Economic accounts

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

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Foreign direct investment in Canada by ultimate investor. The series on inward foreign direct investment in Canada by ultimate investor differs from the standard presentation of FDI, which is based on the country of residence of the immediate direct investor, by showing the country of the investor that ultimately controls the investment in Canada.

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Annual data on direct investment positions for Canadian direct investment abroad are presented by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) of Canadian reporting entities, industry of foreign affilaites and selected countries and regions.

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Annual data on direct investment positions for Canadian direct investment abroad and foreign direct investment in Canada, presented by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and selected countries.

Description: This article provides perspectives on the extent to which recent changes in gross domestic product per capita represent a departure from their long-term trend and discusses factors that have facilitated per capita growth in previous decades.

Description: This article provides an integrated summary of recent changes in output, consumer prices, employment, and household finances. It highlights changes in the economic data during the second half of 2023 and into the winter months. The article also examines how economic conditions have changed as borrowing costs have risen.

Description: Economic and Social Reports includes in-depth research, brief analyses, and current economic updates 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. All the papers are institutionally reviewed and the research and analytical papers undergo 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: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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Monthly credit aggregates for the household sector, by category.

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Monthly credit aggregates for the private non-financial corporations sector, by category.

Description: This table contains 13713 series, with data for years 1961 - 1996 (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 items: Canada ...) Inputs-outputs (2 items: Inputs; Outputs ...) North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (118 items: Total industries; Crop and animal production; Forestry and logging; Fishing; hunting and trapping ...) Commodity (470 items: Total commodities; Hogs; Poultry; Cattle and calves ...).

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This table contains 399 series, with data for years 1981 - 1997 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2009-01-23. 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 ...), Implicit price index components (29 items: Gross domestic product (GDP) at market prices; Semi-durable goods; Durable goods; Personal expenditure on consumer goods and services ...).

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This table contains 173 series, with data for years 1961 - 1980 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2009-01-23. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (15 items: Canada; Prince Edward Island; Nova Scotia; Newfoundland and Labrador ...), Income-based estimates (12 items: Corporation profits before taxes; Provincial gross domestic product (GDP) at market prices; Net domestic income at factor cost; Interest and miscellaneous investment income ...).

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This table contains 509 series, with data for years 1961 - 1980 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2009-01-23. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (15 items: Canada; Nova Scotia; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island ...), Expenditure-based estimates (35 items: Provincial gross domestic product (GDP) at market prices; Personal expenditure on consumer services; Durable goods; Personal expenditure on consumer goods and services ...).

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This table contains 20 series, with data for years 1981 - 1991 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2009-01-23. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Outside Canada ...), Expenditure-based estimates (20 items: Final domestic demand; Personal expenditure on consumer goods and services; Government current expenditure on goods and services; Personal expenditure on consumer services ...).

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This table contains 476 series, with data for years 1971 - 1991 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2009-01-23. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (14 items: Canada; Nova Scotia; Prince Edward Island; Newfoundland and Labrador ...), Final domestic demand components (34 items: Final domestic demand; total; Personal expenditure on consumer goods and services; Durable goods; Semi-durable goods ...).

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This table contains 19 series, with data for years 1981 - 1991 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2009-01-23. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Outside Canada ...), Implicit price index components (19 items: Provincial gross domestic product (GDP) at market prices; Personal expenditure on consumer goods and services; Government current expenditure on goods and services; Services ...).

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This table contains 406 series, with data for years 1971 - 1991 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2009-01-23. 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 ...), Implicit price index, components (29 items: Final domestic demand; total; Durable goods; Semi-durable goods; Personal expenditure on consumer goods and services ...).

Description: This table contains 1404 series, with data for years 1961 - 1997 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2009-01-22. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...), Multifactor productivity and related variables (27 items: Multifactor productivity based on gross output; Multifactor productivity based on value-added; Labour productivity based on value-added; Labour productivity based on gross output ...), Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) (52 items: Agricultural and related services industries; Mining (including milling); quarrying and oil well industries; Fishing and trapping industries; Logging and forestry industries ...).

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This table contains 16 series, with data for years 1926 - 1960 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2009-01-21. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...), Type of industry (16 items: Total industries; Fishing and trapping; Agriculture; Forestry ...).

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

Description: This article provides an integrated summary of recent changes in output, consumer prices, employment and household finances. It highlights changes in the economic data during the first half of 2023 and into the summer months. The article also examines how economic conditions have changed as borrowing costs have risen.

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

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

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

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

Description: This analysis serves as a more in-depth look into the largest contributors and detractors to growth in each province and territory and supports the data published in The Daily on May 1, 2023.

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

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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About once every five years, the System of National Accounts (SNA) is rebased to keep up with the evolution of prices in the economy. In other words, its aggregates at constant prices are recalculated in terms of the prices of a more recent time. Also, the System is revamped about once a decade to introduce new accounting conventions, improved methods of estimation and revised statistical classifications. These revisions will change the gross domestic product (GDP) of the past 70 years. Both types of revision are presently underway, with their results scheduled for release next year.

This article takes an advance look at the likely effect of rebasing the SNA on the record of growth since 1992. It presents the results of an approximate rebasing of the expenditure-based GDP of the quarterly National Income and Expenditure Accounts (NIEA).

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The International System of National Accounts 1993 (1993 SNA) was prepared and published under the auspices of the Inter-secretariat Working Group on National Accounts. This working group consists of the Statistical Office of the European Communities, the International Monetary Fund, the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development, the Statistical Division and regional commissions of the United Nations Secretariat, and the World Bank. The adoption of this document for universal implementation was unanimously recommended to the United Nations Economic and Social Council by its Statistical Commission at the 27th session, held in New York from February 22 to March 3, 1993. The plan for implementing the 1993 SNA system, however, does not seem to be as well organized as its production was.

Very detailed comments have been made on this document in two papers entitled 'The 1993 International System of National Accounts vis-à-vis The Canadian System of National Accounts,' and 'The 1993 International System of National Accounts and the Canadian Input-Output Tables.' In a summary fashion, the present paper highlights certain important areas where the Canadian System of National Accounts (CSNA) will need to revise its practices to conform to the 1993 SNA. The reader is encouraged to refer to these two papers for further details.

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One of the most significant financial market trends is the increased use of derivative instruments. Across the entire investment spectrum, from private investors to major banks and large institutional fund managers, the use of derivative products is becoming encompassing. Derivatives can be broadly defined as secondary assets, the value of which changes in concert with price movements of a related or underlying primary asset. These instruments may be divided into four broad categories: futures, forwards, options and swaps. Trading on established exchanges, and very active in over-the-counter markets, derivative contracts have become fundamental tools in both domestic and international finance.

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The Income and Expenditure Accounts (IEA) are structured in terms of four economic or institutional sectors, and transactors are grouped into homogeneous categories that play distinct roles in the economy. The Personal sector is concerned with individuals in their capacity as final consumers and as suppliers of labour. The Government sector centres on transactions by public authorities as they relate to taxation and public expenditure. The Profit-motivated Business sector consists of transactors producing goods and services for financial gain. The Non-resident sector shows all transactions taking place between resident economic agents and the rest of the world. Classifying transactors by similar motivation and behaviour into these broad groups is a useful tool that helps analyse the major players in the economy, their functions and interrelationships.

The purpose of this paper is to develop quarterly estimates of gross domestic product (GDP) at factor cost in both current and constant prices for each of the institutional sectors within the IEA framework. The estimates of that will be shown, of the GDP, by sector, do not constitute a full production account, but nonetheless provide a measure of aggregate productive activity by sector of origin. They complement and extend the sector tables already available in the Income and Expenditure Accounts.

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This paper reports the results of a survey of national Income and Expenditure Accounts (IEA) release date practices as reported by national statistical bureaus. This international survey was conducted by the author between January and March 1993 by means of a questionnaire mailed to statisticians of several countries.

Respondents to the survey were asked on what date their preliminary IEA estimates for each of the four quarters of the 1991 calendar year were officially released. They were also asked to indicate the dates on which each of the subsequent four revised sets of estimates were released. To avoid the possibility of unwarranted generalizations from a single year's experience, respondents were asked whether 1991 was a typical year or if there were special circumstances that affected the release dates in this particular period. Finally, general information was sought on each country's official revision policy.

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Currently, one measure of real gross domestic product (GDP) at market prices is published by Statistics Canada. It is a fixed weighted index, and the weights are from the base year, 1986. In the first quarter of 1990, alternate formulations of real GDP were reviewed in an article released in this publication. One of the alternatives discussed in the article was the Chain Volume Indexes.

The purpose of this article was to introduce a new set of indexes into the Income and Expenditure Accounts. The indexes include quarterly re-weighted Chain Volume Indexes and annually re-weighted Chain Volume Indexes of GDP, excluding the value of physical change in inventories.

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The Canadian System of National Accounts (CSNA) has evolved considerably over the past four decades. This article presents a brief account of the relationship between this system, as it stands today, and the international standard for national accounting, which has been established by the United Nations. The major similarities and differences between the two systems are highlighted. The paper then goes on to briefly summarize the present state of discussions concerning revisions to the international SNA standard.

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Gross domestic product (GDP) is a key measure in the System of National Accounts, as well as an indispensable tool for economic analysis. This variable is available in current dollars or, in other words, expressed in the prices of the period to which each estimate applies. Two distinct parts exist within this current dollar measure: a volume component and a price component. This article focusses on the measure of GDP which expresses the volume of transactions in the economy (i.e., GDP expressed in real terms).

Description: The purpose of this statistical program is to provide information for current economic analysis. It provides a measure of the economic production which takes place within the geographical boundaries of Canada from an industry point of view.

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.