Canada 4.0: The Digital Transformation and its Impact on our Society and Economy

Stats in brief: 11-629-X2019003

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Digitalization knows no boundaries. Canada's digital economy, or the economic activities related to the billions of online transactions that occur every day, is growing faster than the rest of the economy and is bigger than some of this country's largest industries. While data continues to drive our world, there is still much more to learn about Canada's digital transformation and its impact on our society and economy. As a result, Statistics Canada is going beyond traditional social and economic measures to capture Canada's full economic portrait.

Issue Number: 2019003
Author(s): Arora, Anil; Santor, Eric; Strassner, Erich H.; Kerr, Daniel; Lubik, Dr. Sarah