Description
Last Updated: March 27, 2025
Summary of the changes:
- Population rebasing: The weights have been updated to align with the 2021 Census population data and standard geographic classifications (SGC). Bootstrap weights have been recreated for all cycles starting in 2011.
- Geographical boundaries: Census metropolitan areas (CMAs), economic regions (ERs), census agglomerations (CAs), and census subdivisions (CSDs) are now based on Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) 2021 - Volume I, The Classification.
- Gender: To align with the departmental standard classification of gender (women+, men+), the LFS now adopts the term gender for all years and periods.
- Industry and occupation classification update: The LFS now uses the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Canada 2022 Version 1.0. Improvements were also made to the historical coding of occupation using National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2021 Version 1.0.
- Updates were applied to the landmth, birth, nlfmact, dwelcode, dwelrent, famid, relref, and marstat variables
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More detailed information on the changes is available here:
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On the Statistics Canada website: The 2025 Revisions of the Labour Force Survey (LFS)
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