Official release series Labour Force Survey the Canada jobs report
When is the next Canada jobs report?
The Statistics Canada calendar puts the next Labour Force Survey, the Canada jobs report, at 8:30 AM EDT on Friday, Sep 4, 2026. Every one of the 7 dated entries lands at 8:30 AM Eastern, on a monthly interval, across the run from Sep 4, 2026 to Mar 12, 2027.
Statistics Canada states these release dates in the machine-readable calendar behind its key economic indicators page, and each was cross-checked against the agency annual release-date document and its own table metadata. The agency states one clock for everything it publishes rather than a time per release: The Daily is released Monday to Friday at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time, except during holidays.
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- London 1:30 PM Friday
- Frankfurt 2:30 PM Friday
- Mumbai 6:00 PM Friday
- Tokyo 9:30 PM Friday
- Sydney 10:30 PM Friday
What it measuresLabour Force Survey, in one paragraph
The Labour Force Survey is the Canadian monthly count of employment, unemployment, and participation, taken from a household survey. It is the Canadian equivalent of the American jobs report and lands on a Friday morning.
What JMM reads first
Statistics Canada publishes a confidence interval with the monthly employment change, and it is wide enough that a print the headlines call strong or weak is often statistically indistinguishable from no change at all. Read that interval before the number, then read the three-month trend and the participation rate together: employment falling because people stopped looking is a different labour market from employment falling because jobs disappeared.
Measured scheduleHow the Labour Force Survey calendar behaves
- Interval between entries
- A median of 31.5 days, with most entries close to it.
- Entries per year across the span
- 11.6 over Sep 4, 2026 to Mar 12, 2027
- Release time
- 8:30 AM Eastern on every one of the 7 entries, which resolves to 2 different UTC times across daylight saving.
- Usual weekday
- Friday on 7 of 7 entries
- Widest interval in the run
- 35 days, between Sep 4, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026
Every dated entry7 Labour Force Survey dates on record
Canada jobs report dates in 2027 3 dates , 3 still ahead
| Date | Time (ET) | Weekday | Status | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM | Friday | Scheduled | Open event | |
| 8:30 AM | Friday | Scheduled | Open event | |
| 8:30 AM | Friday | Scheduled | Open event |
Canada jobs report dates in 2026 4 dates , 4 still ahead
| Date | Time (ET) | Weekday | Status | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM | Friday | Scheduled | Open event | |
| 8:30 AM | Friday | Scheduled | Open event | |
| 8:30 AM | Friday | Scheduled | Open event | |
| 8:30 AM | Friday | Scheduled | Open event |
Scheduled is still ahead of the last collection. Published has a separate official receipt; Awaiting receipt has only the source schedule.
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Schedule source. Dates retain its timezone; Published appears only after JMM captures a separate release receipt. The calendar download uses these same records.
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EventsReturn to the official event registerScheduled releases and published company filings in one calendar.
MethodHow JMM keeps release clocks apartSchedule, publication, observation, and retrieval times are stored as four different facts.