National accounts and Gross Domestic Product

Description: This survey provided estimates for calendar years of values of gross output, intermediate inputs and gross domestic product (GDP) at factor cost in current and constant prices for over 400 industries and aggregations at the Canada-total level.

Description: The primary mandate of this statistical program is to compile and disseminate current measures of Gross Domestic Product by industry, at the provincial and territorial level.

Description: The supply and use tables trace the production of commodities by domestic industries, combined with imports, through their uses by industries or as final consumption, investment or exports. The system provides measures of value added by industry and total GDP. The supply and use tables provide the basic information for the derivation of industry-by-industry input-output tables.

Description: The Capital and Financial Flow Accounts are statements of investment activity in and by households, non-financial corporations, financial corporations, governments, non-profit institutions serving households and non-residents. The Capital and Financial Flow Accounts record the net flow of non-financial assets, financial assets and liabilities by type of asset and liability.

Description: The National Balance Sheet Accounts record the stock of assets (financial and non-financial), liabilities and net worth for each institutional sector.

Description: The Gross Domestic Product and Income and Expenditure Accounts give a comprehensive statistical picture of Canadian economic developments. The GDP by Income and by Expenditure is at the centre of macroeconomic analysis and policy-making in Canada.

Description: The Provincial and Territorial Gross Domestic Product by Income and by Expenditure Accounts program produces annual estimates of selected aggregates of the National GDP by Income and by Expenditure Accounts, by province and territory: gross domestic product, final domestic demand, household income and government sector accounts.

Description: The estimates are derived in order to supply the System of National Accounts (SNA) with the compensation of employees component of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Description: Natural resource asset accounts are one of the main elements of the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting which was adopted as an international statistical standard in 2012. Natural resource asset accounts measure quantities of natural resource assets (oil, natural gas, minerals, and timber) and the annual changes in these assets due to natural processes and human activity. These accounts, which are recorded using both physical and monetary units, form the basis of the estimates of Canada's natural resource wealth that are integrated into the Canadian national balance sheet accounts.

Description: Physical flow accounts are one of the main elements of the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) which was adopted as an international statistical standard in 2012. These accounts record, in physical units of measure, the supply and use of natural inputs (e.g. cubic metres of water), products (e.g. terajoules of gasoline), and residuals (e.g. kilotonnes of carbon dioxide emissions).

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This table contains 116 series, with data for years 1961-1980 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2007-01-16. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (14 items: Newfoundland and Labrador; Nova Scotia; New Brunswick; Prince Edward Island ...), Pension plan (2 items: Canada Pension Plan (CPP); Quebec Pension Plan (QPP) ...), Revenue and expenditure (8 items: Total revenue; Total current expenditure; Direct taxes from persons; Investment income ...).

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This table contains 177 series, with data for years 1961-1980 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2007-01-16. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (14 items: Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; New Brunswick; Nova Scotia ...), Direct taxes, components (14 items: Total; all direct taxes; Income taxes; Succession duties and estate taxes; Total; federal direct taxes; persons ...).

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This table contains 351 series, with data for years 1961-1980 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2007-01-16. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (13 items: Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; Nova Scotia; New Brunswick ...), Direct taxes, components (27 items: Total; Customs import duties; Total; federal; Excise duties ...).

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This table contains 104 series, with data for years 1961-1980 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2007-01-16. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (13 items: Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; New Brunswick; Nova Scotia ...), Current transfers (8 items: Transfers to federal government; Total transfers to provincial government; Total current transfers; Motor vehicle licenses and permits ...).

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This table contains 222 series, with data for years 1961-1980 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2007-01-16. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (13 items: Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; Nova Scotia; New Brunswick ...), Government investment income (18 items: Total; government investment income; Interest on government-held public funds; Interest on loans; advances and investments; Total federal government investment income ...).

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This table contains 343 series, with data for years 1961-1980 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2007-01-16. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (15 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Nova Scotia; Prince Edward Island ...), Government transfer payments (25 items: Total; all government transfer payments to persons; Total federal transfer payments; Family and youth allowances; Pensions; World Wars I and II ...).

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This table contains 252 series, with data for years 1961-1980 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2007-01-16. 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 ...), Government transfer payments to business (18 items: Total subsidies; Total federal subsidies; Federal subsidies; other; Federal subsidies; agricultural ...).

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This table contains 393 series, with data for years 1961-1980 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2007-01-16. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (13 items: Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; New Brunswick; Nova Scotia ...), Current transfers (31 items: Total; all transfers; Total federal transfers to provinces; Old age and blind pensions; Total federal transfers to other levels of government ...).

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This table contains 231 series, with data for years 1961-1980 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2006-10-06. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (15 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; Nova Scotia ...), Sources and disposition of personal income (16 items: Equals: personal saving; Wages; salaries and supplementary labour income; Equals: personal income; Equals: personal disposable income ...).

Description: This table contains 8955 series, with data for years 1992 - 1999 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2001-04-20. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (16 items: Canada;Newfoundland and Labrador;Prince Edward Island;Nova Scotia ...), Trade flow detail (23 items: Total supply and demand;Total demand;To Newfoundland and Labrador;Total supply ...), Goods and services (54 items: Grains;Other agricultural products;Forestry products;Fish; seafood and trapping products ...).

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

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

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Understanding intangible investments is essential for providing accurate measures of gross fixed capital formation (GFCF), gross domestic product (GDP) and productivity growth, and for understanding the innovation system. Statistical agencies need measures of intangible investment to produce economic statistics on aggregate activity that accurately measure concepts such as GDP, GFCF or savings. The levels of GDP, GFCF and savings will be underestimated to the extent that expenditures are incorrectly classified as intermediate inputs that are fully consumed during the period being measured—and not as investments that are not fully consumed during the period when the expenditures are incurred. Estimates for GDP and productivity growth rates may be similarly underestimated. This paper updates and expands upon the intangible capital estimates presented by Baldwin et al. (2009), who extended already measured intangibles (i.e., research and development [R&D], software, mineral exploration) to include additional asset classes consistent with international research on intangible capital measurement (see Corrado, Hulten and Sichel 2009).

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This article describes the revisions to the Financial Flow Accounts (FFA), the Other Changes in Assets Account (OCAA), and the National Balance Sheet Accounts (NBSA), collectively referred to as the Financial and Wealth Accounts (FWA), introduced as part of the 2019 Comprehensive Revision. These accounts are an integral part of the Canadian System of Macroeconomic Accounts (CSMA). This exercise was conducted to strengthen the overall quality and relevance of the FWA program and to introduce new concepts, methodologies, and classifications as recommended by international standards.

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Revised estimates of the Income and Expenditure Accounts (IEA) covering the period 2016 to 2018 have been released. These revised estimates incorporate the most current source data and seasonal patterns.

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This article in the Economic Insights series provides users with an integrated summary of recent changes in output, employment, household demand, international trade and prices. Organized as a statistical summary of major indicators, the report is designed to inform about recent developments in the Canadian economy, highlighting major changes in the economic data during the first half of 2019 and into the summer months. Unless otherwise noted, the tabulations presented in this report are based on seasonally adjusted data available as of October 18, 2019.

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This article describes revisions of the Provincial and Territorial Gross Domestic Product (PTGDP) by industry program for the 2015 to 2017 period. These follow the November 8, 2018 release of the estimates for the program for the three reference years.

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

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This article in the Economic Insights series illustrates how real income progressed across the provinces from 1950 to 2016. The performance of the provinces is discussed using a new set of long-run estimates for real gross domestic income per capita. This new dataset allows, for the first time, trends in aggregate real income across the provinces to be examined for the last 66 years. Long-run data allow the amplitude of cycles across time to be demonstrated, and provide sufficient data to understand changes in trends in provincial economies that are sometimes subject to long commodity cycles.

Description: The need to measure both the desirable outputs (goods and services) and the undesirable outputs (emissions of greenhouse gases [GHGs] and criteria air contaminants [CACs]) from economic activity is becoming increasingly important as economic performance and environmental performance become ever more intertwined. Standard measures of multifactor productivity (MFP) growth provide insights into rising standards of living and the performance of economies, but they may be misleading if only desirable outputs are considered. This study presents estimates of environmentally adjusted multifactor productivity (EAMFP) growth using a new comprehensive database. This database contains information on GHG and CAC emissions, as well as on the production activities of Canadian manufacturers.

Description: This guide presents an overview of the scope and structure of the Pension Satellite Account as well as the methodology used to derive its stocks and flows estimates.

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The majority of Canada's national, provincial and territorial macroeconomic indicators originate from the Canadian System of National Accounts (CSNA). These indicators include such things as gross domestic product, net worth, savings, personal disposable income and government debt. Statistics Canada is launching a project that will make key changes to these macroeconomic indicators. The changes introduced by this project are outlined in this paper.

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Statistics Canada produces monthly import and export merchandise trade price indexes. For the majority of these prices, Statistics Canada uses a variety of proxy measures to derive the price index in lieu of collecting observed import and export prices. The ability of these proxy measures to reflect international trade price movements during times of exchange rate volatility is limited. For this reason, the constant dollar trade estimates derived using these proxy price indexes have been refined with constant dollar adjustments following the appreciation of the Canadian exchange rate beginning at the end of 2002. This paper explains the rational and methodology behind these adjustments, as well as the impact on published trade and GDP estimates.

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With the release of the Financial Flow Accounts (FFA) on December 1st and the National Balance Sheet Accounts (NBSA) on December 14th, the Income and Expenditure Accounts Division will be publishing revised sector and category detail on CANSIM.

Description: This guide focuses on the Income and Expenditure Accounts. It provides an overview, an outline of the concepts and definitions, an explanation of the sources of information and statistical methods, a glossary of terms, and a broad compilation of other facts about the accounts.

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Effective with the 2006 Provincial Economic Accounts release on November 8, 2007, the expenditure-based gross domestic product (GDP) will be converted to a 2002 reference year for its volume and price estimates.

On October 31, 2007, the monthly gross domestic product (GDP) by industry estimates will use the North American Industry Classification System, NAICS 2002, and will convert to reference year 2002 for its volume estimates.

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The expenditure-based gross domestic product (GDP) and associated components will be converted to a 2002 reference year for its volume and price estimates, effective May 31, 2007.

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This paper provides a brief description of the methodology currently used to produce the annual volume of hours worked consistent with the System of National Accounts (SNA). These data are used for labour input in the annual and quarterly measures of labour productivity, as well as in the annual measures of multifactor productivity. For this purpose, hours worked are broken down by educational level and age group, so that changes in the composition of the labour force can be taken into account. They are also used to calculate hourly compensation and the unit labour cost and for simulations of the SNA Input-Output Model; as such, they are integrated as labour force inputs into most SNA satellite accounts (i.e., environment, tourism).

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The National Accounts Advisory Committee reviews and gives advice on the concepts, methods, plans, standards as well as results associated with Statistics Canada's System of National Accounts.

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In recent years there has been considerable international interest in key indicators. This paper surveys recent Canadian attempts to develop key indicators of economic, social, environmental or physical well-being. It classifies and discusses over forty such projects and publications in detail; briefly lists a further twenty projects; and provides references to a number of up-to-date surveys and annotated bibliographies which contain additional examples of indicator development in Canada. The paper provides information on a number of research centres working on indicator development and discusses international indicators which are relevant to the Canadian scene, either because they represent 'rototypes' of some particular kind of measure, or else might be regarded as constituting 'best practice' in an area. The paper also examines the motivations behind indicator development and seeks to address the question of whether efforts to extend measurement outside the economic field constitute attempts to "measure the unmeasurable".