Future of work
A curated resource of recent research on trends shaping Canada's labour market.
This release by Statistics Canada presents the key findings of a special COVID-19–related data collection about childcare and family characteristics. The data was collected by crowdsourcing and should not be extrapolated to Canada in general since it is not a representative sample. Information is available by household characteristics such as single-parent households, parents working outside the home or parents working from home. Questions covered aspects of childcare including changes in the type and price of childcare being used before and during the pandemic. Access to childcare, and the degree of business closure, varied across provinces. For example, in the harder hit provinces of Ontario and Quebec, only 5% of respondents were using childcare services during the pandemic compared to 20% in Saskatchewan where the impact was less severe.