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While the total loss of full-time positions now stands at 18,000, an improvement on the 60,000 thought to have been lost in the original report, the federal agency said the jump in part-time workers was largely unchanged at 60,000.

The unemployment rate was untouched by the revision. It remained at 7% for July, which is a slight improvement on the 7.1% reading in the previous month.

Statistics Canada also took the extraordinary step Friday of issuing a statement clarifying how the error occurred and what steps have been taken to avoid a similar problem from occurring.

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PAUL FERLEY, ASSISTANT CHIEF ECONOMIST AT ROYAL BANK OF CANADA:

“A totally different story here … with the revision, suggesting a totally different picture in terms of the employment conditions in July, the very strong overall increase.”

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“This was an isolated incident,” said Wayne Smith, the agency’s chief statistician, in the statement.

“I am fully confident in the integrity of the Labour Force Survey program,” he said.

On Tuesday, Statistics Canada said it had discovered a data processing mistake, and that the labour report had been recalled and taken down from the agency’s website.

The labour survey goes through a “major redesign” every 10 years, the agency said Friday. The last redesign, costing $5-million, was launched in 2011 and included an updating of the processing system used for the jobs report.