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261. Destinations of Shipments Research Papers Archived
Journals and periodicals: 31F0026M
Geography: Canada
Description:
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.
Release date: 1999-05-11
262. Destinations of Manufacturing Shipments, 1984 to 1993 Archived
Articles and reports: 31F0026M1995001
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper compares the destinations of manufacturing shipments and the significant changes that occurred in the data for the years 1984, 1990 and 1993. It also discusses exports, interprovincial trade and intraprovincial trade.
Release date: 1999-05-11
263. Destination of Manufacturing Shipments, 1996 Archived
Articles and reports: 31F0026M1996001
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper evaluates changes in the destinations of shipments by province and by major manufacturing group. It also discusses information on exports, interprovincial trade and relative trade balance.
Release date: 1999-05-11
264. Evolution of Production Costs in the Manufacturing Sector Archived
Articles and reports: 31F0027M1995001
Geography: Canada
Description:
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.
Release date: 1999-05-11
265. Comparison of Establishments Groups in the Manufacturing Sector, 1985 to 1996 Archived
Articles and reports: 31F0027M1996001
Geography: Canada
Description:
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.
Release date: 1999-05-11
266. Overview of Packaging Products Used by Canadian Manufacturing Industries Archived
Articles and reports: 31F0027M1996002
Geography: Canada
Description:
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.
Release date: 1999-05-11
267. Stages of Processing and Economic Trends in the Manufacturing Sector, 1988 to 1996 Archived
Articles and reports: 31F0027M1996003
Geography: Canada
Description:
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.
Release date: 1999-05-11
268. Technology Adoption: A Comparison Between Canada and the United States Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M1998119
Geography: Canada
Description:
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.
Release date: 1999-04-07
269. Overview of packaging products used by Canadian manufacturing industries - 1998 Archived
Articles and reports: 61F0019X19990015581
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article provides an overview of the packaging products used by Canadian manufacturing industries, and identifies recent trends regarding the types of containers used.
Release date: 1999-02-25
270. Are There High-tech Industries or Only High-tech Firms? Evidence from New Technology-based Firms Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M1998120
Geography: Canada
Description:
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.
Release date: 1998-12-08

Data (134)

Data (134) (30 to 40 of 134 results)

31. Mining industries, energy consumption by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), Canada
Table: 16-10-0029-01
Geography: Canada
Frequency: Annual
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.
Release date: 2024-04-05
32. Mining industries, energy consumption by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and by province
Table: 16-10-0030-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Annual
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.
Release date: 2024-04-05
33. Physical Flow Account for Plastic Material, by product category
Table: 38-10-0150-01
Geography: Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Occasional
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.
Release date: 2024-03-18
34. Physical Flow Account for Plastic Material, by province and territory
Table: 38-10-0150-02
Geography: Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Occasional
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.
Release date: 2024-03-18
35. Physical flow account for plastic material, by resin
Table: 38-10-0151-01
Geography: Canada
Frequency: Occasional
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 resin detail for this account.
Release date: 2024-03-18
36. Canadian fertilizer inventories, by product type
Table: 32-10-0036-01
Geography: Canada
Frequency: Annual
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.
Release date: 2024-03-13
37. Canadian fertilizer production, by product type and fertilizer year, cumulative data
Table: 32-10-0037-01
Geography: Canada
Frequency: Annual
Description: Data on the production of fertilizer such as ammonia, urea ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulphate, diammonium phosphate and other fertilizer products for Canada.
Release date: 2024-03-13
38. Fertilizer shipments to Canadian agriculture and export markets, by product type and fertilizer year, cumulative data
Table: 32-10-0038-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Annual
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.
Release date: 2024-03-13
39. Fertilizer shipments to Canadian agriculture markets, by nutrient content and fertilizer year, cumulative data
Table: 32-10-0039-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Annual
Description: Data on fertilizer shipments within Canada by nutrient content such as nitrogen, phosphate, potash and sulphur.
Release date: 2024-03-13
40. Industrial capacity utilization rates, by industry
Table: 16-10-0109-01
Geography: Canada
Frequency: Quarterly
Description: Quarterly data, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
Release date: 2024-03-08

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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