Latest Developments in the Canadian Economic Accounts

2025

Reference Guide to Canadian International Merchandise Trade Statistics

Release date: August 29, 2025

This guide presents information to enhance an understanding of Canadian International Merchandise Trade statistics. It provides essential definitions, describes key concepts and methodology, and outlines data processes. An overview of the published data, including descriptions of product, industry, and geographical classifications, is provided along with links to the products where these data are available.

Enhancing wealth distributions within the distributions of household economic accounts using a capitalization of income method

Release date: July 16, 2025

This paper presents a methodology to enhance the estimation of wealth distributions within the distributions of household economic accounts by combining survey and tax data on investment income and applying a capitalization of income method to impute the distributions of financial asset values.

Borrowing, repayments and bankruptcies by industry: Results from the Canada Emergency Business Account program

Release date: February 18, 2025

The Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA) program was introduced during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic to support small and medium-sized businesses facing economic uncertainty.
This article examines the CEBA program in detail, focusing on the breakdown by industry, repayment trends and bankruptcies. The analysis is primarily backed by loan-level microdata from Export Development Canada, bankruptcy microdata from the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy and Statistics Canada’s Business Register.


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