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Employment in B.C. was up last month, as the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in a decade.

Statistics Canada said Friday that B.C. added 33,000 jobs in September, 26,000 of them full-time jobs.

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A Statistics Canada analyst, Marton Lovei, said gains were made in both the service and goods-producing sectors, with increases in manufacturing, and accommodation and food services. There were also more health care and social assistance, agriculture, and transportation and warehousing jobs.

“There was relatively broad increases,” he said, noting that only one sector had a decline and that was in business, building, and other support services.

The unemployment rate also fell 1.1 percentage points to 4.2 per cent, the lowest rate since June 2008.

In Metro Vancouver, the unemployment rate was also down slightly, to 4.5 per cent from 4.7 per cent in August.

There were job losses in the first half of the year, so it looks like there is some recovery happening, said Lovei.