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  • 1. Analysis on small businesses in Canada, second quarter of 2024
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2024007
    Description: With the proportion of small businesses making up nearly all of the employer businesses in Canada, small businesses are an important role in employing Canadians and are a significant driver towards economic recovery. This article provides insights on the expectations of small businesses as well as the unique conditions faced by these businesses in the second quarter of 2024. It involves an examination of the data produced by the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions.
    Release date: 2024-06-13
  • 2. 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
  • 3. Business Conditions in Canada, second quarter of 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024025
    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.
    Release date: 2024-05-27
  • 4. Quarterly financial statistics for enterprises first quarter 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20241453682
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-05-24
  • 5. 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
  • 6. Survival and growth of women-owned and immigrant-owned businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400500006
    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.
    Release date: 2024-05-22
  • 7. Economic and Social Reports May 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202414322588
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-05-22
  • 8. Reports on Special Business Projects
    Journals and periodicals: 18-001-X
    Geography: Canada
    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.
    Release date: 2024-05-17
  • 9. Innovation and business strategy in Canada, 2022
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024021
    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.
    Release date: 2024-05-08
  • 10. Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series
    Journals and periodicals: 11F0019M
    Geography: Canada
    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.
    Release date: 2024-05-08
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  • 51. Radio and Television Broadcasting Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2724
    Description: This survey collects financial and operating data for radio and television stations and networks, and the pay and specialty television industry.
  • 52. Annual Cable Television Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2728
    Description: This survey collects financial and operating data for statistical measurement and analysis of the broadcast distribution undertakings sector (cable and wireless).
  • 53. Annual Survey on Rail Transportation
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2734
    Description: This survey collects data from common carrier railways operating in Canada which are essential for the analysis of the Railway Transport Industry and the assessment of its contribution to the Canadian economy. These data provide input into Canada's System of National Accounts for the calculation of the Gross Domestic Product and are used by various Government Departments to develop policy and to monitor the industry.
  • 54. 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.
  • 55. 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.
  • 56. Financial Survey of Canadian Water Carriers
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2753
    Description: The survey collects financial and operational data from Canadian-domiciled water carriers.
  • 57. 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.
  • 58. Survey of Growing Innovative Firms
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2936
    Description: This survey was sponsored by the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade.
  • 59. 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.
  • 60. Survey of Service Industries: Book Publishers
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3105
    Description: This survey collects the financial and operating data needed to develop national and regional economic policies and programs.

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