Annual Survey of Environmental Goods and Services, 2024

Clean technology

These data are derived from the Survey of Environmental Goods and Services (SEGS).

Clean technologies are defined as follows:

• any good or service designed with the primary purpose of contributing to remediating or preventing any type of environmental damage
• any good or service that is less polluting or more resource-efficient than equivalent normal products that furnish a similar utility; their primary use, however, is not one of environmental protection.

The survey captures revenues from several areas of Canada's clean technology sector. Comprehensive measurement of clean technology sales in Canada's economy is available through Statistics Canada's Environmental and Clean Technology Products Economic Account (ECTPEA). The SEGS is one of several components of this account. The ECTPEA captures all economy-wide transactions in the clean technology sector, such as clean energy and scrap metals, while the SEGS produces data on a subset of goods and services that are narrower in scope than the goods and services captured in the ECTPEA.

Starting in the 2021 reference year, the survey adopted the random tabular adjustment technique for the monetary estimates, which aims to increase the amount of data made available to users while protecting the confidentiality of respondents.