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• Release dates
• Revision policy
• Documents on methodology
• Guides
• Research papers
• Information on methods and data quality

The National Economic Accounts module features an up-to-date portrait of national and provincial economies and their structure. This includes comprehensive information and overviews of all the components of the accounts as well as more than 300 free statistical tables.

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Release dates

• Gross domestic product by income and by expenditure (National income and expenditure accounts)
• Gross domestic product by industry
• Balance of international payments
• Financial flow accounts
• Labour productivity, hourly compensation and unit labour cost
• International investment position
• National balance sheet accounts

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Revision policy

Gross domestic product by income and by expenditure, Balance of international payments, Financial flows, Labour productivity, International investment position, National balance sheet accounts:

Preceding quarters of the year are revised when the current quarter is published. Each year, revisions extending back four years are made with the publication of first quarter data. They are not normally revised again except when historical revisions are carried out.

Gross domestic product by industry:

Revisions arise from updates to benchmark data, projectors and seasonal adjustment. January to June: Back to previous year; July: Back to January of fifth previous year; August to December: Back to January of current year. Occasionally, there are historical revisions due to conceptual, methodological and classification changes - the most recent with the July 2002 GDP release.

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Documents on methodology

• Latest developments in the Canadian economic accounts
• The 2004-2007 revisions of the Income and Expenditure Accounts
• Canadian Economic Accounts re-referencing
• Re-referencing and change of industry classification system
• Softwood Lumber Agreement between Canada and the United States: National Accounts treatment
• The 1999-2000 revisions of the Provincial Input-Output Accounts
• Information and communications technologies (ICT)
• Capitalization of software in the National Accounts
• Chain Fisher volume index
• Productivity Growth in Canada: Appendices
• Canadian Quarterly Productivity Accounts - Technical Notes
• Economic Analysis Methodology Paper Series: National Accounts

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Guides

• Guide to the Income and Expenditure Accounts
• Gross Domestic Product by Industry: Sources and Methods with Industry Details
• Gross Domestic Product by Industry: Sources and Methods
• A Guide to Deflating the Input-Output Accounts Sources and Methods
• Canada's Balance of International Payments and International Investment Position, Concepts, Sources, Methods and Products
• Guide to the National Tourism Indicators: Sources and Methods
• Productivity Growth in Canada - Appendix 1 - The Statistics Canada Productivity Program: Concepts and Methods

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Research papers

• Income and Expenditure Accounts Technical Series
• The Canadian Economy in Transition
• Update on Economic Analysis
• Insights on the Canadian Economy
• Economic Analysis (EA) Research Paper Series
• The 1997 Historical Revision of the Canadian System of National Accounts
• Overview of Productivity Research Program and Description of Publications

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Information on methods and data quality

• GDP by income and by expenditure: 1901, 1902 and 2602.
• GDP by industry: 1301.
• Balance of international payments: 1534, 1535 and 1536.
• Financial flows: 1804.
• Labour productivity: 5042.
• International investment position: 1537.
• National balance sheet accounts: 1806.