Regional unemployment rates used by the Employment Insurance program, by effective date, current month.

Overall, the unemployment rate in Regina, SK is declining at a rate of 0.02% per year over the past 15 years from 2001 to 2016. In the last two census, its unemployment rates grew by 1.0%, an average growth rate of 0.2% per year from 2011 to 2016. A growing unemployment rate signals that there is a higher level of competition between job applicants so obtaining a job becomes more difficult.

Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment), unemployment rate, participation rate and employment rate by census metropolitan area. Data are also available for the standard error of the estimate, the standard error of the month-to-month change, and the standard error of the year-over-year change.