Business dynamics

Skip to filters. View results.

View results

Filter results by

Search Help
Currently selected filters that can be removed

Keyword(s)

Type

6 facets displayed. 0 facets selected.

Geography

6 facets displayed. 0 facets selected.

Survey or statistical program

63 facets displayed. 0 facets selected.

Content

1 facets displayed. 0 facets selected.
Sort Help
entries

Results

All (1,243)

All (1,243) (0 to 10 of 1,243 results)

  • 1. Experimental estimates for business openings and closures by employment size for Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas, seasonally adjusted
    Table: 33-10-0722-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: This table presents experimental counts of businesses that open, close, or continue their operations each month for various levels of geographic and industry detail across Canada going back to January 2015. The data are available as series that are adjusted for seasonality. The level of geographic detail includes national, provincial and territorial, as well as census metropolitan areas (CMA). The data are also broken down by employment size and two-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) with some common aggregations, including one for the total business sector.
    Release date: 2025-10-28
  • 2. Experimental estimates for business openings and closures for Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas, seasonally adjusted
    Table: 33-10-0270-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    This table presents experimental counts of businesses that open, close, or continue their operations each month for various levels of geographic and industry detail across Canada going back to January 2015. The data are available as series that are adjusted for seasonality. The level of geographic detail includes national, provincial and territorial, as well as census metropolitan areas (CMA). The data are also broken down by two-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) with some common aggregations, including one for the total business sector for national, provincial and territorial levels of geography.

    Release date: 2025-10-28
  • 3. Mapping location and co-location of industries at the neighborhood level: A spatial kernel density approach
    Articles and reports: 18-001-X2025001
    Description: This paper brings the analysis of business cluster to a more granular geographic scale by developing a methodology for identifying business clusters at the neighborhood level. The proposed method identifies clusters of businesses at the DB level, which is one of the most granular spatial units of analysis defined by Statistics Canada. The method is developed with an application to four census metropolitan areas (CMAs) of different sizes and for different industry cluster specifications, including simple 2-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) groups as well as industry clusters resulting from groupings of NAICS codes, as defined by Delgado et al. (2014).
    Release date: 2025-10-10
  • 4. Support for small and medium enterprises in Canadian higher education, by type of institution
    Table: 27-10-0409-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Support for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) reported by colleges, universities and other higher education institutions in Canada. This support includes: number of SMEs that received support, number of start-ups and spin-offs, value for investment in start-ups and spin-offs, amount received from disposition of equity holdings, options and warrants in start-ups and spin-off companies, value of cash dividends received from these start-ups and spin-off companies, value of remaining equity held by the institution in publicly traded start-ups and spin-off companies.
    Release date: 2025-09-29
  • 5. The long-run evolution of business entry and exit rates in Canada
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202500900001
    Description: Since the 1980s, the entry and exit rates of firms have declined significantly worldwide, including in Canada and the United States, signaling a reduction in business dynamism. This paper analyzes Canadian entry and exit trends from 1983–2012 to 2021 and compares the results with those from the United States.
    Release date: 2025-09-24
  • 6. Investment Responses to a Corporate Tax Kink: Evidence from Small Businesses in Canada
    Articles and reports: 11F0019M2025007
    Description: This paper studies the underlying drivers of taxable income bunching at the corporate income tax kink by small businesses. It intends to capture the behavioural responses to the tax change at the kink. Increased investments and reported costs are possible strategies that firms use to adjust their taxable income to avoid higher tax rates. Bunching of firms in the taxable income distribution should then be accompanied by a spike in investment at the kink. To evaluate this hypothesis, this study employs the universe of firm-level tax returns from Canada over the 2001 to 2019 period to estimate the distribution of corporate investment and costs around the tax kink along the extensive and intensive margins.
    Release date: 2025-09-19
  • 7. Impact of tariffs on businesses in Canada: Expectations and strategic responses, third quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025012
    Description: Amid shifts in tariffs, trade regulations and the U.S. administration, the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions, conducted from July 2 to August 6, 2025, incorporated a series of targeted questions to gauge the sentiment, expectations and strategic responses of businesses across Canada. This paper provides an overview of the survey findings, examining the anticipated impacts on sales, business uncertainty and selling prices, as well as the array of mitigation strategies businesses have adopted to navigate the evolving economic landscape.
    Release date: 2025-09-18
  • 8. Business Counts in Rural and Small Town Canada: Interactive Dashboard
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024008
    Description: This dashboard is designed for users to explore current and historical counts of employer and non-employer businesses by geography, employment size and industry. This web-based application undergoes semi-annual updates.
    Release date: 2025-09-15
  • 9. Business Conditions in Rural and Small Town Canada: Interactive Dashboard
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024009
    Description: This dashboard features data from the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions. It is designed for users to explore the obstacles, expectations, and future outlook of businesses in rural and small town areas. This web-based application undergoes quarterly updates.
    Release date: 2025-09-15
  • 10. Analysis on expected use of artificial intelligence by businesses in Canada, third quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025011
    Description: This article explores how businesses plan to use AI over the next 12 months and the types of AI they intend to use when producing goods or delivering services. It also explores how businesses expect AI to affect their employment levels, what operational changes they anticipate over the next 12 months and why some are choosing not to use AI. It involves an examination of the data produced by the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions.
    Release date: 2025-09-11
Data (893)

Data (893) (0 to 10 of 893 results)

  • 1. Experimental estimates for business openings and closures by employment size for Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas, seasonally adjusted
    Table: 33-10-0722-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: This table presents experimental counts of businesses that open, close, or continue their operations each month for various levels of geographic and industry detail across Canada going back to January 2015. The data are available as series that are adjusted for seasonality. The level of geographic detail includes national, provincial and territorial, as well as census metropolitan areas (CMA). The data are also broken down by employment size and two-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) with some common aggregations, including one for the total business sector.
    Release date: 2025-10-28
  • 2. Experimental estimates for business openings and closures for Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas, seasonally adjusted
    Table: 33-10-0270-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    This table presents experimental counts of businesses that open, close, or continue their operations each month for various levels of geographic and industry detail across Canada going back to January 2015. The data are available as series that are adjusted for seasonality. The level of geographic detail includes national, provincial and territorial, as well as census metropolitan areas (CMA). The data are also broken down by two-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) with some common aggregations, including one for the total business sector for national, provincial and territorial levels of geography.

    Release date: 2025-10-28
  • 3. Support for small and medium enterprises in Canadian higher education, by type of institution
    Table: 27-10-0409-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Support for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) reported by colleges, universities and other higher education institutions in Canada. This support includes: number of SMEs that received support, number of start-ups and spin-offs, value for investment in start-ups and spin-offs, amount received from disposition of equity holdings, options and warrants in start-ups and spin-off companies, value of cash dividends received from these start-ups and spin-off companies, value of remaining equity held by the institution in publicly traded start-ups and spin-off companies.
    Release date: 2025-09-29
  • 4. Business Counts in Rural and Small Town Canada: Interactive Dashboard
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024008
    Description: This dashboard is designed for users to explore current and historical counts of employer and non-employer businesses by geography, employment size and industry. This web-based application undergoes semi-annual updates.
    Release date: 2025-09-15
  • 5. Business Conditions in Rural and Small Town Canada: Interactive Dashboard
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024009
    Description: This dashboard features data from the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions. It is designed for users to explore the obstacles, expectations, and future outlook of businesses in rural and small town areas. This web-based application undergoes quarterly updates.
    Release date: 2025-09-15
  • 6. Private sector business counts by majority ownership, third quarter of 2025
    Table: 33-10-1017-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Private sector business counts by majority ownership, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, third quarter of 2025.
    Release date: 2025-08-27
  • 7. Business or organization expectations over the next three months, third quarter of 2025
    Table: 33-10-1018-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Expectations over the next three months by the business or organization, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, third quarter of 2025.
    Release date: 2025-08-27
  • 8. Business or organization obstacles over the next three months, third quarter of 2025
    Table: 33-10-1019-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Obstacles faced by the business or organization over the next three months, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, third quarter of 2025.
    Release date: 2025-08-27
  • 9. Most challenging obstacle expected by the business or organization over the next three months, third quarter of 2025
    Table: 33-10-1020-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Most challenging obstacle expected by the business or organization over the next three months, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, third quarter of 2025.
    Release date: 2025-08-27
  • 10. Inputs businesses or organizations are expecting the cost of to be obstacles over the next three months, third quarter of 2025
    Table: 33-10-1021-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Inputs businesses or organizations are expecting the cost of to be obstacles over the next three months, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, third quarter of 2025.
    Release date: 2025-08-27
Analysis (336)

Analysis (336) (0 to 10 of 336 results)

  • 1. Mapping location and co-location of industries at the neighborhood level: A spatial kernel density approach
    Articles and reports: 18-001-X2025001
    Description: This paper brings the analysis of business cluster to a more granular geographic scale by developing a methodology for identifying business clusters at the neighborhood level. The proposed method identifies clusters of businesses at the DB level, which is one of the most granular spatial units of analysis defined by Statistics Canada. The method is developed with an application to four census metropolitan areas (CMAs) of different sizes and for different industry cluster specifications, including simple 2-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) groups as well as industry clusters resulting from groupings of NAICS codes, as defined by Delgado et al. (2014).
    Release date: 2025-10-10
  • 2. The long-run evolution of business entry and exit rates in Canada
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202500900001
    Description: Since the 1980s, the entry and exit rates of firms have declined significantly worldwide, including in Canada and the United States, signaling a reduction in business dynamism. This paper analyzes Canadian entry and exit trends from 1983–2012 to 2021 and compares the results with those from the United States.
    Release date: 2025-09-24
  • 3. Investment Responses to a Corporate Tax Kink: Evidence from Small Businesses in Canada
    Articles and reports: 11F0019M2025007
    Description: This paper studies the underlying drivers of taxable income bunching at the corporate income tax kink by small businesses. It intends to capture the behavioural responses to the tax change at the kink. Increased investments and reported costs are possible strategies that firms use to adjust their taxable income to avoid higher tax rates. Bunching of firms in the taxable income distribution should then be accompanied by a spike in investment at the kink. To evaluate this hypothesis, this study employs the universe of firm-level tax returns from Canada over the 2001 to 2019 period to estimate the distribution of corporate investment and costs around the tax kink along the extensive and intensive margins.
    Release date: 2025-09-19
  • 4. Impact of tariffs on businesses in Canada: Expectations and strategic responses, third quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025012
    Description: Amid shifts in tariffs, trade regulations and the U.S. administration, the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions, conducted from July 2 to August 6, 2025, incorporated a series of targeted questions to gauge the sentiment, expectations and strategic responses of businesses across Canada. This paper provides an overview of the survey findings, examining the anticipated impacts on sales, business uncertainty and selling prices, as well as the array of mitigation strategies businesses have adopted to navigate the evolving economic landscape.
    Release date: 2025-09-18
  • 5. Analysis on expected use of artificial intelligence by businesses in Canada, third quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025011
    Description: This article explores how businesses plan to use AI over the next 12 months and the types of AI they intend to use when producing goods or delivering services. It also explores how businesses expect AI to affect their employment levels, what operational changes they anticipate over the next 12 months and why some are choosing not to use AI. It involves an examination of the data produced by the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions.
    Release date: 2025-09-11
  • 6. Business conditions in Canada, third quarter of 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025044
    Description: From July 2nd to August 6th, 2025, Statistics Canada conducted the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions. The purpose of this survey is to collect information on businesses in Canada related to emerging issues. This infographic presents key results from this.
    Release date: 2025-08-27
  • 7. Canadian Survey on Business Conditions third quarter 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202523923725
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-08-27
  • 8. Technology adoption and diversity among Canadian business decision makers: Evidence from the survey of advanced technology
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202500700003
    Description: The adoption of advanced technologies is a strategic imperative for companies that want to succeed in competitive markets by reducing costs, expanding their product range and increasing productivity. This study seeks to identify the factors that may explain the effect of characteristics specific to Canadian business decision-makers on technology adoption.
    Release date: 2025-07-23
  • 9. Intellectual property in the context of firms' exit strategies: The role of patents
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202500600005
    Description: By focusing on exits, merger and acquisition and patenting activity, this paper provides a first assessment of the role of patents in firms' exit decisions. Using data from the Canadian Patent Research Database and the National Accounts Longitudinal Microdata File to track exits for cohorts of new firms, this paper explores the following questions: What is the role of patents in firms' exit decision? And more specifically: To what extent does owning patents contribute to firm survival (patent survival effect) or to exiting the market via merger and acquisition (patent trigger effect)?
    Release date: 2025-06-25
  • 10. Analysis on artificial intelligence use by businesses in Canada, second quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025008
    Description: This article explores results from the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions related to the use of AI in producing goods and delivering services. Furthermore, this article explains the specific types of AI being used, such as machine learning, virtual agents and voice recognition, as well as the impact of AI adoption on tasks performed by employees and on employment levels. It further explores the importance of AI investment to business operations.
    Release date: 2025-06-16
Reference (12)

Reference (12) (0 to 10 of 12 results)

  • 1. Prairie Farmers Have Always Found a Way to Adapt Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 96-328-M2004012
    Geography: Geographical region of Canada
    Description:

    This activity is designed to show students some of the changes affecting Prairie agriculture over the past 100 years, and how Prairie farmers have adapted to them.

    Release date: 2004-08-30
  • 2. Statistics Canada's Business Surveys Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 61F0019X19990025579
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    The Unified Enterprise Survey (UES) incorporates several annual business surveys into an integrated survey framework. It aims to ensure Statistics Canada receives consistent and integrated data from many types and sizes of businesses, with enough detail to produce accurate provincial statistics. This year, 17 industry surveys are included in the UES, as well as two cross-industry surveys of large enterprises.

    Release date: 1999-06-25
  • 3. Survey of Growing Innovative Firms
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2936
    Description: This survey was sponsored by the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade.
  • 4. Survey on Financing and Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2941
    Description: The survey is designed to find out what kinds of financing small and medium enterprises are using, and to collect information on recent attempts to obtain new financing. The survey also collects information on barriers to growth, the financial position of small and medium enterprises, the characteristics of ownership and the extent to which the enterprise is involved in innovation and intellectual property.
  • 5. Survey of Knowledge Management Practices
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5001
    Description: This survey is being conducted to measure the extent to which knowledge management practices are used or will be used by Canadian businesses.
  • 6. Financial Performance Data
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5028
    Description: The Financial Performance Data present selected revenue, expense, profit and balance sheet items as well as financial ratios on small business in Canada.
  • 7. Characteristics of Growth Firms
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5056
    Description: Science, Innovation and Electronic Information Division is engaged in a joint project with the National Research Council's Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) to investigate the characteristics of growth firms.
  • 8. Survey of Regulatory Compliance Cost
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5093
    Description: This survey provides data on the current cost of regulatory compliance for small and medium-sized businesses in meeting key information obligations imposed by various levels of government.
  • 9. Survey of Business Incubation
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5095
    Description: The survey mandate is to collect and benchmark vital information on the business incubator sector of the Canadian economy. The information is critical in assessing the business incubator sector and in developing programs to support them.
  • 10. Entrepreneurship Indicators Database
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5157
    Description: The objective of the Entrepreneurship Indicators Database is to provide comprehensive business demography statistics and performance indicators for enterprises in Canada.

Sort Help

How are the results ordered?

The Sort by feature provides four options:

  • By date – sorts results by product release date starting with the most recent.
  • By most popular – gives priority to results that are most frequently selected by users, followed by the most recent.
  • By relevance is only needed or beneficial when you use the search box and submit a search query. Results are ordered by a combination of where the search term appears in the content, e.g., if it appears in the title, it likely means the product is more relevant to your search; how up to date or new the content in the product is; how popular the product is; and other factors.
  • By title – sorts results alphabetically.

Sort Help

How are the results ordered?

The Sort by feature provides three options:

  • By date – sorts results by product release date starting with the most recent.
  • By relevance is only needed or beneficial when you use the search box and submit a search query. Results are ordered by a combination of where the search term appears in the content, e.g., if it appears in the title, it likely means the product is more relevant to your search; how up to date or new the content in the product is; how popular the product is; and other factors.
  • By title – sorts results alphabetically.

Search Help

How do I use the filters and the search box?

  • You can initiate a search by entering keywords or selecting filters (e.g., under Subject, Geography, etc.) on the left side of the page.

  • Filters can be used together or in any combination. Each time you select a filter, the results on the page are updated.

  • To start a new search, click on the Clear all button above the search box or deselect each filter.

  • Specified keywords and filters appear above the search box. You can deselect any or all the tags to refine or clear your search.

How do I refine my search?

  • You can enter keywords in the search box. It is not necessary to use “+” or “, “ or “AND”.

  • You can delete some or all of the keywords from your search string.

  • Quotes around keywords limit the search to a specific phrase.

    • For example, “labour force survey” will limit results to products containing this phrase.

  • Use “or” between keywords to obtain results that contain one or more search terms.

    • For example, labour or­ force or survey will limit results to products containing any or all of these words.

How does the search work?

  • This search looks for results that have your query term in the title, description, subject, geography, product number or other information about the product.

    • For example, when searching the term ‘Diseases’, all results with the word ‘Diseases’ in the title, description or tagged the subject appear.

  • The text within an article or publication are not searched. For full text searching of articles, use the site search.

Date modified: