Business performance and ownership

Description: This table contains 1659 series, with data for years 1980 - 1998 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and is no longer being released. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada); Industry (33 items: Total, all industries;Total, non-financial industries;Food (including food retailing);Beverages and tobacco; ...); Balance sheet and income statement components (93 items: Total assets;Cash and deposits;Accounts receivable and accrued revenue;Inventories; ...).

Description: This table contains 588 series, with data for years 2004 - 2007 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2008-06-12. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (14 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Nova Scotia; Prince Edward Island ...), Bankruptcies (2 items: Business bankruptcies; Value of liabilities ...), North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (21 items: Total; all industries; Mining and oil and gas extraction; Utilities; Agriculture; forestry; fishing and hunting ...).

Description: This table contains 588 series, with data for years 2004 - 2010 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2010-06-03. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (14 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; Nova Scotia ...), Bankruptcies (2 items: Business bankruptcies; Value of liabilities ...), North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (21 items: Total; all industries; Utilities; Agriculture; forestry; fishing and hunting; Mining and oil and gas extraction ...).

Description: This table contains 3 series, with data for years 1997 - 2010 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2010-08-30. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...), Type of sales (3 items: Annualized premium sales; total; Number of policies sold; total; Face amount sales; total ...).

Description: This table contains 6 series, with data for years 1982 - 1997 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2007-01-25. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...), Type of sales (6 items: Annualised premium sales; total; Premiums per $1000 insurance; total; Number of policies sold; total; Face amount sales; total ...).

Description: Manufacturing industries, annual 21 principal statistics (revenues, expenses, salaries, employment, stocks, etc.), by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), total and 3-digit level.

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This table contains 39 series, with data for years 1977 - 2016 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and is no longer being released. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada);  Life insurers, including accident, sickness branches and segregated funds (39 items: Total assets at booked value of life insurers; Cash and deposits, Life insurers; Total securities, Life insurers; Government of Canada Treasury Bills; ...).

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This table contains 31 series, with data for years 1967 - 2016 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and is no longer being released. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada);  Assets and liabilities (31 items: Total, assets; Cash and demand and notice deposits, in centrals; Cash and demand and notice deposits, other; Term deposits; ...).

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This table contains 48 series, with data for years 1984 - 2016 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and is no longer being released. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada);  Assets and liabilities (48 items: Total assets; Cash and deposits; Short term paper; Bonds and debentures; ...).

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This table contains 30 series, with data for years 1988 - 2016 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and is no longer being released. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada);  Assets and liabilities (30 items: Total assets; Total cash and deposits; Cash and demand deposits; Items in transit; ...).

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Monthly gross new issues, retirements and net new issues of debt securities, including direct and guaranteed bonds, Treasury Bills, and Canada Bills, by geography for the Government of Canada. Also included historical data by security type (common stocks, preferred stocks, trust units, bonds, treasury bills, commercial paper, and term securitizations), and by issuer type (provincial, municipal, corporate, institutions, and foreign debtors).

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Month-end Government of Canada direct bonds outstanding data by currency. Also included historical data by currency for provinces, municipalities, corporations and other institutions.

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This table contains 27 series, with data starting from 1981 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada); Type of currency (27 items: Australian dollar, daily average; Brazilian real, daily average; Chinese renminbi, daily average; European euro, daily average; ...).

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Monthly operating and financial statistics (number of thousands of: passengers, passenger-kilometres, available seat-kilometres, load factor, hours flown, turbo fuel consumed in litres, and total operating revenues) for major Canadian airlines.

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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.

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 employment size and two-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) with some common aggregations, including one for the total business sector.

Description: Private sector business counts by majority ownership, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, second quarter of 2024.

Description: Expectations over the next three months by the business or organization, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, second quarter of 2024.

Description: Obstacles faced by the business or organization over the next three months, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, second quarter of 2024.

Description: Most challenging obstacle expected by the business or organization over the next three months, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, second quarter of 2024.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: From April 2nd to May 6th, 2024, Statistics Canada conducted the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions. The purpose of this survey is to collect information on businesses in Canada related to emerging issues. This infographic presents key results from this.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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.

Description: 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.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: Reports on Special Business Projects is an occasional series that focuses primarily on the results of special surveys or special projects conducted by the Centre for Special Business Projects. The reports cover a wide range of topics, which include business performance and trends, custom tabulations of business data, economic impact studies, new measurement frameworks and indicators to support program development, monitoring and performance assessment, territorial economic indicators and other special studies.

Description: This infographic focuses on innovation and business strategy in Canada, based on data from the 2022 Survey of Innovation and Business Strategy. It presents the long-term strategy for innovative businesses and non-innovative businesses, the innovation rate and intellectual property(IP) ownership for multinational businesses and non-multinational businesses, the competition, and the skill shortages in Canadian businesses.

Description: The Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series provides for the circulation of research conducted by Analytical Studies Branch staff and collaborators. The Series is intended to stimulate discussion on a variety of topics, such as labour, immigration, education and skills, income mobility, well-being, aging, firm dynamics, productivity, economic transitions, and economic geography. Readers of the Series are encouraged to contact the authors with their comments and suggestions. All the papers in the Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series go through institutional and peer review to ensure that they conform to Statistics Canada's mandate as a governmental statistical agency and adhere to generally accepted standards of good professional practice.

Description: 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.

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Description: The survey objective is to validate industry classification codes, and to obtain information required to efficiently select samples for Statistics Canada's economic survey programs. Topics studied include business activity, research and development, and capital expenditures.