<P> Canada uses a different measure to gauge the unemployment rate than the United States calculation . An analyst with the American Bureau of Labour Statistics stated that if the Canadian unemployment rate were adjusted to U.S. concepts, it would be reduced by 1 percentage point . </P> <P> In Canada, 15 - year - olds are included in surveys of the working age population and therefore are included in their calculations . In the United States, 15 - year - olds are not included in the calculations . A larger contributor to the difference is that flipping through the want - ads in a newspaper (or on the internet) gets people classified as unemployed in Canada, but not in the United States . A rise in the use of these passive job search methods in Canada is important as an explanation for the methodology bump of + 1% for the Canadian figures . </P> <P> The lowest level of national unemployment came in 1947 with a 2.2% unemployment rate that came as a result of the prosperity that emerged after the Second World War . </P> <P> The highest level of unemployment throughout Canada was set on December 1982, when the early 1980s recession resulted in 13.1% of the adult population being out of work due to economic factors that originated in the United States . The primary cause of the early 1980s recession was a contractionary monetary policy established by the Federal Reserve System to control high inflation . </P>

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