Table 6
Standard errors for select machinery and equipment categories and a test for differences between periods

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Table 6
Standard errors for select machinery and equipment categories and a test for differences between periods
Table summary
This table displays the results of Standard errors for select machinery and equipment categories and a test for differences between periods Estimate of depreciation rate , Difference in estimates between periods, 1985 to 2001 and 2002 to 2010, calculated using standard error and t-test units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  Estimate of depreciation rate Difference in estimates between periods
1985 to 2001 2002 to 2010
standard error t-test
Asset description and code  
Office furniture, furnishing (e.g., desks, chairs) (6001) 0.005 0.009 7.761Note *
Computers, associated hardware and word processors (6002) 0.014 0.016 4.416Note *
Non-office furniture, furnishings and fixtures (e.g., recreational equipment, etc.) (6003) 0.010 0.048 0.730
Scientific, professional and medical devices (including measuring, controlling, laboratory equipment) (6004) 0.011 0.020 0.039
Heating, electrical, plumbing, air conditioning and refrigeration equipment (6005) 0.011 0.490 0.147
Pollution abatement and control equipment (6006) 0.010 0.013 1.855
Motors, generators, transformers, turbines, compressors and pumps of all types (6009) 0.006 0.006 1.285
Heavy construction equipment (e.g., loading, hauling mixing, paving, grating) (6010) 0.008 0.013 0.409
Tractors of all types and other field equipment (truck tractors - see 6203) (6011) 0.007 0.014 1.564
Capitalized tooling and other tools (hand, power, industrial) (6012) 0.013 0.238 0.042
Drilling and blasting equipment (6013) 0.013 0.032 1.165
Automobiles and major replacement parts (6201) 0.017 0.046 0.161
Buses (all types) and major replacement parts (6202) 0.023 0.007 1.097
Trucks, vans, truck tractors, truck trailers and major replacement parts (6203) 0.008 0.007 1.029
Other transportation equipment (6299) 0.010 0.008 0.442
Computer-assisted processing machinery and equipment (6401, 6402) 0.018 0.007 0.386
Non-computer-assisted processing machinery and equipment (6601, 6602) 0.007 0.009 0.057
Communication and related equipment (6403, 6603) 0.012 0.010 2.231Note *
Safety and security equipment and other machinery and equipment (6007, 8999) 0.007 0.013 2.689
Mean, all assets 0.004 0.008 7.122Note *
Note *

significantly different from reference category (p<0.05)

Return to note * referrer

Source: Statistics Canada, authors' calculations based on data from the Capital and Repair Expenditures Survey.
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