Posted in Business, Consumer and Property Services, Updates on Mar 15th, 2011
We are pleased to inform you that the following product is now available on the DLI FTP and website: Canadian Business Patterns – December 2010 “The Canadian Business Patterns contains data that reflects counts of business locations (as of December 2008) and business establishments (prior to December 2009) by: 9 employment size ranges, including “indeterminate” [...]
Posted in Population and Demography, Retail and Wholesale on Sep 17th, 2010
Question A researcher here at the U of S is looking for the number of shopping centres/malls in each province, preferably at the level of CSD or CMA. I know the Annual Retail Store Survey lets users extract the number of stores by individual category at the provincial level, but I haven’t found a product [...]
Posted in Economic Accounts, Manufacturing on Sep 16th, 2010
Question I am looking for the number of manufacturers and distributors within the city of Calgary who ship cargo, where they ship the cargo, and the dollar value of the cargo they ship… Is this available anywhere please? Answer You could approach this from a few different angles using StatCan products and surveys. Canadian Business [...]
Posted in Environment on Mar 25th, 2010
Question A student working for a faculty member in Engineering was in touch with the Statistics Canada information number (1-800-263-1136). He is looking for data on the number of municipal waste water treatment plants in Canada. He is also interested in obtaining data on the amount of primary and secondary sludge produced by the plants, [...]
Posted in Business Performance and Ownership, Updates on Feb 26th, 2010
Please note the updated products listed below and the path to access them via the DLI FTP and web sites. Canadian Business Patterns – December 2009 “The Canadian Business Patterns contains data that reflect counts of business establishments and locations (as of December 2008) by: 9 employment size ranges, including “indeterminate” (as of December 1997); [...]
Posted in Business Performance and Ownership on Mar 30th, 2009
*Note: Translated from the original French. Question A student is researching to see if a list of businesses with 250 or more employees in Canada. Is there a Statistics Canada resource that would allow you to find this information? Answer This information is available under the product “Canadian Business Patterns.”
Posted in Business Performance and Ownership on Mar 20th, 2009
Question The Dec. 2008 Canadian business patterns that was released on Wednesday last week is missing all the CSD-level tables. Could we get those as well, please, as we indeed have in all previous editions since June 1998?!? Answer I was just informed by the author division that they have dropped Census Subdivisions from the [...]
Posted in Business Performance and Ownership on Feb 9th, 2009
Question For more recent years, we have CBP data at the CA/CMA, but a researcher wants to go back further where the counts are available only at the provincial level (at least according to what I downloaded from the DLI site). Might there be the possibility of getting counts at CA/CMA for the years 1994-1996? [...]
Posted in Business, Consumer and Property Services on Oct 20th, 2008
Question A researcher is interested in the following information: 1. Number of retail food outlets in British Columbia, by the smallest area unit possible (e.g. by Census Division, Census Consolidated Subdivision, whatever is available). 2. The above data broken into types of food outlets (e.g. grocery stores, at the same area unit. The researcher sent [...]
Posted in Business, Consumer and Property Services, Updates on Sep 29th, 2006
Canadian Business Patterns – June 2006 The Canadian Business Patterns contains data that reflect counts of business establishments by: 9 employment size ranges, including “indeterminate” (as of December 1997); geography groupings: province/territory, census division, census subdivision, census metropolitan area and census agglomeration; and Standard Industrial Classification which classifies each establishment in Canada into a specific [...]