Employment Insurance Beneficiaries (EIB)

Dataset Information
Name  Employment Insurance Beneficiaries (EIB)
UUID  fe529d7e-8da5-4a36-9c23-dbd887612fe7
Site  Statistics Canada - Research Data Centres
Region  Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Saskatchewan
Description  The EIB data consist of person-level, weekly records covering the period of January 1997 to June 2018. It includes information for only one week per month, which coincides with the Labour Force Survey reference week. Each of these weekly records was produced from information available about 3.5 months following the reference period
Format  None
Purpose  The Employment Insurance (EI) program provides temporary income support to unemployed workers while they look for employment or upgrade their skills. It also provides special benefits to workers who take time off from work in relation to specific life events (e.g., illness; pregnancy; and caring for a newborn, newly-adopted or critically-ill or injured child or adult). Workers receive EI benefits only if they have paid premiums in the past year and meet qualifying and entitlement conditions
Scope  This is an administrative dataset that has population information. The EIB data consist of person-level, weekly records covering the period of January 1997 to June 2018.
Data Level  Individual
Collection Period  01/04/2018-03/31/2019
Last Updated 2023-11-28

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