Rural Statistics in Canada
Rural Canada Business Profiles, 2022

Rural Canada Business Profiles (RCBP) is a database that provides financial profiles for Small and Medium-Sized businesses in Canada with total annual revenues of $30,000 to $5,000,000 and $5,000,001 to $20,000,000 respectively. It includes data starting 2017 onward.

These data are available by industry, by province or territory, by legal status of businesses (incorporated and unincorporated) and by the distinction of rural and small town/functional urban location of businesses.

The RCBP database is available as twenty-four (24) tables, that can be distinguished by business size and calculation method as follows:

Small businesses, revenue-based calculation

• Table 33-10-0577-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, total revenue and other revenue variables of small businesses by industry, location indicator and incorporation status; revenue-based calculations
• Table 33-10-0578-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, expense items as a percent of total revenue of small businesses by industry, location indicator and incorporation status; revenue-based calculations
• Table 33-10-0579-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, expense items of small businesses by industry, location indicator and incorporation status; revenue-based calculations
• Table 33-10-0580-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, balance sheet items of incorporated small businesses by industry and location indicator; revenue-based calculations
• Table 33-10-0581-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, financial ratios of incorporated small businesses by industry and location indicator; revenue-based calculations
• Table 33-10-0582-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, financial ratios of small businesses by industry, location indicator and incorporation status; revenue-based calculations
• Table 33-10-0583-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, business items for profitable and non-profitable small businesses by industry and location indicator; revenue-based calculations

Small businesses, profit margin-based calculation

• Table 33-10-0584-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, total revenue and other revenue variables of small businesses by industry, location indicator and incorporation status; profit margin-based calculations
• Table 33-10-0585-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, expense items as a percent of total revenue of small businesses by industry, location indicator and incorporation status; profit margin-based calculations
• Table 33-10-0586-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, expense items of small businesses by industry, location indicator and incorporation status; profit margin-based calculations
• Table 33-10-0587-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, balance sheet items of incorporated small businesses by industry and location indicator; profit margin-based calculations
• Table 33-10-0588-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, financial ratios of incorporated small businesses by industry and location indicator; profit margin-based calculations
• Table 33-10-0589-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, financial ratios of small businesses by industry, location indicator and incorporation status; profit margin-based calculations
• Table 33-10-0590-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, business items for profitable and non-profitable small businesses by industry and location indicator; profit margin-based calculations

Medium-sized businesses, revenue-based calculation

• Table 33-10-0591-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, total revenue and other revenue variables of incorporated medium businesses by industry and location indicator; revenue-based calculations
• Table 33-10-0592-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, expense items as a percent of total revenue of incorporated medium businesses by industry and location indicator; revenue-based calculations
• Table 33-10-0593-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, expense items of incorporated medium businesses by industry and location indicator; revenue-based calculations
• Table 33-10-0594-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, balance sheet items of incorporated medium businesses by industry and location indicator; revenue-based calculations
• Table 33-10-0595-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, financial ratios of incorporated medium businesses by industry and location indicator; revenue-based calculations

Medium-sized businesses, profit margin-based calculation

• Table 33-10-0596-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, total revenue and other revenue variables of incorporated medium businesses by industry and location indicator; profit margin-based calculations
• Table 33-10-0597-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, expense items as a percent of total revenue of incorporated medium businesses by industry and location indicator; profit margin-based calculations
• Table 33-10-0598-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, expense items of incorporated medium businesses by industry and location indicator; profit margin-based calculations
• Table 33-10-0599-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, balance sheet items of incorporated medium businesses by industry and location indicator; profit margin-based calculations
• Table 33-10-0600-01: Rural Canada Business Profile, financial ratios of incorporated medium businesses by industry and location indicator; profit margin-based calculations

For more details regarding the previous tables and database methodology, please refer to: Metadata and user guide.