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  • 1. Powering Progress: Toward a Better Understanding of Canada’s Green Economy
    Articles and reports: 11F0019M2025009
    Description: Despite Canada’s ambitious climate goals and the global transition toward more sustainable economic development models, empirical evidence on how the green transition affects Canada’s productivity growth is limited because of a lack of comprehensive data. This study fills this gap in two steps. First, it constructs a first-of-its-kind measure of green intensity at the detailed industry level by synthesizing multidimensional data, including information on green outputs and processes. Second, it investigates productivity dynamics by decomposing productivity growth using this newly developed green index.
    Release date: 2025-12-08
  • 2. Canadian Survey on Business Conditions fourth quarter 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202532923725
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-11-25
  • 3. 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
  • 4. 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
  • 5. Impact of tariffs on businesses in Canada: Expectations and strategic responses, second quarter of 2025
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025007
    Description: Amid shifts in tariffs, trade regulations and the U.S. administration, the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions, conducted from April 1 to May 5, 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: 2025-06-09
  • 6. Recent developments in the Canadian economy: Spring 2025
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202500500005
    Description: This article provides an integrated summary of recent economic developments, highlighting changes in the economic data during late 2024 and early 2025. The article focuses on how economic conditions have changed as households and businesses adjust to ongoing uncertainty over Canada's trading relationship with the United States.
    Release date: 2025-05-28
  • 7. Return to life after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic: A look at culture, arts, entertainment and recreation services in 2022
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2023013
    Description: Using data from the goods and services tax (GST) sales and payroll deduction (PD7) files, this study looks at preliminary revenue and salary and wage expense estimates for the culture, arts, entertainment and recreational services sectors in 2022. These sectors comprise businesses operating in the motion picture, sound recording, publishing, performing arts, spectator sports and related industries, as well as the amusement and recreation industries. This study provides information by industry on the return to life after the pandemic shutdowns in 2020 and partial closures and restrictions in 2021.
    Release date: 2023-08-22
  • 8. Exporters in Canada: Expected obstacles and perceived competitiveness in international markets, second quarter of 2023
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2023010
    Description: Canada is a modern, industrialized nation with abundant resources and a small domestic market, making international trade an important component of its economy. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses faced tremendous challenges, ranging from interrupted production and supply chain disruptions to rapid shifts in demand and elevated commodity prices.

    From the beginning of April to early May 2023, Statistics Canada conducted the Canadian Survey on Business. Data were collected from exporters in Canada on the obstacles they expect to face over the next three months as well as perceptions of their competitiveness when exporting to various regions. The findings are presented in this article.
    Release date: 2023-06-20
  • 9. An analysis of Canadian business support programs in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic
    Articles and reports: 13-605-X202300100001
    Description: With the emergence of COVID-19, Canadian governments at all levels adopted policy initiatives to address the financial challenges faced by businesses. The policies were broad in both scope and variety and altogether represented billions of dollars in support.

    This article examines these programs including the characteristics of recipients using preliminary data from the Canadian COVID-19 Business Support Measures Database (CCBSM), a standardized set of data covering government support programs for businesses.

    Release date: 2023-01-19
  • 10. Changes in the e-commerce strategies of Canadian businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic Archived
    Stats in brief: 45-28-0001202200100012
    Description:

    The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic motivated many Canadian businesses to change their business models in order to adapt to economic restrictions and greater demand for online goods and services. Using data from the 2019 and 2021 Survey of Digital Technology and Internet Use, this article examines selected changes in the e-commerce strategies of Canadian businesses during the pandemic.

    Release date: 2022-11-29
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  • 1. Prairie Farmers Have Always Found a Way to Adapt Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 96-328-M2004012
    Geography: Geographical region of Canada
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    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. 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.
  • 3. 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.
  • 4. 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.
  • 5. Survey of Innovation and Business Strategy
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5171
    Description: Statistics Canada has undertaken this survey to provide statistical information on the strategic decisions, innovation activities and operational tactics used by Canadian enterprises. The survey also collects information on the involvement of enterprises in global value chains.

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