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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Current Surveys

• BC Hydro Workforce Profile Survey
• BC Public Service Exit Survey
• BC Public Service New Job Survey
• BC Student Outcomes Survey of Apprenticeship and Trades Training Students
  
• BC Student Outcomes Survey of Diploma, Associate Degree and Certificate Students
  
• Canada-BC Job Grant Outcomes Survey
• Diversity and Inclusion Survey
  
• FrontCounter BC Customer Satisfaction Survey
• Labour Market Agreement for Persons with Disabilities Outcomes Survey
  
• Long Term Disability (LTD) Application Process Survey
• New Entrants to Agriculture
• School District No. 22 (Vernon) Employee Engagement
  
• Service BC Citizen Satisfaction
• Service BC Registries and Online Services
  

You can read more about any of these by visiting our Current and Recent Surveys page.