Economic accounts

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: The Gross Domestic Product by Income and by Expenditure Accounts record the production of goods and services in the economy, the incomes arising from this production, expenditures on production and the resulting saving (dissaving) and investment. This interactive tool facilitates easy access to the numerous data sets in these accounts. The tool highlights the latest results with time series for certain components.

Description: Quarterly income-based gross domestic product, Canada.

Description: Quarterly expenditure-based, gross domestic product, Canada, in chained (2017) and current dollars.

Description: Quarterly indexes and contributions to percent change of real gross domestic product, real gross domestic income, terms of trade and other statistics, 2017=100.

Description: Quarterly fixed-weighted price and implicit price indexes and contributions to percent change in implicit price indexes for expenditure-based gross domestic product, Canada, 2017 = 100.

Description: Quarterly household final consumption expenditure components in chained (2017) and current dollars.

Description: Quarterly gross fixed capital formation components in chained (2017), current dollars and contribution to percent change.

Description: Quarterly investment in inventories components in chained (2017) and current dollars.

Description:

Quarterly data on international trade in services by principal trading partners.

Description:

Canada's international investment income covers direct investment income, portfolio income, and other investment income. Annual data are further broken down between interest, dividends, and reinvested earnings.

Description:

Canada's international investment income covers direct investment income, portfolio income, and other investment income. Quarterly data are further broken down between interest, dividends, and reinvested earnings.

Description:

Canada's current account covers international transactions in goods, services, compensation of employees, investment income and secondary income (current transfers). Canada's capital account covers international capital transfers and transactions in non-produced non-financial assets. Annual data are available for 6 countries/regions and for all countries aggregated.

Description:

Canada's current account covers international transactions in goods, services, compensation of employees, investment income and secondary income (current transfers). Canada's capital account covers international capital transfers and transactions in non-produced non-financial assets. Quarterly data are available for 6 countries/regions and for all countries aggregated.

Description:

Canada's current account covers international transactions in goods, services, compensation of employees, investment income and secondary income (current transfers). Quarterly data are seasonally adjusted.

Description:

Canada's international trade in goods are available by category based on the North American Product Classification System (NAPCS). Data are also available for 6 countries/regions. Quarterly data are presented with and without seasonal adjustments.

Description:

Canada's international trade in goods are available by category based on the North American Product Classification System (NAPCS). Annual data are also available by type of adjustment, and for 6 countries/regions.

Description:

Canada's international trade in services are available by category. Quarterly data are presented with and without seasonal adjustments.

Description:

Quarterly seasonally and not seasonally adjusted data on international trade in goods by principal trading partners.

Description:

There has been growing interest in recent years about the scope of tourism in Canada. In response to this demand for information, Statistics Canada has developed a Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) which provides some answers to questions such as: Which industries constitute 'the tourism industry'? What are the industry's gross domestic product (GDP) and employment rates? And what is the extent of tourism-related expenditures?

This article reports on the research that Statistics Canada has undertaken as part of an ongoing examination of the tourism industry.

Description:

This (1994) paper considers four alternative definitions of the underground economy and examines the available evidence about its size. Statistics Canada believes the underground economy is far smaller than the money demand studies have suggested.

Description:

Revised estimates of the Income and Expenditure Accounts (IEA) covering 1990 to 1993 have been released along with the estimates for the first quarter of 1994. These revised estimates reflect the most current source data and seasonal patterns. The annual revision of the different parts of the System of National Accounts is an integrated process. Revised estimates of two other parts of the system, the Balance of International Payments and Financial Flow Accounts, have been released simultaneously. Corresponding revisions to the monthly estimates of the gross domestic product (GDP), by industry and to the Input-Output Accounts at current and constant prices will be available at the end of August.

The first section of this paper reviews the current revisions to the GDP and the main aggregates. The second section analyses the revision patterns of selected income and expenditure aggregates of the GDP over the period 1980 to 1993. For further information on sources, methods and definitions employed in the IE A, refer to the Guide to the Income and Expenditure Accounts, Catalogue no. 13-603E, no. 1.

Description:

This article presents the first results from a study of the value of household work (VHW) in Canada for 1992. The study, the fourth of its kind, is part of continuing efforts to extend measures of production both within and outside Statistics Canada's System of National Accounts. A more in-depth report on the study is currently being prepared.

Description:

Revised estimates of the Income and Expenditure Accounts covering 1989 to 1992 have been released along with the estimates for the first quarter of 1993. These revised estimates reflect the most current source data and seasonal patterns. The annual revision of the different parts of the System of the National Accounts is an integrated process. As such, revised estimates of two other parts of the system -- the Balance of International Payments and Financial Flow Accounts -- have been released simultaneously. Corresponding revisions to the monthly estimates of Gross Domestic Product by Industry and to the Input-Output Accounts at current and constant prices are also available.

Description:

This article introduces two new tables showing volume indexes of real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and its components for Canada compared with the United States and the associated purchasing power parities (PPPs). These international comparisons of real expenditures based on PPPs are considered to be a major addition to the tools available for macroeconomic analysis. For example, the recent publication by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) of a set of estimates of different countries' output using PPPs has changed the view of the share of world output that comes from the industrialized countries compared with the developing economies.

An analysis based on PPPs, rather than a more conventional one based on exchange rates, has significantly changed the relative measures of output of countries. Comparisons based on exchange rates are unlikely to fully take into account the differences in price levels between countries (i.e., the goods and services that can be purchased in one country's currency compared with another's). Moreover, services are not generally traded in the way that goods are, so their prices in different countries tend not to be related in a way that parallels the currency exchange rate. If aggregate output is to be properly compared across countries, PPPs become more and more important as the size of the service sector grows.

Economic theory would suggest that for internationally traded domestically produced goods and services, PPPs and exchange rates will tend to equalize in the long run. Exchange rates, however, can fluctuate widely in short periods and are affected by expectations and factors such as deficits, wars, fuel shortages and interest rates. With the calculation of PPPs, actual price level differences can be identified. Such measures are also much more stable over time.

Description:

The interview discusses Canada's transition from an industrial to an information economy.

Description:

Has recovery begun? An up-to-date look at labour market developments in the first six months of 1991.

Description:

As of May 31, 2001 the Quarterly Income and Expenditure Accounts will have adopted the following change: Capitalization of software.

Description:

As of May 31, 2001 the Quarterly Income and Expenditure Accounts will have adopted the following change: Capitalization of software.

Description:

As of September 28, 2001 the annual revision of monthly GDP by industry estimates will include major classification and conceptual changes: Change in valuation from factor cost to basic prices.

Description:

As of September 28, 2001 the annual revision of monthly GDP by industry estimates will include major classification and conceptual changes: Adoption of NAICS.

Description:

This product provides a listing of all the publications, products and services of the National Accounts Branch.

Description:

As of May 31, 2001 the Quarterly Income and Expenditure Accounts will have adopted the following change: Change in valuation from factor cost to basic prices.

Description:

As of May 31, 2001 the Quarterly Income and Expenditure Accounts will have adopted the following change: Adoption of NAICS for estimates of labour income.

Description:

As of May 31, 2001 the Quarterly Income and Expenditure Accounts will have adopted the following change: Chain Fisher formula.

Description:

A new accounting approach treats software as an investment was implemented in the Canadian System of National Accounts (SNA) during 2001. Preliminary estimates of software capital stocks were included for the first time in the National Balance Sheet Accounts (NBSA) released in March 2001. Software investment was then included in the gross domestic product (GDP) with the first quarter 2001 release (May 31, 2001) of the National Economic and Financial Accounts (NEFA). Later in the year, it was included in the Input-Output (I/O) Accounts, Provincial Economic Accounts (PEA) and the Industry Measures Accounts (IMA) with the release of October 30, 2001.

This mini historical revision brings Canada in line with a number of countries, including the United States and other G-7 member nations, who introduced software into their GDP over the last few years. It also brings Canada in line with the 1993 SNA recommendation that business and government acquisition of software be treated in national accounts as an investment as opposed to a current expense. Software is now treated like any other capital input that is used repeatedly in production over a year or more whereas, formerly, it was treated as if it were fully used up during the production period like any other intermediate input. This new accounting for software has raised the level of GDP, although the effects on GDP growth turn out to be relatively small.

Description:

The work on Input-output (IO) tables in Canada started in the early 1960s. At the very beginning, it was decided that IO tables must fulfill several roles and provide: (a) an audit and management tool to improve economic statistics for their consistency, accuracy and comprehensiveness; (b) benchmarks for gross domestic product (GDP), its income side and components, its expenditures side and components and GDP by industry estimates, both at current prices and constant prices and (c) a framework for structural analysis.