Table 4
Depreciation rates for select machinery and equipment categories
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1985 to 2001 | 2002 to 2010 | 1985 to 2010 | |
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rate | |||
Asset description and code | |||
Office furniture, furnishing (e.g., desks, chairs) (6001) | 0.200 | 0.282 | 0.227 |
Computers, associated hardware and word processors (6002) | 0.385 | 0.479 | 0.431 |
Non-office furniture, furnishings and fixtures (e.g., recreational equipment, etc.) (6003) | 0.224 | 0.259 | 0.240 |
Scientific, professional and medical devices (including measuring, controlling, laboratory equipment) (6004) | 0.197 | 0.198 | 0.189 |
Heating, electrical, plumbing, air conditioning and refrigeration equipment (6005) | 0.132 | 0.204 | 0.130 |
Pollution abatement and control equipment (6006) | 0.115 | 0.146 | 0.125 |
Motors, generators, transformers, turbines, compressors and pumps of all types (6009) | 0.117 | 0.106 | 0.103 |
Heavy construction equipment (e.g., loading, hauling mixing, paving, grating) (6010) | 0.149 | 0.155 | 0.157 |
Tractors of all types and other field equipment (truck tractors - see 6203) (6011) | 0.151 | 0.175 | 0.170 |
Capitalized tooling and other tools (hand, power, industrial) (6012) | 0.211 | 0.221 | 0.229 |
Drilling and blasting equipment (6013) | 0.168 | 0.128 | 0.156 |
Automobiles and major replacement parts (6201) | 0.295 | 0.287 | 0.279 |
Buses (all types) and major replacement parts (6202) | 0.125 | 0.098 | 0.103 |
Trucks, vans, truck tractors, truck trailers and major replacement parts (6203) | 0.203 | 0.192 | 0.201 |
Other transportation equipment (6299) | 0.177 | 0.171 | 0.162 |
Computer-assisted processing machinery and equipment (6401, 6402) | 0.142 | 0.134 | 0.134 |
Non-computer-assisted processing machinery and equipment (6601, 6602) | 0.136 | 0.137 | 0.125 |
Communication and related equipment (6403, 6603) | 0.188 | 0.222 | 0.201 |
Safety and security equipment and other machinery and equipment (6007, 8999) | 0.145 | 0.185 | 0.167 |
Mean, all assets | 0.195 | 0.256 | 0.218 |
standard error | |||
Standard error of mean, all assets | 0.004 | 0.008 | 0.003 |
Note: The regrouping of 6401 and 6402, 6601 and 6602, 6403 and 6603, and 6007 and 8999 is due to the concordance of asset codes between the two sub periods. Source: Statistics Canada, authors' calculations based on data from the Capital and Repair Expenditures Survey. |
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