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Historical monthly release of provincial and territorial manufacturing sales, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), data in thousands of dollars. Unadjusted and seasonally adjusted values available from January 2013 to the current reference month. Not all combinations are available.

Description: Data on fertilizer inventories such as ammonia, urea ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulphate, diammonium phosphate and other fertilizer products for the Eastern and Western provinces of Canada.

Description: Data on the production of fertilizer such as ammonia, urea ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulphate, diammonium phosphate and other fertilizer products for Canada.

Description: Data on the shipments of various fertilizers such as ammonia, urea ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulfate, etc. to Canada's Eastern provinces, the Prairie provinces, the United States and other countries.

Description: Data on fertilizer shipments within Canada by nutrient content such as nitrogen, phosphate, potash and sulphur.

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This table presents a few different variables for over 50 products from the mining industry such as aluminum, cobalt, gold, iron, lead, nickel, silver, etc. The variables available in this table are the quantity produced, the quantity shipped, the closing inventories and the value of shipments. The data are published at the national, provincial and territorial levels.

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This table presents different variables for a dozen of products from the mining industry such as diamonds, clay, gypsum, lime, potash, salt, etc. The variables available in this table are the quantity produced, the quantity shipped and the value of shipments. The data are published at the national, provincial and territorial levels.

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This table presents the value of shipments for multiple mining industry products such as cobalt, gold, iron, lead, platinum, titanium, zinc, diamonds, etc. The data are published at the national, provincial and territorial levels.

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Value of shipments of critical minerals, as defined by the Critical Minerals Centre of Excellence (CMCE) at Natural Resources Canada.

Description: Industrial chemical and synthetic resins annual production, in tonnes.

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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: Historical monthly release of Canadian Sales of goods manufactured (shipments), new orders, unfilled orders, inventories, raw materials, goods or work in process, finished goods, and inventory to sales ratios for durable and non-durable goods by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) for reference periods January 2002 to the current reference month. Not all combinations are available. Values are in constant dollars.

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Historical monthly release of capacity utilization rates for Canadian manufacturers by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), from January 2017 to the current reference month.

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Historical monthly release of Canadian Sales of goods manufactured (shipments), new orders, unfilled orders, raw materials, goods or work in process, finished goods, total inventories, inventory to sales ratios and finished goods to sales ratios by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), for reference periods January 2013 to the current reference month.

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Historical monthly release of provincial and territorial manufacturing sales, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), data in thousands of dollars. Unadjusted and seasonally adjusted values available from January 2013 to the current reference month. Not all combinations are available.

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This paper looks at the rationalization of production costs in the Canadian manufacturing sector by examining expenditures on four main inputs (wages, salaries, energy, and raw materials) as they have evolved over time.

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This paper analyses changes to manufacturing establishments of all sizes in terms of four major areas: manufacturing activity gross output, production cost structure, productivity and employment structure.

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This paper examines the packaging products used by manufacturing industries, the evolution of production costs, a comparison of establishment groups (ranked by volume of shipments) and the stages of processing for the Canadian manufacturing sector as a whole.

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This paper examines the Canadian manufacturing sector in terms of the degree of processing of its outputs. It then examines the patterns in manufacturing output by stage of processing over the period 1988 to 1996.

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The manufacturing sector plays a major role in the Canadian economy and the destinations of shipments thus directly affects the economies of Canada and the provinces. The Destination of shipments research paper series is based on data from various years of the Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM). The papers in this series evaluate the changes in the destinations of shipments by province and by major manufacturing group. Several key areas are covered such as: exports, interprovincial trade and relative trade balance.

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This study examines differences in technology use in Canada as opposed to the United States as well as reasons for these differences. It examines different aspects of technology use-numbers of technologies used, types of technologies used, as well as regional, size and industry variations in their use. It then investigates differences in benefits that plant managers perceive stem from advanced technology use and differences in the factors that managers assess as impediments. While managers in both countries generally place quite similar emphases on items in the list of benefits received and problems that have impeded adoption, there are significant differences that arise because of the smaller size of the Canadian market.

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This article provides an overview of the packaging products used by Canadian manufacturing industries, and identifies recent trends regarding the types of containers used.

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Considerable attention has been directed at understanding the structural changes that are generating an increased need for skilled workers. These changes are perceived to be the result of developments associated with the emergence of the new knowledge economy, whose potential is often linked to the growth of new technology-based firms (NTBFs). Where are these firms to be found? Related work on changes in technology and innovativeness has been accompanied by the creation of taxonomies that classify industries as high-tech or high-knowledge, based primarily on the characteristics of large firms. There is a temptation to use these taxonomies to identify new technology-based firms only within certain sectors. This paper uses a special survey that collected data on new firms to argue that this would be unwise.

The paper investigates the limitations of existing classification schemes that might be used to classify industries as high- or low-tech, as advanced or otherwise. Characteristically unidimensional in scope, many of these taxonomies employ conceptual and operational measures that are narrow and incomplete. Consequently, previous rankings that identify sectors as high- or low-tech using these measures obscure the degree of innovativeness and human capital formation exhibited by certain industries. In a policy environment wherein emotive 'scoreboard' classifications have direct effects on resource allocation, the social costs of misclassification are potentially significant.

Using a comparative methodology, this study investigates the role that conceptualization plays in devising taxonomies of high- and low-tech industries. Far from producing definitive classifications, existing measures of technological advancement are found to be wanting when their underpinnings are examined closely. Our objective in the current analysis is to examine the limitations of standard classification schemes, particularly when applied to new small firms, and to suggest an alternative framework based on a competency-model of the firm.

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This paper examines the determinants of the adoption lag for advanced technologies in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It uses plant-level data collected on the length of the adoption lag (the time between a firm's first becoming aware of a new technology and its adoption of the technology) to examine the extent to which the adoption lag is a function of the benefits and costs associated with technology adoption as well as certain plant characteristics that are proxies for a plant's receptor capabilities.

Economic theory suggests that the diffusion of advanced technologies should be a function of the benefits associated with the adoption of new technologies. Other studies have had to proxy the benefits with environmental characteristics-like proximity to markets, fertility of soils, size of firm. This paper makes use of more direct evidence collected from the 1993 Survey of Innovation and Advanced Technology concerning firms' own evaluations of the benefits and costs of adoption along with measures of overall technological competency. Both are found to be highly significant determinants of the adoption lag. Geographical nearness of suppliers decreases the adoption lag. Variables that have been previously used to proxy the benefits associated with technology adoption-variables such as larger firm size, younger age, and more diversification by the parent firm also decrease the adoption lag-but they have much less effect than the direct measure of benefits and firm competency.

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The 1980s and 1990s have seen a rising share of skilled labour in total employment in the manufacturing sector of Canada. At the same time, the wage premium for skilled workers has increased, thereby increasing the inequality between skilled and unskilled workers. There is a disagreement about the causes of these changes. Several hypotheses have been offered to explain them-increased international competition, changes in the relative supply of more-skilled versus less-skilled workers, and skilled-augmenting technological change. This paper analyzes the nature, pattern and causes of the shifts in the composition of employment in manufacturing. The paper describes the composition of employment in manufacturing. It focuses on the direction and magnitude of shifts in the proportion of nonproduction workers employed within manufacturing and across sectors within manufacturing. It also investigates the extent to which wage differentials between nonproduction and production workers have widened in the 1980s. In addition, it assesses the extent to which these changes are associated with trade and technology use. The results indicate that the rising wage differentials are associated with both increased trade intensity and the types of technologies that are being used in the plant.

Description: If you have any questions about these data please contact: Randy Sheldrick Energy Section Manufacturing, Construction and Energy Division Statistics Canada Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0T6 Telephone: (613) 951-4804

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