Main reasons people did not work the full year, Canada, 2020 ^{Footnote 3}

Main reasons people did not work the full year, Canada, 2020 ^{Footnote 3}
Main reason people did not work the full year	Percentage (%)
Illness or disability	6.3
Pregnancy, maternity or parental leave	4.3
Student at school, college or university, or attending training	14.6
Caring for own child(ren) or relative(s)	2.9
Unable to find work that lasted the full year	7.7
Retirement	4.4
Personal choice	9.0
Seasonal work	8.4
Business conditions	11.8
COVID	23.7
Other	6.9

Footnotes

Footnote 1

Includes unpaid family workers.

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Footnote 2

NOC 2021 Version 1.0 involves major structural changes which introduces a new 5-digit hierarchical structure, compared to a 4-digit hierarchical structure in the previous versions of this classification. Due to these major revisions NOC 2021 and NOC 2016 are not comparable. A concordance file and back-casted data for comparability will be available in other Census labour products released at a later date. For a complete list of changes please refer to: https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/subjects/standard/noc/2021/introductionV1.

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Footnote 3

The data represent the proportion of each of the main reasons relatively to the population who worked between January 2020 and May 2021, but did not work full year during 2020. This population also includes people that didn't work in 2020 but worked in 2021. Full year is defined as 49 to 52 weeks.

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Footnote 4

Part time is defined as less than 30 hours per week, while full time is considered to be 30 hours or more per week.

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Main reasons people did not work the full year, Canada, 2020 ^{Footnote 3}

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Main reasons people did not work the full year, Canada, 2020 ^{Footnote 3}