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- Table: 33-10-0175-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription:
Percentage of enterprises for which multinational organizations were among competitors in the main geographical market, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period.
Release date: 2024-07-31 - Table: 61-517-XDescription: The Inter-corporate ownership product is the most authoritative and comprehensive source of information available on corporate ownership; a unique directory of "who owns what" in Canada. It provides up-to-date information reflecting recent corporate takeovers and other substantial changes. Ultimate corporate control is determined through a careful study of holdings by corporations, the effects of options, insider holdings, convertible shares and interlocking directorships. The number of corporations that make up the hierarchy of structures totals approximately 50,000.
The information that is presented is based on non-confidential returns filed by Canadian corporations under the Corporations Returns Act and on research using public sources such as internet sites. The data are presented in an easy-to-read tiered format, illustrating at a glance the hierarchy of subsidiaries within each corporate structure. The entries for each corporation provide both the country of control and the country of residence.
The product covers every individual corporation that is part of a group of commonly controlled corporations with combined assets exceeding 600 million dollars or combined revenue exceeding 200 million dollars. Individual corporations with debt obligations or equity owing to non-residents exceeding a net book value of 1 million dollars are covered as well.
Release date: 2024-06-17 - Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400500006Description: The pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on the Canadian economy. This impact was uneven across different workers and businesses. However, there is little information available on how businesses were affected by and survived through the pandemic according to the characteristics of their owners, especially those owned by certain groups such as women and immigrants. This article uses a linkage of the monthly business openings and closures with the Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database and the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy to study the survival rate and employment growth of businesses by gender, and immigrant status of owners.Release date: 2024-05-22
- Table: 36-10-0356-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: AnnualDescription:
Data on the activities of Canadian and foreign multinational enterprises in Canada, for example the number of jobs, assets, operating revenues, international merchandise trade or gross domestic product, as a share of the Canadian economy.
Release date: 2024-05-21 - Table: 36-10-0582-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: AnnualDescription:
Data on the activities of foreign multinational enterprises in Canada, for example the number of jobs, assets, operating revenues, international merchandise trade or gross domestic product, by ultimate investor country and industry.
Release date: 2024-05-21 - Data Visualization: 71-607-X2019026Description:
The interactive tool presents information on activities of multinational enterprises at the international and national level. At the international level, users can see the importance of foreign multinationals on the Canadian economy as well as the similar role of Canadian multinationals in foreign economies, by country. At the national level, information on activities of multinational enterprises in Canada are included, by type of multinationals, province and industry. Activities include a number of selected variables such as number of enterprises, number of jobs, assets, revenues, merchandise trade and value added.
Release date: 2024-05-21 - 7. A comparison of investments of official language minority owned businesses in rural and urban areasArticles and reports: 11-621-M2024005Description: This analysis compares the investment efforts of official language minority (OLM) owned businesses depending on whether they are located in a rural or urban area. The study is based on a model that uses a seemingly unrelated regression equation (SURE) system estimator to simultaneously assess the impact of determinants that explain the investment of businesses in rural and urban areas and to statistically test the differences between the two areas.Release date: 2024-05-02
- Table: 33-10-0148-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription:
Percentage of enterprises that were affiliates of a foreign parent company and location of the foreign parent company (United States of America, Mexico, other Latin American and Caribbean countries, Europe, China, other Asian countries or all other countries), by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period.
Release date: 2024-04-30 - Articles and reports: 11-621-M2024001Description: Businesses in Canada continue to face a variety of challenges in the new year. Business outcomes and challenges expected also vary across businesses owned by different populations. This article focuses on the expectations of one of these populations: majority women-owned businesses. It involves an examination of the data produced by the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions.Release date: 2024-03-08
- Articles and reports: 11F0019M2024002Description: Immigrant-owned businesses were more likely to be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic than other businesses, as they were more concentrated in industries requiring in-person contact and were smaller in scale. To support businesses affected by the pandemic, the Government of Canada launched various COVID-19 liquidity support programs, including the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS), the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance (CECRA), the Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy (CERS) and the Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA). These programs were designed to help affected businesses by partially covering their main expenses, such as wages, rent and property expenses.Release date: 2024-03-06
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- Table: 33-10-0175-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription:
Percentage of enterprises for which multinational organizations were among competitors in the main geographical market, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period.
Release date: 2024-07-31 - Table: 61-517-XDescription: The Inter-corporate ownership product is the most authoritative and comprehensive source of information available on corporate ownership; a unique directory of "who owns what" in Canada. It provides up-to-date information reflecting recent corporate takeovers and other substantial changes. Ultimate corporate control is determined through a careful study of holdings by corporations, the effects of options, insider holdings, convertible shares and interlocking directorships. The number of corporations that make up the hierarchy of structures totals approximately 50,000.
The information that is presented is based on non-confidential returns filed by Canadian corporations under the Corporations Returns Act and on research using public sources such as internet sites. The data are presented in an easy-to-read tiered format, illustrating at a glance the hierarchy of subsidiaries within each corporate structure. The entries for each corporation provide both the country of control and the country of residence.
The product covers every individual corporation that is part of a group of commonly controlled corporations with combined assets exceeding 600 million dollars or combined revenue exceeding 200 million dollars. Individual corporations with debt obligations or equity owing to non-residents exceeding a net book value of 1 million dollars are covered as well.
Release date: 2024-06-17 - Table: 36-10-0356-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: AnnualDescription:
Data on the activities of Canadian and foreign multinational enterprises in Canada, for example the number of jobs, assets, operating revenues, international merchandise trade or gross domestic product, as a share of the Canadian economy.
Release date: 2024-05-21 - Table: 36-10-0582-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: AnnualDescription:
Data on the activities of foreign multinational enterprises in Canada, for example the number of jobs, assets, operating revenues, international merchandise trade or gross domestic product, by ultimate investor country and industry.
Release date: 2024-05-21 - Data Visualization: 71-607-X2019026Description:
The interactive tool presents information on activities of multinational enterprises at the international and national level. At the international level, users can see the importance of foreign multinationals on the Canadian economy as well as the similar role of Canadian multinationals in foreign economies, by country. At the national level, information on activities of multinational enterprises in Canada are included, by type of multinationals, province and industry. Activities include a number of selected variables such as number of enterprises, number of jobs, assets, revenues, merchandise trade and value added.
Release date: 2024-05-21 - Table: 33-10-0148-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription:
Percentage of enterprises that were affiliates of a foreign parent company and location of the foreign parent company (United States of America, Mexico, other Latin American and Caribbean countries, Europe, China, other Asian countries or all other countries), by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period.
Release date: 2024-04-30 - Table: 45-20-00042024002Description: Rural Canada Non-Profits (RCNP) is a database that provides estimates of Non-Profit Organization (NPO) counts, total revenue and total employment in Canada. The tables are by industry in accordance with the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), by International Classification of Non-Profit Organizations (ICNPO) and by geographical classification as feasible: by provinces/territories, by Census Subdivision (CSD) and the distinction of rural/urban location of organizations. NPOs retained for this database were all active for the full or partial duration of the 2021 reference year and reported revenues and/or employment.Release date: 2024-02-12
- Table: 33-10-0216-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: AnnualDescription:
Active, non-financial co-operatives in Canada by selected categorical variables. The data included in this table are revenue, expenses, assets, liabilities, shareholder equity, sales, and salaries and wages.
Release date: 2023-11-06 - Table: 33-10-0216-02Geography: CanadaFrequency: AnnualDescription:
Active, non-financial co-operatives in Canada by selected group variables. The data included in this table are counts and employment.
Release date: 2023-11-06 - Table: 33-10-0217-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription:
Active, non-financial co-operatives in Canada by province and industry. The data included in this table are revenue, expenses, assets, liabilities, shareholder equity, sales, and salaries and wages.
Release date: 2023-11-06
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- Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400500006Description: The pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on the Canadian economy. This impact was uneven across different workers and businesses. However, there is little information available on how businesses were affected by and survived through the pandemic according to the characteristics of their owners, especially those owned by certain groups such as women and immigrants. This article uses a linkage of the monthly business openings and closures with the Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database and the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy to study the survival rate and employment growth of businesses by gender, and immigrant status of owners.Release date: 2024-05-22
- 2. A comparison of investments of official language minority owned businesses in rural and urban areasArticles and reports: 11-621-M2024005Description: This analysis compares the investment efforts of official language minority (OLM) owned businesses depending on whether they are located in a rural or urban area. The study is based on a model that uses a seemingly unrelated regression equation (SURE) system estimator to simultaneously assess the impact of determinants that explain the investment of businesses in rural and urban areas and to statistically test the differences between the two areas.Release date: 2024-05-02
- Articles and reports: 11-621-M2024001Description: Businesses in Canada continue to face a variety of challenges in the new year. Business outcomes and challenges expected also vary across businesses owned by different populations. This article focuses on the expectations of one of these populations: majority women-owned businesses. It involves an examination of the data produced by the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions.Release date: 2024-03-08
- Articles and reports: 11F0019M2024002Description: Immigrant-owned businesses were more likely to be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic than other businesses, as they were more concentrated in industries requiring in-person contact and were smaller in scale. To support businesses affected by the pandemic, the Government of Canada launched various COVID-19 liquidity support programs, including the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS), the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance (CECRA), the Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy (CERS) and the Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA). These programs were designed to help affected businesses by partially covering their main expenses, such as wages, rent and property expenses.Release date: 2024-03-06
- Stats in brief: 11-621-M2023019Description: Racial minority business owners and entrepreneurs make invaluable contributions to the economy and communities across Canada and are essential. From the beginning of October to early November 2023, Statistics Canada conducted the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions (CSBC) to collect information on the environment businesses are currently operating in and their expectations moving forward. This article explores results from the survey by looking at the businesses majority-owned by racialized groups.Release date: 2023-12-21
- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2023065Description: This infographic uses administrative tax data to provide a visual representation of non-financial co-operatives in Canada in 2021. Presented data includes counts of co-operatives at the national and provincial levels, as well as financial and employment statistics.Release date: 2023-11-06
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X20232962972Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2023-10-23
- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2023052Description: This infographic provides a portrait of Black-owned businesses operating in Canada based on region and the primary owner's immigration status, gender, and age. It also highlights the value and share of federal Business Innovation and Growth Support (BIGS) provided to Black-owned businesses in 2020.Release date: 2023-10-05
- Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202300600004Description: In the past two years, Canada has experienced inflation rates that have not been seen in the past two decades. The rise of markups, i.e., price over marginal cost, can be one of the potential drivers or amplifiers of inflation. This study uses firm-level data to estimate markups in Canada's pre- and post-COVID.Release date: 2023-06-28
- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2023038Description: This infographic presents data on private Indigenous-owned businesses in Canada by sex of ownership and other characteristics such as age of primary owner and province of operation.Release date: 2023-06-21
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- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2503Description: The purpose of the Corporations Returns Act is to collect financial and ownership information on corporations conducting business in Canada. This information is used to evaluate the extent and effect of non-resident control in the Canadian corporate economy.
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