Analysis

Description: This study provides an update to a 2021 report that produced novel estimates of the business characteristics, gross domestic product and business dynamics of child care businesses in Canada through 2016. Administrative data on all tax-filing business in Canada are used to identify incorporated businesses, typically representing child care centres, and unincorporated businesses, typically representing home-based child care businesses without employees.

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 second quarter of 2026. It involves an examination of the data produced by the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions.

Description: This article explores results from the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions related to the use of AI in producing goods and delivering services. This article explores the different uses of AI among businesses as well as the changes made due to AI usage and the barriers that limit the use of AI.

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

Description: From April 1 to May 6, 2026, 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 survey.

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 article provides an overview of the results and depicts the state of interprovincial trade in Canada in the 12 months preceding the Canadian Survey on Interprovincial Trade. This paper highlights the characteristics of businesses involved in interprovincial trade and the location of their suppliers and customers; examines the obstacles businesses experienced while purchasing or selling interprovincially in comparison to those cited while trading internationally; and analyzes the proportion of businesses participating in interprovincial trade and international trade.

Description: This infographic uses administrative tax data to provide a visual representation of non-financial co-operatives in Canada in 2023. Presented data includes counts of co-operatives at the national and provincial levels, as well as financial and employment statistics.

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: From April 1 to May 6, 2026, 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 survey.

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 infographic uses administrative tax data to provide a visual representation of non-financial co-operatives in Canada in 2023. Presented data includes counts of co-operatives at the national and provincial levels, as well as financial and employment statistics.

Description: This infographic from the Rural Data Lab of Statistics Canada presents a visual overview of key highlights and statistical findings from the 2023 Rural Canada Non-Profits database. The database contains operating location-level information on non-profit organizations, including counts, total revenue and total employment. The infographic provides observations focused on non-profit organizations in rural and small town Canada.

Description: From January 2 to February 6, 2026, 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: Amid ongoing shifts in tariffs, trade regulations and U.S. policy, the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions has remained an important tool for understanding the impact of tariffs on businesses in Canada. Building on analysis from the second and third quarters of 2025, which captured the introduction of newly imposed tariffs, followed by reactions to countermeasures, this paper presents updated findings for the fourth quarter of 2025 from the survey that was conducted from October 1 to November 5, 2025.

Description: This infographic from the Rural Data Lab of Statistics Canada presents a visual overview of key highlights and statistical findings from the 2023 Rural Canada Business Profiles database. The database provides financial profiles for small and medium-sized businesses in Canada with total annual revenues of $30,000 to $5,000,000 and $5,000,001 to $20,000,000, respectively. The infographic provides observations focused on small businesses in rural and small town Canada.

Description: This study provides an update to a 2021 report that produced novel estimates of the business characteristics, gross domestic product and business dynamics of child care businesses in Canada through 2016. Administrative data on all tax-filing business in Canada are used to identify incorporated businesses, typically representing child care centres, and unincorporated businesses, typically representing home-based child care businesses without employees.

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 second quarter of 2026. It involves an examination of the data produced by the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions.

Description: This article explores results from the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions related to the use of AI in producing goods and delivering services. This article explores the different uses of AI among businesses as well as the changes made due to AI usage and the barriers that limit the use of AI.

Description: This article provides an overview of the results and depicts the state of interprovincial trade in Canada in the 12 months preceding the Canadian Survey on Interprovincial Trade. This paper highlights the characteristics of businesses involved in interprovincial trade and the location of their suppliers and customers; examines the obstacles businesses experienced while purchasing or selling interprovincially in comparison to those cited while trading internationally; and analyzes the proportion of businesses participating in interprovincial trade and international trade.

Description: Insights on employee skill gaps experienced by Canadian businesses and the actions taken to improve operations. This article provides an overview of survey findings from the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions, conducted from January 2 to February 6, focusing on proficiency challenges, training activities, and workforce development efforts, with particular attention to how these issues vary by business size.

Description: Businesses in Canada face different obstacles in their day-to-day operations. These obstacles may vary across businesses owned by different populations. This article focuses on majority women-owned businesses.

Description: Canada has experienced relatively low productivity growth in the construction sector over the last several decades. This study examines the evolution of labour productivity in residential construction from 2001 to 2023 by using firm-level data from the National Accounts Longitudinal Microdata File. In addition to providing statistics on labour productivity growth, the study decomposes the growth in labour productivity by firm size (by number of employees), and province, showing which types of firms contribute to aggregate growth. It also provides statistics on labour productivity growth for some large census metropolitan areas.

Description: Canada’s business sector has a lower level of labour productivity compared with that of the United States. Moreover, there has been a substantial divergence in labour productivity in the business sectors of Canada and the United States since 2000. As a result, Canada’s labour productivity gap with the United States widened in that period. This paper examines the role of firm size in the widening labour productivity gap between the two countries since 2000.

Description: Between October and early November 2025, Statistics Canada conducted the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions, which provides a better understanding of the differences businesses face based on their relative sizes. This article explores various aspects of small businesses, including labor-related expectations, anticipated obstacles, and future outlooks of optimism, while looking at the impacts of tariffs and interest rates.

Description: Despite Canada’s ambitious climate goals and the global transition toward more sustainable economic development models, empirical evidence on how the green transition affects Canada’s productivity growth is limited because of a lack of comprehensive data. This study fills this gap in two steps. First, it constructs a first-of-its-kind measure of green intensity at the detailed industry level by synthesizing multidimensional data, including information on green outputs and processes. Second, it investigates productivity dynamics by decomposing productivity growth using this newly developed green index.

Description: The Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series provides for the circulation of research conducted by Analytical Studies and Modelling Branch staff and collaborators. The Series is intended to stimulate discussion 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. Readers of the Series are encouraged to contact the authors with their comments and suggestions. All the papers in the Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series go through institutional and 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: Reports on Special Business Projects is an occasional series that focuses primarily on the results of special surveys or special projects conducted by the Centre for Special Business Projects. The reports cover a wide range of topics, which include business performance and trends, custom tabulations of business data, economic impact studies, new measurement frameworks and indicators to support program development, monitoring and performance assessment, territorial economic indicators and other special studies.

Description: The newsletter offers information aimed at three main groups, businesses (small to medium), communities and ethno-cultural groups/communities. Articles and outreach materials will assist their understanding of national and local data from the many relevant sources found on the Statistics Canada website.

Description: Presented in almanac style, the 2012 Canada Year Book contains more than 500 pages of tables, charts and succinct analytical articles on every major area of Statistics Canada's expertise. The Canada Year Book is the premier reference on the social and economic life of Canada and its citizens.

Description: This monthly periodical is Statistics Canada's flagship publication for economic statistics. Each issue contains a monthly summary of the economy, major economic events and a feature article. A statistical summary contains a wide range of tables and graphs on the principal economic indicators for Canada, the provinces and the major industrial nations. A historical listing of this same data is contained in the Canadian economic observer: historical supplement (Catalogue no. 11-210-XPB and XIB).

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Services indicators is a quarterly publication which profiles the services industries. Each edition carries two in-depth analytical feature articles. In addition, each issue contains 34 updated tables and nearly 100 charts based on various service industries' output, finances, employment and remuneration data over the most recent eight quarters. The following services industries are covered: communications; finance, insurance and real estate; business services; traveler accommodations and food services; and leisure and personal services.

Description: Canada's major container ports have competed successfully against their U.S. counterparts for overseas container traffic. However, the ocean container shipping industry is undergoing changes that will impact on their relationships with ports and competition among ports for container traffic has been fierce. This paper explores how Canadian ports might fare in this increasingly competitive environment, based on their natural and man-made attributes, their competitive stance and their potential to meet the evolving ocean container industry.

The assessment includes a review of the ocean container shipping industry, the North American container market and competing ports in the United States (U.S.). This report uses data from two sources, Statistics Canada's marine international origin/destination (O/D) database and the U.S. Department of Transport Maritime Administration's (MARAD) Annual Import Export Waterborne Databank which is based on Journal of Commerce P.I.E.R.S. data.

The keys to the success of Canadian container ports have been a combination of natural endowments, investments in intermodal facilities and competitive pricing. These factors are likely to continue into the future, however, the competition among container ports is likely to intensify as industry consolidation continues and as publicly funded U.S. intermodal terminal and corridor projects come to fruition.

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The Canada e-Book is an online version of the Canada Year Book with texts, tables, charts and audio clips that present the country's economic and social trends. The Canada e-Book illustrates Canada and Canadians under four broad headings: The Land, The People, The Economy, and The State. You will find a wealth of information on topics including the human imprint on the environment, population and demography, health, education, household and family life, labour force, arts and leisure, industries, finance, government and justice. All Canadians will enjoy this useful reference that helps explain the social, economic and cultural forces that shape our nation.

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Businesses today are involved in a variety of practices aimed at preventing or reducing environmental degradation generated from their production activity. During the 1990s, the environmental regulation context changed. Increasingly, governments have relied on voluntary initiatives undertaken by businesses to reduce pollutants and waste, as opposed to regulations. However, at the same time, the federal authorities have undertaken to revise the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), in order to increase federal power for environmental regulation but with strong emphasis put on promoting pollution prevention. Consequently, businesses today are looking at alternative ways to limit impacts from their operations on the environment.

Environmental Management and Technologies in the Business Sector presents a profile of business demand for environmental processes and technologies, pollution prevention methods and environmental practices, such as environmental management systems and voluntary actions. What types of treatment processes are the most popular ones for reducing gas emissions, liquid, solid and hazardous waste, noise, radiation and vibration, for saving energy or for site reclamation? What is the market for environmental processes and technologies? What pollution prevention methods are used more frequently? What additional environmental practices have businesses adopted (for instance, are voluntary programs more popular than eco-labelling?)?

This paper is based on results from the Survey of Environmental Protection Expenditures. For the first time, the survey asked detailed questions on the type of environmental process or technology used and the adoption of environmental practices. The paper is a complement to both 1996-1997 and 1998 Environmental Protection Expenditures in the Business Sector reports (Catalogue no. 16F0006XIE).

Description: Since September 11, 2001, important changes in the financial and operating statistics of airline activities in Canada have taken place. In particular, most airline companies have seen a deterioration of their financial positions and the number of flights and of seats available have generally decreased while security measures have increased. The aim of this paper is to examine the post-September 11 aviation market in Canada with respect to one key operating characteristic: the number of flights of airline companies operating in Canada. More specifically, the following questions are addressed: Was there a recovery in airline activities in Canada since September 11? Were all losses in all sectors recovered (domestic, transborder and international)? Were all losses at all airports recovered?

This paper is divided into three sections: 1. Data sources and limitations, the scope of this research and the methodological approach used are described in the first section. 2. The second section highlights the main results obtained and discusses these results in the context of the recent trends in airline activities in Canada. 3. Lastly, some conclusions are offered, based on the evidence collected and analysed.