End notes

  1. Statistics Canada catalogue no. 15-602-X.
  2. “Tabulation: Occupation - National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2011 (691), Industry - North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 2007 (122), Age Groups (5) and Sex (3) for the Employed Labour Force Aged 15 Years and Over, in Private Households of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2011 National Household Survey.” Statistics Canada catalogue no. 99-012-X2011060.
  3. Statistics Canada catalogue no. 57-003-X.
  4. Available at: Transportation Satellite Account.
  5. RESD data (CANSIM table 128-0017) are based on two surveys: the Annual Survey on End-Use of Refined Petroleum Products (AEND) and the Annual Survey of Secondary Distributors of Refined Petroleum Products (SRPP).

    The reporting guide for the AEND asks respondents to report any offsite use of fuel under road transportation. This would separate out non-transportation use of fuel such as for operating machinery and heating, and keep non-transportation use in the non-transportation sector. Meanwhile, the other industries’ consumption of fuel for the purpose of road transportation is reported under the transportation sector and not the sector that purchased the fuel. As such, the purpose-of-use ratio can be calculated by taking a ratio of the transportation sector’s use to the total fuel use by all sectors.

    Unfortunately, the SRPP does not make the distinction between onsite and offsite use. The secondary distributors know only which industry they are selling to, and they have no way of knowing how the fuel will be used. Most of the sales from these secondary distributors are to gas stations, which are covered under the transportation sector. However, unlike the AEND survey, any use of fuel by non-transportation sectors for the purpose of transportation is reported under the sector that purchased the fuel. Therefore, the transportation sector does not include all use of fuel for the purpose of transportation. This means the purpose-of-use ratio is a bit lower than it would otherwise be.

    In short, the RESD is not completely consistent in terms of what it captures as transportation demand, but for the time being, it is the best Canadian data source for calculating purpose-of-use ratios.

  6. Certain TRIs are excluded from the input structure. For example, the truck transportation industry shows trucking service as an intermediate input into the industry itself. These represent subcontracts between trucking firms and are therefore excluded when measuring nTRIs.
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