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- Table: 33-10-0270-01Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan areaFrequency: MonthlyDescription:
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: 2024-03-22 - Journals and periodicals: 11-632-XDescription: 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: 2024-03-21
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202405723725Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2024-02-26
- Table: 33-10-0805-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Percentage of enterprises where innovations were developed mainly by the business, parent, affiliated or subsidiary businesses; collaboratively, by the business together with other businesses or organizations; and mainly by other businesses or organizations, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and enterprise size for Canada and certain provinces.Release date: 2024-02-20
- Table: 33-10-0806-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: Semi-annualDescription: Canadian Business Counts, location counts with employees, by employment size ranges and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), Canada and provinces, December 2023.Release date: 2024-02-13
- Table: 33-10-0807-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: Semi-annualDescription: Canadian Business Counts, location counts without employees, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), Canada and provinces, December 2023.Release date: 2024-02-13
- Table: 33-10-0808-01Geography: Census subdivision, Census metropolitan areaFrequency: Semi-annualDescription: Canadian Business Counts, location counts with employees, by employment size ranges and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), census metropolitan areas and census subdivisions, December 2023.Release date: 2024-02-13
- Table: 45-20-00042024001Description: Rural Canada Business Profiles is a database that provides financial profiles for small and medium-sized businesses in Canada with total annual revenues of $30,000 to $5,000,000 and $5,000,001 to $20,000,000 respectively. These data are available by industry, by province or territory, by legal status of businesses (incorporated and unincorporated) and the distinction of rural/urban location of businesses. Data released is for 2021.Release date: 2024-01-16
- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024001Description: This dashboard shows the selected data from the Rural Canada Business Profile (RCBP) database that is produced based on the business tax returns filed with the Canada Revenue Agency. A reference year for the RCBP database runs from January 1 to December 31. The main variables in this RCBP dashboard are business counts, revenue, expenses, and balance sheets items. Data are organized by geography, by location, by industry code, and by industry incorporation status. The RCBP database defines rural and small town (RST) areas as communities outside census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.Release date: 2024-01-16
- Table: 33-10-0577-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription:
This table includes total number of businesses and total revenue (all incorporated statuses); sales of goods and services, and other revenues (incorporated businesses only). Values are averages in current dollars unless otherwise stated.
Release date: 2024-01-16
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- Table: 33-10-0270-01Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan areaFrequency: MonthlyDescription:
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: 2024-03-22 - Table: 33-10-0805-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Percentage of enterprises where innovations were developed mainly by the business, parent, affiliated or subsidiary businesses; collaboratively, by the business together with other businesses or organizations; and mainly by other businesses or organizations, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and enterprise size for Canada and certain provinces.Release date: 2024-02-20
- Table: 33-10-0806-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: Semi-annualDescription: Canadian Business Counts, location counts with employees, by employment size ranges and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), Canada and provinces, December 2023.Release date: 2024-02-13
- Table: 33-10-0807-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: Semi-annualDescription: Canadian Business Counts, location counts without employees, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), Canada and provinces, December 2023.Release date: 2024-02-13
- Table: 33-10-0808-01Geography: Census subdivision, Census metropolitan areaFrequency: Semi-annualDescription: Canadian Business Counts, location counts with employees, by employment size ranges and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), census metropolitan areas and census subdivisions, December 2023.Release date: 2024-02-13
- Table: 45-20-00042024001Description: Rural Canada Business Profiles is a database that provides financial profiles for small and medium-sized businesses in Canada with total annual revenues of $30,000 to $5,000,000 and $5,000,001 to $20,000,000 respectively. These data are available by industry, by province or territory, by legal status of businesses (incorporated and unincorporated) and the distinction of rural/urban location of businesses. Data released is for 2021.Release date: 2024-01-16
- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024001Description: This dashboard shows the selected data from the Rural Canada Business Profile (RCBP) database that is produced based on the business tax returns filed with the Canada Revenue Agency. A reference year for the RCBP database runs from January 1 to December 31. The main variables in this RCBP dashboard are business counts, revenue, expenses, and balance sheets items. Data are organized by geography, by location, by industry code, and by industry incorporation status. The RCBP database defines rural and small town (RST) areas as communities outside census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.Release date: 2024-01-16
- Table: 33-10-0577-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription:
This table includes total number of businesses and total revenue (all incorporated statuses); sales of goods and services, and other revenues (incorporated businesses only). Values are averages in current dollars unless otherwise stated.
Release date: 2024-01-16 - Table: 33-10-0578-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription:
This table includes total expenses, cost of sales (direct expenses), wages and benefits, purchases, materials and sub-contracts, opening inventory, closing inventory, operating expenses (indirect expenses), labour and commissions, amortization and depletion, repairs and maintenance, utilities and telephone and telecommunication, rent, interest and bank charges, advertising and promotion, delivery and shipping and warehouse, insurance, other indirect expenses, net profit or loss. All incorporation statuses. Values are averages in current dollars unless otherwise stated.
Release date: 2024-01-16 - Table: 33-10-0579-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription:
This table includes total expenses, cost of sales (direct expenses), wages and benefits, purchases, materials and sub-contracts, opening inventory, closing inventory, operating expenses (indirect expenses), labour and commissions, amortization and depletion, repairs and maintenance, utilities and telephone and telecommunication, rent, interest and bank charges, advertising and promotion, delivery and shipping and warehouse, insurance, other indirect expenses, net profit or loss. All incorporation statuses. Values are averages in current dollars unless otherwise stated.
Release date: 2024-01-16
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- 71. Recent Canadian Evidence on Job Quality by Firm Size ArchivedArticles and reports: 11F0019M1998128Geography: CanadaDescription:
We provide recent evidence on job characteristics by firm size in Canada. Using a variety of household surveys, we assemble a wide set of facts on wages, fringe benefits and work schedules in small and large firms. We show that the wage gap between small and large firms has reamined fairly stable over the past decade. After controlling for observable worker characteristics and industry-specific effects, large firms pay 15-20% more than small firms. Pension plan coverage remains at least four times higher in large firms than in small firms. While the gap in pension coverage between small and large firms has not increased over time for men, there is some evidence that it has increased for women. We assess the extent to which work schedules vary between small and large firms. Our results indicate that compared to workers in large firms, employees of small firms work at least as many weekly hours. Furthermore, they are more likely to work more than five days per week. This implies that the firm size wage premium cannot be explained by a longer workweek in large firms. As long as workers prefer working during the day, the greater frequency of shift work in large, goods-producing companies is one dimension along which work schedules are less desirable in large firms. According to the theory of compensating differentials, the size-wage differential may partially reflect the willingness of large firms to compensate workers for shift work. We test this hypothesis and conclude that shift work has virtually no effect on the firm size wage premium. Our results emphasize the need to look at several dimensions of work to assess how job quality varies between small and large firms.
Release date: 1998-11-13 - Articles and reports: 61-532-X19970013498Description:
Amidst evidence that the small business sector, and in particular new businesses, is the main engine of net job creation in the Canadian economy, there has been a renewed public policy focus and research interest on the small business unit. This research concerns topics including business practices, financing, characteristics of business owners, and business demographics. The purpose of these studies is generally to examine the causes of success and/or failure of small businesses.
Release date: 1998-02-02 - Articles and reports: 11F0019M1997102Geography: CanadaDescription:
The strategies and competencies of small and medium-sized firms are explored here using the responses to the Survey of Growing Small and Medium Size Enterprises, conducted by Statistics Canada. The paper classifies small and medium-sized firms by innovator type and explores the complementary strategies in management, marketing, human resources and financing that are adopted by each innovator type and the success of each type of innovator.
A taxonomy of innovative types is developed that is based on the product/process development orientation of the firm. Differences in competencies in the area of human resources, management, marketing and finance that are possessed by firms in each group are examined. Firms are classified into one of four groups-product innovators, comprehensive (product and process) innovators, process innovators, or non-innovators-based on their responses to 22 innovation-related questions on the survey. These groups correspond to different stages in the development of a product market. Product innovators occupy the first stage, the time when the product is initially introduced. Comprehensive innovators represent the second stage, when the product demand is still growing, and firms in addition to producing new products, have begun to make dramatic improvements in their production efficiencies, by concentrating on process innovations as well as product innovations. Process innovators represent the third phase in the development of a product market, when the product characteristics have become established, and firms seek to improve their market share mainly by improving their production efficiencies. Finally, the last phase is characterized by a relatively stable product line, with a mature production technology.
The competencies of firms differ across these innovative types. Comprehensive innovators tend to develop greater capabilities than the other innovators in a wide range of areas. Comprehensive innovators also tend to outperform the other innovators in terms of growth in sales, market share, and employment size.
Innovators also tailor their financial strategies to their innovator type. Product innovators focus on a low debt/asset strategy with non-standard sources like venture capital. In later stages of the innovation life cycle-comprehensive and process innovators place great emphasis on higher debt/asset ratios and make greater use of long-term debt and equity capital.
Release date: 1998-01-22 - 74. Job Creation by Company Size Class: Concentration and Persistence of Job Gains and Losses in Canadian Companies ArchivedArticles and reports: 11F0019M1996093Geography: CanadaDescription:
The statistical observation that small firms have created the majority of new jobs during the 1980s has had a tremendous influence on public policy. Governmentshave looked to the small firm sector for employment growth, and have promoted policies to augment this expansion. However, recent research in the US suggeststhat net job creation in the small firm sector may have been overestimated, relative to that in large firms. The first part of this paper addresses various measurement issues raised in the recent research, and uses a very unique Canadian longitudinal data set thatencompasses all companies in the Canadian economy to reassess the issue of job creation by firm size. We conclude that over the 1978-92 period, for both theentire Canadian economy and the manufacturing sector, the growth rate of net and gross employment decreases monotonically as the size of firm increases, no matterwhich method of sizing firms is used. Measurement does matter, however, as the magnitude of the difference in the growth rates of small and large firms is verysensitive to the measurement approaches used. Part one of the paper also produces results for various industrial sectors, and examines employment growth inexisting small and large firms (i.e., excluding births). It is found that employment growth in the population of existing small and large firms is very similar. Finallyattempts are made to introduce a job quality aspect to the numbers by using payroll distributions rather than employment. The net and gross rates of increase anddecrease in payrolls by firm size are found to be only marginally different than those of employment. The second part of the paper looks at concentration of employment creation and destruction within size classes. This is relevant because if growth is highlyconcentrated, knowing that a firm is small will provide little information about its prospects for growth. Most small firms would grow relatively little, or decline, whilea few expanded a lot. It is found that both job creation and destruction is highly concentrated among relatively few firms in all size groups, but it is greater amongsmall and mid-sized companies than large. Finally attempts are made to correlate the performance of businesses over two three-year periods. It is found thatknowing that a firm is a high performer (in terms of jobs created) over one period is of only limited value in determining growth in the second period. This isparticularly true among small firms. These results suggest that firms which expand rapidly during one period are replaced to some considerable degree by others inthe subsequent period.
Release date: 1997-07-17 - 75. Were Small Producers the Engines of Growth in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector in the 1980s? ArchivedArticles and reports: 11F0019M1996088Geography: CanadaDescription:
Small firms are often seen to be the engines of growth. There are two main sources of empirical evidence that are adduced to support this conclusion. The first is that job creation has been coming mainly from small firms. The second is that the share of employment accounted for by small firms has increased in the past two decades. Both of these sources rely on a simple metric--employment. This paper asks whether changes in this metric affect the view of the role that small firms play in the growth process.
The first section of the paper maintains employment as the measure that is used to evaluate the importance of small firms but modifies the raw measure of employment to correct for the fact that small firms pay lower wages than large firms. The paper examines the evidence indicating that smaller producers in the manufacturing sector pay lower wages and that this differential has grown over time. It then uses relative wage rates to create a measure of employment that is adjusted for wage differentials. When this is done, small producers no longer outperform large producers in terms of job creation over the 1970s and 1980s in the Canadian manufacturing sector.
The second section of the paper changes the metric used to evaluate relative performance by moving from employment to output and labour productivity. The paper demonstrates that while small producers have increased their employment share dramatically, they have barely changed their output share. Small firms have been falling behind large firms both with respect to wages paid and labour productivity. Large producers have been decreasing their relative employment while maintaining their relative output share, thereby making dramatic strides in increasing their relative labour productivity.
Release date: 1996-09-24 - 76. Human Capital Development and Innovation: The Case of Training in Small and Medium Sized Firms ArchivedArticles and reports: 11F0019M1995074Geography: CanadaDescription:
This study examines the characteristics of small and medium-sized firms that perform training. It uses data taken from a recent Statistics Canada survey that permit firms' training decisions to be analyzed within the broader context of their many activities and strategies.
The study finds strong evidence for the hypothesis that human capital development facilitated by training is complementary to innovation and technological change. Training incidence is found to be closely related to the importance that a firm gives to research and development, the use of new technologies, and numerous other strategies that are related to innovation. Training is also greater where a firm emphasizes quality and a comprehensive human-resource strategy. The results point to the inherent complementarity of technology and human resources policy.
Release date: 1995-03-30 - 77. Innovation: The Key to Success in Small Firms ArchivedArticles and reports: 11F0019M1995076Geography: CanadaDescription:
This study examines the differences in strategies and activities pursued by a sample of more-successful and less-successful group of growing small- and medium-sized enterprises. Amongst other matters, it examines different functional strategies -- the importance of management, human resource practices, marketing, financing, and the innovativeness of the firm. Innovative activities are the most important determinants of success; that is, for a wide range of industries, they serve to discriminate between the more- and the less-successful firms better than any other variable. Almost all of the strategy questions that relate to innovative activity receive higher scores from the more-successful group of firms than from the less-successful group of firms. This is also the case for innovative activities -- whether a firm possesses an R&D unit, its expenditure on R&D relative to total investment, and its R&D-to-sales ratio.
Release date: 1995-02-28 - Articles and reports: 11F0019M1994070Geography: CanadaDescription:
This paper uses job turnover data to compare how job creation, job destruction and net job change differ for small and large establishments in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It uses several different techniques to correct for the regression-to-the-mean problem that, it has been suggested, might incorrectly lead to the conclusion that small establishments create a disproportionate number of new jobs. It finds that net job creation for smaller establishments is greater than that of large establishments after such changes are made. The paper also compares the importance of small and large establishments in the manufacturing sectors of Canada and the United States. The Canadian manufacturing sector is shown to have both a larger proportion of employment in smaller establishments but also to have a small establishment sector that is growing in importance relative to that of the United States.
Release date: 1994-11-16 - 79. Have Small Firms Created a Disproportionate Share of New Jobs in Canada? A Reassessment of the Facts ArchivedArticles and reports: 11F0019M1994071Geography: CanadaDescription:
The statistical observation that small firms have created the majority of new jobs during the 1980s has had a tremendous influence on public policy. Governmentshave looked to the small firm sector for employment growth, and have promoted policies to augment this expansion. However, recent research in the US suggeststhat net job creation in the small firm sector may have been overestimated, relative to that in large firms. This paper addresses various measurement issues raised inthe recent research, and uses a very unique Canadian longitudinal data set that encompasses all companies in the Canadian economy to reassess the issue of jobcreation by firm size. We conclude that over the 1978-92 period, for both the entire Canadian economy and the manufacturing sector, the growth rate of (net)employment decreases monotonically as the size of firm increases, no matter which method of sizing firms is used. The small firm sector has accounted for adisproportionate share of both gross job gains and job losses, and in that aggregate, accounted for a disproportionate share of the employment increase over theperiod. Measurement does matter, however, as the magnitude of the difference in the growth rates of small and large firms is very sensitive to the measurementapproaches used. The paper also produces results for various industrial sectors, asks whether the more rapid growth in industries with a high proportion of smallfirms is responsible for the findings at the all-economy level, and examines employment growth in existing small and large firms (ie excluding births). It is found thatemployment growth in the population of existing small and large firms is very similar.
Release date: 1994-11-16
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- 1. Statistics Canada's Business Surveys ArchivedSurveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 61F0019X19990025579Geography: CanadaDescription:
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 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2941Description: 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.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5028Description: The Financial Performance Data present selected revenue, expense, profit and balance sheet items as well as financial ratios on small business in Canada.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5093Description: 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.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5095Description: 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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