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Originally Posted by portapetey
All this to say, just be aware that the population numbers are projections based on estimates from the 2011 census, not the 2016 census, and may be prove to be either too high high or too low - it can vary quite a bit.
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True.
To get a measure of the health of the Halifax economy, one can compare like-sized communities. For example:
London, Ontario is shown to have an estimated population (over age 15) of 425.7 thousand, labour force of 267.1 thousand, and employment of 248.0 thousand -
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/lfss04h-eng.htm
The Halifax area is shown to have an estimated population (over age 15) of 353.1 thousand, labour force of 240.6 thousand, and employment of 227.4 thousand -
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/lfss04a-eng.htm
If the employment numbers are fairly accurate, then London has a population (over age 15) 20.6% greater than Halifax, but the labour force is only 11% greater, and employment is only 9% greater than that of Halifax.
Compared to a like-sized city like London, Ontario, the Halifax community is doing well, and these healthy comparative numbers have held up for the past several years (I don't have a table comparing the two, but I have noticed this going back several years).