Construction

Description: This table contains 1812 series, with data for years 2009 – 2018 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (14 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; Nova Scotia; New Brunswick;… ) Prices (3 items: Current prices; 2017 constant prices; Chained (2017) dollars) Sector (4 items: Total all sectors; Business sector; Government sector; Non-profit institutions serving households sector) Flows and stocks (3 items: Investment; Geometric depreciation; Geometric end-year net stock) Assets (7 items: Total assets; Total non-residential; Non-residential buildings; Engineering construction; ...).

Description: Contributions to annual percent change in real gross fixed capital formation.

Description: The investment data for residential and non-residential building construction gives a detailed statistical image of this activity across Canada, including the provinces and territories, and census metropolitan areas (CMA). Non-residential building construction excludes expenditure on engineering work (bridges, roads, hydroelectric power plants, etc.).

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

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This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (22 items: Prince Edward Island; Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Atlantic provinces ...), Housing estimates (3 items: Housing starts; Housing completions; Housing under construction ...), Type of unit (6 items: Total units; Semi-detached units; Row units; Single-detached units ...).

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This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...).

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This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (86 items: Nova Scotia; Prince Edward Island; Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador ...), Type of dwelling unit (5 items: Total units; Row units; Single units; Semi-detached units ...), Type of market (5 items: Homeowner; Rental; Condo; Co-op ...).

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This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (37 items: Census metropolitan areas; Abbotsford-Mission, British Columbia; Barrie, Ontario; Brantford, Ontario; ...);  Completed dwelling units (2 items: Absorptions; Unabsorbed inventory);  Type of dwelling unit (3 items: Total units; Single detached units; Semi-detached units).

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This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (38 items: All census agglomerations 50;000 and over; Barrie; Ontario; Belleville; Ontario; Abbotsford-Mission; British Columbia ...), Completed dwelling units (2 items: Absorptions; Unabsorbed inventory ...), Type of dwelling unit (3 items: Total units; Single detached units; Semi-detached units ...).

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This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (11 items: Nova Scotia; Prince Edward Island; Newfoundland and Labrador; Canada ...), Housing estimates (3 items: Housing starts; Housing under construction; Housing completions ...), Type of unit (5 items: Total units; Single-detached units; Row units; Semi-detached units ...).

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This table contains 2362 series, with data for years 1996 - 2000 (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 (1181 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador (CMA); Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador (CSD); ...);  New housing statistics (2 items: Average fair market value; Average rebate).

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This table contains 326 series, with data for years 1996 - 2000 (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 (156 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador (CMA); Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador (CA); ...);  Type of builder (3 items: Builders; Owner-built; Cooperative living).

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This report contains data from the GST/HST New Housing Rebate File (1996-2000) including: average fair market value; average rebate; total value of rebates; and total value of housing sales. Annual breakdowns are available by province, Census Metropolitan Areas/Census Agglomerations (CMA/CA), and component Census Subdivisions (CSDs) of each CMA/CA.

Description: This table contains 2805 series, with data for years 1998 - 2000 (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 (17 items: Canada; Atlantic provinces; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; ...), North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (15 items: Construction; Prime contracting; Land subdivision and land development; Building construction; ...), Revenues and expenses (11 items: Total revenues; Total operating revenues; Revenues from construction activity and related services; Other operating revenues; ...).

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This table contains 14 series, with data for years 1972 - 1994 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2000-02-18. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (4 items: Canada; Atlantic provinces and Quebec; Ontario; Prairie provinces and British Columbia ...), Manufacturer-installer selling price indexes (4 items: Structural and architectural precast concrete; Columns; beams and girders; Cladding; Tees ...), Index base period (2 items: 1986=100; 1981=100 ...).

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 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; ...).

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This table contains 14 series, with data for years 1977 - 1995 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2000-02-18. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (4 items: Canada; Atlantic provinces and Quebec; Ontario; Prairie provinces and British Columbia ...), Manufacturer-installer selling price indexes (4 items: Field erected fabricated steel; Bulk storage tanks; Buildings; Bridges ...), Index base period (2 items: 1986=100; 1981=100 ...).

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This on-line publication provides detailed capital expenditures by type of asset on both construction and machinery and equipment made by private and public organizations in Canada. For each province and territory and for the 19 divisions of the Canadian economy, it details capital expenditures according to four types of residential construction, 95 types of non-residential construction, and 56 categories of machinery and equipment. Included are data on capital expenditures for major renovation and alteration of construction assets as well as for major retrofit and refurbishing of machinery and equipment assets. Trade and general construction contractors, suppliers of construction materials, and suppliers of machinery and equipment will find these data useful for market analysis.

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The statistics in this section are arranged in five subsections. The first subsection (series S1-64) contains summary statistics for construction by type and by region. It also contains general statistics of the construction industry. The second subsection (series S65-166) contains statistics for non-residential construction by the sector 'purchasing' the construction. The third subsection (series S167-219) covers residential construction, the fourth (series S220-246) the housing stock and the fifth (series S247-335) mortgage funding. A major difference between this section and the similar section in the first edition of Historical Statistics of Canada is the elimination of most of the series on repair construction detail. On the other hand, a large number of series have been added. These include the series on mortgage funding and housing unit costs.

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This article highlights a few of the findings of a recent report published by Statistics Canada that analyzed trends in the age of education infrastructure in Canada over the period between 1961 and 2008, using data from the Capital and Repair Expenditures Survey. The article explains how changes in the age of education infrastructure are measured and provides an overview of trends in the average age of education infrastructure, by education level, at both the national and provincial levels.

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This study provides a first look at recent trends in the average age of education buildings in Canada and the provinces. It compares the average age with the useful life of education buildings at the elementary-secondary, college and university levels.

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Education and training continue to be important in the labour market. To many, this implies a university degree. But society also needs tradesworkers to perform many vital tasks -- build houses, run the electrical lines, fix plumbing and maintain cars to name just a few. Many businesses are reporting difficulties finding skilled tradespersons and governments are responding with policies to stimulate employment in the trades. Employment trends in selected trades over the past 20 years are examined, along with the socio-economic traits of the workers and the characteristics of their jobs.

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This paper examines whether or not the long-term government bond rate could reasonably be employed as the rate of return on public capital when calculating public sector gross domestic product. It finds that the rate of return on public capital is lower than often reported and is roughly consistent with the rate of return on private capital. Given that there is a range of estimates that are plausible, the paper concludes that the long-run government bond rate could be used as a conservative estimate for the rate of return for public infrastructure.

Previous studies have shown that production function estimates tend to find rates of return that are implausibly large, while cost function estimates appear more reasonable. This paper shows that public capital and total factor productivity (TFP) growth behave similarly, and argues that production function estimates for the impact of public capital overstate its impact as a result, catching part of what belongs in estimates of TFP. It also shows that the similarity between the growth in public capital and TFP leads to a large confidence interval around public capital elasticity estimates derived from the production function framework. The paper then proceeds by generating a confidence interval from the production function estimated first with and then without TFP growth. It then uses a cost function to pinpoint more precisely estimates for the marginal cost savings from public capital. Importantly, the estimate derived from the cost function is found in the lower part of the confidence interval derived from the production function. The rate of return associated with the overlapping estimates is then shown to cover a range that extends from the average long-run government bond rate to the rate of return on private capital.

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Trends in average age of public infrastructure in Canada and the provinces are examined for five key assets from 1961 to 2007. Average ages of assets are compared with their estimated useful service life and are presented along with their corresponding gross capital stock.

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The overall growth of government-owned infrastructure has been very similar across most regions over the past 44 years. With the exception of the Atlantic Provinces, the range of average annual capital growth from one region to the next has been very narrow, falling between 1.8% and 2.2% since 1961, according to a new study released in September 2007 in the Canadian Economic Observer.

Since 2000, governments have increased their infrastructure capital more than at any time since the 1960s and 1970s. However, the growth has not been strong enough to prevent more and more signs of wear in our infrastructure (the data are net of depreciation and in constant 1997 dollars). This is due to cuts in the 1990s when governments were grappling with significant budgetary deficits, as well as many of the assets built in the post-war infrastructure boom reaching the end of their life span.

This study analyses, from 1961 to 2005, government investment in infrastructure by different levels of government and type of asset by region.

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This article finds that the volume of infrastructure capital has rebounded since 2000 after two decades of neglect. While infrastructure growth has been similar across regions, there are sharp differences in the type of asset targeted by the regions, especially when spending slowed after 1980.

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This report highlights investment in non-residential construction in 2005, focusing on commercial, institutional and industrial components. This study also looks at the regional and provincial dimension.

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This study looks at the average age of the four main components of public infrastructure in Canada: roads and highways, sewer systems, wastewater treatment facilities, and bridges. This study covers the 1963 to 2003 period for the three levels of government.

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Cycles in business investment are a key determinant of overall growth, as they are longer-lasting and stronger than in other sectors. Canada is currently in the early stages of an upturn in investment, driven by the revival of the resource sector.

Description: The survey's objectives are to examine the reasons for major construction investments, to identify strategies that are used by investors to achieve satisfactory outcomes from their construction investments, and to identify obstacles to achieving these outcomes.

Description: The investment in non-residential building construction represents the spending value for enterprises and governments, for industrial, commercial and institutional buildings.

Description: Residential Construction Investment represents the spending value for individuals, enterprises and governments in the construction of new residential dwellings, renovation work and the acquisition costs pertaining to new units built.

Description: The monthly investment in new housing construction represents the spending value for individuals, enterprises and governments in the construction of new residential dwellings during the reference period. The four dwelling types covered are singles, doubles,rows and apartments.

Description: The purpose of the survey is to collect information on the capital expenditures of the Canadian oil and gas extraction industry.

Description: Residential and non-residential property assessment values are primarily intended to meet data requirements from Finance Canada for Fiscal Arrangements, as part of the property tax base.

Description: The Property Values Program produces residential property value estimates by province and territory, as well as by census metropolitan areas (CMAs). This data series represents residential property market values by reference year. This includes all taxable and exempt properties.

Description: The Infrastructure Economic Account isolates the role and estimates the impact of infrastructure on Canada, the provinces and the territories. It provides a macroeconomic perspective of the infrastructure assets that represent the physical structures and systems that support the production of goods and services and their delivery to and consumption by governments, businesses and citizens.

Description: This product provides a harmonized Canada-wide open dataset of cycling infrastructure. The Data Exploration and Integration Lab (DEIL) compiled data from open data sources, validated, and standardized these to the The Canadian Bikeway Comfort and Safety (CAN-BICS) classification system. The dataset can be used for research, planning, policy and official statistics.

Description: The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) produces a comprehensive database containing more than 14,000 housing series. From CANSIM you can download residential housing statistics on housing starts, completions, under construction and newly completed and unoccupied; vacancy rates; and mortgage information.