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Description: Wood chips, monthly production, shipments and stocks for Canada, British Columbia, British Columbia coast, British Columbia interior and other provinces. The data are in thousands of oven-dry metric tonnes.

Description: Data presented at the national level by supply and disposition characteristic (supply of coal, coal coke received, etc.).

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.

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: This table contains 42 series, with data for years 1970 - 1984 (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 (12 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; Nova Scotia; ...); Principal statistics (3 items: Shipments; Ratio of finished goods to shipments; Ratio of total inventory owned to shipments); Type of industry (3 items: All manufacturing industries; Non-durable industries; Durable industries).

Description: This table contains 6 series, with data for years 1970 - 1984 (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); Principal statistics (2 items: Ratio of finished goods to shipments; Ratio of total inventory owned to shipments); Type of industry (3 items: All manufacturing industries; Non-durable industries; Durable industries).

Description: This table contains 23 series, with data for years 1994 - 1995 (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); Activity (2 items: Production; Stocks); Standard Classification of Goods (SCG) (12 items: Whole bean (whether or not decaffeinated);Caffeinated coffee in packages 300 grams and under; Caffeinated coffee in packages more than 300 grams but less than 454 grams; Caffeinated coffee in packages over 454 grams; ...).

Description: This table contains 11 series, with data for years 1946 - 1994 (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); Production and stocks (11 items: Cereals ready to serve; Macaroni, et cetera, dry; Prepared cake mixes; Mixes, all other flour based; ...).

Description: This table contains 7 series, with data for years 1946 - 1989 (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); Standard Classification of Goods (SCG) (7 items: Biscuits, soda; Biscuits, plain and fancy; Chewing gum; Cocoa powder; ...).

Description: This table contains 6 series, with data for years 1946 - 1995 (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); Standard Classification of Goods (SCG) (6 items: Production of all types of wallboard, including overlaid; Production of lath; Production of plasters; Production of sheathing; ...).

Description: This table contains 22 series, with data for years 1944 - 1995 (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); Production and shipments (22 items: Building board panels, natural, shipments; Asphalt sheathing board, shipments; Roof insulating board, natural, shipments; Other decorative board, shipments; ...).

Description: This table contains 5 series, with data for years 1996 - 1999 (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); Standard Classification of Goods (SCG) (5 items: Refined sugar, total shipments; Stocks of refined sugar, end of period; Raw cane sugar, acquisitions; Raw cane sugar stocks, end of period; ...).

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This monthly publication presents data by weight on the acquisition, stock, production and shipment of raw and refined sugar for the month and the year-to-date from refiners of raw cane or beet sugars as well as those who further process such sugars. Geographic detail is at the national level. The December issue includes a list of reporting firms.

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The publication presents data on establishments, employment, payroll, materials and supplies used; production and shipments; drilling completed and tonnage of ore removed. It also includes a list of establishments, notes and definitions and a bibliography.

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This study reviews status and trends for the manufacturing sector in 2009. It analyses major regional and industry shifts in production and put them in the context of major socio-economic drivers such as domestic demand, prices and exports. Employment, investment, productivity and profitability indicators are also presented.

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Design activities are central to firm competitiveness and delivering value-added products. Research has shown that rapidly growing companies attach greater weight to design activities. Through design, firms may improve the user interface and create characteristics that allow them to distinguish their products from those of their competitors. Using the results of the Survey of Advanced Technology 2007, this paper examines the extent of use of design activities among Canadian firms, with a view to explaining factors fostering firms' engagement in design activities. It explores whether design activities are more likely to be carried out in some manufacturing industries than in others. The average size of firms undertaking design activities will also be explored. Characteristics of firms that are likely to spend a greater proportion of their expenditures on in-house design activities versus those who outsource larger percentage of their design work to other firms outside their organizational boundaries will be discussed. This paper will also explore whether firms that have high design intensity are more likely to be innovators. Another area of interest of this paper is the question of whether firms that undertake design activities are more likely to be exporters. Common success factors reported by those firms with high design intensity will also be discussed.

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We examine the simultaneous effects of real-exchange-rate movements and of tariff reductions on plant death in Canadian manufacturing industries between 1979 and 1996. We find that both currency appreciation and tariff cuts increase the probability of plant death, but that tariff reductions have a much greater effect. Consistent with the implications of recent international-trade models involving heterogeneous firms, we further find that the effect of exchange-rate movements and tariff cuts on exit are heterogeneous across plants - particularly pronounced among least efficient plants. Our results reveal multi-dimensional heterogeneity that current models featuring one-dimensional heterogeneity (efficiency differences among plants) cannot fully explain. There are significant and substantial differences between exporters and non-exporters, and between domestic- and foreign- controlled plants. Exporters and foreign-owned plants have much lower failure rates; however, their survival is more sensitive to changes in tariffs and real exchange rates, whether differences in their efficiency levels are controlled or not.

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This paper asks whether synergies or managerial discipline operates in different ways across small versus large plants to affect the likelihood of mergers. Our findings indicate that those characteristics which provide the type of synergies upon which ownership changes rely are important factors leading to plant-ownership changes across most size classes. The magnitudes, however, are different across plant-size classes, with synergies generally being more important in larger plants.

Foreign plants in all size classes are more likely to be taken over. The effective rates of control change differ much more in the small than in the larger size classes. Compared to domestic plants, multinational plants in the smaller size classes contain relatively more of the type of intangible capital that makes them attractive vehicles for the transmission of new knowledge via takeover.

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Energy use is one of the primary contributors to environmental degradation and climate change. This article provides a profile of the Canadian manufacturing industry and the investments made in energy-related processes and technologies in 2006. These investments either reduced the amount of energy used for a process, or lowered the amount of greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants produced through the production and use of energy.

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The context of the discussion is the increasing incidence of international surveys, of which one is the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Policy Evaluation Project, which began in 2002. The ITC country surveys are longitudinal, and their aim is to evaluate the effects of policy measures being introduced in various countries under the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. The challenges of organization, data collection and analysis in international surveys are reviewed and illustrated. Analysis is an increasingly important part of the motivation for large scale cross-cultural surveys. The fundamental challenge for analysis is to discern the real response (or lack of response) to policy change, separating it from the effects of data collection mode, differential non-response, external events, time-in-sample, culture, and language. Two problems relevant to statistical analysis are discussed. The first problem is the question of when and how to analyze pooled data from several countries, in order to strengthen conclusions which might be generally valid. While in some cases this seems to be straightforward, there are differing opinions on the extent to which pooling is possible and reasonable. It is suggested that for formal comparisons, random effects models are of conceptual use. The second problem is to find models of measurement across cultures and data collection modes which will enable calibration of continuous, binary and ordinal responses, and produce comparisons from which extraneous effects have been removed. It is noted that hierarchical models provide a natural way of relaxing requirements of model invariance across groups.

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This paper provides an analysis of technological change within the Canadian economy based on data from the 2006 Survey of Electronic Commerce and Technology where firms indicated how they introduced significantly improved technologies. The paper explores differences in the use of methods of introduction of significantly improved technologies by firm/organization size and by industry in both the private and public sectors.

The paper begins with a brief presentation of previous work carried out on technology introduction. The methodology is described. A description of concepts used in the analysis will follow. Analytic results examining technological change in the private sector overall, by industry and by size, and the public sector overall, by industry and by size are presented. A comparison of technological change in the private and public sectors follows. The paper concludes with a discussion of analytic results and further analytic work that could be undertaken.

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This working paper provides some metrics for the measurement of user innovation. It explains what is meant by user innovation and provides background on its measurement at Statistics Canada, drawing attention to some more influential work. Challenges to the measurement of user innovation are presented. Details on the survey methodology and survey findings, measurement issues and some lessons learned from the survey will be discussed. The paper concludes by presenting contributions of this study to understanding user innovation.

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This working paper highlights a variety of aspects of innovation in the Canadian manufacturing sector, including incidence and types of innovation, novelty of innovation, innovation activities, sources of information contributing to innovation, cooperation with innovation partners, impacts of innovation, obstacles to innovation, use of government programs, intellectual property protection, and suppliers to innovative manufacturing plants.

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Manufacturing's share of nominal GDP has fallen over the last half century due to lower relative prices in Canada, not a declining volume of production. These price declines reflect productivity growth, while also lowered the share of manufacturing in employment. Canada's manufacturing structure shifted to mirror the United States after free trade was introduced in the 1990s.

Description: The survey collected data on production, sales and stocks at the end of the month for these products.

Description: This survey was designed to collect information on current levels of operation. The results, which provided an early indication of trends in the Canadian economy, were used by Industry Measures and Analysis Division as part of the System of National Accounts.

Description: The survey collected data on blast furnace charges (materials used to produce pig iron) and also the tonnages of pig iron produced and shipped each month. As of 1985, this survey was amalgamated with the Steel Primary Forms, Steel Castings and Pig Iron (Survey ID 2116).

Description: The monthly survey, Steel primary forms, Steel castings and Pig iron, measures quantities of selected steel products that are produced and shipped by Canadian manufacturers.

Description: The purpose of this survey is to collect data on the shipments (including imports) of electric lamps (light bulbs and tubes) by the Electric Lamp Bulb and Parts Manufacturing Industry.

Description: This survey is designed to collect information on current levels of operation. The results, which provide an early indication of trends in the Canadian economy, are used extensively by the Canadian Soft Drink Association, food and beverage manufacturers, aluminium manufacturers, and investment houses.

Description: The purpose of this survey is to collect data on the production (number of pairs) of footwear. Data are provided for types of footwear by materials used for uppers and soles.

Description: This survey was a cost-recoverable survey funded by the Canadian Oil Seed Processors Association designed to collect information on current levels of operation. The results, which provide an early indication of trends in the Canadian economy, were used extensively by the association, as well as by food companies and the Canadian Wheat Board.

Description: The main purpose of the survey was to chart the progress (or decline) of the hardboard industry.

Description: This survey was designed to collect information on current levels of operation. The results were used by the System of National Accounts at Statistics Canada to provide an early indication of trends in the Canadian economy, and were used by the Rigid Insulating Board Industry for production and trend analysis.