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Where is our old CCITA website? |
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All credits should be given to the new CCITA website Construction Project Team (Joy Hu, Jane Jiang, Wang Jing and Merry Che) as well as the Advisory/Working Group (Meng Li, Michael Dai and Linco Cao). Michael Dai and his company kindly provided CCITA with a free website hosting service, which is highly appreciated. |
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IT Labour Force Survey from ICTC |
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Analysis of labour force survey data for the information technology occupations 2000-2007 in Canada: This is the seventh in a series of regular reports prepared for the Information and Communications Technology Council(ICTC)1 on an Analysis of Labour Force Survey (LFS) Data for the Information Technology (IT) occupations.2 This report (called the “2007 Update Report”) extends the analysis to include data from 2007. The full report can be found at: http://www.ictc-ctic.ca/uploadedFiles/Labour_Market_Intelligence/View_All_Reports/ICTC_LFS_2007_ENGLISH.pdf
Here are some highlights from this latest report: — There has been strong growth in the IT labour force since March of 2005. By the end of 2007, it had reached an historic high of 640,000 workers. The IT labour force exhibits cyclical variations; this is the third major growth spurt since 2000.— Since the Fall of 2004, three occupational groups have shown signs of convergence in size: the Technician labour force, the Programmer labour force and the Analyst labour force. At the end of 2006 these labour forces were almost identical in size at about 130,000workers. However, during 2007, one labour force decreased and then rebounded (Programmers), while the other two labour forces increased steadily; by the end of 2007, the labour forces stood at 147,000, 134,000 and 152,000 workers respectively. At the beginning of the study period, the Technician labour force was by far the largest and the Analyst labour force was by far the smallest of these three groups.— The Engineer labour force has shown considerable volatility around a long-term growth trend. The trend has been clear: at the beginning of 2000, there were about 55,000 Engineers; by the end of 2007, there were over 81,000 workers in this labour force. This labour force had previously reached an historic high of 93,000 workers in the Summer of 2007.— The Manager labour force has been consistently the smallest, typically around 40,000 workers. However, there has been considerable variability over the study period, including a recent peak in the Summer of 2006at 52,000 workers. During 2007, the Manager labour force cycled between 41,000 and 43,000 workers.— The labour force for Other IT workers (consisting of Technical Writers and Graphic Designers and Illustrators) has shown variability over time, with a low of 50,000 workers in 2000 and an historic high of 90,000 workers in 2002. At the end of 2007, this labour force stood at83,000 workers.— The unemployment rate for all IT workers was consistently below the national average for the labourforce as a whole. It has also been more volatile. The dot-com boom and bust in the early 2000s appears tobe evident as the unemployment rate soared from a low of 2 percent in the Fall of 2000 to a high of 5.8 percent in the Summer of 2002. Between the Spring of 2003 and the end of 2005, there was a trend downwards in the unemployment rate for all IT workers. At the end of 2005, the rate stood at 1.9 percent, a very tight labour market indeed! Since then, the unemployment rate increased to 3.2 percent in the Fall of 2006 and subsequently fell to 2.3 percent by the end of 2007, a rate that is more than three percentage points below the national average.— The unemployment rate for the individual IT occupational groups was consistently below the national average throughout the study period. Only in a very few exceptional months did an individualoccupational group exhibit a higher unemployment rate than the national average.— As noted in previous reports, there is remarkable stability in the profile data across the time period under review. That is to say, many of the characteristics of the IT labour force (gender, education, location, etc.) remain essentially the same year after year. |
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