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1. Canadian Survey on Business Conditions second quarter 2024
Stats in brief: 11-001-X202414823725
Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
Release date: 2024-05-27
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: 2024-05-27
3. The Business and Community Newsletter
Journals and periodicals: 11-632-X
Description: The newsletter offers information aimed at three main groups, businesses (small to medium), communities and ethno-cultural groups/communities. Articles and outreach materials will assist their understanding of national and local data from the many relevant sources found on the Statistics Canada website.
Release date: 2024-05-23
4. Use of advanced or emerging technologies, by industry and enterprise size
Table: 27-10-0367-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Occasional
Description:
Percentage of enterprises that used specific types of advanced or emerging technologies, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period. Advanced technologies include material handling, supply chain or logistics technologies; design or information control technologies; processing or fabrication technologies; clean technologies; security or advanced authentication systems; business intelligence technologies; and other types of advanced technologies. Emerging technologies include nanotechnology, biotechnology, geomatics or geospatial technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), integrated Internet of Things (IoT) systems, blockchain technologies, and other types of emerging technologies.
Release date: 2024-04-30
5. Reasons for not adopting or using advanced technologies, by industry and enterprise size
Table: 27-10-0368-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Occasional
Description:
Percentage of enterprises that did not adopt or use advanced technologies for specific reasons, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period. Reasons for not adopting or using advanced technologies include not convinced of economic benefit; difficulty in obtaining financing; high cost of advanced technologies; investment not necessary for continuing operations; lack of technical skills required to support this type of investment; organizational culture too inflexible; decisions made by parent, affiliates or subsidiary businesses; lack of technical support or services (from consultants or vendors); lack of information regarding advanced technology; difficulty in integrating new advanced technologies with existing systems, standards and processes; other reasons for not adopting or using advanced technologies; and adoption or use of advanced technologies not applicable to this business’s activities.
Release date: 2024-04-30
6. Clean technology use, by industry and enterprise size
Table: 27-10-0369-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Occasional
Description: Percentage of enterprises where the use of clean technologies was related to environmental protection, sustainable resource management or adapted goods, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period. Environmental protection includes air and environment protection or remediation; waste management, reduction or recycling; and water or wastewater treatment. Sustainable resource management includes alternative fuels; non-emitting energy supply; bio-products; smart grid; energy storage; energy management and efficiency improvements; water management or recycling; agriculture, aquaculture, forestry or biodiversity improvements; and sustainable mining. Adapted goods include energy-efficient transportation, energy-efficient equipment or appliances, and advanced or lightweight materials.
Release date: 2024-04-30
7. Businesses with affiliates abroad, by industry and enterprise size
Table: 33-10-0149-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Occasional
Description:
Percentage of enterprises that had affiliates abroad, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period.
Release date: 2024-04-30
8. Most important long-term strategies, by industry and enterprise size
Table: 33-10-0153-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Occasional
Description:
Percentage of enterprises for which specific long-term strategies were the most important, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, over the next five years. The most important long-term strategies include main focus on good or service positioning, main focus on low-price and cost leadership, and good or service positioning and low-price and cost leadership are equally important.
Release date: 2024-04-30
9. Strategic focus regarding goods or services (products), by industry and enterprise size
Table: 33-10-0154-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Occasional
Description:
Percentage of enterprises for which specific statements best described their strategic focus regarding goods or services (products), by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, over the next five years. Statements that best described enterprises’ strategic focus regarding goods or services (products) include maintain sales of existing goods or services, expand the sales of existing goods or services, introduce new or significantly improved goods or services regularly, and don’t know.
Release date: 2024-04-30
10. Types of products (goods or services) sold, by industry and enterprise size
Table: 33-10-0158-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Occasional
Description:
Percentage of enterprises that sold only goods, only services or both goods and services, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period.
Release date: 2024-04-30

Data (234)

Data (234) (0 to 10 of 234 results)

1. 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: 2024-05-27
2. Use of advanced or emerging technologies, by industry and enterprise size
Table: 27-10-0367-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Occasional
Description:
Percentage of enterprises that used specific types of advanced or emerging technologies, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period. Advanced technologies include material handling, supply chain or logistics technologies; design or information control technologies; processing or fabrication technologies; clean technologies; security or advanced authentication systems; business intelligence technologies; and other types of advanced technologies. Emerging technologies include nanotechnology, biotechnology, geomatics or geospatial technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), integrated Internet of Things (IoT) systems, blockchain technologies, and other types of emerging technologies.
Release date: 2024-04-30
3. Reasons for not adopting or using advanced technologies, by industry and enterprise size
Table: 27-10-0368-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Occasional
Description:
Percentage of enterprises that did not adopt or use advanced technologies for specific reasons, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period. Reasons for not adopting or using advanced technologies include not convinced of economic benefit; difficulty in obtaining financing; high cost of advanced technologies; investment not necessary for continuing operations; lack of technical skills required to support this type of investment; organizational culture too inflexible; decisions made by parent, affiliates or subsidiary businesses; lack of technical support or services (from consultants or vendors); lack of information regarding advanced technology; difficulty in integrating new advanced technologies with existing systems, standards and processes; other reasons for not adopting or using advanced technologies; and adoption or use of advanced technologies not applicable to this business’s activities.
Release date: 2024-04-30
4. Clean technology use, by industry and enterprise size
Table: 27-10-0369-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Occasional
Description: Percentage of enterprises where the use of clean technologies was related to environmental protection, sustainable resource management or adapted goods, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period. Environmental protection includes air and environment protection or remediation; waste management, reduction or recycling; and water or wastewater treatment. Sustainable resource management includes alternative fuels; non-emitting energy supply; bio-products; smart grid; energy storage; energy management and efficiency improvements; water management or recycling; agriculture, aquaculture, forestry or biodiversity improvements; and sustainable mining. Adapted goods include energy-efficient transportation, energy-efficient equipment or appliances, and advanced or lightweight materials.
Release date: 2024-04-30
5. Businesses with affiliates abroad, by industry and enterprise size
Table: 33-10-0149-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Occasional
Description:
Percentage of enterprises that had affiliates abroad, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period.
Release date: 2024-04-30
6. Most important long-term strategies, by industry and enterprise size
Table: 33-10-0153-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Occasional
Description:
Percentage of enterprises for which specific long-term strategies were the most important, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, over the next five years. The most important long-term strategies include main focus on good or service positioning, main focus on low-price and cost leadership, and good or service positioning and low-price and cost leadership are equally important.
Release date: 2024-04-30
7. Strategic focus regarding goods or services (products), by industry and enterprise size
Table: 33-10-0154-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Occasional
Description:
Percentage of enterprises for which specific statements best described their strategic focus regarding goods or services (products), by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, over the next five years. Statements that best described enterprises’ strategic focus regarding goods or services (products) include maintain sales of existing goods or services, expand the sales of existing goods or services, introduce new or significantly improved goods or services regularly, and don’t know.
Release date: 2024-04-30
8. Types of products (goods or services) sold, by industry and enterprise size
Table: 33-10-0158-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Occasional
Description:
Percentage of enterprises that sold only goods, only services or both goods and services, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period.
Release date: 2024-04-30
9. Production or manufacturing of goods sold, by industry and enterprise size
Table: 33-10-0159-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Occasional
Description:
Percentage of enterprises that produced or manufactured any of the goods that they sold, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period.
Release date: 2024-04-30
10. Services offered to complement the sale of goods, by industry and enterprise size
Table: 33-10-0166-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Occasional
Description:
Percentage of enterprises that offered specific services to complement the sale of goods, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period. Complementary services include after-sales maintenance or repair, installation or implementation, training or technical support, after-sales condition monitoring or quality control, customization, distribution or transportation, leasing or rental agreements, and other services.
Release date: 2024-04-30

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Analysis (80) (20 to 30 of 80 results)

21. Impact of COVID-19 on small businesses in Canada Archived
Stats in brief: 45-28-0001202000100018
Description:
The Canadian economy changed dramatically in March 2020 as a result of COVID-19 and the situation has had a profound impact on the ability of businesses in Canada to operate. In order to better understand the impact of COVID-19 on businesses, employers and employees, communities and our economy, Statistics Canada and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce collaborated to launch the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions. While the majority of businesses in Canada have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, it appears that small businesses have been hit particularly hard by this crisis.
Release date: 2020-05-11
22. Long-run Perspectives on Mid-size Firms: The Role of Productivity and Geographic Scope Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2019004
Description: This paper uses Canadian business microdata for 1999 to 2013 to study the characteristics of private-sector medium-sized firms that transition to the large or small size classes. A firm’s size class is defined over a three-year window to ensure that it represents the firm’s long-term state rather than a transient state for a given year. The paper examines what distinguishes medium-sized firms that become large from those that revert to being small.
Release date: 2019-02-05
23. The Financing of Immigrant-owned Firms in Canada Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2018404
Description:
Using data from the 2011 and 2014 Survey on Financing and Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises, this paper examines access to financing by immigrant business owners. It documents the main financing sources of immigrant-owned and Canadian-owned small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Release date: 2018-06-18
24. Enterprise size class transition in Canada Archived
Articles and reports: 18-001-X2018001
Description:
This paper seeks to investigate enterprise dynamics in terms of employment in Canada. The tracking of changes in enterprise size over time can provide a useful overview of the trend in the performance of both the enterprises and the economy as a whole.
Using the Entrepreneurship Indicators Database for the years 2008 and 2014, this study divides enterprises into nine class sizes based on the number of employees. Then, enterprises that were active in 2008 with one or more employees were tracked to see in which size class they were in 2014. The analysis is based on an approach that consists of building transition matrices using enterprise size classes.
Release date: 2018-03-15
25. Study: Unincorporated self-employment in Canada 1989 to 2010 Archived
Stats in brief: 11-001-X201528112491
Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
Release date: 2015-10-08
26. Canada-United States Labour Productivity Gap Across Firm Size Classes Archived
Articles and reports: 15-206-X2014033
Description:
This paper examines and compares labour productivity in Canada and the United States for small and large firms over the period from 2002 to 2008. It quantifies the relative importance of small and large firms in Canada and the United States and measures the relative productivity levels of small versus large firms.
Small firms are relatively more important in the Canadian economy. Small firms are less productive than large firms in both countries. But the productivity disadvantage of small relative to large firms was higher in Canada.
The paper provides an estimate of the impact that these differences have on the gap in productivity levels between Canada and the United States. It first estimates the changes that would occur in Canadian aggregate labour productivity if the share of hours worked of large firms in Canada was increased to the U.S. level. It then quantifies the impact of increasing the relative productivity of small to large firms in Canada up to the relative productivity ratio of small firms to large firms that existed in the United States.
Together, decreasing the relative importance of small firms in the economy and increasing their relative productivity compared to large firms accounts for most of the gap in productivity levels between Canada and the United States in 2002. However, changes in the economy that occurred between 2002 and 2008 reduced the contribution of the small-firm sector to the gap in productivity levels.
Release date: 2014-01-08
27. Firm Size and the Risk/Return Trade-off Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0027M2013087
Geography: Canada
Description:
The topic of firm size and performance continues to spark the interest of researchers and policy-makers. Small and medium-sized enterprises receive much of the attention, as they have the potential to grow significantly. However, compared with their larger counterparts, these firms are more likely to fail and are therefore riskier.
Is risk important in explaining differences in profitability across firm size classes? This study uses a longitudinal firm-level dataset to examine determinants of profitability by firm size, with an emphasis on risk, or the volatility in rates of return. It builds on previous research that found firms with 10 to 20 employees tend to be the most profitable.
Release date: 2013-12-19
28. Canadian Labour Productivity Differences Across Firm Size Classes, 2002 to 2008 Archived
Articles and reports: 15-206-X2013032
Description:
This paper examines differences in labour productivity across small, medium- and large-sized enterprises in Canada.
In 2008, the level of labour productivity, as measured by nominal gross domestic product per hour worked, in large businesses was greater than that for medium-sized and small businesses. This gap between large businesses relative to small and medium-sized businesses narrowed slightly during the post-2000 period. The paper also examines the impact of changes in industrial structure on labour productivity.
Release date: 2013-08-26
29. Study: Growth of Large Firms in Canada 2001 to 2008 Archived
Stats in brief: 11-001-X20123426801
Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
Release date: 2012-12-07
30. The Growth of Large Firms in Canada Archived
Articles and reports: 11-626-X2012021
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article in the Economic Insights series reports on the size distribution of Canadian firms compiled for the research paper Small, Medium-sized, and Large Businesses in the Canadian Economy: Measuring Their Contribution to Gross Domestic Product from 2001 to 2008. The creation of estimates of gross domestic product by firm size is part of a program at Statistics Canada that examines the structure of the Canadian economy and its evolution.
Release date: 2012-12-07

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1. 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
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.

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