Prompted by @StephanieLluis (whom you should really be following), I spent a few minutes playing with the provincial CERB data and took a dive into the AB numbers. [Thread]

Note: provincial data were only published starting June 28.
Between June 28 and September 20, just over 80,000 Albertans started CERB.

The largest share of CERB users are prime-age workers 25-34 (25%) and 35-44 (22%). This hasn’t changed over the June-Sept. data.
The share of Alberta youth (under 25) getting CERB has fallen slightly (from 17.8% of all claims in AB at the end of June to 17.3% of all claims in the province by late September).
A small share of CERB claimants in the province are seniors (age 65+) at 4.6%.
The proportion of women vs men (as well as small number of gender diverse Albertans) receiving CERB has been relatively constant at roughly 49% women and 51% men. Between late June and late September, 40,000 more AB women and 40,500 more AB men started CERB.
But, the rough equity in gender of CERB users in the province should be surprising given the inequity in labour force attachment.

This time last year (using seasonally adj. data), women in AB had a labour force participation rate that was 10 points lower than men (66% vs 76%).
Looking at the same data for June through August 2020 (the most recently available, and again seasonally adjusted), the participation rate for men in the province has remained stable compared to last year, but the participation rate for women has fallen 4 points to just 62%.
Source = Stat Can Table: 14-10-0287-01.
1) Near as I can tell, 400,000 women in AB have left the labour force.
2) A proportionally larger share of AB women still in the labour force started CERB since the re-opening compared to their male counterparts.
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