Facts and Stats

This Playbook shares practical strategies to bolster immigrant inclusion at primary stages of the employment cycle: recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and integrating. These strategies are a...

Newly released data from the 2016 Census shows that Ottawa continues to attract immigrants from around the world. In the last five years, over 30,000...

The National Capital’s demography and labour force is changing; a growing number of retirements, fewer young labour force entrants, growing diversity and net labour force...

According to the 2011 National Household Survey, recent immigrants to Ottawa who held a university degree had an unemployment rate of 14.8%, more than three...

An increasing number of Ottawa’s businesses and public sector organizations are recognizing the strategic importance of building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the...

Ottawa’s employers will see an elevated number of retirements in the years ahead, as the baby-boomer retirement wave begins to crest. During the period 2001...

Among Canadian cities, Ottawa ranks first in terms of the percentage of the labour force with a university degree. In fact, Ottawa’s labour force includes 361,000...

Over the next 10 years, Ottawa is projected to receive between 60,000 and 70,000 immigrants. These immigrants will come from a variety of countries around...