Infoline Highlights: Coverage for the week of November 7 - 11

Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Annual, 2015 - British Columbia’s economy (chained GDP, in 2007 dollars) expanded 3.3% in 2015, posting the strongest growth among the provinces. Ontario (+2.5%), New Brunswick (+2.3%) and Manitoba (+2.2%) also made solid gains during the year.
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Price of New Housing - In September, contractors’ selling prices for new homes (both house and land) in British Columbia climbed 5.2% compared to September 2015. This was the 18th consecutive month of year-over-year increase in the New Housing Price Index (NHPI), dating back to April 2015.
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Smoking - In 2015, just over one in eight (13.0%) Canadians aged 15 years and older reported smoking either daily or occasionally, down from 14.8% in 2013. The smoking rate for youths aged 15 to 19 was 9.7% in 2015 and young adults aged 20 to 24 continued to have the highest rate, at 18.5%.
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Building Permits - The value of building permits issued by B.C. municipalities slipped 13.3% (seasonally adjusted) in September. The downturn was due in part to less planned activity in the non-residential (-16.9%) sector.
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Housing Starts - The number of urban housing starts (in areas with at least 10,000 population) in British Columbia dipped 44.9% (seasonally adjusted at annual rates) in October. The decline in total urban housing starts was due primarily to a sharp downturn in the number of new apartment housing projects (-67.6%).
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Current Surveys

• Apprenticeship Student Outcomes (APPSO) Survey
• Baccalaureate Graduate Survey
• BC Hydro Workforce Profile Survey
• BC Labour Market Agreement Outcomes Survey
• BC Public Service - Career Development and Opportunities Survey
• BC Public Service Exit Survey
• Canada-BC Job Grant Outcomes Survey
  
• Capilano University 2016 Employee Engagement Survey
  
• FrontCounter BC Customer Satisfaction Survey
• Labour Market Agreement for Persons with Disabilities Outcome Survey
• Long Term Disability (LTD) Application Process Survey
• North Island College 2016 Employee Engagement Survey
  
• Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner Work Environment Survey 2016
• Procurement Transformation Survey (#BCTECH Strategy)
• SDSI LMAPD Monthly Survey 2016-17

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