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  • 1. Quarterly financial statistics for enterprises third quarter 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20253283682
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-11-24
  • 2. Economic and fiscal performance of immigrant-owned firms in Canada
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202500200002
    Description: Canada has one of the highest shares of immigrants among developed countries. In 2021, immigrants made up nearly one-quarter (23.0%) of the population—the largest proportion among G7 nations. Therefore, understanding the impact of immigrant-owned businesses on the Canadian economy is essential. This article highlights key findings from two recent studies that explore the labour productivity and fiscal contributions of immigrant-owned firms.
    Release date: 2025-02-26
  • 3. Did the COVID-19 pandemic zombify the economy? A look at zombie firms
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202500100002
    Description: Zombie firms are businesses that persistently perform poorly over time without exiting, and their prevalence has been rising over time across many advanced economies. They negatively impact economic growth as they tend to be unproductive and compete with other healthy firms for scarce resources. This article summarizes research by Statistics Canada, that examined zombie firm prevalence and their dynamics over the pandemic period, whether business supports helped to prop up zombie firms or encourage their survival, and their contribution to the decline in Canada’s productivity.
    Release date: 2025-01-22
  • 4. Survival Rate and Performance of Indigenous-owned Businesses
    Articles and reports: 11F0019M2024006
    Description: This paper quantifies the economic performance including the survival rate of Indigenous-owned businesses relative to their non-Indigenous-owned counterparts over recent decades in Canada. It builds on the growing interest of policy makers in designing policies that support the social and economic integration of racialized groups and Indigenous Peoples.
    Release date: 2024-11-18
  • 5. Impact assessment of business innovation and growth support programs on firm performance in Canada using the CDM model
    Articles and reports: 18-001-X2024002
    Description: This study examined the impact of federal business innovation and growth support (BIGS) programs on firm financial performance measured using revenue, profit and employment metrics. Using Statistics Canada’s Business Linkable File Environment data, the study observed the effects of BIGS on exporting versus non-exporting firms and Canadian- versus U.S.-owned firms from 2015 to 2020. Unlike previous studies that relied mainly on survey data, one significant aspect of this research was the use of a new dataset, enabling panel data structures and models to be employed. To assess the impact of BIGS and research and development spending on three interrelated measures of firm financial performance, the CDM (Crépon et al., 1998) framework was adopted.
    Release date: 2024-04-25
  • 6. Study: Corporate profitability and inflation 2017 to 2022 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202320837386
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2023-07-27
  • 7. Experimental Environmental, Social and Governance Dashboard Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202308734343
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2023-03-28
  • 8. Study: The impact of the pandemic on the solvency of corporations, third quarter 2020 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202101828323
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2021-01-18
  • 9. Firm Dynamics: Variation in Profitability Across Canadian Firms of Different Sizes, 2000 to 2009 Archived
    Articles and reports: 11-622-M2012026
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Are small firms more profitable than large firms? This paper uses a longitudinal firm-level dataset to explore the financial performance of firms across size classes, and across industries and provinces during the 2000-to-2009 period. It also examines the volatility of profitability across firm size classes.

    Release date: 2012-07-31
  • 10. Are Small Firms More Profitable than Large Firms? Archived
    Articles and reports: 11-626-X2012012
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This article in the Economic Insights series looks at the relationship between firm size and financial performance. It highlights the results from the research paper Firm Dynamics: Variation in Profitability Across Canadian Firms of Different Sizes, 2000 to 2009. The research paper uses a special longitudinal database that follows corporate entities between 2000 and 2009. It is part of a set of research projects being carried out at Statistics Canada on the topic of business dynamics.

    Release date: 2012-07-31
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  • 1. North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) - Canada
    Classification: 12-003-X
    Description: The North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) is the departmental standard for the classification of products (goods and services). The classification is a joint project of the national statistical agencies of Canada, Mexico and the United States. NAPCS is used to produce product statistics on a variety of topics, including the value of outputs of industries, the consumption by businesses and households, the value of imports and exports, and the movement of industrial and raw material prices. NAPCS Canada comprises definitions for all categories that include a descriptive text, as well as illustrative examples, inclusions and exclusions where appropriate.

    Email: statcan.csds-standardsproducts-cnsd-normesproduits.statcan@statcan.gc.ca

    Release date: 2022-03-31
  • 2. Chart of Accounts Canada, Financial Position and Performance of a Business
    Classification: 12-595-X
    Description:

    The Chart of Accounts comprises a balance sheet, an income statement and selected other accounts. The balance sheet provides information on the financial position of a business. The income statement provides information on the performance of a business. The elements of the balance sheet are assets, liabilities and equity. The elements of the income statement are revenues; expenses; gains/losses, corporate taxes and other items; and extraordinary gains/losses, non-recurring items and adjustments.

    Release date: 2011-05-31
  • 3. Annual Trucking Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2742
    Description: The purpose of this survey is to measure the size, structure and economic performance of the trucking industry and to analyze its impact on the Canadian economy.
  • 4. Quarterly Trucking Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2748
    Description: The purpose of this survey is to collect the financial data needed to estimate value-added for the trucking industry and to analyze its impact on the Canadian economy.
  • 5. Annual Survey of Small For-Hire Carriers of Freight and Owner-Operators
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2800
    Description: The main purpose of this survey is to provide information about the size, structure and economic performance of Canada's small for-hire trucking industry and Owner-operators.
  • 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. Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy Canada
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 7508
    Description: This is non-Statistics Canada information.

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