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  • 61. Gross Domestic Product and trade in Canada's environmental and clean technology products sector
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2023015
    Description: This interactive dashboard provides access to current and historical gross domestic product (GDP) and international trade values in Canada's environmental and clean technology products sector. With its interactive map and charts, it allows the user to compare and analyze this sector's GDP, imports and exports by province and territory and by product.

    This web-based application is updated annually, once the data for the latest reference period is released in The Daily.
    Release date: 2025-12-19
  • 62. Jobs and compensation of employees in Canada's environmental and clean technology products sector
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2023016
    Description: This interactive dashboard provides access to current and historical data on jobs and compensation of employees in Canada's environmental and clean technology products sector. With its interactive map and charts it allows the user to compare and analyze provincial and territorial job and average annual compensation estimates, by product and by industry.

    This web-based application is updated annually, once the data for the latest reference period is released in The Daily.
    Release date: 2025-12-19
  • 63. Environmental and Clean Technology Products Economic Account, employment and compensation per products category
    Table: 36-10-0681-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Annual estimates of the environmental and clean technology products sector employment and average earnings, by product category, for Canada, provinces and territories.
    Release date: 2025-12-19
  • 64. Energy use and greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production of environmental and clean technology products
    Table: 38-10-0139-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Direct energy use (terajoules) and direct greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide equivalents) (kilotonnes) associated with the environmental and clean technology products sector, by goods and services category.
    Release date: 2025-12-19
  • 65. 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 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: 2025-12-18
  • 66. Physical flow account for energy use
    Table: 38-10-0096-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Energy use by industries and households. Industry aggregation is at the L-level of the input-output accounts of Statistics Canada.
    Release date: 2025-12-11
  • 67. Physical flow account for greenhouse gas emissions
    Table: 38-10-0097-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide equivalents), by industries and households. Industry aggregation is at the L-level of the input-output accounts of Statistics Canada.
    Release date: 2025-12-11
  • 68. Environmental tax collected from different economic sectors by geographic region
    Table: 36-10-0678-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: This account records, in monetary units, government revenues generated from environmental tax from industry, government, non-profits, gross fixed capital formation and households. Estimates are available by province and territory.
    Release date: 2025-12-09
  • 69. Trees, bushes and hedges on property, by tenure and type of dwelling
    Table: 38-10-0028-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description: Percentage of households that had trees, bushes or hedges on their property, and whether trees were planted or cut down in the last five years, by type of dwelling. The data is from the Households and the environment survey.
    Release date: 2025-12-09
  • 70. Use of energy-saving lights, Canada and provinces
    Table: 38-10-0048-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description: This table shows the proportion of Canadian households that reported the use of various types of energy-saving lights. The unit of measure is percent. The table is biennial.
    Release date: 2025-12-09
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  • 181. Economy and the environment Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-201-X201100011438
    Geography: Canada
    Description: This analytical article "Economy and the environment", provides information on the relationship between Canada's economy and environment. The report starts with a discussion of how the economy and the environment can be linked in conceptual terms (Section 2). It then presents Canada's environment in the international context (Section 3). Sections 4, 5 and 6 highlight Canada's endowment of natural resources and underlines their role in our economy with statistics on timber, energy, minerals, land and fresh water. Section 7 focuses on the flow of materials and energy between the economy and the environment with statistics on the intensity of energy use and resulting greenhouse gas emissions. Finally, Section 8 presents a selection of statistics on what households, businesses and governments are doing to reduce their impact on the environment.
    Release date: 2011-06-28
  • 182. Summertime control of temperature in Canadian homes: How Canadians keep their cool Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X201100211503
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This study based on data from the 2009 Households and the Environment Survey, looks at the characteristics and usage of air conditioning systems and other methods of space cooling by Canadian households.

    Release date: 2011-06-22
  • 183. Settlements in Canada Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X201100211504
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    By studying the size and form of settlements over time it is possible to better examine their impact on the physical environment, such as consumption of land and pollution emissions. This article focuses on the characteristics of settlements in terms of land area and population, and the changes that have taken place between 2001 and 2006.

    Release date: 2011-06-22
  • 184. Temperature trends in Canada Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X201100111418
    Geography: Canada
    Description: This article describes annual and seasonal time series of temperature departures from normal over a 62 year period and is the second in an ongoing series of short analytical articles featuring climate related data. This and future articles in the series are the product of ongoing collaboration among Statistics Canada, Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada.
    Release date: 2011-03-23
  • 185. Operation and maintenance costs of drinking water plants Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X201100111421
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Operation and maintenance (O&M) costs associated with the acquisition and treatment of water will vary by treatment technology, annual production volumes and the type of source water processed. This study analyzes the data collected by the 2007 Survey of Drinking Water Plants to illustrate how O&M costs vary by these factors.

    Release date: 2011-03-23
  • 186. Monthly variations in drinking water production, 2005 to 2007 Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X201000411372
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Potable water of sufficient quality and in adequate quantities is fundamental to human health and the economy. This article examines temporal and geographic variations in drinking water production volumes.

    Release date: 2010-12-08
  • 187. Uptake of water- and energy-conservation devices in the home Archived
    Articles and reports: 11-008-X201100111365
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    In society today, many Canadians are concerned about the environment and the scarcity of resources. Consequently, many individuals and governments are seeking ways to reduce or alter energy and water consumption patterns. This article uses data from the 2007 Households and the Environment Survey to examine the association between income, education, ownership, age of dwelling and years lived at the dwelling and the use of low-volume toilets; low-flow showerheads; compact fluorescent light bulbs; programmable thermostats; and appliances bought to save energy or water.

    Release date: 2010-12-07
  • 188. Trends in glacier mass balance for six Canadian glaciers Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X201000311346
    Geography: Canada
    Description: This article describes changes to the mass balance of six Canadian glaciers through time and is the first in an ongoing series of short analytical articles featuring climate related data. This and future articles are the product of ongoing collaboration among Statistics Canada, Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada.
    Release date: 2010-09-22
  • 189. Freshwater supply and demand in Canada Archived
    Stats in brief: 16-201-X201000011295
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This analytical article "Freshwater Supply and Demand in Canada", provides information on Canada's freshwater supply as well as the demands placed on it. New research done within Statistics Canada is complimented by information from other sources, including other federal government departments, international bodies and scientific journals.

    Section 1 of this article compares Canada's renewable water resources to those of other countries, introduces key highlights and presents a short water primer. Section 2 quantifies Canada's renewable water resources (annual water yield), shows how water yield has changed from 1971 to 2004, and presents graphs of water yield by month for four regions of the country. Section 3 quantifies economic and residential water use in Canada and concludes with an analysis of the relationship between supply and demand. A glossary of terms used in the publication is available in Section 4.

    Release date: 2010-09-13
  • 190. Recycling by Canadian Households, 2007 Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-001-M2010013
    Description: Recycling has become a common habit for most Canadian households. These households have many choices when it comes to recycling: they decide whether or not to recycle, how much to recycle, and what methods to use when they do. Using data from the 2007 Households and the Environment Survey, the paper examines recycling decisions made by Canadian households, some of the reasoning behind those decisions, and the relationship between recycling behaviour and a selection of demographic factors.
    Release date: 2010-07-07
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  • 31. Annual Environmental Protection Expenditures Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 1903
    Description: The Environmental Protection Expenditures Survey provides a measure of the costs incurred by Canadian industries to protect the environment, whether or not they are in response to current or anticipated Canadian or international environmental regulations, conventions or voluntary agreements. The survey also collects information on the goods, technologies and services purchased by industries as well as the processes and practices adopted by them to protect the environment. Data from the survey are used predominantly by policy analysts and by both industry and academic researchers. Data may be used to monitor expenditure trends within industry groups or provinces for the purpose of developing business or research and development strategies, as well as to evaluate the effectiveness of policy.
  • 32. Biennial Waste Management Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2009
    Description: This survey collects information that will help Canadians understand the contributions made by waste management industry to Canada's economy and environment.
  • 33. Fuel Consumption Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2749
    Description: The purpose of this survey is to measure road use by light motor vehicles, their fuel consumption and their impact on the environment.
  • 34. Survey on the Importance of Nature to Canadians
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3808
    Description: The major objective of this survey was to collect information on nature-related activities, and what these activities contributed to the Canadian economy.
  • 35. Households and the Environment Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3881
    Description: The Households and the Environment Survey (HES) measures the environmental practices and behaviours of Canadian households that relate to the condition of our air, water and soils. The survey was also designed to collect data to develop and improve three key environmental indicators: air quality, water quality and greenhouse gas emissions.
  • 36. Farm Management Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5044
    Description: This survey, focusing on both livestock and crop operations, will allow the establishment of base lines and development of updates for an expanded set of agri-environmental indicators, and generate the information to design effective and well targeted policy and program responses.
  • 37. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5081
    Description: The survey collects, analyses and publishes information on industrial greenhouse gas emissions to support Canada's national and international reporting obligations and the public interest as it relates to climate change and the environment.
  • 38. Canadian System of Environmental-Economic Accounts - Natural Resource Asset Accounts
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5114
    Description: Natural resource asset accounts are one of the main elements of the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting which was adopted as an international statistical standard in 2012. Natural resource asset accounts measure quantities of natural resource assets (oil, natural gas, minerals, and timber) and the annual changes in these assets due to natural processes and human activity. These accounts, which are recorded using both physical and monetary units, form the basis of the estimates of Canada's natural resource wealth that are integrated into the Canadian national balance sheet accounts.
  • 39. Canadian System of Environmental-Economic Accounts - Physical Flow Accounts
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5115
    Description: Physical flow accounts are one of the main elements of the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) which was adopted as an international statistical standard in 2012. These accounts record, in physical units of measure, the supply and use of natural inputs (e.g. cubic metres of water), products (e.g. terajoules of gasoline), and residuals (e.g. kilotonnes of carbon dioxide emissions).
  • 40. Industrial Water Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5120
    Description: This survey is being conducted to provide Canadians with national and regional indicators related to the use of water in industry.

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