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  • Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024005
    Description: This interactive dashboard provides access to current and historical average price data for selected food products in a dynamic and customizable format. The price data is available for Canada and the provinces. Prices are based on transaction data from Canadian retailers, and are presented in Canadian current dollars.

    This web-based application is updated monthly, as soon as the data for the latest reference month is released in The Daily.
    Release date: 2024-05-01

  • Table: 18-10-0245-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Monthly average retail prices for selected products, for Canada and provinces. Prices are presented for the current month and the previous four months. Prices are based on transaction data from Canadian retailers, and are presented in Canadian current dollars.
    Release date: 2024-05-01

  • Table: 33-10-0158-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Percentage of enterprises that sold only goods, only services or both goods and services, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period.

    Release date: 2024-04-30

  • Stats in brief: 11-001-X20241153660
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-04-24

  • Table: 20-10-0056-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Retail trade, sales, Canada, provinces, territories and specific Census Metropolitan Areas based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), monthly.

    Release date: 2024-04-24

  • Table: 20-10-0056-02
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Retail Trade, sales by industries based on North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), monthly.

    Release date: 2024-04-24

  • Table: 20-10-0056-03
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Retail Trade, e-commerce sales, Canada, by industries based on North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), monthly.

    Release date: 2024-04-24

  • Table: 20-10-0056-04
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Retail trade sales figures for the motor vehicle and parts dealers industry. Data are available on a monthly basis for Canada and provinces, in dollars x 1,000.

    Release date: 2024-04-24

  • Table: 20-10-0067-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Retail trade sales, price, and volume, for Canada, includes all members under North American Industry Classification System. Data is seasonally adjusted, available on a monthly basis in dollars x 1,000,000.

    Release date: 2024-04-24

  • Table: 20-10-0067-02
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Retail trade sales, price, and volume for motor vehicle and parts dealers. Data are seasonally adjusted, available on a monthly basis for Canada, in dollars x 1,000,000.
    Release date: 2024-04-24
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  • Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024005
    Description: This interactive dashboard provides access to current and historical average price data for selected food products in a dynamic and customizable format. The price data is available for Canada and the provinces. Prices are based on transaction data from Canadian retailers, and are presented in Canadian current dollars.

    This web-based application is updated monthly, as soon as the data for the latest reference month is released in The Daily.
    Release date: 2024-05-01

  • Table: 18-10-0245-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Monthly average retail prices for selected products, for Canada and provinces. Prices are presented for the current month and the previous four months. Prices are based on transaction data from Canadian retailers, and are presented in Canadian current dollars.
    Release date: 2024-05-01

  • Table: 33-10-0158-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Percentage of enterprises that sold only goods, only services or both goods and services, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period.

    Release date: 2024-04-30

  • Table: 20-10-0056-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Retail trade, sales, Canada, provinces, territories and specific Census Metropolitan Areas based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), monthly.

    Release date: 2024-04-24

  • Table: 20-10-0056-02
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Retail Trade, sales by industries based on North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), monthly.

    Release date: 2024-04-24

  • Table: 20-10-0056-03
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Retail Trade, e-commerce sales, Canada, by industries based on North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), monthly.

    Release date: 2024-04-24

  • Table: 20-10-0056-04
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Retail trade sales figures for the motor vehicle and parts dealers industry. Data are available on a monthly basis for Canada and provinces, in dollars x 1,000.

    Release date: 2024-04-24

  • Table: 20-10-0067-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Retail trade sales, price, and volume, for Canada, includes all members under North American Industry Classification System. Data is seasonally adjusted, available on a monthly basis in dollars x 1,000,000.

    Release date: 2024-04-24

  • Table: 20-10-0067-02
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Retail trade sales, price, and volume for motor vehicle and parts dealers. Data are seasonally adjusted, available on a monthly basis for Canada, in dollars x 1,000,000.
    Release date: 2024-04-24

  • Table: 20-10-0005-01
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Historical (real-time) releases of wholesale sales, price and volume, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Data is seasonally adjusted and available on a monthly basis in dollars x 1,000,000.

    Release date: 2024-04-22
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  • Articles and reports: 11-621-M2006040
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Using data from the monthly Wholesale Trade Survey this study examines the sales for the year 2005. This annual review describes the evolution of sales by different sectors such as building material, machinery and electronic equipment. This study also includes a provincial dimension.

    Release date: 2006-04-28

  • Articles and reports: 11-621-M2006038
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This study examines market shares for retail sales and gross margins by different store types from 1997 to 2004. It focuses on food and beverage stores and general merchandise stores and on sales of food and beverages. The performance of these two store types in Canada is compared with their counterparts in the United States. This analysis is based on data from the Quarterly Retail Commodity Survey.

    Release date: 2006-04-11

  • Articles and reports: 11-010-X20050128972
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    A profile of the fastest-growing sector in wholesale trade.

    Release date: 2005-12-08

  • Articles and reports: 11-621-M2005034
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Description:

    This article analyses Holiday retail sales in 2004 by commodity as well as by province and territory using data from the Monthly Retail Trade Survey and the Quarterly Retail Commodity Survey. Western Canadians led the country last Christmas in December 2004, with Albertans spending more per capita in retail stores than consumers in any other province. For Canada as a whole, the pace of growth in sales in stores doubled in December 2004 compared with the same month in 2003. What did shoppers buy besides toys and clothing? Jewellery, cameras and small electrical appliances were very popular gift items for the season.

    Release date: 2005-12-07

  • Articles and reports: 11-621-M2005032
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This study provides an in-depth analysis of retail trade growth nationally and provincially, and explores the underlying socio-economic-demographic forces since the turn of the millennium. The automotive retail sector is given a closer look because of its ability to dictate retail sales growth during the period. This study uses data from a fleet of Statistics Canada surveys, including Monthly Retail Trade Survey, Provincial Economic Accounts, New Motor Vehicle Sales, Canadian Vehicle Survey, Motor Vehicle Registration, and 2002 Homeowner Repairs and Renovations Survey.

    Release date: 2005-10-17

  • Articles and reports: 11-621-M2005029
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This study looks at the growing popularity of gift cards, both with retailers and consumers. It presents some details of the types of stores that offer these cards and some of the attractions of gift cards to retailers and their customers.

    Release date: 2005-05-24

  • Articles and reports: 11-621-M2005026
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This study examines the Canadian wholesale trade industry, its phenomenal growth, role and performance in the context of globalization and strong domestic consumer demand.

    Release date: 2005-04-27

  • Articles and reports: 11-621-M2004019
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This study examines the effect of Christmas shopping on retail sales and employment during the months of November, December and January. The analysis focusses on stores registering significantly increased activity during the holiday season. These stores were grouped by the relative expensiveness of their most popular offerings during this period. This study uses data from the Monthly Retail Trade Survey and the Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours.

    Release date: 2004-12-09

  • Articles and reports: 11-621-M2004012
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This article examines retail sales and household expenditures data from 1997 to 2002 to show the impact of homebuyers on furniture and appliance spending.

    Release date: 2004-05-13

  • Articles and reports: 11-010-X20030126707
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    These data show the types of outlets where consumers prefer to buy certain commodities and the shifts in the types of commodities retailers decide to sell. The data are from the Retail Commodity Program, an analytical tool that provides information on the retail industry.

    Release date: 2003-12-18
Reference (19)

Reference (19) (0 to 10 of 19 results)

  • Notices and consultations: 63F0022X
    Description:

    Statistics Canada's annual retail trade surveys are undergoing changes. Two activities underlie these changes. The re-design of our annual retail trade questionnaires is one. The other is the conversion from the 1980 Standard Industrial Classification (1980 SIC) to the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS). These activities will have significant impacts on the output of the annual surveys.

    This paper has two goals. The first is to inform retail store data users, industry analysts, trade associations and other stakeholders about these changes. The second is to consult with stakeholders on possible data outputs resulting from the changes.

    The paper is organized into five parts. Following the introduction, Part II describes the outputs from the current surveys and compares and contrasts the current outputs with the new. Part III focuses on the introduction of NAICS codes and the changes in coverage for retail trade. In Part IV, the benefits resulting from the above changes are outlined. The final part (Part V) seeks comments or suggestions from data users, retail trade associations and industry specialists on the release of data products as a result of the changes to the surveys.

    Release date: 2001-02-01

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 1726
    Description: The purpose of this program is to provide statistical information on the operations of provincial and territorial liquor authorities in Canada.

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2008
    Description: This survey collects detailed information about retail commodity sales in Canada to produce estimates of the distribution of the sales of various commodities at the national level, for different types of retail outlets in Canada.

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2401
    Description: This survey provides information on the performance of the wholesale trade sector and when combined with other statistics, represents an important indicator of the Canadian economy.

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2402
    Description: This survey collects data on monthly retail sales (in dollars and in units) of new motor vehicles sold in Canada.

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2404
    Description: This survey collected data on sales of merchandise by vending machine operators through automatic vending machines, type of machine, percentage distribution of vending machines and sales, and by location for Canada and the provinces.

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2405
    Description: This survey provided data on commodities sold and breakdown by method of distribution, i.e. personal selling, direct mail and other methods.

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2406
    Description: The Monthly Retail Trade Survey collects sales, e-commerce sales, and the number of retail locations by province, territory, and selected Census Metropolitan Areas (CMA) from a sample of retailers.

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2408
    Description: This monthly survey collects retail sales for all department stores classified under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 452110 (including concessions such as travel center or restaurant sales). The data collected from this survey is integrated with the data collected from the Monthly Retail Trade Survey (record number 2406) and is released at the same time as the latter.

  • Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2409
    Description: This survey collects and measures total annual retail sales made by chain and department store organizations through retail outlets.

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