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Infoline Highlights: Coverage for the week of January 28 - February 1
Average Weekly Earnings - In November, payroll employees in British Columbia saw their average weekly earnings climb 3.2% relative to November 2017, to $983. The increase was driven by earnings growth in the construction sector.
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Industrial Product Price Index - Prices for Canadian manufactured goods were 2.2% higher in December compared to the same month of 2017. Motorized and recreational vehicles (+2.8%) and pulp and paper (+11.4%) products were the main causes of the overall inflation.
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Cancer Incidence - There were a total of 24,895 new cases of cancer diagnosed in British Columbia in 2016, a slight increase (+1.6%) compared to the previous year. This makes for an overall (non-age-standardized) cancer incidence rate of 523 per 100,000 population, relatively unchanged from 2015 (+0.2% from 522).
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Sub-Provincial Population Estimates - At the provincial level, the B.C. population was estimated at 4,991,687 as of July 1, 2018. B.C.’s population grew by 1.4% between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018 – an increase of over 69,500 persons. Regional changes varied from growth of 2.0% to population declines of -2.7%.
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- Central Okanagan (+2.0%) and Columbia-Shuswap (+2.0%) were the regional districts in B.C. that saw the highest population growth between 2017 and 2018.
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Did You Know
2018 has been a record-setting year for organ transplants in B.C. 502 lives were saved through an organ transplant last year, with 100 living donors, and 122 deceased donors (also a record-setting number). As of January 1, 2019, 669 people still remain on the organ transplant list.
Source: BC Transplant
Headlines
- Payroll employees in B.C. saw their average earnings increase in November over November 2017.
- In 2016, there was a slight increase in cancer disgnoses in B.C.
- B.C.'s population grew between July 2017 and July 2018.
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