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Description: Data presented on petroleum and other liquids by supply and disposition characteristics (e.g., production, exports, inventories, products supplied). Not all combinations are available.

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Number of employees and average weekly earnings (including overtime) for all employees in the automotive industry, based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), last 5 months.

Description: Tobacco products (cigarettes, cigars, manufactured tobacco, fine cut, manufactured tobacco, pipe tobacco), monthly production, sales (total, domestic, to ships, air stores and foreign embassies in Canada) and inventories for Canada.

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Stocks of specified dairy products, Canada and provinces (in tonnes). Data are available on a monthly basis.

Description: Production of selected butter products, Canada and provinces (in tonnes). Data are available on a monthly basis.

Description: Production of selected products, by dairy manufacturers, Canada and provinces (tonnes unless otherwise noted). Data are available on a monthly basis.

Description: Milk production and utilization, Canada and provinces (in kilolitres). Data are available on a monthly basis.

Description: Commercial sales of milk and cream, Canada and provinces (in kilolitres). Data are available on a monthly basis.

Description: Production of butterfat (kilograms x 1,000), Canada and provinces. Data are available on a monthly basis.

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

Description: This table contains principal statistics for the Canadian mineral industries which include metal ore mining and non-metallic mineral mining and quarrying. The table includes data on revenue and expenses, number of employees as well as opening and closing inventories.

Description: This table contains principal statistics for the Canadian mineral industries which include metal ore mining and non-metallic mineral mining and quarrying. The table includes data on revenue and expenses, number of employees as well as opening and closing inventories.

Description: The industrial capacity utilization rate is the ratio of actual output to potential output. Data are published quarterly and cover all goods-producing industries, with the exception of the agriculture industry. The visualization model shows rates, quarterly changes, and year-over-year changes for manufacturing industries.

Description: Quarterly data, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

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Percentage of enterprises that produced or manufactured any of the goods that they sold, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period.

Description: Percentage of enterprises that performed manufacturing, processing, or assembly work according to the specifications provided by non-Canadian clients, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period.

Description: Data on the quantity of energy purchased and the energy expenses are presented at the national level, by energy source (electricity, heavy fuel oil, diesel, natural gas, etc.) and by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Not all combinations may be available.

Description: Data on the quantity of energy purchased and the energy expenses are presented at the national level, provincial and regional level, by energy source (electricity, heavy fuel oil, diesel, natural gas, etc.) and by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Not all combinations may be available.

Description: The Physical Flow Account for Plastic Material comprises 18 variables - expressed in tonnes - that describe the production and fate of plastic in products in the Canadian economy. This table displays product category detail for this account.

Description: The Physical Flow Account for Plastic Material comprises 18 variables - expressed in tonnes - that describe the production and fate of plastic in products in the Canadian economy. This table displays product category detail by province and territory for this account.

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This paper examines the ways that innovation status as opposed to technology use affects the training activities of manufacturing plants. It examines training that is introduced as a response to specific skill shortages versus training that is implemented in response to the introduction of advanced equipment.

Advanced technology users are more likely to have workers in highly skilled occupations, to face greater shortages for these workers, and they are more likely to train workers in response to these shortages than are plants that do not use advanced technologies.

The introduction of new techniques is also accompanied by differences in the incidence of training, with advanced technology users being more likely to introduce training programs than non-users. Here, innovation status within the group of technology users also affects the training decision. In particular, innovating and non-innovating technology users diverge with regards to the extent and nature of training that is undertaken in response to the introduction of new advanced equipment. Innovators are more likely to provide training for this purpose and to prefer on-the-job training to other forms. Non-innovators are less likely to offer training under these circumstances and when they do, it is more likely to be done in a classroom, either off-site or at the firm.

These findings emphasize that training occurs for more than one reason. Shortages related to insufficient supply provide one rational. But it is not here that innovative firms stand out. Rather they appear to respond differentially to the introduction of new equipment by extensively implementing training that is highly firm-specific. This suggests that innovation requires new skills that are not so much occupation specific (though that is no doubt present) but general cognitive skills that come from operating in an innovative environment that involves improving the problem-solving capabilities of many in the workforce. These problem-solving capabilities occur in a learning-by-doing setting with hands on experience.

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According to the findings of the 1999 Survey of Innovation, one third of innovative manufacturing firms in Canada develop new products and processes in collaboration with partners. The three most important reasons for this collaboration are 1. accessing critical expertise, 2. accessing R&D, and 3. prototype development. Eighty-eight percent (88%) of collaborating firms have partners in Canada and two thirds have partners in the United States.

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This chapter examines productivity growth in manufacturing by size of establishment and by whether it is Canadian- or foreign-owned.

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This chapter measures the effect of modifying the standard productivity growth framework to remove the effects of economies of scale.

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Recent studies have demonstrated the quantitative importance of entry, exit, growth and decline in the industrial population. It is this turnover that rewards innovative activity and contributes to productivity growth.

While the size of the entry population is impressive - especially when cumulated over time - the importance of entry is ultimately due to its impact on innovation in the economy. Experimentation is important in a dynamic, market-based economy. A key part of the experimentation comes from entrants. New entrepreneurs constantly offer consumers new products both in terms of the basic good and the level of service that accompanies it.

This experimentation is associated with significant costs since many entrants fail. Young firms are most at risk of failure; data drawn from a longitudinal file of Canadian entrants in both the goods and service sectors show that over half the new firms that fail do so in the first two years of life. Life is short for the majority of entrants. Only 1 in 5 new firms survive to their tenth birthday.

Since so many entrants fall by the wayside, it is of inherent interest to understand the conditions that are associated with success, the conditions that allow the potential in new entrepreneurs to come to fruition. The success of an entrant is due to its choosing the correct combination of strategies and activities. To understand how these capabilities contribute to growth, it is necessary to study how the performance of entrants relates to differences in strategies and pursued activities.

This paper describes the environment and the characteristics of entrants that manage to survive and grow. In doing so, it focuses on two issues. The first is the innovativeness of entrants and the extent to which their growth depends on their innovativeness. The second is to outline how the stress on worker skills, which is partially related to training, complements innovation and contributes to growth.

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Fabricated metal products industries remain in the middle of an expansion period. The construction sector's vitality, as well as the high North-American demand for industrial products, allow metal products manufacturers to live glorious days. However, where competitiveness is concerned, there could be trouble in paradise. In the last few years, the cost of labour has been on the rise, while the value added for each paid hour has been weakening. Moreover, imports have been increasing at a higher pace than exports in the last two years.

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This paper examines whether new views of the multinational that see these firms as decentralizing research and development (R&D) activities abroad to exploit local competencies accord with the activities of multinationals in Canada. The paper describes the innovation regime of multinational firms in Canada by examining the differences between foreign- and domestically owned firms. It focuses on the extent to which R&D is used; the type of R&D activity; the importance of R&D relative to other sources of innovative ideas; whether the use of these other ideas indicates that multinationals are closely tied into local innovation networks; the intensity of innovation; and the use that is made of intellectual property rights to protect innovations from being copied by others.

We find that, far from being passively dependent on R&D from their parents, foreign-owned firms in Canada are more active in R&D than the population of Canadian-owned firms. They are also more often involved in R&D collaboration projects both abroad and in Canada. As expected, foreign subsidiaries enjoy the advantage of accessing technology from their parent and sister companies. While multinationals are more closely tied into a network of related firms for innovative ideas than are domestically owned firms, their local R&D unit is a more important source of information for innovation than are these inter-firm links. Surprisingly, foreign subsidiaries also more frequently report that they are using technology from unrelated firms. Moreover, the multinational is just as likely to develop links into a local university and other local innovation consortia as are domestically owned firms. This evidence indicates that multinationals in Canada are not, on the whole, operating subsidiaries whose scientific development capabilities are truncated - at least not in comparison to domestically owned firms.

A comparison of the extent and impact of innovation activity of domestically and foreign-owned firms shows that foreign-owned firms innovate in all sectors more frequently than Canadian-owned companies in almost all size categories. They are also more likely to introduce world-first rather than more imitative innovations. Their superiority is most pronounced in the consumer goods sector. Finally, foreign-owned firms are more likely to protect their innovations with patent protection.

The paper also compares foreign subsidiaries to Canadian corporations that have an international orientation. These additional comparisons show that the two groups of multinationals are quite similar, both with regards to the likelihood that they conduct some form of R&D and that they introduce innovations. These results indicate that it is as much the degree of globalization that the nationality of ownership that affects the degree of innovativeness.

Overall, the survey results suggest that foreign-owned firms make a significant contribution to technological progress and innovation in Canadian industry.

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This paper estimates price-marginal cost mark-ups for Canadian manufacturing industries in order to assess the impact of import competition on domestic market power. The results are mixed. Although the overall relationship between mark-ups and imports is positive across industries for the early 1970s and insignificant for the late 1970s, there is some weak cross-sectional evidence to suggest that imports reduce market power in domestically concentrated industries. Changes in imports between the two periods, however, have a positive impact on mark-ups in concentrated industries. Thus, there is no consistent evidence for Canada that imports have had the beneficial impact on competition that has been emphasized in much of the literature. In contrast, an interesting result of the paper is that increases in exports are associated with reductions in mark-ups, suggesting that exports may have a stronger pro-competitive impact on domestic firms than imports.

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Data from the Annual Survey of manufactures (ASM) is the prime source for this publication. The results of the 1997 survey are supplemented by data from sub-annual Statistics Canada surveys and major economic indicators.

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The latest issue contains the article "Performance of the textile products industries. by Yasmin Sheikh. The business climate under which the manufacturing sector has been operating has evolved particularly in the last decade. Within manufacturing, certain industries have responded better than others to the challenge brought about by advancement in technology and increased globalization. Textile products was the fastest growing industry in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from 1961 to 1987 compared to the overall economy, the manufacturing sector and closely related Primary Textile Industries. However, this industry's GDP declined sharply between 1988 and 1992. Except for 1996, the industry again experienced growth from 1993 onwards but its GDP growth index is well below its peak in 1987.

Results of the Annual Survey of Manufacturers show that manufacturing shipments of textile products in constant 1992 dollars peaked in 1988 and have since declined. This paper reviews data from this survey for the period 1988 to 1997 to underline the changes in the size, structure and performance of this industry and how it has fared in comparison to the Primary Textiles Industry. It also highlights current developments using results of the Monthly Survey of Manufacturers.

Description: The main use was to provide information to study market trends in the manufacture of these products. The derivative use was to enhance the quality of the data collected in the Annual Survey of Manufactures.

Description: The survey collected data on monthly and cumulative production and inventory of packaged instant skim milk powder and process cheese with previous year's comparative data.

Description: The purpose of this survey was the collection of data on the production and shipments of units of records and tapes by type for the month.

Description: The purpose of this survey is the collection of data on the production (in metric tonnes) of raw steel in Canada.

Description: The monthly survey, Sawmills, measures quantities of lumber produced and shipped by Canadian manufacturers.

Description: The survey collected data from manufacturers of lumber and ties in British Columbia.

Description: The primary purpose of this discontinued survey was for measuring growth in the receipts and consumption of pulpwood and wood residue in Canada.

Description: The monthly survey, Construction Type Plywood, measures quantities of construction type plywood that are produced and shipped by Canadian manufacturers including distribution of shipments in Canada by province and exports.

Description: The Annual survey of Cement, measures quantities of domestic cement that are produced by Canadian manufacturers. The survey also measures the quantities of exported cement.

Description: The monthly data collected by this survey are the production, stocks and shipments (in cubic metres) of waferboard, particleboard and fibreboard.