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Beginning in 2004, the Annual Survey of Manufactures and Logging (ASML) replaces the Annual Survey of Manufactures and the Annual Survey of Forestry. While the ASML covers the same target population as its predecessors, this new survey ushers in a number of conceptual and methodological changes intended to reduce response burden, enhance data quality and streamline survey operations. Two changes have the greatest impact on the comparability of the principal statistics series for manufacturing published in CANSIM tables 301-0003 and 301-0006: some redefinition of the survey content and a change in the coverage for published statistics.

Financial variables in the Annual Survey of Manufactures and Logging (ASML) survey are defined to adhere to the Statistics Canada Chart of Accounts (COA) classification. The COA is a standard classification based on generally accepted accounting principles. It was developed for reporting information on financial position and performance. As a result, some variables in the ASML are defined differently from those collected in past surveys for manufacturing and new variables have been added. These changes are reflected in a new list of published principal statistics for manufacturing. Of the variables in this list that were published previously, only two are not strictly comparable: the cost of energy and water utility and the cost of materials and supplies. For more details, refer to the notes on the affected variables in CANSIM table 301-0006.

Beginning with reference year 2004, the principal statistics published for manufacturing cover the activities of all businesses classified as manufacturers in Canada. These data series are not strictly comparable with manufacturing principal statistics published in CANSIM table 301-0003 which cover the activities of businesses with annual sales greater than or equal to $30,000. However, sales of goods manufactured in CANSIM table 301-0006 can be compared with total sales of manufactured goods published previously in CANSIM table 301-0005 for same levels of industry and geography detail.

For data prior to 2004, see CANSIM tables 301-0003 and 301-0005.

Data for reference years 2004 to 2006 are classified by industry based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 2002. Beginning with reference year 2007, the data are classified by industry based on NAICS 2007.

This CANSIM table has been archived and replaced by table 301-0008.

The variable Manufacturing value added is calculated as follows: Revenue from goods manufactured plus (Closing inventories, goods or work in process + Closing inventories, finished goods manufactured) minus (Opening inventories, goods or work in process + Opening inventories, finished goods manufactured) minus (Cost of materials and supplies + Total cost of energy, water utility and vehicle fuel).

The number of establishments represents a count of locations which perform manufacturing activities and normally corresponds to a plant, factory or mill. This variable is comparable in concept with the variable number of establishments previously published in CANSIM table 301-0003. It excludes sales offices and warehouses which support manufacturing activities.

Beginning in reference year 2011, the number of establishments will no longer be available from the Annual Survey of Manufactures and Logging. The number of manufacturing locations is available from the Canadian business patterns, location counts, employment size and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), CANSIM table 551-0001 for 2011. Please note that variables from table 551-0001 are not directly comparable to the number of establishments previously published in this table due to some conceptual differences.