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Page 20 THE HERALD Wednesday January 23 Statistics Canada looks back at last recession By TOM MITCHELL Statistics Canada Ottawa Economy watchers agree Late in 1990 Canada dip ped into a recession There are no maps to show the road ahead We may get some guidance by looking back at what happened last time the country encountered and weathered a recession Statistics Canada figures show that one started In and ran through In human terms unemploy is the bottom line of am economic downturn Job usually lags behind some of the first signs of a recession and sist after the bottoms out and starts to recover was certainly the case last time The peak in unemployment came in 1983 with an average of per cent of the labour force out of work that year Unemploy ment had been running seven per cent to eight per cent prior to that By it stood at 7 per cent about where it was before the downturn How are we doing this time Unemployment was per cent of the labor force in up from per cent the previous month The unemployment figures let us make a direct comparison with earlier recession ex perience But changes have been occurring since some are still in progress and they make il harder to forge such solid links with the past The characteristics of our labor force which totalled just under 13 million by 1989 were chang ing throughout that decade There was a reinforcement of a trend that has run strongly through our recent history women continued to swell the ranks of our work force Some per cent of all women were in the labor force in 1989 up from per cent a decade earlier Women with children gave a particularly strong push to this increase The rate of participa tion the labor force by mothers with children under age 16 at home was 69 per cent in up sharply from per cent in Similarly per cent of women with preschool children were in the labor force in 1989 up from per cent a decade earlier More than twothirds of all jobs were in service industries There was a galloping growth rate of just under 30 per cent for service industry jobs from 1979 to 1989 Industries producing goods grew by only four per cent in the same decade More than one job in every seven in was a parttime job It was about one in six a decade earlier Even so the 1989 level of part time to full time jobs was down a bit from the period from 1983 to 1986 on the heels of the last recession Amid the many changes one hangover from the reces persisted at the end of 1989 the lime thai a worker spent out of a job and searching for a new one had stretched out con siderably The average 1989 job search took just under weeks up three weeks from 1979 But it was still lower than the peak of almost weeks which was reached in 1983 Say I saw it it WhiteRpse FINAL WEEK CRAFTS A NURSERVXSALES LTD CRAFTERS DISCOUNT DAYS J w ACE EVERY CRAFT I I TO Of ITEM WE SELL Our January Crafters Discount Days continue with great buys on popular craft items All at Super Special Savings Bouquet Holders for Pews Create your own arrangements 3 12 U shaped handle hooks over pew 3 Woodcraft Choose from blackboards basket lids shapes morel Ready to decorate Wood Beads Round oval wood beads plain or grooved Natural light brown dark brown red or black 12 assorted sizes styles Our reg 79pkg DMC Floss Top quality in colours Use on embroidery projects cross stitch waste canvas morel Our rog 72skein Insulated Pliers Choose the 6 diagonal cut or long nose White Rose Tacky Glue Fun Stencils 8 styles to choose from Great fun for children Design your own cards notes signs etc Ourreg Ribbon Our entire selection of lace cottons moires velvets satins morel Many widths by roll or metre Ourreg 391099m White Rose Soft Touch Sayelle Wool Superior quality ply worsted weight Machine washable coburfast allergenic Choose from 30 colours 50 gram ball Our reg 1 Embroidery Hoops Complete selection of sizes in round wooden hoops Our reg 1 DMC Tapestry Wool Top quality tapestry wool Choose from colours Our reg 76 skein Chenille Bumps 3 long bumps 12 stems Choose from assorted colours or Christmas multicolours 50 pieces per pkg Stretcher Bars Our entire selection Choose from to 24 sizes 54 0FF48 BAND BOX KITS Oval heart or round shaped boxes 5 Sal of 3 assorted sizes reg MISSISSAUGA Dundas St 10 OPEN SUNDAYS 8GLUE STICKS HOME ITEMS Choose from wooden Calenders Tissue Holders Mug Holders morel rog 7 Eg C 88 Hobby A CANADIAN GARDEN SHOW THE WHOLE FAMILY WILL ENJOY uwt US SATURDAYS AT 1200 NOON USB