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221. Impact of Advanced Technology Use on Firm Performance in the Canadian Food Processing Sector Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0027M2003012
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper investigates the evolution of industrial structure in the Canadian food processing sector and its relationship to technological change. It uses 1998 special survey data on advanced technology use, plant characteristics and plant performance.
Release date: 2003-06-03
222. Canada E-Book Archived
Journals and periodicals: 11-404-X
Geography: Canada
Description:
The Canada e-Book is an online version of the Canada Year Book with texts, tables, charts and audio clips that present the country's economic and social trends. The Canada e-Book illustrates Canada and Canadians under four broad headings: The Land, The People, The Economy, and The State. You will find a wealth of information on topics including the human imprint on the environment, population and demography, health, education, household and family life, labour force, arts and leisure, industries, finance, government and justice. All Canadians will enjoy this useful reference that helps explain the social, economic and cultural forces that shape our nation.
Release date: 2003-05-26
223. Regional Manufacturing Employment Volatility in Canada: The Effects of Specialization and Trade Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0027M2003005
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper measures the structural characteristics of regional economies; diversity, growth, plant size and export intensity; increases in export orientation; and other aspects of manufacturing employment in different Canadian regions for the period 1976 to 1997.
Release date: 2003-04-11
224. Plant Turnover and Productivity Growth in Canadian Manufacturing Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2003193
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper outlines the size of the turnover in plants that have entered and exited the Canadian manufacturing sector during the three periods: 1973-1979, 1979-1988 and 1988-1997. It also examines the contribution of plant turnover to labour productivity growth in the manufacturing sector over the three periods. Plant turnover makes a significant contribution to productivity growth as more productive entrants replace exiting plants that are less productive. A disproportionately large fraction of the contribution of plant turnover to productivity growth is due to multi-plant or foreign-controlled firms closing down and opening up new plants. The plants opened up by multi-plant or foreign-controlled firms are typically much more productive than those opened by single-plant or domestic-controlled.
Release date: 2003-04-02
225. Manufacturing Overview Research Papers Archived
Journals and periodicals: 31F0027M
Geography: Canada
Description:
The intent of this research paper series is to address a variety of topics related to the Canadian manufacturing sector as a whole. The papers in this series are based on the Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) and focus on the entire manufacturing sector (all 22 major manufacturing groups). Other data sources are used in specific papers. The topics covered include packaging products used by manufacturing industries, evolution of production costs, comparison of establishment groups (ranked by volume of shipments) and stages of processing.
Release date: 2002-12-17
226. The Lumber Industry: Crucial Contributor to Canada's Prosperity Archived
Articles and reports: 31F0027M2002001
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper describes the main characteristics of the Canadian lumber industry, looks at the different impacts of lumber trade disputes, and puts into perspective the strong reliance of the Canadian lumber industry on the U.S. market, its biggest customer.

Release date: 2002-12-17
227. Evolution of services as knowledge suppliers and innovators Archived
Articles and reports: 88-003-X20020026373
Geography: Canada
Description:
The manufacturing sector is looked upon as the source of innovation and technological change, but the sheer size of service activity in the economy means that the competitive advantage will increasingly depend upon this sector's ability to innovate and produce technologies.
Release date: 2002-06-14
228. The Importance of Entry to Canadian Manufacturing with an Appendix on Measurement Issues Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2002189
Geography: Canada
Description:
Understanding the importance of the dynamic entry process in the Canadian economy involves measuring size of entry. The main purpose of this paper is to summarize the information we have on the amount of entry in Canada.
The paper also fulfils another purpose. Some studies have focused on cross-country comparisons (Geroski and Schwalbach 1991; OECD 2001). Interpretation of the results of these studies is difficult unless methodological issues regarding how entry is measured are addressed. Without an understanding of the extent to which different databases produce different results, international comparisons are difficult to evaluate. Cross-country comparisons that are derived from extremely different data sources may be misleading because of the lack of comparability.
Since there is more than one reliable database that can be used to estimate entry in Canada, this paper asks how measured entry rates vary across different Canadian databases. By examining the difference in entry rates produced by these databases, we provide an estimate of the range or confidence interval that should be used in evaluating whether there are real differences in measured entry rates across countries. We also offer guidance as to the questions that should be asked about the databases used by researchers who conduct international studies. Finally, we make suggestions as to areas of comparison on which international studies should focus.
Release date: 2002-05-29
229. Enhancing Food Safety and Productivity: Technology Use in the Canadian Food Processing Industry Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2002168
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper examines the factors contributing to the adoption of advanced technologies in the Canadian food-processing sector. The numbers of technologies used by a plant is found to be highly correlated with expected gains in firm performance. The benefits of enhanced food safety and quality, as well as productivity improvements, are closely associated with technology use. Impediments that negatively affect technology use include software costs, problems with external financing, lack of cash flow for financing, and internal management problems. Even after accounting for the different benefits and costs associated with technology adoption, the numbers of advanced technologies that are adopted are found to be greater in larger plants, in foreign-controlled plants, in plants that engage in both primary and secondary processing, and in the dairy, fruit and vegetable and "other" food product industries.
Release date: 2002-05-28
230. The Trend to Smaller Producers in Manufacturing: A Canada/U.S. Comparison Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0027M2002003
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper examines small producers in the Canadian and U.S. manufacturing sectors in terms of output and employment from the early 1970s to the late 1990s.
Release date: 2002-05-23

Data (134)

Data (134) (40 to 50 of 134 results)

41. Canadian lumber exports by mode of transportation
Table: 16-10-0018-01
Geography: Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Annual
Description: Canadian lumber exports by mode of transportation, in thousands of cubic metres by provinces and for Canada.
Release date: 2024-03-04
42. Production, shipments and value of shipments of metallic and non-metallic minerals, annual
Table: 16-10-0022-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Annual
Description:
This table presents a few different variables for over 75 products from the mining industry such as aluminum, cobalt, gold, iron, lead, nickel, silver, stone, salt, lime, 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.
Release date: 2024-02-28
43. Principal statistics for manufacturing industries, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
Table: 16-10-0117-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Annual
Description:
This table contains 86609 series, with data for years 2012 - 2016 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (17 items: Canada; Atlantic Region; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; ...) Principal statistics (22 items: Total revenue; Revenue from goods manufactured; Total expenses; Total salaries and wages, direct and indirect labour; ...) North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (290 items: Manufacturing; Food manufacturing; Animal food manufacturing; Animal food manufacturing; ...).
Release date: 2023-12-21
44. Principal statistics for the motor vehicle and motor vehicle parts manufacturing industries on an annual basis
Table: 16-10-0117-02
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Annual
Description:
Principal statistics for the motor vehicle and motor vehicle parts manufacturing, motor vehicle body and trailer manufacturing industries. Estimates are presented on an annual basis for Canada in dollars x 1,000,000.
Release date: 2023-12-21
45. Logging industries, principal statistics by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
Table: 16-10-0114-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Annual
Description: This table contains 768 series, with data for years 2012 - 2016 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (16 items: Canada; Atlantic Region; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; ...) Principal statistics (16 items: Total revenue; Revenue from logging activities; Total expenses; Total salaries and wages, direct and indirect labour; ...) North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (3 items: Logging; Logging (except contract); Contract Logging).
Release date: 2023-12-20
46. Manufacturing industries, total annual energy fuel consumption in natural units, 31-33
Table: 25-10-0024-01
Geography: Canada
Frequency: Annual
Description: Data are presented at the national level, by fuel type (butane, electricity, steam, etc) and by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Not all combinations are available.
Release date: 2023-10-30
47. Manufacturing industries, total annual energy fuel consumption in gigajoules, 31-33
Table: 25-10-0025-01
Geography: Canada
Frequency: Annual
Description: Data are presented at the national level by fuel type in gigajoules (butane, electricity, steam, etc) and by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Not all combinations are available.
Release date: 2023-10-30
48. Chemicals and synthetic resins production, annual
Table: 16-10-0041-01
Geography: Canada
Frequency: Annual
Description: Chemicals and synthetic resins products annual production, data in tonnes.
Release date: 2023-08-17
49. Mining industries, principal statistics by industry, Canada
Table: 16-10-0031-01
Geography: Canada
Frequency: Annual
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.
Release date: 2023-08-01
50. Mining industries, principal statistics by industry, by province
Table: 16-10-0032-01
Geography: Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Annual
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.
Release date: 2023-08-01

Analysis (152)

Analysis (152) (40 to 50 of 152 results)

41. Long-term Productivity Growth in Manufacturing in Canada and the United States, 1961 to 2003 Archived
Articles and reports: 15-206-X2007015
Geography: Canada
Description:
In this paper, we provide an international comparison of the growth in Canadian and U.S. manufacturing industries over the 1961-to-2003 period. We find that average annual growth rates of labour productivity growth were almost identical in the Canadian and U.S. manufacturing sectors during this period. But the sources of labour productivity growth differed in the two countries. Intermediate input deepening was a more important source of labour productivity growth in Canada than in the United States, while investment in capital and multifactor productivity (MFP) growth were more important in the United States than in Canada. After 1996, labour productivity growth in Canada was lower than in the United States. The post-1996 slower labour productivity growth in Canada relative to the United States was due to slower growth in MFP and slower growth in capital intensity. The slower MFP growth in Canada accounted for 60% of Canada - United States labour productivity growth difference, and slower growth in capital intensity accounted for 30%. The slower MFP growth in the Canadian manufacturing sector relative to that of the United States after 1996 was due to lower MFP growth in the computer and electronic products industry. The slower growth in capital'labour ratio in the Canadian manufacturing compared with the United States after 1996 is related to the changes in relative prices of capital and labour inputs in the two countries.
Release date: 2007-12-18
42. Innovation Capabilities: Technology Use, Productivity Growth and Business Performance: Evidence from Canadian Technology Surveys Archived
Articles and reports: 11-622-M2007016
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper summarizes the results of several research studies conducted by the Micro-economic Analysis Division of Statistics Canada that investigate the impact of advanced technology use on business performance. These studies combine establishment-level survey data on advanced technology practices with longitudinal data that measure changes in relative performance. Together, these studies provide strong evidence that technology strategies have considerable bearing on competitive outcomes after other correlates of plant performance are taken into account. Advanced communications technologies warrant special emphasis, as the use of these technologies has been shown to be closely associated with changes in relative productivity.
Release date: 2007-12-05
43. Trading with a giant: An update on Canada-China trade Archived
Articles and reports: 11-010-X200701110382
Geography: Canada
Description:
Exports to China in 2007 have risen faster than imports, reflecting its voracious appetite for resources. This has helped reduce Canada's dependence on US markets.
Release date: 2007-11-08
44. Five types of innovation in Canadian manufacturing: First results from the Survey of Innovation 2005 Archived
Articles and reports: 88-003-X200700210316
Geography: Canada
Description:
The most recent Statistics Canada Survey of Innovation (2005) distinguished five types of innovation. The questions on types of innovation were redesigned in response to the 1997 revision of the Oslo Manual, which incorporated new insights on innovation in the service industries, and broadened the concept of process innovation to include not only production processes but also methods of product delivery. This article examines the five different types of innovation in Canadian manufacturing establishments and industry groups.
Release date: 2007-10-09
45. Motives for co-operation in innovation: Evidence from the 2005 Canadian Survey of Innovation Archived
Articles and reports: 88-003-X200700210317
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article summarizes the findings of an econometric study using data from the 2005 Canadian Survey of Innovation. The study looked at the decision of firms in the Canadian manufacturing sector to co-operate on innovation projects. The analysis reveals that the factors influencing the decision to co-operate in order to access external knowledge are very similar to those influencing cost-sharing motives. It also finds that public funding leads firms to co-operate in order to access external knowledge and research and development (R&D).
Release date: 2007-10-09
46. Not Dutch Disease, It's China Syndrome Archived
Articles and reports: 11-624-M2007017
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper empirically investigates how the Canadian economy has evolved following the rise in commodity prices and appreciation of the Canadian dollar that began in 2003. The adjustment in the manufacturing industry has garnered the greatest attention because it has borne the brunt of job losses. However, the adjustment of the manufacturing industry has not been straightforward. Rather, a complex reallocation has been taking place within manufacturing that has been predominantly due to the integration of emerging nations into the global economy. The increased commodity prices and falling manufactured prices caused by this integration have affected durable and non-durable manufacturing industries differently. Non-durable manufacturers have tended to see their competitiveness eroded and their output has tended to fall. Durable manufacturers, on the other hand, have increased output in response to the resource boom and increased demand in general. The result has been stable manufacturing output overall, accompanied by a re-orientation of manufacturing output away from non-durables and toward durables.
The appreciated dollar and higher commodity prices have also led to a more widespread industrial reallocation in Canada. The higher commodity prices have started a resource boom, particularly in Alberta. The boom has led to rising resource industry employment, while manufacturing employment declined, and to rising service-sector employment. It has contributed to inter-provincial migration, and has greatly increased the purchasing power of Canadian incomes as terms of trade have improved.
Release date: 2007-08-16
47. The Ebb and Flow of Comparative Advantage: Trade and the Industrial Specialization of Canadian Manufacturing Regions, 1974 to 1999 Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0027M2007044
Geography: Canada
Description:
Utilizing a longitudinal micro data file of manufacturing plants (1974 to 1999), this study tests the effect of higher levels of trade on the level of industrial specialization experienced by regional manufacturing economies. Consistent with trade driven by comparative advantage, the analysis demonstrates that higher levels of export intensity (exports as a share of output) across regions are associated with greater industrial specialization. However, the analysis also shows that changes in export intensity are only weakly associated with changes in specialization. This occurs because comparative advantage tends to shift away from industries that account for a large share of regional manufacturing employment and towards industries that initially have lower shares. This ebb and flow of comparative advantage helps to explain why Canadian manufacturing regions have not become more specialized in an environment of increasing integration into the world market.
Release date: 2007-06-25
48. Urban Economies and Productivity Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0027M2007045
Geography: Canada
Description:
Productivity levels and productivity growth rates vary significantly over space. These differences are perhaps most pronounced between countries, but they remain acutely evident within national spaces as economic growth favors some cities and regions and not others. In this paper, we map the spatial variation in productivity levels across Canadian cities and we model the underlying determinants of that variation. We have two main goals. First, to confirm the existence, the nature and the size of agglomeration economies, that is, the gains in efficiency related to the spatial clustering of economic activity. We focus attention on the impacts of buyer-supplier networks, labour market pooling and knowledge spillovers. Second, we identify the geographical extent of knowledge spillovers using information on the location of individual manufacturing plants. Plant-level data developed by the Micro-economic Analysis Division of Statistics Canada underpin the analysis. After controlling for a series of plant and firm characteristics, analysis reveals that the productivity performance of plants is positively influenced by all three of Marshall's mechanisms of agglomeration (Marshall, 1920). The analysis also shows that the effect of knowledge spillovers on productivity is spatially circumscribed, extending, at most, only 10 km beyond individual plants. The reliance of individual businesses on place-based economies varies across the sectors to which the businesses are aggregated. These sectors are defined by the factors that influence the process of competition'access to natural resources, labour costs, scale economies, product differentiation, and the application of scientific knowledge. Neither labour market pooling, buyer-supplier networks nor knowledge spillovers are universally important across all sectors. This paper provides confirmation of the importance of agglomeration, while also providing evidence that external economies are spatially bounded and not universally important across all industries.
Release date: 2007-06-18
49. The Canadian Lumber Industry: Recent Trends Archived
Articles and reports: 11-621-M2007055
Geography: Canada
Description:
This study examines recent trends in the Canadian softwood lumber industry in Canada up to 2006. Trends in shipments, production, exports, productivity, innovation and financial results are analysed in the context of recent economic and commercial pressures affecting the industry.
Release date: 2007-06-07
50. Canada's changing auto industry Archived
Articles and reports: 11-010-X20070059639
Geography: Canada
Description:
The auto industry has been a leading force in globalization, with overseas firms shifting production to North America following their success in sales. This paper looks at how Canada fared in attracting new domestic plants, and whether they behaved differently in buying parts locally and trading internationally.
Release date: 2007-05-17

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