OTTAWA, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Canada's unemployment rate fell 0.2 percentage points to 5.3 percent in March, the lowest rate on record since comparable data became available in 1976, Statistics Canada said Friday.
The drop in the overall unemployment rate in March was driven in large part by a decline of 2.1 percentage points in the unemployment rate for male youth, which fell to a low of 10.2 percent. In contrast, the unemployment rate for female youth was little changed in March at 9.3 percent, according to Statistics Canada.