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Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: This table contains 38 series, with data starting from 1957 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada), Rates (38 items: Bank rate; Chartered bank administered interest rates - prime business; Chartered bank - consumer loan rate; Forward premium or discount (-), United States dollars in Canada: 1 month; ...).

Description: The Biannual Survey of Suppliers of Business Financing is conducted by Statistics Canada to collect and report aggregate information on the financing of business in Canada. This tool includes information on data collected from the major suppliers of business financing including domestic banks and other banks, credit unions and caisse populaires, finance companies (including some Government Business Enterprises), portfolio managers, and insurance companies.

Description: The need for alternative data sources is of growing importance for both supplementing Statistics Canada's data holdings and for nowcasting economic activity. In response to this need, Statistics Canada initiated the development of a Real-time Local Business Conditions Index (RT-LBCI). The index brings together data from a few different sources, including Google's Places API (containing data on temporary and permanent businesses closures), TomTom Real-time traffic API (road traffic data), as well as information from Statistics Canada data holdings (monthly retail and wholesale, Business Register, etc.). The project aims to compute a near real-time index of economic activity in Canadian major cities.

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Semi-annual business debt for all supplier types, by financing characteristics and authorization level, displayed in millions of dollars, unless otherwise specified.

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Semi-annual business debt for all supplier types, by financing characteristics and by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), displayed in millions of dollars unless otherwise specified.

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Semi-annual business debt for all supplier types, by financing characteristics and credit instrument type, displayed in millions of dollars unless otherwise specified.

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This table contains 27 series, with data starting from 1981 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada); Type of currency (27 items: Australian dollar, daily average; Brazilian real, daily average; Chinese renminbi, daily average; European euro, daily average; ...).

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The RT-LBCI is released as an experimental statistic. It is intended to provide a real-time signal on business activities following the disruptions brought about by the pandemic and through the recovery phase.

Description: This table contains 8 series, with data starting from 1992 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada), Rates (8 items: Bank rate; Treasury bill auction - average yields: 3 month; Treasury bill auction - average yields: 6 month; Treasury bill auction - average yields: 1 year; ...).

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This table contains 22 series, with data for years 1952 - 2012 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and is no longer being released. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada);  Leading indicators (11 items: Average work week, manufacturing; Housing index; United States composite leading index; Money supply; ...);  Composite index (2 items: Unsmoothed; Smoothed).

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This product provides an overview of trends in the film, television and video post-production industry. It provides users with information to monitor growth of the industry, measure performance, monitor programs and review policies. The tables focus on financial and operating data.

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This table contains 74 series, with data for years 1975 - 1994 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2000-05-25. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (11 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Nova Scotia; ...), Operating statistics (8 items: Establishments reporting; Passengers carried, urban, suburban services; Passenger revenue, urban, suburban services; Vehicle distance run, all services; ...).

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This product provides an overview of trends in the personal services industry. It provides users with information required for making corporate decisions, monitoring programs and reviewing policies. The tables focus on financial and operating data.

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This product provides an overview of trends in the heritage institutions industry. It provides users with information required for making corporate decisions, monitoring programs and reviewing policies. The tables focus on financial and operating data.

Description: This table contains 11 series, with data for years 1968 - 2009 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2010-08-30. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...), Type of benefit and policy (11 items: Total; payments; Death and accidental death claims; Total; under life insurance; Disability benefits; income payments ...).

Description: This table contains 10 series, with data for years 1946 - 2010 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2010-06-21. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...) Components (5 items: Total volume; Mining; Mining and oils; Industrials ...) Transactions (2 items: Shares traded; Value of shares traded ...).

Description: This table contains 61 series, with data for years 1959 - 2009 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: United States ...) Estimates (39 items: Total; M3 plus other liquid assets; M3;Large time deposits; Large time deposits; commercial banks ...) Seasonal adjustment (2 items: Unadjusted; Seasonally adjusted ...).

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This table contains 2 series, with data for years 1953 - 1987 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and is no longer being released. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: United States);  Type of investment statistics (2 items: Newly appropriated capital appropriations; Capital expenditures).

Description: This table contains 6 series, with data for years 1990 - 2008 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2009-08-11. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...), Motor carrier activity (3 items: Operating revenues; Operating expenses; Operating ratio ...), Seasonal adjustment (2 items: Unadjusted; Seasonally adjusted ...)

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: Assessing the economic impact of Accelerated Growth Service program participants is an analysis conducted by Centre for Special Business Projects (CSBP) of Statistics Canada for the Accelerated Growth Service (AGS) to study the impact of the advisory services AGS provides to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Using the AGS client dataset and comparable non-clients, CSBP examined the performance of the client to determine whether AGS advisory services had a significant impact on business performance. The performance metrics compared were revenue growth, employment growth, profits growth, exports/revenue growth and R&D expenditure growth. Performance measures were assessed for each cohort separately. This analysis includes data from 2017 to 2019.

Description: Reports on Special Business Projects is an occasional series that focuses primarily on the results of special surveys or special projects conducted by the Centre for Special Business Projects. The reports cover a wide range of topics, which include business performance and trends, custom tabulations of business data, economic impact studies, new measurement frameworks and indicators to support program development, monitoring and performance assessment, territorial economic indicators and other special studies.

Description: This article explores how inventory-holding businesses in Canada describe their current level of inventories as it compares to pre-pandemic levels, as well as their current approach to holding inventory as it compares to their pre-pandemic approach. It also explores the factors contributing to lower than desired inventory levels amongst inventory-holding businesses. This article examines data produced by the Canadian Survey of Business Conditions.

Description: Intangible investments—investments that do not have a physical form—have been rising in importance in terms of use. From 1976 to 2016, the growth of intangible investments was faster than the growth of tangible investments. This study compares the performance of businesses owned by women (majority or equal ownership) that patent with that of majority men-owned businesses and businesses where gender of ownership cannot be assigned.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: The newsletter offers information aimed at three main groups, businesses (small to medium), communities and ethno-cultural groups/communities. Articles and outreach materials will assist their understanding of national and local data from the many relevant sources found on the Statistics Canada website.

Description: This article explores how businesses plan to use AI over the next 12 months and the types of AI they intend to use when producing goods or delivering services. It also explores how businesses expect AI to affect their employment levels, what operational changes they anticipate over the next 12 months and why some are choosing not to use AI. It involves an examination of the data produced by the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions.

Description: The Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series provides for the circulation of research conducted by Analytical Studies and Modelling Branch staff and collaborators. The Series is intended to stimulate discussion on a variety of topics, such as labour, immigration, education and skills, income mobility, well-being, aging, firm dynamics, productivity, economic transitions, and economic geography. Readers of the Series are encouraged to contact the authors with their comments and suggestions. All the papers in the Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series go through institutional and peer review to ensure that they conform to Statistics Canada's mandate as a governmental statistical agency and adhere to generally accepted standards of good professional practice.

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Description: The survey objective is to validate industry classification codes, and to obtain information required to efficiently select samples for Statistics Canada's economic survey programs. Topics studied include business activity, research and development, and capital expenditures.