Table 4
Canada–United States relative productivity small-firm disadvantage by industry, 2008

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Canada–United States relative productivity small-firm disadvantage by industry, 2008
Table summary
This table shows the difference in the importance of smaller firms in Canada compared to the United States and the relative larger productivity levels of large firms to small ones. Both of these depress Canadian productivity relative to U.S. productivity. This information is grouped by goods producing and service producing industries to emphasize the industries where relative productivity disadvantage occurred. The Canadian and U.S. relative productivity of small to large firms (appearing as column headers) were calculated as a percent. The small firm share of hours worked in each country was calculated as a percentage of total business-sector by industry. The Canada/United States relative productivity small firm disadvantage (appearing as column headers) was calculated as a percentage of Canadian relative productivity to U.S. relative productivity. The Canada/United States relative small firm share (appearing as column headers) was calculated as a percentage of Canadian relative productivity to U.S. small firm share of hours worked.
  Canadian relative productivity Small firm share United States relative productivity Small firm share Canada–United States relative Productivity small firm disadvantage Canada–United States relative small firm share
  percent
Goods producing industries  
Agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing 95.6 99.1 75.2 97.7 1.27 1.01
Electricity, gas and water supply 131.5 9.3 119.4 16.4 1.10 0.57
Construction 60.2 90.2 67.9 86.2 0.89 1.05
Mines, oil and gas 26.7 41.0 65.6 44.9 0.41 0.91
Manufacturing 54.6 58.4 53.1 44.5 1.03 1.31
Total 32.5 71.3 43.8 63.2 0.74 1.13
Service producing industries  
Wholesale and retail trade 82.8 64.5 86.0 49.9 0.96 1.29
Transport, storage and communications 36.8 54.6 53.4 37.2 0.69 1.47
Financial intermediation 63.7 37.7 83.5 32.2 0.76 1.17
Real estate, renting and business activities 90.9 72.3 113.4 54.1 0.80 1.34
Education 61.6 75.0 79.0 45.6 0.78 1.64
Health and social work 74.1 92.4 85.8 50.6 0.86 1.83
Hotels and restaurants 54.6 85.3 59.5 63.8 0.92 1.34
Other community, social and personal services 54.1 90.0 86.5 81.3 0.63 1.11
Total 61.8 70.6 77.5 53.2 0.80 1.33
Business sector 47.2 70.8 67.1 55.6 0.70 1.27
Note(s):
Industries are at the S-level aggregation based on the North American Industry Classification System.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, authors’ calculations.
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