.6	1,599.2	1,598.5	1,569.7	1,555.4
25 to 29 years	1,899.2	1,896.9	1,884.8	1,908.5	1,870.8
30 to 34 years	1,972.3	2,002.7	1,993.5	1,990.6	1,981.4
35 to 39 years	1,840.8	1,915.2	1,890.0	1,846.7	1,867.9
40 to 44 years	1,953.4	1,948.9	1,986.2	2,007.6	1,975.9
45 to 49 years	2,013.6	2,051.6	2,017.2	2,050.0	2,009.4
50 to 54 years	2,208.9	2,224.6	2,247.7	2,213.0	2,207.4
55 to 59 years	1,702.1	1,718.5	1,724.5	1,720.6	1,710.8
60 to 64 years	1,043.6	1,056.1	1,051.9	1,050.0	1,042.9
65 years and over	632.5	656.5	660.8	667.8	668.5
65 to 69 years	409.6	436.0	442.3	441.8	444.6
70 years and over	222.9	220.5	218.6	226.0	223.9