Business performance and ownership

Description:

Understanding women’s business ownership and the performance of women-owned enterprises is important for designing policies to promote gender equality in leadership, economic empowerment of women and inclusive growth. However, evidence on business ownership by gender remains scarce because of the lack of comprehensive data. The study, Women-owned Enterprises in Canada (Grekou, Li and Liu, 2018), fills the data gap by identifying business ownership by gender using a newly developed administrative dataset—the Canadian Employer–Employee Dynamics Database (CEEDD). The dataset contains business owner information for all unincorporated enterprises and private corporations in Canada. This paper discusses the methodology adopted to establish the gender structure of business ownership. It then presents estimates of business ownership by gender (men or women majority ownership and equal ownership). Finally, it analyzes the sensitivity of these estimates and compares them with those calculated using other data sources.

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

Description:

Canadian Business Counts, location counts with employees, by employment size ranges and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), Canada and provinces, June 2018.

Description:

Canadian Business Counts, location counts without employees, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), Canada and provinces, June 2018.

Description:

This report is a special release intended to highlight new insights into the extent of foreign control in the Canadian corporate economy from 2007 to 2016. It illustrates changes in foreign control by macro-region and country for financial and non-financial industry groupings.

Description:

Entrepreneurial activity has long been argued as an important driver of innovation, job creation, and productivity growth. However, measuring entrepreneurial activity is not easy. Using a newly developed administrative database of firms and workers, the Canadian Employer–Employee Dynamics Database (CEEDD), over the period from 2001 to 2013, this paper distinguishes incorporated self-employment from unincorporated self-employment, and compares the entry and exit dynamics of the two types of self-employment by age, gender and province. The large number of observations in CEEDD and its longitudinal nature make this detailed analysis possible.

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

Description:

This table contains data on the number and the assessment value of residential properties, by property type, residency type and number of owners, for the census metropolitan areas of Toronto and Vancouver and their census subdivisions.

Description:

This table contains data on the number and the assessment value of residential properties, by condominium status and residency type for the census metropolitan areas of Toronto and Vancouver and their census subdivisions.

Description:

This table contains data on the number and the assessment value of residential properties, by property type, period of construction and residency type for the census metropolitan areas of Toronto and Vancouver and their census subdivisions.

Description: Innovation of new products or services and most significant recent product innovation was new to its market, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, second quarter of 2024.

Description: Impact of natural disasters or weather related emergencies on businesses or organizations over the last 12 months, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, second quarter of 2024.

Description: Primary competition and most important competitive strength when exporting or selling business' or organization's goods or services to the United States, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, second quarter of 2024.

Description: Primary competition and most important competitive strength when exporting or selling business's or organization's goods or services to Europe, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, second quarter of 2024.

Description: Liquidity and access to liquidity 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: Business or organization plans to apply for debt financing, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, second quarter of 2024.

Description: Ability of the business or organization to take on more debt, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, second quarter of 2024.

Description: Percentage and average percentage of workforce anticipated to work on-site or remotely 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: Future outlook over the next 12 months, by percentage ranges, North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, second quarter of 2024.

Description: This tool includes information collected as part of the Quarterly Financial Statistics for Enterprises program, which provides data used to measure the financial position and performance of incorporated businesses by industry aggregations.

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

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 first quarter of 2023. It involves an examination of the data produced by the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions.

Description: In Canada and other advanced economies, the share of zombie firms, defined as businesses that perform poorly over a long period of time without exiting, has been rising over the past few decades. Recent studies have shown that the share of zombie firms in Canada could potentially be the highest in the world. However, these studies for Canada are based only on publicly traded Canadian firms. This paper presents new evidence on zombification using not only publicly traded firms but also Canadian controlled private corporations, which make up a large proportion of businesses in Canada.

Description: A series of infographics produced for Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), presenting statistics on the number and characteristics of official language minority businesses and owners, for the regions represented by each of Canada's Regional Development Agencies (RDA).

Description: Canadian businesses face many different obstacles in their day-to-day operations. Several factors such as size, industry of operation and region of operation can cause businesses to experience different obstacles affecting their ability to sell to their markets. The obstacles experienced by businesses owned by different segments of the population can also vary. The challenges of businesses majority-owned by women are illustrated within this article. It involves an examination of the data produced by the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions.

Description: Many businesses have not yet fully recovered from the prior tightening and closing of borders, restrictions on the movement of people and goods, and lockdowns. As a result, the status of supply chains and the impact they have on their respective economies are of great interest. This article provides insights on the topic of supply chain challenges and the impacts of these issues on businesses in Canada. It involves an examination of the data produced by the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions.

Description: From January 3rd to February 6th, 2023, 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: This article examines the patenting activity of women-owned businesses and compares it to that of men- and equally-owned businesses, and businesses where gender of ownership cannot be determined. It adds to the literature on the gender gap in patenting, as most of it has focused on women as researchers or inventors, and not as business owners.

Description: This article examines the socioeconomic characteristics of Black business owners in Canada and compares them with the characteristics of White Canadians and people from other racialized groups. It also explores the characteristics of businesses based on the racial profile of owners.

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

Description: This survey collects financial and operating data for radio and television stations and networks, and the pay and specialty television industry.

Description: This survey collects financial and operating data for statistical measurement and analysis of the broadcast distribution undertakings sector (cable and wireless).

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.

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.

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.

Description: The survey collects financial and operational data from Canadian-domiciled water carriers.

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.

Description: This survey was sponsored by the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade.

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.

Description: This survey collects the financial and operating data needed to develop national and regional economic policies and programs.