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Main industries > Plastics and rubber products manufacturing >

Unsupported plastic film, sheet and bag manufacturing

Industry definition
Output, supply, demand
Monthly projector
Data
Deflation
Notes

Industry definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in converting plastic resins into unsupported plastic films, sheets and bags and those that form, coat or laminate unsupported plastic films and sheets into unsupported plastic bags. (NAICS: 32611)

Output, supply, demand

Millions of 1997 current dollars
Output
2,392
Value added at basic prices
858
Share of Manufacturing sector
0.60%
Share of total economy
0.11%
Significant products of this industry
Plastic bags
1,106
Plastic film and sheet (not laminated)
1,084
Total
2,190
Total supply of these products
Domestic production
2,317
Imports
1,308
Total
3,625
Major users of these products
Exports
892
Operating supplies
333
Retail trade
230
Personal expenditure
226
Bakeries and tortilla manufacturing
153
Unsupported plastic film, sheet and bag manufacturing
133
Total
1,967

Monthly projector

Changes in constant price output are used as indicators of the growth rates in constant price value added. The movement in constant price output is assumed to be represented by the month-to-month growth rates in constant price shipments adjusted by the change in constant price inventories of goods in process (GIP) and finished products (FP).

Data

Current price shipments, inventory of goods in process and inventory of finished products, measured in thousands of dollars.

Source
Monthly Survey of Manufacturing,
Monthly, CANSIM table 304-0014,
Statistics Canada

Deflation

Deflators for shipments are weighted averages of price indexes of Principal Commodity Groups (PCG) that are produced by the industry. Weights are PCG values, obtained from annual input-output tables.

The following PCGs account for the largest weights:
(the percentage represents the PCG's relative importance)

PCG 4851 plastic bags and shipping sacks
48%
PCG 4813 polyethylene film, sheet
25%
PCG 4814 plastic film, sheet and lay flat
23%

Deflators of closing inventories of GIP and FP are moving averages of the deflator for shipments. Deflators of opening inventories are equal to deflators of closing inventories in the previous month.

Source
Industry Price Indexes,
Monthly, Catalogue no. 62-011,
Statistics Canada

Notes

The input–output commodity classification includes seven fictive commodities, each corresponding to a fictive industry. Fictive commodities and fictive industries are a technique for routing groups of related commodities as inputs into industries when the precise commodity content is unknown. Some inputs are reported in catch-all categories, which include many input–output commodities. These commodities are shown in detail as inputs into a corresponding fictive industry. The related fictive industry is shown as purchasing the related assortment of commodities and then selling the package to the purchasing industry. Operating supplies is one of the seven fictive industries. For more detail see The Input–Output Structure of the Canadian Economy, 1961-1981, Catalogue no. 15-510, Statistics Canada.


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