Construction

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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.

Description: This table contains 12 series, with data for years 2004 - 2007 (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 (3 items: Canada; British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut; All other provinces); Production, shipment and stock activities (3 items: Production; Shipments; Stocks at the end of the month); Plywood and pulp chips products (2 items: Construction type plywood ;Pulp chips).

Description: This table contains 24 series, with data for years 2004 - 2007 (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, shipment and stock activities (12 items: Production; Total shipments; Domestic shipments; Shipments to Atlantic provinces; ...); Plywood products (2 items: Douglas fir plywood; Other plywood (excluding Douglas fir plywood)).

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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.

Description: This paper focuses on the role of investments in infrastructure in Canada. The size of infrastructure investments relative to other capital stock sets this country apart from most other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. The paper reviews the approaches taken by other researchers to define infrastructure. It then outlines a taxonomy to define those assets that should be considered as infrastructure and that can be used to assess the importance of different types of capital investments. It briefly considers how to define the portion of infrastructure that should be considered 'public'. The final two parts of the paper apply the proposed classification system to data on Canada's capital stock, and ask the following questions: how much infrastructure does Canada have and in which sectors of the economy is this infrastructure located? Finally, the paper investigates how Canada's infrastructure has evolved over the last four decades, both in the commercial and non-commercial sectors, and compares these trends with the pattern that can be found in the United States.

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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.

Description: Building permits, seasonally adjusted by leading indicators, indexes and activity sector for Canada, regions, provinces and territories from 1989 to 2007. (Terminated)

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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 table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (37 items: Edmonton; Alberta; Census metropolitan areas; Saguenay; Quebec; Calgary; Alberta ...), Housing estimates (3 items: Housing starts; Housing completions; Housing under construction ...), Type of unit (5 items: Total units; Semi-detached units; Row units; Single-detached units ...).

Description: This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (43 items: Brantford; Ontario; Belleville; Ontario; Large urban areas; Barrie; Ontario ...), Housing estimates (3 items: Housing starts; Housing completions; Housing under construction ...), Type of unit (5 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 (47 items: Canada; Atlantic provinces; Prince Edward Island; Newfoundland and Labrador ...), Type of unit (6 items: Total units; Single-detached units; Multiples; Semi-detached units ...).

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This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (47 items: Prince Edward Island; Atlantic provinces; Newfoundland and Labrador; Canada ...), Type of unit (6 items: Total units; Single-detached units; Semi-detached units; Multiples ...).

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This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (13 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; Atlantic provinces ...).

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This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (13 items: Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; Atlantic provinces; Canada ...).

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This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (13 items: Canada; Atlantic provinces; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island ...).

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This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (13 items: Canada; Prince Edward Island; Newfoundland and Labrador; Atlantic provinces ...).

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This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (67 items: Barrie; Ontario; Abbotsford-Mission; British Columbia; Census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations of 50,000 and over; Census metropolitan areas ...), Type of unit (7 items: Total units; Single-detached and semi-detached units; Semi-detached units; Single-detached units ...).

Description: Monthly building and demolition permits value of construction by type of structure and type of work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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As the ninth goal outlined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Canada and other UN member states have committed to build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation by 2030. This 2022 infographic provides an overview of indicators underlying the ninth Sustainable Development Goal in support of industry, innovation and infrastructure, and the statistics and data sources used to monitor and report on this goal in Canada.

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

Description: The Annual survey of Cement, measures quantities of domestic cement that are produced by Canadian manufacturers. The survey also measures the quantities of exported cement.

Description: The monthly data collected by this survey are the production, stocks and shipments (in cubic metres) of waferboard, particleboard and fibreboard.

Description: The Building Construction Price Indexes (BCPI) are quarterly series that measure change over time in the prices that contractors charge to construct a range of new commercial, institutional, industrial and residential buildings.

Description: Results of this survey will enable Statistics Canada to estimate residential and non-residential construction activity at various geographical levels.

Description: This survey collects data on capital and repair expenditures in Canada. The information is used by Federal and Provincial government departments and agencies, trade associations, universities and international organizations for policy development and as a measure of regional economic activity. Your information may also be used by Statistics Canada for other statistical and research purposes.

Description: This program produces annual estimates of gross fixed capital formation (capital investment flows), gross and net capital stock and depreciation by industry, by aggregate asset type, and by province and territory.

Description: This survey gathered information about spending by homeowners in Canada's ten provinces on housing repairs and renovations.

Description: The objective of the survey is to provide information on innovation, advanced technology and advanced practices being used in the construction and related industries.

Description: This survey gathered information on expenditures made by landlords for repairs, renovations, alterations and additions to residential rental property.

Description: The survey collects financial and operating data needed to produce statistics for the Canadian construction industry.