Data Access Division newsletter - Winter 2021 edition

Greetings to our staff and clients

The Data Access Division (DAD) would like to wish you a merry Christmas and happy New Year! We want to thank our staff for demonstrating strong teamwork and dedication, and leading the division to success. With your continued effort, we have achieved a lot in the past year.

We also want to extend our warmest wishes of the season to all clients and partners for their continued support and trust through a special year. We are grateful to be part of such a strong community. In the New Year, the DAD remains devoted to providing consistent and high-quality data access service for researchers and clients to best serve data needs across the country.

We wish our staff and clients a wonderful and safe winter vacation.

For more information, please visit the Data Access Division website.

Self-serve access

Data Liberation Initiative updates

The Self-Serve Access (SSA) section has received approval for each institution to have two Real Time Remote Access (RTRA) accounts. One account will be considered a backup. We ask that you use it for this purpose only in order to not overload the system. Please indicate in your email to the RTRA team if your account will be the primary or alternate account. For those who have already requested or received accounts, we will consider those as the primary, unless we’re told otherwise.

The pre-recorded webinars and other resources are saved on the GCcollab group. Once you have created your account, please request membership to the following group: StatCan - Real Time Remote Access (RTRA). The pre-recorded webinars have also been saved on the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) electronic file transfer (EFT) folder to provide you with immediate access. If the account holder is not a DLI contact, the learning material must be accessed from GCcollab.

The RTRA team is working on creating more resources, including ones for the SAS Assistant.

External advisory committee

The External Advisory Committee (EAC) Bi-Annual meeting was held on October 19, 2021. The minutes will be available on the EFT folder in January.

The EAC sent a call-out in February to the Listserv for volunteers. The Atlantic seat still remains vacant. Siobhan Hanratty and Elizabeth Hill have been appointed as co-chairs of the EAC. We are very happy to have them step into the new role immediately. We would like to thank Gilbert Bede for his service as the co-chair of the EAC.

Program review

A consultant was hired to complete a strategic review of the program following a request for proposal process.

Communication was sent out in October to DLI members, past and present, by the chair of the EAC (Gilbert Bede) to notify members that they will be contacted by the consultant for interviews and focus groups.

The findings were presented by Jennifer Smith from Intergage at the National Training on November 22, 2021.

Professional Development Commitee

The National Training was November 22 to 26, 2021. You may refer to the DLI National Training website for more information.

The Professional Development Committee (PDC) sent a call-out to the Listserv in March for a volunteer to represent the Quebec region. This seat remains vacant.

The PDC is working on several initiatives:

Contacts and Alternates Survey: The collection period ended on November 2, 2021, and an overview of the results was presented at the National Training on November 26, 2021.
DLI Training Repository: A sub-committee of the PDC is working on transitioning from Carleton University Digital Objects to the Scholars Portal Dataverse.
Training: A working group is in place to discuss training needs and coordinate with other data-centric organizations such as the Canadian Research Data Centres Network (CRDCN) and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada.

Statistics canada training

Statistics Canada (StatCan) provides training for all levels of data users using different platforms, as well as other data services such as customized products. The training is provided by the Data Service Centres. Over the past year, they have expanded many of their offerings. See below for the most up-to-date information.

Workshop series: Our workshop series provides you with direct access to StatCan's extensive survey methodology and analysis experience.
Webinars: The webinar series covers a broad range of topics from the census program to navigating the Statistics Canada website.
Data literacy: This training targets those who are new to data or those who have some experience with data but may need a refresher or want to expand their knowledge. We invite you to check out our Learning catalogue to learn more about our offerings, including a great collection of short videos. Be sure to check back regularly as we will be continuing to release new training.
Statistics: Power from Data!: Updated on September 2, 2021, this training tool for students, teachers and the general population will help get the most from statistics. This resource aims to help readers:
- Gain confidence in using statistical information
- Appreciate the importance of statistical information in today's society
- Make critical use of information that is presented to them.

These goals are at the heart of Statistics Canada's mission to assist Canadians make informed decisions based on data.

Nesstar replacement

The SSA section is collaborating with Materials and Contract Services, Public Services and Procurement Canada, IT, and a Business Relations Manager at StatCan in the procurement of a new platform to replace Nesstar.

The SSA section is also collaborating with the StatCan Colectica team. The plan is to migrate the metadata already available in Nesstar (both public use microdata files (PUMF) and masterfiles) to Colectica because of its availability in the Data Documentation Initiative format.

Public Use Microdata Files online project

The SSA section has completed its part in this initiative. The StatCan Dissemination team is now working on putting all older PUMFs online in a downloadable format. Newly released PUMFs are being added to the website as they become available. Digital object identifiers are being assigned to the PUMFs as they are made available.

A list of all DLI products is available on the website: Data Liberation Initiative.

Data Releases To DLI July To December 2021:

Canadian Perspectives Survey (CPSS) Series 6: Substance Use and Stigma During the Pandemic
Impacts of COVID-19 on Health Care Workers: Infection Prevention and Control (ICHCWIPC) 2020
Social Policy Simulation Database and Model (SPSD/M)
Visitor Travel Survey (VTS) 2018
Visitor Travel Survey (VTS) 2019
National Travel Survey (NTS) 2019
Survey of Financial Security (SFS) 2019
Labour Force Survey (LFS) - monthly
Canadian Tobacco and Nicotine Survey (CTNS) Series 5

Real Time Remote access updates

Research Data Centre (RDC) researchers have had their access extended to March 31, 2022.

43 new users subscribed between July and December 2021.

SAS Assistant

The SSA section is continuing its work adding more surveys and creating pre-recorded webinars.

A list of all RTRA products is available on the website: Real Time Remote Access.

Data Releases To RTRA July To October 2021:

Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) 2017
Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) 2018
Survey on Maternal Health (SMH) 2018
Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) – Cycle 5
Canadian Income Survey (CIS) 2019
Canadian Income Survey (CIS) 2019 – Disability
Labour Force Survey (LFS) - monthly

Research Data Centres

Research Data Centres update

In 2021, RDCs across the country continued to operate with COVID-19 restrictions in place. Also, many universities implemented COVID-19 vaccination requirements for their students and staff to work on campus. The government also instituted vaccination requirements for all federal government employees. We would like to thank all of our staff and researchers for their collaboration and patience as we provided data access and support services in this ever-changing work environment.

Work done to modernize data access for RDC researchers continues to progress. The core Virtual Research Data Centre (vRDC) project team has been focused on refining the detailed architectural design for the network and procuring hardware and software for the centralized hub locations. Additional resources from Shared Services Canada and Statistics Canada have been engaged to support the new system. Challenges resulting from pandemic shortages have led to delays in sourcing some key components. This has shifted the timeline for the construction of the system and the pilot, but adjustments have been made to other tasks to keep the project on track. Academic Directors and local IT and facilities support personnel have been engaged through a series of meetings with each site to coordinate the preparations on campus in anticipation of a staged rollout of the vRDC starting next spring.

The 2022 CRDCN National Policy Challenge, in partnership with SAS and Statistics Canada, is well underway. A total of eight RDC projects are participating, and analyses will be conducted between now and the finals in May. A variety of topics are being studied from demand for recreational cannabis to support for informal caregivers. Best of luck to all the participants!

Once again, the CRDCN hosted a very successful conference. There were over 400 registrants for the 2021 conference. While there were more than 200 registrants per session, Chief Statistician Anil Arora's session garnered more than 250 registrants to close the conference.

New Research Data Centre holdings

The RDC Program has received funding from Statistics Canada to update the Extending the Relevance of the Longitudinal Files project. Permission is being sought to: update the files to reflect the most current years of data; to expand the income variables; add all NLSCY respondents to the file; add more detailed health information to the NPHS file; and link NLSCY and YITS to the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). It was decided not to update the LSIC files as the Longitudinal Immigration Database is now the source of information on immigration. The updates are expected to be completed this fiscal year and the files will be available for access.

A total of 25 products were added to our data holdings in the second quarter of the fiscal year. These include a new administrative data file, the Canadian Housing Statistics Program (CHSP), three new surveys which include the Canadian COVID-19 Antibody and Health Survey (CCAHS), five new integrated data files, and updates to many data files.

Partial list of data files added from July To September 2021

Canadian Health Measures Survey linked to the Canadian Vital Statistics – Death Database (CVSD), the Canadian Cancer Registry (CCR) and the Discharge Abstract Database
British-Columbia Income Assistance (BCIA) linked to income taxation administrative files
Survey of Household Spending (SHS) 2019
COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage Survey (CVCS) 2021 Cycle 2
Future to Discover Project (FTD).

For a complete list of data available in RDCs and government access centres, visit Data available at the Research Data Centres.

As well, access to business data continues to expand with the successful transfer of many business data projects from head office in Ottawa to the researchers’ local RDCs

Modernization of access

Official launch into production

It is with great enthusiasm that we announce that the Virtual Data Lab (vDL) is now in production! This is a significant achievement, as the agency has been working on developing the vDL to improve access to detailed, anonymized data holdings. Statistics Canada will be better positioned to advance its user-centricity by introducing this new mode of access as it will enhance StatCan’s existing access methods and will expand microdata offerings to accredited researchers.

The vDL vision began in 2018. In March 2019, the vDL team partnered with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) to build and test its first ever prototype environment with researchers from the CMHC. The prototype proved to be greatly successful and paved the way in providing remote access for research on the Canada Emergency Response Benefit, as well as in creating an improved vDL platform hosted on the Cloud. A number of pilots were successfully conducted with provincial, federal and academic partners, which helped evaluate the nuances of onboarding different types of researchers, as well as helped inform how the user-experience of the environment could be improved for production.

Going forward, the agency will continue to migrate existing researchers and strive towards onboarding new researchers from the federal, provincial, territorial and municipal research communities, as well as non-governmental partners. The level of success of this project could not have been reached without the collaborative effort of every member involved in this process, including the Virtual Data Lab Project Team led by Marc St-Denis; the Data Analytics as a Service Division (DAaaSD) led by Sarah MacKinnon and Rob McLellan; the Data Access Division; the Office of Privacy Management and Information Coordination; IT Operations Services; the Economic Analysis Division; the International Cooperation and Methodology Innovation Centre; and the Financial Planning Division.

On behalf of Statistics Canada’s senior management, all members involved would like to take this opportunity to thank all parties for your hard work and continued support.

Virtual Data Lab project updates

Progress is ongoing on a number of key initiatives to increase virtual data access and promote collaboration. These include the continued development of analytics platforms and monitoring capabilities, and development and integration of the Client Relationship Management System.

The ongoing elaboration of platform requirements, schedules and testing for the Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)—the end-state technology for the vDL—will continue under the DAaaS-IT team in collaboration with the DAD. Additionally, the vDL project team will continue to review and revise the transition plan in cooperation with the DAD to identify partners with active projects. They will also review the Division’s resources and capacity. A series of knowledge transfer sessions have been held with various project teams to help transfer over roles and responsibilities. The onboarding schedule has been revised by the DAD and has been prioritized by fiscal year.

Three organizations—the BC Ministry of Education, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) —were ambassadors for our pilot exercise that was underway for several months. These organizations have been converted to our production environment. In collaboration with the Strategic Communications and Stakeholder Relations Division, a second series of consultations were conducted with pilot participants from CMHC and the BC Ministry of Education, which resulted in a final report and recommendations to improve the user experience when using the vDL. These recommendations are paired with the first series of consultations conducted with participants from the academic pilots, completed with the University of Toronto, the University of Montreal, Calgary University and McMaster University. Feedback provided during the sessions was positive, and participants were extremely pleased overall with the new platform. Recommendations from the consultations are being implemented for future iterations of the vDL.

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Date modified:: 2022-10-03

Why do we conduct this survey?

This survey is conducted by Statistics Canada in order to collect the necessary information to support the Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP). This program combines various survey and administrative data to develop comprehensive measures of the Canadian economy.

The statistical information from the IBSP serves many purposes, including:

calculating each province and territory's fair share of federal-provincial transfer payments for health, education and social programs
establishing government programs to assist businesses
assisting the business community in negotiating contracts and collective agreements
supporting the government in making informed decisions about fiscal, monetary and foreign exchange policies
indexing social benefit programs and determining tax brackets
enabling academics and economists to analyze the economic performance of Canadian industries and to better understand rapidly evolving business environments.

Your information may also be used by Statistics Canada for other statistical and research purposes.

Your participation in this survey is required under the authority of the Statistics Act.

Other important information

Authorization to collect this information

Data are collected under the authority of the Statistics Act, Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, Chapter S-19.

Confidentiality

By law, Statistics Canada is prohibited from releasing any information it collects that could identify any person, business, or organization, unless consent has been given by the respondent, or as permitted by the Statistics Act. Statistics Canada will use the information from this survey for statistical purposes only.

Record linkages

To enhance the data from this survey and to reduce the reporting burden, Statistics Canada may combine the acquired data with information from other surveys or from administrative sources.

Data-sharing agreements

To reduce respondent burden, Statistics Canada has entered into data-sharing agreements with provincial and territorial statistical agencies and other government organizations, which have agreed to keep the data confidential and use them only for statistical purposes. Statistics Canada will only share data from this survey with those organizations that have demonstrated a requirement to use the data.

Section 11 of the Statistics Act provides for the sharing of information with provincial and territorial statistical agencies that meet certain conditions. These agencies must have the legislative authority to collect the same information, on a mandatory basis, and the legislation must provide substantially the same provisions for confidentiality and penalties for disclosure of confidential information as the Statistics Act. Because these agencies have the legal authority to compel businesses to provide the same information, consent is not requested and businesses may not object to the sharing of the data.

The shared data will be limited to information pertaining to business establishments located within the jurisdiction of the respective province or territory.

Section 12 of the Statistics Act provides for the sharing of information with federal, provincial or territorial government organizations.

Under Section 12, you may refuse to share your information with any of these organizations by writing a letter of objection to the Chief Statistician, specifying the organizations with which you do not want Statistics Canada to share your data and mailing it to the following address:

Chief Statistician of Canada
Statistics Canada
Attention of Director, Enterprise Statistics Division
150 Tunney's Pasture Driveway
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0T6

You may also contact us by email at statcan.esd-helpdesk-dse-bureaudedepannage.statcan@canada.ca or by fax at 613-951-6583.

For this survey, there are Section 12 agreements with the statistical agencies of Prince Edward Island, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

For agreements with provincial and territorial government organizations, the shared data will be limited to information pertaining to business establishments located within the jurisdiction of the respective province or territory.

You can print this questionnaire once you have completed and submitted it.

Business or organization and contact information

1. Verify or provide the business or organization's legal and operating name and correct where needed.

Note: Legal name modifications should only be done to correct a spelling error or typo.

Legal Name

The legal name is one recognized by law, thus it is the name liable for pursuit or for debts incurred by the business or organization. In the case of a corporation, it is the legal name as fixed by its charter or the statute by which the corporation was created.

Modifications to the legal name should only be done to correct a spelling error or typo.

To indicate a legal name of another legal entity you should instead indicate it in question 3 by selecting 'Not currently operational' and then choosing the applicable reason and providing the legal name of this other entity along with any other requested information.

Operating Name

The operating name is a name the business or organization is commonly known as if different from its legal name. The operating name is synonymous with trade name.

Legal name
Operating name (if applicable)

2. Verify or provide the contact information of the designated business or organization contact person for this questionnaire and correct where needed.

Note: The designated contact person is the person who should receive this questionnaire. The designated contact person may not always be the one who actually completes the questionnaire.

First name
Last name
Title
Preferred language of communication
- English
- French
Mailing address (number and street)
City
Province, territory or state
Postal code or ZIP code
Country
- Canada
- United States
Email address
Telephone number (including area code)
Extension number (if applicable)
The maximum number of characters is 10.
Fax number (including area code)

3. Verify or provide the current operational status of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name above.

Operational
Not currently operational
Why is this business or organization not currently operational?
- Seasonal operations
  - When did this business or organization close for the season?
    Date
  - When does this business or organization expect to resume operations?
    Date
- Ceased operations
  - When did this business or organization cease operations?
    Date
  - Why did this business or organization cease operations?
    - Bankruptcy
    - Liquidation
    - Dissolution
    - Other
      Specify the other reasons why the operations ceased
- Sold operations
  - When was this business or organization sold?
    Date
  - What is the legal name of the buyer?
- Amalgamated with other businesses or organizations
  - When did this business or organization amalgamate?
    Date
  - What is the legal name of the resulting or continuing business or organization?
  - What are the legal names of the other amalgamated businesses or organizations?
- Temporarily inactive but will re-open
  - When did this business or organization become temporarily inactive?
    Date
  - When does this business or organization expect to resume operations?
    Date
  - Why is this business or organization temporarily inactive?
- No longer operating due to other reasons
  - When did this business or organization cease operations?
    Date
  - Why did this business or organization cease operations?

4. Verify or provide the current main activity of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name above.

Note: The described activity was assigned using the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

This question verifies the business or organization's current main activity as classified by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is an industry classification system developed by the statistical agencies of Canada, Mexico and the United States. Created against the background of the North American Free Trade Agreement, it is designed to provide common definitions of the industrial structure of the three countries and a common statistical framework to facilitate the analysis of the three economies. NAICS is based on supply-side or production-oriented principles, to ensure that industrial data, classified to NAICS, are suitable for the analysis of production-related issues such as industrial performance.

The target entity for which NAICS is designed are businesses and other organizations engaged in the production of goods and services. They include farms, incorporated and unincorporated businesses and government business enterprises. They also include government institutions and agencies engaged in the production of marketed and non-marketed services, as well as organizations such as professional associations and unions and charitable or non-profit organizations and the employees of households.

The associated NAICS should reflect those activities conducted by the business or organizational units targeted by this questionnaire only, as identified in the 'Answering this questionnaire' section and which can be identified by the specified legal and operating name. The main activity is the activity which most defines the targeted business or organization's main purpose or reason for existence. For a business or organization that is for-profit, it is normally the activity that generates the majority of the revenue for the entity.

The NAICS classification contains a limited number of activity classifications; the associated classification might be applicable for this business or organization even if it is not exactly how you would describe this business or organization's main activity.

Please note that any modifications to the main activity through your response to this question might not necessarily be reflected prior to the transmitting of subsequent questionnaires and as a result they may not contain this updated information.

The following is the detailed description including any applicable examples or exclusions for the classification currently associated with this business or organization.

Description and examples

This is the current main activity
This is not the current main activity
- Provide a brief but precise description of this business or organization's main activity
  e.g. For example: breakfast cereal manufacturing, shoe store, software development

Main activity

5. You indicated that is not the current main activity. Was this business or organization's main activity ever classified as: ?

Yes
When did the main activity change?
Date
No

6. Search and select the industry classification code that best corresponds to this business or organization's main activity.

Select this business or organization's activity sector (optional)

Farming or logging operation
Construction company or general contractor
Manufacturer
Wholesaler
Retailer
Provider of passenger or freight transportation
Provider of investment, savings or insurance products
Real estate agency, real estate brokerage or leasing company
Provider of professional, scientific or technical services
Provider of health care or social services
Restaurant, bar, hotel, motel or other lodging establishment
Other sector

7. You have indicated that the current main activity of this business or organization is: Main activity. Are there any other activities that contribute significantly (at least 10%) to this business or organization's revenue?

Yes, there are other activities
- Provide a brief but precise description of this business or organization's secondary activity
  e.g., breakfast cereal manufacturing, shoe store, software development
No, that is the only significant activity

8. Approximately what percentage of this business or organization's revenue is generated by each of the following activities?

When precise figures are not available, provide your best estimates.

Approximately what percentage of this business or organization's revenue is generated by each of the following activities?
	Percentage of revenue
Main activity
Secondary activity
All other activities
Total percentage

Reporting period information

1. What are the start and end dates of this business's or organization's most recently completed fiscal year?

For this survey, the end date should fall between April 1, 2021 and March 31, 2022.

Here are twelve common fiscal periods that fall within the targeted dates:

May 1, 2020 to April 30, 2021
June 1, 2020 to May 31, 2021
July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021
August 1, 2020 to July 31, 2021
September 1, 2020 to August 31, 2021
October 1, 2020 to September 30, 2021
November 1, 2020 to October 31, 2021
December 1, 2020 to November 30, 2021
January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021
February 1, 2021 to January 31, 2022
March 1, 2021 to February 28, 2022
April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022.

Here are other examples of fiscal periods that fall within the required dates:

September 18, 2020 to September 15, 2021 (e.g., floating year-end)
June 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021 (e.g., a newly opened business).

Fiscal year start date

Fiscal year-end date

2. What is the reason the reporting period does not cover a full year?

Select all that apply.

Seasonal operations
New business
Change of ownership
Temporarily inactive
Change of fiscal year
Ceased operations
Other
- Specify reason the reporting period does not cover a full year

Additional reporting instructions

1. Throughout this questionnaire, please report financial information in thousands of Canadian dollars.

For example, an amount of $763,880.25 should be reported as:

CAN$ '000: $764,000

I will report in the format above

Revenue

1. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what was this business's revenue from each of the following sources?

Notes:

a detailed breakdown may be requested in other sections
these questions are asked of many different industries. Some questions may not apply to this business

Report dollar amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Revenue

a. Sales of goods and services (e.g., fees, admissions, services revenue)

Sales of goods and services are defined as amounts derived from the sale of products and services (cash or credit), falling within a business's ordinary activities. Sales should be reported net of trade discount, value added tax and other taxes based on sales.

Include:

sales from Canadian locations (domestic and export sales)
transfers to other business units or the head office of this firm.

Exclude:

transfers into inventory and consignment sales
federal, provincial and territorial sales taxes and excise duties and taxes
intercompany sales in consolidated financial statements.

b. Rental and leasing

Include rental or leasing of apartments, commercial buildings, land, office space, residential housing, investments in co-tenancies and co-ownerships, hotel or motel rooms, long and short term vehicle leasing, machinery or equipment, storage lockers, etc.

c. Commissions

Include commissions earned on the sale of products or services by businesses such as advertising agencies, brokers, insurance agents, lottery ticket sales, sales representatives, and travel agencies - compensation could also be reported under this item (e.g., compensation for collecting sales tax).

d. Subsidies (including grants, donations and fundraising)

Include:

non-repayable grants, contributions and subsidies from all levels of government
revenue from private sector (corporate and individual) sponsorships, donations and fundraising.

e. Royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees

A royalty is defined as a payment received by the holder of a copyright, trademark or patent.

Include revenue received from the sale or use of all intellectual property rights of copyrighted materials such as musical, literary, artistic or dramatic works, sound recordings or the broadcasting of communication signals.

f. Dividends

Include:

dividend income
dividends from Canadian sources
dividends from foreign sources
patronage dividends.

Exclude equity income from investments in subsidiaries or affiliates.

g. Interest

Include:

investment revenue
interest from foreign sources
interest from Canadian bonds and debentures
interest from Canadian mortgage loans
interest from other Canadian sources.

Exclude equity income from investments in subsidiaries or affiliates.

h. Other revenue - specify

Include amounts not included in questions a. to g.

Total revenue

The sum of questions a. to h.

For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what was this business's revenue from each of the following sources?
	CAN$ '000
a Sales of goods and services
b Rental and leasing
c Commissions
d Subsidies
e Royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees
f Dividends
g Interest
h All other revenue
Total revenue

Expenses

1. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what were this business's expenses for the following items?

Notes:

a detailed breakdown may be requested in other sections
these questions are asked of many different industries. Some questions may not apply to this business

Please report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Expenses

a. Cost of goods sold

Many business units distinguish their costs of materials from their other business expenses (selling, general and administrative). This item is included to allow you to easily record your costs/expenses according to your normal accounting practices.

Include:

cost of raw materials and/or goods purchased for re-sale - net of discounts earned on purchases
freight in and duty.

Exclude all costs associated with salaries, wages, benefits, commissions and subcontracts (report at Employment costs and expenses, and Subcontracts).

b. Employment costs and expenses

b1. Salaries, wages and commissions

Please report all salaries and wages (including taxable allowances and employment commissions as defined on the T4 - Statement of Remuneration Paid) before deductions for this reporting period.

Include:

vacation pay
bonuses (including profit sharing)
employee commissions
taxable allowances (e.g., room and board, vehicle allowances, gifts such as airline tickets for holidays)
severance pay.

Exclude all payments and expenses associated with casual labour and outside contract workers (report at Subcontracts).

b2. Employee benefits

Include contributions to:

health plans
insurance plans
employment insurance
pension plans
workers' compensation
association dues
contributions to any other employee benefits such as child care and supplementary unemployment benefit (SUB) plans
contributions to provincial and territorial health and education payroll taxes.

c. Subcontracts

Subcontract expense refers to the purchasing of services from outside of the company rather than providing them in-house.

Include:

hired casual labour and outside contract workers
custom work and contract work
subcontract and outside labour
hired labour.

d. Research and development fees

Expenses from activities conducted with the intention of making a discovery that could either lead to the development of new products or procedures, or to the improvement of existing products or procedures.

e. Professional and business fees

Include:

legal services
accounting and auditing fees
consulting fees
education and training fees
appraisal fees
management and administration fees
property management fees
information technology (IT) consulting and service fees (purchased)
architectural fees
engineering fees
scientific and technical service fees
other consulting fees (management, technical and scientific)
veterinary fees
fees for human health services
payroll preparation fees
all other professional and business service fees.

Exclude service fees paid to Head Office (report at All other costs and expenses).

f. Utilities

Utility expenses related to operating your business unit such as water, electricity, gas, heating and hydro.

Include:

diesel, fuel wood, natural gas, oil and propane
sewage.

Exclude:

energy expenses covered in your rental and leasing contracts
telephone, Internet and other telecommunications (report at question h.)
vehicle fuel (report at All other costs and expenses).

g. Office and computer related expenses

Include:

office stationery and supplies, paper and other supplies for photocopiers, printers and fax machines
postage and courier (used in the day to day office business activity)
diskettes and computer and peripherals upgrade expenses
data processing.

Exclude telephone, Internet and other telecommunication expenses (report at Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication).

h. Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication

Include:

Internet
telephone and telecommunications
cellular telephone
fax machine
pager.

i. Business taxes, licenses and permits

Include:

property taxes paid directly and property transfer taxes
vehicle license fees
beverage taxes and business taxes
trade license fees
membership fees and professional license fees
provincial capital tax.

j. Royalties, franchise fees and memberships

Include:

amounts paid to holders of patents, copyrights, performing rights and trademarks
gross overriding royalty expenses and direct royalty costs
resident and non-resident royalty expenses
franchise fees.

Exclude Crown royalties

k. Crown charges

Federal or Provincial royalty, tax, lease or rental payments made in relation to the acquisition, development or ownership of Canadian resource properties.

Include:

Crown royalties
Crown leases and rentals
oil sand leases
stumpage fees.

l. Rental and leasing

Include:

lease rental expenses, real estate rental expenses, condominium fees and equipment rental expenses
motor vehicle rental and leasing expenses
studio lighting and scaffolding
machinery and equipment rental expenses
storage expenses
road and construction equipment rental
fuel and other utility costs covered in your rental and leasing contracts.

m. Repair and maintenance

Include:

buildings and structures
machinery and equipment
security equipment
vehicles
costs related to materials, parts and external labour associated with these expenses
janitorial and cleaning services and garbage removal.

n. Amortization and depreciation

Include:

direct cost depreciation of tangible assets and amortization of leasehold improvements
amortization of intangible assets (e.g., amortization of goodwill, patents, franchises, copyrights, trademarks, deferred charges, organizational costs).

o. Insurance

Insurance recovery income should be deducted from insurance expenses.

Include:

professional and other liability insurance
motor vehicle and property insurance
executive life insurance
bonding, business interruption insurance and fire insurance.

p. Advertising, marketing, promotion, meals and entertainment

Include:

newspaper advertising and media expenses
catalogues, presentations and displays
tickets for theatre, concerts and sporting events for business promotion
fundraising expenses
meals, entertainment and hospitality purchases for clients.

q. Travel, meetings and conventions

Include:

travel expenses
meeting and convention expenses, seminars
passenger transportation (e.g., airfare, bus, train, etc.)
accommodations
travel allowance and meals while travelling
other travel expenses.

r. Financial services

Include:

explicit service charges for financial services
credit and debit card commissions and charges
collection expenses and transfer fees
registrar and transfer agent fees
security and exchange commission fees
other financial service fees.

Exclude interest expenses (report at Interest expense).

s. Interest expense

Report the cost of servicing your company's debt.

Include:

interest
bank charges
finance charges
interest payments on capital leases
amortization of bond discounts
interest on short-term and long-term debt, mortgages, bonds and debentures.

t. Other non-production-related costs and expenses

Include:

charitable donations and political contributions
bad debt expense
loan losses
provisions for loan losses (minus bad debt recoveries)
inventory adjustments.

u. All other costs and expenses (including intracompany expenses)

Include:

production costs
pipeline operations, drilling, site restoration
gross overriding royalty
other producing property rentals
well operating, fuel and equipment
other lease rentals
other direct costs
equipment hire and operation
log yard expense, forestry costs, logging road costs
freight in and duty
overhead expenses allocated to cost of sales
other expenses
cash over/short (negative expense)
reimbursement of parent company expense
warranty expense
recruiting expenses
general and administrative expenses
interdivisional expenses
interfund transfer (minus expense recoveries)
exploration and development (including prospect/geological, well abandonment & dry holes, exploration expenses, development expenses)
amounts not included in sub-questions a. to t. above.

Total expenses

The sum of sub-questions a. to u.

For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what were this business's expenses for the following items?
	CAN$ '000
a Cost of goods sold
a1. Opening inventories
a2. Purchases
a3. Closing inventories
Cost of goods sold
b Employment costs and expenses
b1. Salaries, wages and commissions
b2. Employee benefits
c Subcontracts
d Research and development fees
e Professional and business fees
f Utilities
g Office and computer related expenses
h Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication
i Business taxes, licenses and permits
j Royalties, franchise fees and memberships
k Crown charges
l Rental and leasing
m Repair and maintenance
n Amortization and depreciation
o Insurance
p Advertising, marketing, promotion, meals and entertainment
q Travel, meetings and conventions
r Financial services
s Interest expense
t Other non-production-related costs and expenses
u All other costs and expenses
Total expenses

Industry characteristics

1. What were this business's sales for each of the following products and services?

Please report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

All revenue reported should exclude sales taxes (GST/HST, PST and QST) and be net of returns, discounts, sales allowances, and charges for outward transportation by common or contract carriers.

a. All products purchased for resale

Include:

excise taxes (such as those on gasoline, liquor, and tobacco) and other taxes that are levied on the manufacturer/importer and included in the cost of products purchased by this business unit
sales of all products purchased for resale, please report gross sales of new and used products less returns, discounts and rebates
parts used in generating repair and maintenance revenue (report the labour portion of repair and maintenance at question c.)
any sales made to any member company of your enterprise.

Do not deduct the value of trade-ins.

Exclude taxes collected directly from customers and paid directly by this operating unit to provincial and federal tax agencies.

b. Products manufactured as a secondary activity by this business Report revenue from sales of products of own manufacture.

c. Repair and maintenance services

Include:

labour revenue from installation, repair and maintenance work
parts used in generating installation, repair and maintenance revenue are to be included at question a.

d. Rental and leasing of real estate

Include rental and leasing of office space and other real estate.

e. Rental and leasing of products and equipment

Include rental and leasing of products and equipment whether or not they have been produced by this business.

What were this business's sales for each of the following products and services?
	CAN$ '000
a. All products purchased for resale
b. Products manufactured as a secondary activity by this business
c. Repair and maintenance services
d. Rental and leasing of real estate
e. Rental and leasing of products and equipment

2. What was the value of products where commissions and fees were earned by this business acting as an agent or broker?

Please report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Value of products

Report sale value of those products upon which this business has reported earning a commission or fee in the Revenue section question 1 c.

What was the value of products where commissions and fees were earned by this business acting as an agent or broker?
	CAN$ '000
Value of products

3. Did this business purchase goods (raw materials, semi-finished, or finished goods) "off the shelf" outside of Canada and sell them "as-is" in foreign markets (including the U.S.) without altering the goods, and without the goods entering Canada before the sale?

Yes
No
Don't know

Provide comments if desired.

4. On YYYY-MM-DD, last day of the fiscal year, did this business hold inventories abroad, including inventories in transit to Canada?

Include:

raw materials, work in process, and finished goods recorded in this business's accounting books, but physically located outside of Canada
goods purchased abroad for resale "as-is" in foreign markets.

Yes
No
Don't know

Provide comments if desired.

5. What was the approximate value of inventories held abroad at the end of the reporting period?

Please report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Value of inventories

6. Is the value reported above included in the closing inventories previously reported in question 1. to 3. from the expenses section?

COVID-19

1. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, did this business experience additional expenses in 2021 to comply with public health and safety guidelines or corporate guidelines to be allowed to operate?

Additional expenses could include: purchases of cleaning supplies, sanitation measures, protective equipment for employees or customers and costs to retrofit business operations (e.g., Plexiglass barriers, new equipment that facilitates physical distancing, additional labour costs).

Public health and safety guidelines refer to guidelines from a federal, provincial or municipal health agency.

Yes

What were the total additional expenses in fiscal year 2021?

Report in thousands of dollars. For expenses less than $500, enter "0".

When precise figures are not available, please provide your best estimate.

Additional labour costs, if applicable (CAN$ '000)

$ ,000

Other additional expenses (CAN$ '000)
$ ,000

As a result of the additional expenses or business conditions, did this business delay plans to expand operating capacity or undertake investments?

Yes

2. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2021 which of the following ways did this business change operating methods?

Include both temporary and ongoing changes.

Select all that apply.

Adopt or expand upon a contact-less business model

e.g., e-commerce sales, drive-through, delivery, curbside pickup, offer virtual services

Retrofit the workspace

Invest in e-commerce platforms

Use business intelligence technologies

e.g., cloud-based computing systems and big data analytic tools

Develop new supply chains

Ask some or all employees to work from home

Introduce or accelerate the introduction of new goods and services

Increase prices charged to customers of certain goods and services as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic

Decrease prices charged to customers of certain goods and services as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic

Change marketing strategy

Include re-allocating marketing budget.

Increase marketing budget

Decrease marketing budget

Expand to new markets

Substitute capital for labour

e.g., automation, robots for use in producing goods and services

Provided extra staff training

e.g., job specific training, managerial training, training in new technology, training in new business practices, digital skills training, data literacy skills, other training and development

Downsize business activities

e.g., reduce goods and services offered

Reduce labour costs

e.g., lay off employees, furlough employees, request employees take vacation, reduce hours of employees, offer early retirement package, outsource work

Reduce costs other than labour costs

Take other actions

Specify the additional actions taken

No changes to operating methods in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

3. Due to COVID-19, did this business receive public financial relief to avoid layoffs through the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy or Temporary 10% Wage Subsidy programs?

Yes

How much did your business obtain through these means?

Financial relief received (CAN$ '000)
$ ,000

Sales by type of client

1. What was this business's breakdown of sales by the following types of client?

Sales by type of client

This section is designed to measure which sector of the economy purchases your services.

Please provide a percentage breakdown of your sales by type of client.

Please ensure that the sum of percentages reported in this section equals 100%.

a. to c. Clients in Canada

a. Individuals and households

Please report the percentage of sales to individuals and households who do not represent the business or government sector.

b. Businesses

Percentage of sales sold to the business sector should be reported here.

Include sales to Crown corporations.

c. Governments, not-for-profit organizations and public institutions (e.g., hospitals, schools)

Percentage of sales to federal, provincial, territorial and municipal governments should be reported here.

Include: sales to hospitals, schools, universities and public utilities.

d. Clients outside Canada

Please report the percentage of total sales to customers or clients located outside Canada including foreign businesses, foreign individuals, foreign institutions and/or governments.

Include sales to foreign subsidiaries and affiliates.

What was this business's breakdown of sales by the following types of client?
	Percentage
a Clients in Canada — individuals and households
b Clients in Canada — businesses
c Clients in Canada — governments, not-for-profit organizations and public institutions
d Clients outside Canada
Total percentage

Province / country of origin and destination of products sold

1. According to our records, this business sells the following products.
Please review the list of products, and for each one, indicate whether it was sold during the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD.

Product # reported: NAPCS English Description

Was this product sold during this reporting period?

2. Did this business sell any other products during the reporting period of AAAA-MM-DD to AAAA-MM-DD?

Yes
How many other types of products were sold?
No

3. For each additional product sold, please provide a brief description.

Description of Additional Product # reported

Product description

The goal of this section is to understand the supply chain for your products. We will ask for the percentage breakdown for each product sold according to the origin of the products purchased and the destination of products sold.

4. For Product Description, what was the cost of goods sold?

When precise figures are not available, please provide your best estimate.

Cost of goods sold

Report the total cost of goods for this product. In the following question, you will be asked to provide the percentage breakdown of the total cost of goods according to the origin of the products (i.e., the province, territory or country outside Canada where the products were originally manufactured).

For Product Description, what was the cost of goods sold?
	Cost of goods sold
Product Description

5. For Product Description, what was the percentage breakdown of the cost of goods sold by origin (province, territory or country outside Canada)?

Note: The origin is the physical location where the products were originally produced/manufactured. The location of your supplier is an acceptable substitute.

The origin is, to the best of your knowledge, where the products were originally produced or manufactured (i.e., which province, territory or country outside Canada). If the origin is not known, an acceptable substitute is the location of this business's supplier.

Note: exclude intermediate shipping points between your supplier and you.

The total for the origin should be equal to 100%.

For Product Description, what was the percentage breakdown of the cost of goods sold by origin (province, territory or country outside Canada)?
	% Purchased from origin
Canada
Newfoundland and Labrador
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Yukon
Northwest Territories
Nunavut
Outside Canada
United States
China
Other
Total percentage

6. What were the sales of Product Description?

When precise figures are not available, please provide your best estimate.

Sales of Goods

Report the total sales for this product. In the following question, you will be asked to provide a percentage breakdown of the total sales of this product according to the destination (i.e., the province, territory or country outside Canada where the products will ultimately be used).

What were the sales of Product Description?
	Sales of goods
Product Description

7. For Product Description, what was the percentage breakdown of sales by destination (i.e., province, territory or country outside Canada)?

Note: The destination is where the products will ultimately be used.

For the product listed, please provide the percentage breakdown of the sales according to the destination.

The destination is, to the best of your knowledge, where the products will ultimately be used (i.e., which province, territory or country outside Canada).

Acceptable substitutes are:

shipping destinations
location of retail customers
location of warehouses.

The percentages should sum to 100%.

For Product Description, what was the percentage breakdown of sales by destination (i.e., province, territory or country outside Canada)?
	% Sold to destination
Canada
Newfoundland and Labrador
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Yukon
Northwest Territories
Nunavut
Outside Canada
United States
China
Other
Total percentage

Details on this business's locations

Details on this business's location # reported

The following questions ask for details on this business's location that was operational during the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD. For this location, please verify and update the address and provide the requested details.

The following questions ask for details on each of this business's # reported locations that were operational during the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD. For each location, please verify and update the address and provide the requested details.

1. Please verify the location address and correct where needed.

Operating name
Address (number and street)
City
Province, territory
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Nova Scotia
- Northwest Territories
- Nunavut
- Ontario
- Prince Edward Island
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan
- Yukon Territory
Postal code

Total operating revenue

Report dollar amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars

2. Was this business location operational for the full year?

Yes, full year operation
No, part year operation OR non-operational

3. Statistics Canada reviews all feedback. We invite your comments pertaining to this business location.

Comments

4. What were this location's part year start and end dates?

Part Year Operation Start Date

Part Year Operation End Date

5. What was the reason(s) for part year operation?

Select all that apply.

Seasonal operation
Ceased operations
New store
Temporarily closed
Change of fiscal year
Moved
Change of ownership
Other
Specify other reasons

Details on this business's locations

6. Were there any other business locations not listed that were operating during the reporting period?

Yes
How many locations?
No

Details on this business's additional location # reported

7. Please verify the business location address.

Operating name
Address (number and street)
City
Province, territory
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Nova Scotia
- Northwest Territories
- Nunavut
- Ontario
- Prince Edward Island
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan
- Yukon Territory
Postal code

Total operating revenue

Report dollar amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars

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Yes, full year operation
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Comments

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Part Year Operation Start Date

Part Year Operation End Date

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New store
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Change of fiscal year
Moved
Change of ownership
Other
Specify other reasons

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Eh Sayers Episode 3 - The Craft of Crafting in Canada

Release date: December 22, 2021

Catalogue number: 45-20-0003
ISSN: 2816-2250

The age old practice of working with one's hands in skill and time honoured endeavors has seen a resurgence during the pandemic as people seek out ways of keeping busy, exploring a fleeting interest or honing their skills on a professional level. But there's much more to it, according to Maegen Black, director of the Canadian Crafts Federation. We discuss the arts and crafts movement across Canada, its renaissance and its necessity.

Host

Tegan Bridge

Guest

Maegen Black, director of the Canadian Crafts Federation

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Eh Sayers Episode 3 - The Craft of Crafting in Canada - Transcript

Tegan: Welcome to Eh-Sayers, a podcast from Statistics Canada, where we meet the people behind the data and explore the stories behind the numbers. I'm your host, Tegan.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, suddenly a lot of people found themselves with a lot of time on their hands. Not everybody, of course. But lots of people suddenly had to actively look for ways to fill their days, but with the additional limitation that they couldn't really go anywhere or see anyone. Suddenly, we could only safely connect virtually. Lots of places, like universities and libraries, advertised online offerings to help people feel like they were doing something productive with their time. I signed up for a course about the science of well-being, which was particularly relevant at the time, I think. Some people got into personal fitness in a big way. Others decided to try to learn a new language. Others got into journaling or other creative pursuits, things like crafts.

Crafts played a really special role in this pandemic. At the amateur level, they gave people something productive and very positive to do with their minds and their hands. Some crafters took it to the next level and started selling their creations for the first time, joining the ranks of professional craft artists. Whatever the level, from hobbyists to pros, crafts can build and reinforce community, something I think we all needed.

To find out more, we spoke to Maegen Black.

Maegen: My name is Megan Black and I'm the director of the Canadian Crafts Federation.

She's also the host of the Citizens of Craft Podcast.

Tegan: Could you tell us a little bit about what you do?

Maegen: It's actually a little difficult to explain what I do. Being the director of a national Art Service organization is a little bit of an unusual position. I help craft organizations to connect with one another, to learn from one another, and to advocate on behalf of craft for the sector at large, here in Canada and abroad. The Canadian Crafts Federation has been around for a really long time in different iterations since 1974, as it stands right now, but I've been with the organization for 15 years now, working on a variety of different projects with wonderful people across the country.

Tegan: My first one is a very big question. What is craft?

Maegen: That is the question! That is the question that I get asked the most on a daily basis, probably throughout my whole professional life, and there really is no one succinct, easy definition of craft. I often say like, well, "what's the definition of art? Or what's the definition of beauty?" It is-- It gets that esoteric, but when I'm really just trying to cut to the core of it and explain, one of the versions of this definition that I use is that craft is a form of making that pairs material traditions with contemporary skill, design and technology. So that can cover a broad range of different types of craft. But at the end of the day it's people making things for beauty or for purpose and sometimes for both.

According to the 2016 General Social Survey, half of Canadians aged 15 and over participated in creative activities, with crafts being the most popular, followed by making music and visual arts.

Tegan: Are there things that people are doing that they might not necessarily think of as craft, like the one that I always think of is baking. Can baking be a craft?

Maegen: You know, again, it really depends. And craft is definitely a spectrum, so when we talk about craft at the Canadian Crafts Federation, we really mean people who are working professionally as craft artists, so people who are doing, you know, metalsmithing or furniture design or pottery or glassblowing or things that really have that deep technical skill level to it. But there's just no escaping that in contemporary society the terminology of craft has spread so far that you even just say honing your craft and it could mean anything. And so I understand why sometimes it's a little bit difficult to pin it down, but I think that thinking about it in a spectrum capacity allows people to understand, like I might not be, you know, perfect at this thing but I have a role to play in any form of making. So you know, I don't like to sort of say some things are in, baking is in, or baking is out or or glassblowing is in or glassblowing is out. It's sort of like how do you professionalize that activity? But also have a place for amateurs to be involved.

If baking's your thing, you might care to know that… In 2020, there were 60.4 kilograms of wheat flour available per person in Canada. Also, Canada imported over 13 and a half million kilograms of active yeasts in 2020, over 3 million more than in 2019.

Tegan: When the pandemic first hit, grocery stores were running out of yeast because so many people were suddenly baking bread. Why do you think that was? Why? What was it about the pandemic that had people wanting to create something with their own hands, something that they would usually buy in a store?

Maegen: You know what, this is just my own personal impression of this. Based on, you know, being in the craftworld for so long and having lived through the pandemic myself, of course. I think it was a sense of control. I think people had so little control over their daily lives and what they could and couldn't do and a lack of knowledge about what the future was going to bring that in some ways you could put your energy into something that was going to bring you a moment of joy or a moment of understanding, or a moment of revelation in a time when we really didn't have a lot of that going on. So I think there was something core about making, whether it was trying your hand at, you know, doing some sort of textile arts, teaching yourself how to crochet, teaching yourself how to maybe perhaps bake, or just sort of dipping your toes into these things that surrounded us at all times, but maybe we didn't have the time or the desire to necessarily really take that next step and actually put your hands into the materials and try to make things. So I'm hopeful that people are coming out of the pandemic with a deeper appreciation for what goes into making all of those things, whether it's a chef in a restaurant making their own or baking their own bread, or doing, you know, sort of... What's the word I want, like consumable kind of versions of what we make or... whether it's a piece of jewelry or a stained glass object, or the mug that you're drinking your coffee out of. There's, like I said before, there's this whole spectrum of different objects that exist and that surround us all the way up to public art, even and and the things that you see in your city, in your community, that make your community what it is, or that reflect your community back to you. And so I think even though it goes from the small scale of what can you do with your own hands, it goes all the way up to how are we connected through our the places that we live work and and play really, and when we didn't have that during the pandemic, we found those personal ways to make those connections.

Making and maintaining connections has been important for many people as we deal with the pandemic. Almost 38% of Canadians reported that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they experienced feelings of loneliness or isolation.

Tegan: Have you noticed any pandemic crafting trends?

Maegen: I think one of the biggest trends of pandemic craft is definitely making masks, and so you know everyone and their brother was trying to get their hands on a mask for many reasons, very important health reasons, but also just because it was something that we could do to help each other and so tons of people were making masks and selling them online. A lot of textile artist shifted their businesses to make really creative ones. I know artists in Cape Breton who were making sort of shibori style dyed, natural dye masks. There were artists all across the country taking different perspectives on it, and actually there was a really great exhibition that formed through a Facebook group and it was a community-oriented project. It's called breathe and if you look online you can find amazing, amazing masks that were made by artists across the country, and these are not pieces that were meant for safety or for security, they were really artistic sculptural pieces. So there's birchbark ones, there's beaded ones, there's fur pieces. A lot of indigenous artists were involved in creating works for this showcase. It was primarily indigenous artists from all across Canada, but across North America as well. It's a beautiful community, a coming together of artists who were using the mask as a symbol to create something in a time of great difficulty for people. And it was a really beautiful project that's gone on to be showcased in real life, let's call it, not like off of the virtual realm, and it's touring the country now. So it's a great exhibition that I really, really recommend.

Maegen: I remember in the months before Christmas, I was like, this is going to be the hot like stocking stuffer of the year, is gonna be handmade masks. I was right.

Tegan: You just reminded me, my mom actually handmade masks for all of us when you couldn't buy a mask in a store. My mom is a great, excellent seamstress. Made you know, Halloween costumes for me, my entire childhood and yes, so she got some -- Got herself some fabric and you know, made us all these custom masks. Just to make sure that we were all protected 'cause it was a way that she could, you know, take care of us from far away.

Maegen: Well, exactly right, and that's a really beautiful aspect of craft. It's like necessity. You can make something for yourself when you need it, but it's also a way to show that you care and appreciate, that you can do something to help someone through like just a simple skill of making something.

Tegan: Have you noticed more people looking for something creative to do with their time since the pandemic started?

Maegen: Since the pandemic, I think so yeah. I mean, just in my own life and connections that I have, friends and family and people in the community. We've definitely seen more people just trying their hand at something new. And I'm not sure if that's from just not being able to do the other things that would fill our time with, like travel, or you know, going out to restaurants or whatever it might be, but I do think that people were looking for something to bring a little bit of joy back to their day or to even just busy themselves, right? I mean to have something to do when you're so restricted from what you would typically engage with. I think it was... It's not a stretch for people to have looked to craft as an outlet.

Leisure is important!

Women aged 25 to 54 spent an average of 3.6 hours per day on leisure activities in 2015, and men, 4.1.

Tegan: Do you have any sense of which crafts have been the most popular during the pandemic and why that might be?

Maegen: Again, statistically speaking, we don't necessarily have information about that just yet. It may come in the future, but I think if I were in those shoes again, or if I were to take that time to to look in that way during the pandemic or after post-pandemic, I think some of the easiest crafts to get into are textile based just because they're not, in some ways they're not, as messy as some of the other ones. There's... there are, of course, tools and and you know, studio spaces that you need in order to do those things, but they can, you can go on a very basic level to start to make things with just a needle and a thread and some scissors and some fabric like, really, as a first step. It gets far more complicated as you go on right down to the, you know, you can spin wool from, you know, carded wool off the back of a sheep like. It really gets down to the individual threads, right? But I think that textiles--sort of a short answer. I gave you a long answer there, but a short answer really would be that textiles is probably the most accessible one that people can jump to first, but there's a whole world of craft out there. That one little baby step takes you into a whole big new world of trying new things. So the studios when you start to get into ceramics it gets a little bit harder. You have to have a kiln and you have to have some more specific spaces with which to make those things. The same goes for metal or blacksmithing. You know you've got to have fire, and you've got to have anvils, and you've got to have ventilation, and you've got to be careful. So yeah, it's a huge range though. It really is a huge range.

If you're interested in textiles, such as creating something from sheep's wool, it may behoove you to know…

In 2019, according to estimates, 1.1 million kilograms of raw wool were purchased in Canada directly from Canadian producers.

Tegan: Have you seen people take on new crafts remotely?

Maegen: I think that people have always been doing that. There's been many, many, many, many generations of people trying new things or trying to learn a new skill or dipping their toes into a different aspect of craft. No matter what the medium or the discipline is. But I think I probably have seen an uptick in, I'm going to call them like, kits or workshops or you know, that whole paint night phenomenon, I call it. That's definitely something that I think has increased. And because people have in some ways more accessibility to instruction because of the Internet and people being able to, you know, teach themselves things. I've seen artists doing really interesting things like there's an artist in Nova Scotia....[Gradual fade out to the narration.]

Maegen explained that some craft artists have gotten creative, selling kits and tutorials online to help you learn a new craft. Sometimes these even included live online sessions.

Third Story recording

My name is Andrea Tsang Jackson, and I'm a textile artist and quilt designer based in K'jipuktuk/Halifax, Nova, Scotia. Alissa Kloet of Keephouse Studio is a textile designer and lives in Seaforth, Nova Scotia. She and I are long-time collaborators. While on an artist's residency together in the summer of 2019, we came up with the idea to collaborate on some quilting kits. She would design enhanced cream for print fabric and I would create a quilt pattern to go with it. Quilters often like to buy fabric in bundles called Fat Quarter bundles which means various quarter yards of coordinating fabric.

We launched our first Fat Quarterly box just before the pandemic hit. The handmade provides us a connection with the physical world, in a world that has been so forcefully moved digital during the pandemic. There's so much comfort and familiarity associated with quilting. In a world that is so uncertain we look for things that we can cling to, literally, and quilts are tactile. The act of creating, away from all the Zoom meetings and FaceTime calls, brings a connection to the here and now. They can also provide a physical hug from afar when we make quilts for others.

And so that's sort of a step above just getting a book, or just getting an instruction manual and trying it out for yourself. You have an expert who can guide you through it and give you advice, and that's really where the magic happens, I find, when when you're learning a new skill, talking to someone who knows a little bit more about it, or who has practiced this for a long time and can really guide you through that process. That's a really, really, I think, inspiring experience, and it's something that vaults your skill level tenfold. When you've got someone guiding you through the process.

Tegan: For our crafting listeners who might be interested in taking it to the next level. You know, maybe there's someone who is doing something, a craft, on an amateur level, and they now are interested in going pro. Do you have any advice for them? Any resources that might be helpful for them?

Maegen: Absolutely. I have so much advice for people who are interested in taking their craft to a next level. The number one thing that I would tell people to do is connect with your local, provincial or territorial craft counsel. Whether it's craft Ontario in downtown Toronto or the Alberta Craft Council in Edmonton, they also have a space in Calgary. It doesn't matter if you're in a main city or if you're in a rural area, look to your provincial or territorial craft council and see what programs they have available. They can connect you with other guilds or with other artists in your own community. Look to your local art gallery as well. A lot of them have courses or classes or one off things that professional artists come in and teach. There's so many opportunities and I can almost guarantee you in every community whether it's a big city or a tiny hamlet across Canada, there will be a craft shop somewhere in your town, so look for them. Talk to the people who are working there, purchase work from your local artists and see if they teach any workshops or classes. But If you really want to take things to the next level, those craft councils are the way to go.

If you'd like to become a professional, you're not alone.

In 2016, there were 14,160 artisans and craftpersons employed in Canada.

Tegan: And just one more question for me. What would you say makes Canadian craft artists special?

Maegen: I think that what makes Canadian craft special is that it encompasses so many different diverse backgrounds and experiences and contemporary experiences. So it can incorporate traditions, but it also ties to what we're making now or the trends of the styles or the experiences that we're having now, or the concepts that we even want to explore right now. You can look at the history of a place through craft and culture as a context, and I really honestly feel like Canada is such a diverse place. We have so many different people from so many different backgrounds. Whether it's indigenous artists who have histories going back thousands and thousands of years, or if it's newcomers who have been around for a couple generations or brand new newcomers who are coming to Canada. And craft has accompanied all those different experiences. And I think that we have a lot to learn and share and and... it's a way of us understanding each other without language barriers in a lot of ways. I do think that craft and art allow us to share and grow and learn about each other and perhaps understand each other better from all of those different places. Canada is also a complex history and I don't think anybody can escape that conversation. And frankly, I think it's irresponsible to not think about that conversation. So there is also this deep, deep history of indigenous craft in Canada that I think is beautiful and has so much to say and is so purposeful in society, you know, from an artistic standpoint, from a cultural understanding standpoint, and from a way that we can start to understand each other. You know, when you talk about big and difficult issues through the arts, it helps to open doors and open minds and open perspectives, so you know, I don't think it will solve all problems, but I certainly think it is a way for people to connect with each other and there's so much value in that specifically. So I also encourage people to connect with like the indigenous curatorial collective with First Nations collections and museums in galleries with shops and boutiques and artists who are working across Canada from different nations and from different communities. There's just so many beautiful things out there that we can connect through and with, and I hope that people take the time to explore them because Canada is so diverse and so is our craft.

Of course, you can't talk about crafting in Canada without talking about indigenous craft.

In 2017, about one quarter of Indigenous people aged 15 and older living off reserve made carvings, drawings, jewellery or other kinds of artwork in the past 12 months.

Tegan: Yeah, so the last question was, was there anything that I didn't bring up that you'd like to talk about?

Maegen: I think I would encourage people across Canada to look to craft as a way of reconnecting with community, not just in their own homes or for their own personal experience. Those are both very, very healthy and good things to do. But when you're, let's say, emerging from the post pandemic cocoon that we've built for ourselves, look out to your community to see what craft practice is happening there, or what craft events are happening there, because it's a way for us to get back out into the community, to support one another, to enjoy ourselves, to feel productive, to feel connected, and there's just so much opportunity to look at craft, to purchase craft, if you want to collect it, or to take an opportunity to learn something more for yourselves by trying a new craft practice. So there's educational institutions that offer programs, there's, again, the craft councils across the country. There's gallery's, there's museums, there's local shops, there's friendship centres. There's so many places you can connect with craft, and if you are looking for something fulfilling to do, I think it's a really great place to find yourself.

There are lots of places you can connect with craft.

In December 2020, there were 67,930 businesses in the arts, entertainment, and recreation industry.

Tegan: If someone would like to learn more about you and your work, where can they go? Can they find you on social media?

Maegen: There's two places that you could look for more information about the Canadian Craft Federation itself and craft in general. There's the CanadianCraftsFederation.ca website which talks about our organization and all the many organizations that we work with. And then we also have Citizens of Craft. It's called CitizensOfCraft.ca. That's where there are over 700 profiles of different craft artists and organizations from across the country. We explore the meaning of craft there. It's really a hub of information about craft, and we also have our own podcast called the Citizens of Craft Podcast. Of course I want to share that with everyone. And yeah, check us out online there. And I'm hanging around at Citizens of Craft and at the Canadian Crafts Federation and pretty much every craft event I can get my feet too. That's where you can find Megan Black.

And if you're looking for that mask art exhibition that Maegen mentioned...

Maegen: So for that exhibition, if people just search, Breathe on Facebook, it's breathe, but there's a period at the end. So breathe with a period at the end. It should take them to a public group. There's about 2,000 group members and hundreds of masks that people have made.

So do check that out. It's pretty cool.

You've been listening to Eh Sayers. Thank you to our guest, Maegen Black of the Canadian Crafts Federation. Thank you also to Andrea Tsang Jackson of Third Story Workshop.

You can subscribe to this show wherever you get your podcasts. There you can also find the French version of our show, called Eh-coutez bien. Thanks for listening!

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The Assistant Chief Statistician (ACS), Economic Statistics (Field 5), should ensure that a comprehensive strategy is developed to identify, prioritize and respond to emerging data needs (i.e., post-pandemic data), including areas of current data gaps.

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1. Verify or provide the business or organization's legal and operating name and correct where needed.

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Legal Name

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Operating Name

The operating name is a name the business or organization is commonly known as if different from its legal name. The operating name is synonymous with trade name.

Legal name
Operating name (if applicable)

2. Verify or provide the contact information of the designated business or organization contact person for this questionnaire and correct where needed.

Note: The designated contact person is the person who should receive this questionnaire. The designated contact person may not always be the one who actually completes the questionnaire.

First name
Last name
Title
Preferred language of communication
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- French
Mailing address (number and street)
City
Province, territory or state
Postal code or ZIP code
Country
- Canada
- United States
Email address
Telephone number (including area code)
Extension number (if applicable)
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Fax number (including area code)

3. Verify or provide the current operational status of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name above.

Operational
Not currently operational (e.g., temporarily or permanently closed, change of ownership)
Why is this business or organization not currently operational?
- Seasonal operations
  - When did this business or organization close for the season?
    - Date
  - When does this business or organization expect to resume operations?
    - Date
- Ceased operations
  - When did this business or organization cease operations?
    - Date
  - Why did this business or organization cease operations?
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    - Liquidation
    - Dissolution
    - Other
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  - When was this business or organization sold?
    - Date
  - What is the legal name of the buyer?
- Amalgamated with other businesses or organizations
  - When did this business or organization amalgamate?
    - Date
  - What is the legal name of the resulting or continuing business or organization?
  - What are the legal names of the other amalgamated businesses or organizations?
- Temporarily inactive but will re-open
  - When did this business or organization become temporarily inactive?
    - Date
  - When does this business or organization expect to resume operations?
    - Date
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- No longer operating due to other reasons
  - When did this business or organization cease operations?
    - Date
  - Why did this business or organization cease operations?

4. Verify or provide the current main activity of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name above.

Note: The described activity was assigned using the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

This question verifies the business or organization's current main activity as classified by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is an industry classification system developed by the statistical agencies of Canada, Mexico and the United States. Created against the background of the North American Free Trade Agreement, it is designed to provide common definitions of the industrial structure of the three countries and a common statistical framework to facilitate the analysis of the three economies. NAICS is based on supply-side or production-oriented principles, to ensure that industrial data, classified to NAICS , are suitable for the analysis of production-related issues such as industrial performance.

The following is the detailed description including any applicable examples or exclusions for the classification currently associated with this business or organization.

Description and examples

This is the current main activity
- Provide a brief but precise description of this business or organization's main activity
- e.g., breakfast cereal manufacturing, shoe store, software development
This is not the current main activity

Main activity

5. You indicated that is not the current main activity.

Was this business or organization's main activity ever classified as: ?

Yes
- When did the main activity change?
- Date
No

6. Search and select the industry classification code that best corresponds to this business or organization's main activity.

Select this business or organization's activity sector (optional)

Farming or logging operation
Construction company or general contractor
Manufacturer
Wholesaler
Retailer
Provider of passenger or freight transportation
Provider of investment, savings or insurance products
Real estate agency, real estate brokerage or leasing company
Provider of professional, scientific or technical services
Provider of health care or social services
Restaurant, bar, hotel, motel or other lodging establishment
Other sector

Method of collection

1. Indicate whether you will be answering the remaining questions or attaching files with the required information.

Answering the remaining questions
Attaching files

Attach files

2. Our records indicate that this business fulfills its reporting obligations using file attachment(s). Please attach the required file(s) containing your electricity supply and disposition information for [Month] 2022. You may also attach other files you feel are necessary.

Please report in megawatt-hours (MWh) and thousands of dollars for all electricity generation, imports, receipts, exports and deliveries by type of consumers ( i.e., 'end use' or enrolled with a third party retailer).

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Sub-type for all electricity generation

1. In [Month] 2022, did this business generate electricity?

Electricity may be generated for internal use and/or for sale.

2. For [Month] 2022, how will the quantity of electricity generated by this business be reported?

If both Net and Gross generation can be provided, please report the Net electricity generation.

Net electricity generation (Net electricity generation is the amount of electricity generated by the power plant that is delivered to the electricity grid during the reporting period).
Net electricity generation = Gross electricity generation - Own use consumption.
Gross electricity generation (Gross electricity generation is the total amount of electricity generated by the power plant during the reporting period).
Gross electricity generation = Net electricity generation + Own use consumption.

3. In [Month] 2022, what method was employed by this business to generate electricity?

Exclude purchased electricity.

Select all that apply.

Thermal Generation – combustible fuels Include coal, natural gas, petroleum, wood, spent pulping liquor, methane, municipal and other waste, other combustible fuels.

Nuclear: Electricity generated at an electric power plant whose turbines are driven by steam generated in a reactor by heat from the fission of nuclear fuel.

Hydro: Electric power generated from a plant in which the turbine generators are driven by flowing water.

Tidal: Electric power generated from a plant in which turbine generators are driven from tidal movements.

Wind: A power plant in which the prime mover is a wind turbine. Electric power is generated by the conversion of wind power into mechanical energy.

Solar: Electricity created using Photovoltaic (PV) technology which converts sunlight into electricity OR electricity created using solar thermal technology where sunlight heats a liquid or gas to drive a turbine or engine.

Wave: Electricity generated from mechanical energy derived from wave motion.

Geothermal: Electricity generated from heat emitted from within the earth's crust, usually in the form of hot water or steam.

Other non-combustible sources: This includes fuels such as waste heat, steam, and steam purchased from another company. Specify in the space provided.

Thermal Generation - combustible fuels.
- Include coal, natural gas, petroleum, wood, spent pulping liquor, methane, municipal and other waste, other combustible fuels.
Nuclear
Hydro
Tidal
Wind
Solar
Wave
Geothermal
Other
Specify other non-combustible methods

Electrical production by all selected methods and fuel types

4. In [Month] 2022, which types of combustible fuel were used by this business to generate electricity?

Select all that apply.

Coal: A readily combustible, black or brownish-black rock-like substance, whose composition, including inherent moisture, consists of more than 50% by weight and 70% by volume of carbonaceous material. It is formed from plant remains that have been compacted, hardened, chemically altered and metamorphosed by heat and pressure over geologic time without access to air.

Natural gas: A mixture of hydrocarbons (principally methane) and small quantities of various hydrocarbons existing in the gaseous phase or in solution with crude oil in underground reservoirs.

Petroleum: This covers both naturally occurring unprocessed crude oil and petroleum products that are made up of refined crude oil and used as a fuel source ( i.e., crude oil, synthetic crude oil, natural gas liquids, naphtha, kerosene, jet fuel, gasoline, diesel, and fuel oil; excludes Petroleum coke, bitumen and other oil products not specified).

For 'Other' non-renewable combustible fuels : This includes fuels such as propane, orimulsion, petroleum coke, coke oven gas, ethanol and any other type of non-renewable combustible fuels not otherwise identified on the questionnaire. Specify in the spaces provided.

Wood and wood waste: Wood and wood energy used as fuel, including round wood (cord wood), lignin, wood scraps from furniture and window frame manufacturing, wood chips, bark, sawdust, shavings, lumber rejects, forest residues, charcoal and pulp waste from the operations of pulp mills, sawmills and plywood mills.

Spent pulping liquor (Black liquor): A recycled by-product formed during the pulping of wood in the paper-making process. It is primarily made up of lignin and other wood constituents, and chemicals that are by-products of the manufacture of chemical pulp. It is burned as fuel or in a recovery boiler which produces steam which can be used to produce electricity.

Landfill gas: A biogas composed principally of methane and carbon dioxide produced by anaerobic digestion of landfill waste.

Municipal and other waste: Wastes (liquids or solids) produced by households, industry, hospitals and others (e.g., paper, cardboard, rubber, leather, natural textiles, wood, brush, grass clippings, kitchen wastes and sewage sludge).

Other type of Biomass: Any other type of biomass not otherwise identified on the questionnaire. This includes fuels such as food waste /food processing residues, used diapers, and biogases - example, gas produced from anaerobic digesters. Specify in the space provided.

Non-renewable combustible fuels

Coal
Natural gas
Petroleum
Other
Specify other non-renewable combustible sources

Biomass

Wood
Spent pulping liquor
Methane (landfill gas)
Municipal and other waste
Other - Specify other type of biomass

5. In [Month] 2022, what was the quantity in megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity generated by this business from the following?

Exclude purchased electricity

In [Month] 2022, what was the quantity in megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity generated by this business from the following?
	Quantity in MWh
Non-renewable combustible fuels
Coal
Natural gas
Petroleum Please report the generation from the use of diesel under Petroleum.
Total megawatt-hours generated from non-renewable combustible fuels
Biomass
Wood
Spent pulping liquor
Methane (landfill gas)
Municipal and other waste
Total megawatt-hours generated from biomass
Total electricity production from combustible fuels
Nuclear
Hydro
Tidal
Wind
Solar
Wave
Geothermal
Total production of electricity

Import of electricity from the United States

6. In [Month] 2022, did this business import electricity from the United States?

7. In [Month] 2022, what was the quantity in megawatt-hours (MWh) and the value of imported electricity from the United States?

If applicable, please report the total quantity of electricity ( MWh ) and Canadian dollar value (thousands of dollars) this business imported/purchased from the United States.

Quantity in MWh
CAN$ '000

Withdrawals or purchases of electricity from other Canadian producers and distributors

8. In [Month] 2022, did this business receive electricity from other sources in Canada?

Include

electricity received from other producers or distributors including affiliated direct purchase and wholesale consumers
withdrawals from the grid.

Withdrawals or purchases of electricity from other Canadian producers and distributors

9. In [Month] 2022, from which province or territory was electricity purchased or withdrawn by this business?

Select all that apply.

Newfoundland and Labrador
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Yukon
Northwest Territories
Nunavut

10. In [Month] 2022, what was the quantity in megawatt-hours (MWh) and the value of electricity received by this business?

Include:

electricity received from other producers or distributors
withdrawals from the grid for own use
affiliated direct purchase and wholesale consumers

If applicable, please report the total quantity of electricity ( MWh ) (thousands of dollars) purchased or received from within and/or other provinces ( e.g., other utilities/producers, transmitters, distributors).

In [Month] 2022, what was the quantity in megawatt-hours (MWh) and the value of electricity received by this business?
	Quantity in MWh	CAN$ '000
Newfoundland and Labrador
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Yukon
Northwest Territories
Nunavut
Total quantity and value of electricity purchased or withdrawn from other domestic companies

Total supply of electricity

11. This is a summary of your total supply of electricity and total cost of purchased electricity from foreign and domestic suppliers.

Please review the values and, if needed, press the Previous button at the bottom of the page to navigate to the previous page to make any modifications.

This is the sum of Total Generation, Total Receipts from United States, Total Receipts from Other Provinces and Total Receipts from Within Province. The Total Supply number must equal the Total Disposal number.

This is a summary of your total supply of electricity and total cost of purchased electricity from foreign and domestic suppliers.
	Quantity in MWh	CAN$ '000
Total supply of electricity
Total cost of purchased electricity from foreign and domestic suppliers

Own use consumption- self-generated electricity

12. In [Month] 2022, did this business consume self-generated electricity for its own use?

Own use consumption (also known as Producer consumption or Station service) refers to consumption of self-generated electricity (excludes imported or purchased electricity) for the direct support of the plant or business itself during the reporting period.

Own use consumption = Gross electricity - Net electricity generation (Net electricity generation is the amount of electricity generated by the power plant that is delivered to the electricity grid during the reporting period. Gross electricity generation is the total amount of electricity generated by the power plant during the reporting period).

13. In [Month] 2022, what was the quantity in megawatt-hours (MWh) of the electricity consumed by this business for its own use?

Quantity in MWh

Export of electricity to the United States

14. In [Month] 2022, did this business export electricity to the United States?

15. In [Month] 2022, what was the quantity in megawatt-hours (MWh) and value of exported electricity to the United States?

If applicable, please report the total quantity of electricity ( MWh ) and Canadian dollar value (thousands of dollars) this business sold/exported to the United States.

Quantity in MWh
CAN$ '000

Delivery of electricity to other domestic utilities or distributors

16. In [Month] 2022, did this business deliver electricity to other companies in Canada such as utilities, system operators (the grid), producers, transmitters and/or distributors for the purpose of resale?

17. In [Month] 2022, which province or territory was electricity delivered to?

Select all that apply.

Newfoundland and Labrador
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Yukon
Northwest Territories
Nunavut

18. In [Month] 2022, what was the quantity in megawatt-hours (MWh) and the value of electricity delivered to other companies in Canada such as utilities, system operators (the grid), producers, transmitters and/or distributors for the purpose of resale?

If applicable, please report the total quantity of electricity ( MWh ) and total dollar value (thousands of dollars) your company sold to other domestic companies, by province or territory.

In [Month] 2022, what was the quantity in megawatt-hours (MWh) and the value of electricity delivered to other companies in Canada such as utilities, system operators (the grid), producers, transmitters and/or distributors for the purpose of resale?
	Quantity in MWh	CAN$ '000
Newfoundland and Labrador
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Yukon
Northwest Territories
Nunavut
Total quantity and value of delivered electricity to other domestic businesses

Disposition of electricity by type of consumer

19. In [Month] 2022, did this business deliver electricity to consumers enrolled with retailers such as Direct Energy?

A retailer does not own any distribution lines, it operates as a middleman and relies on utility companies to deliver to their clients the electricity it has purchased on the markets.

Retailers only operate in Alberta and Ontario where the electricity markets have been deregulated, and where, by law, the generation, transmission and distribution activities must be performed by different companies.

Delivery of electricity for consumers enrolled with retailers

20. In [Month] 2022, what was the quantity in megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity delivered to the following types of consumers enrolled with retailers?

Exclude electricity delivered to other utilities or distributors.

In [Month] 2022, what was the quantity in megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity delivered to the following types of consumers enrolled with retailers?
	Quantity in MWh
To industrial customers Include mining and manufacturing.
To residential customers Include residential and agriculture.
To commercial and other institutional customers Include deliveries to urban transit systems, pipeline transportation and natural gas distribution, public administration, street lighting and commercial and other institutional.

Delivery of electricity to ultimate consumer

21. In [Month] 2022, did this business deliver electricity to 'end use' consumers?

'End Use' refers to the direct consumption of energy by consumers. In the case of 'residential end-use customers', for example, end use refers to electricity consumed by the residential sector or customers.

22. In [Month] 2022, what was the quantity in megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity delivered to the following types of 'end use' consumers?

	Quantity in MWh
To industrial end-user customers Include mining and manufacturing.
To residential end-user customers Include residential and agricultural.
To commercial and other institutional end-user customers Include deliveries to urban transit systems, pipeline transportation and natural gas distribution, public administration, street lighting and commercial and other institutional.

23. In [Month] 2022, what was the value of electricity delivered to the following types of 'end use' consumers?
Exclude sales tax.

	CAN$ '000
To industrial end-user customers Include mining and manufacturing.
To residential end-user customers Include residential and agricultural.
To commercial and other institutional end-user customers Include deliveries to urban transit systems, pipeline transportation and natural gas distribution, public administration, street lighting and commercial and other institutional.

Balancing electricity supply and disposition

The total supply of electricity must be equal to the total disposition of electricity and Total Unallocated and/or losses. If the calculated Unallocated and/or losses is not correct, use the Previous button to adjust either the supply or disposition of electricity. If it is correct, select the Next button.

If net electricity generation was reported, then Own use consumption – self-generated electricity will be removed from the calculation of Total Disposition of Electricity.

24. This is a summary of your balancing electricity supply and disposition.

Unallocated and/or losses was automatically calculated as the difference between your reported total supply of electricity and total disposition of electricity.

Unallocated and/or losses

Include:

transmission losses
adjustments
'unaccounted for' amounts which are subject to variation because of cyclical billing
losses in the main generator transformers and the electrical energy absorbed by the generating auxiliaries.

This is a summary of your balancing electricity supply and disposition.
	Quantity in MWh
Supply
Production of electricity
Imported electricity from the United States
Withdrawal or purchased electricity
Total supply of electricity
Disposition
Consumed, self-generated
Exported electricity to United States
Delivered electricity to other domestic businesses
Delivered electricity to consumers enrolled with retailers
Delivered electricity to end-use consumers
Total disposition of electricity
Unallocated and/or losses
Total supply of electricity
Total disposition of electricity
Total unallocated and/or losses

Changes or events

1. Indicate any changes or events that affected the reported values for this business or organization, compared with the last reporting period.

Select all that apply.

Strike or lock-out
Exchange rate impact
Price changes in goods or services sold
Contracting out
Organizational change
Price changes in labour or raw materials
Natural disaster
Recession
Change in product line
Sold business or business units
Expansion
New or lost contract
Plant closures
Acquisition of business or business units
Other
Specify the other changes or events:
No changes or events

Contact person

1. Statistics Canada may need to contact the person who completed this questionnaire for further information.

Is the provided given names and the provided family name the best person to contact?

Who is the best person to contact about this questionnaire?

First name:
Last name:
Title:
Email address:
Telephone number (including area code):
Extension number (if applicable)
The maximum number of characters is 5.
Fax number (including area code):

Feedback

1. How long did it take to complete this questionnaire?

Include the time spent gathering the necessary information.

Hours:
Minutes:

2. Do you have any comments about this questionnaire?

Business or organization information

1. Which of the following categories best describes this business or organization?

Government agency
Private sector business
Non-profit organization
- Who does this organization primarily serve?
  - Households or individuals
    e.g., child and youth services, community food services, food bank, women's shelter, community housing services, emergency relief services, religious organization, grant and giving services, social advocacy group, arts and recreation group
  - Businesses
    e.g., business association, chamber of commerce, condominium association, environment support or protection services, group benefit carriers (pensions, health, medical)
Don't know

Business or organization information

2. In what year was this business or organization first established?

Please provide the year this business or organization first began operations.

Year business or organization was first established:

Don't know

3. In the last 12 months, did this business or organization conduct any of the following international activities?

Select all that apply.

Export or sell goods outside of Canada
Include both intermediate and final goods.
Export or sell services outside of Canada
Include services delivered virtually and in person.
e.g., software, cloud services, legal services, environmental services, architectural services, digital advertising
Make investments outside of Canada
Sell goods to businesses or organizations in Canada who then resold them outside of Canada
Import or buy goods from outside of Canada
Include both intermediate and final goods.
Import or buy services from outside of Canada
Include services received virtually and in person.
e.g., software, cloud services, legal services, environmental services, architectural services, digital advertising
Relocate any business or organizational activities or employees from another country into Canada
Exclude temporary foreign workers.
Engage in other international business or organizational activities
OR
None of the above

4. Over the next three months, how are each of the following expected to change for this business or organization?

Exclude seasonal factors or conditions.

Number of employees
- Increase
- Stay about the same
- Decrease
- Not applicable
- Don't know
Vacant positions
- Increase
- Stay about the same
- Decrease
- Not applicable
- Don't know
Sales of goods and services offered by this business or organization
- Increase
- Stay about the same
- Decrease
- Not applicable
- Don't know
Selling price of goods and services offered by this business or organization
- Increase
- Stay about the same
- Decrease
- Not applicable
- Don't know
Demand for goods and services offered by this business or organization
- Increase
- Stay about the same
- Decrease
- Not applicable
- Don't know
Imports
- Increase
- Stay about the same
- Decrease
- Not applicable
- Don't know
Exports
- Increase
- Stay about the same
- Decrease
- Not applicable
- Don't know
Operating income
- Increase
- Stay about the same
- Decrease
- Not applicable
- Don't know
Operating expenses
- Increase
- Stay about the same
- Decrease
- Not applicable
- Don't know
Profitability
- Increase
- Stay about the same
- Decrease
- Not applicable
- Don't know
Cash reserves
- Increase
- Stay about the same
- Decrease
- Not applicable
- Don't know
Capital expenditures
e.g., machinery, equipment
- Increase
- Stay about the same
- Decrease
- Not applicable
- Don't know
Training expenditures
- Increase
- Stay about the same
- Decrease
- Not applicable
- Don't know
Marketing and advertising budget
- Increase
- Stay about the same
- Decrease
- Not applicable
- Don't know
Expenditures in research and development
- Increase
- Stay about the same
- Decrease
- Not applicable
- Don't know

Business or organization obstacles

5. Over the next three months, which of the following are expected to be obstacles for this business or organization?

Select all that apply.

Shortage of labour force
Recruiting skilled employees
Retaining skilled employees
Shortage of space or equipment
Rising cost of inputs
An input is an economic resource used in a firm's production process.
e.g., labour, capital, energy and raw materials
Cost of personal protective equipment (PPE), additional cleaning or implementing distancing requirements
Difficulty acquiring inputs, products or supplies from within Canada
Difficulty acquiring inputs, products or supplies from abroad
Maintaining inventory levels
Insufficient demand for goods or services offered
Fluctuations in consumer demand
Attracting new or returning customers
Cost of insurance
Transportation costs
Obtaining financing
Travel restrictions and travel bans
Increasing competition
Challenges related to exporting or selling goods and services outside of Canada
Maintaining sufficient cash flow or managing debt
Entry to new markets
Other
- Specify other:
OR
None of the above

Flow condition: If "Difficulty acquiring inputs, products or supplies from within Canada", "Difficulty acquiring inputs, products or supplies from abroad", or "Maintaining inventory levels" is selected in Q5, go to Q6. Otherwise, go to Q12.

Supply chain challenges

6. How long does this business or organization expect the following to continue to be an obstacle?

Difficulty acquiring inputs, products or supplies from within Canada
- Less than 3 month
- 3 months to less than 6 months
- 6 months to less than 12 months
- 12 months or more
- Don't know
Difficulty acquiring inputs, products or supplies from abroad
- Less than 3 month
- 3 months to less than 6 months
- 6 months to less than 12 months
- 12 months or more
- Don't know
Maintaining inventory levels
- Less than 3 month
- 3 months to less than 6 months
- 6 months to less than 12 months
- 12 months or more
- Don't know

7. Over the last three months, how have supply chain challenges experienced by this business or organization changed?

Supply chain challenges include difficulty acquiring inputs, products or supplies from within Canada or abroad and difficulty maintaining inventory levels.
Exclude seasonal factors or conditions.

Supply chain challenges have worsened
- Which of the following factors have contributed to these challenges?
  Select all that apply.
  - Increased prices of inputs, products or supplies
  - Increased delays in deliveries of inputs, products or supplies
  - Supply shortages resulted in fewer inputs, products or supplies being available
  - Supply shortages resulted in no inputs, products or supplies available
  - Other
    - Specify other:
  - Don't know
Supply chain challenges have remained about the same
Supply chain challenges have improved

8. Over the next three months, how does this business or organization expect supply chain challenges to change?

Supply chain challenges include difficulty acquiring inputs, products or supplies from within Canada or abroad and difficulty maintaining inventory levels.
Exclude seasonal factors or conditions.

Supply chain challenges are expected to worsen
Supply chain challenges are expected to remain about the same
Supply chain challenges are expected to improve

Supply chain

9. Over the last 12 months, from which of the following regions did this business or organization directly source its inputs, products or supplies?

Select all that apply.

Canada
United States
Mexico
Europe
e.g., Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Belgium
Asia
e.g., Japan, China, South Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, India
South America
e.g., Brazil, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Guyana
Africa
e.g., South Africa, Mauritania, Nigeria, Morocco, Côte d'Ivoire, Niger
Other
- Specify other:
Unknown region

10. Which of the following strategies does this business or organization currently use to address its supply chain challenges?

Supply chain challenges include difficulty acquiring inputs, products or supplies from within Canada or abroad and difficulty maintaining inventory levels.
Select all that apply.

Monitor shortages, delays, or disruptions for critical inputs, products or supplies
Search for alternate sources of supply
Increase tracking of delivery progress
Increase communications with suppliers or wholesalers
Maintain higher inventory levels of inputs, products or supplies
Other
- Specify other:
OR
Don't know
OR
None of the above

11. Over the next 12 months, does this business or organization plan to make any of the following adjustments to its supply chain?

Select all that apply.

Relocate supply chain activities to Canada
Relocate supply chain activities outside of Canada
Substitute inputs, products or supplies with alternate inputs, products or supplies
Shift to local suppliers
Partner with new suppliers
Implement technological improvements
Invest in research and development projects to identify alternate inputs, products, supplies, or production processes
Other
- Specify other:
OR
Don't know
OR
None of the above

Flow condition: If the business or organization is a private sector business or non-profit organization, go to Q12. Otherwise, go to Q13.

Expectations for the next year

12. Over the next 12 months, does this business or organization plan to do any of the following?

Select all that apply.

Expand current location of this business or organization
Expand this business or organization to other locations
Expand this business or organization without increasing physical space
i.e., hiring more staff who will work remotely
Restructure this business or organization
Restructuring involves changing the financial, operational, legal or other structures of the business or organization to make it more efficient or more profitable.
Acquire other businesses, organizations or franchises
Invest in other businesses or organizations
Merge with other businesses or organizations
OR
Don't know
OR
None of the above

Flow condition: If the business or organization is a private sector business, go to Q13. Otherwise, go to Q14.

13. Over the next 12 months, are there any plans to transfer, sell or close this business?

Yes
- Does this business plan to:
  - Transfer to family members without money changing hands
  - Sell to family members
  - Sell to employees
  - Sell to external parties
  - Close the business
  - Don't know
No
Don't know

Input costs

14. Over the next 12 months, how likely is this business or organization to pass on any increases in its costs to customers?

Include costs related to taxes, rents, wages, inputs, products, supplies, or carbon prices.

Very likely
Somewhat likely
Somewhat unlikely
Very unlikely
Don't know

Wages

15. Over the next 12 months, does this business or organization expect the average wages paid to change?

Average wages are expected to increase
- By what percentage are average wages expected to increase?
  Provide your best estimate rounded to the nearest percentage.
  - Percentage average wages are expected to increase:
  - Don't know
Average wages are expected to decrease
- By what percentage are average wages expected to decrease?
  Provide your best estimate rounded to the nearest percentage.
  - Percentage average wages are expected to decrease:
  - Don't know
Average wages are expected to stay approximately the same
Not applicable
e.g., This business or organization does not pay wages

Recruitment, retention and training

16. Over the next 12 months, does this business or organization plan to start doing any of the following?

Select all that apply.

Increase wages offered to new employees
Increase wages offered to existing employees
Increase benefits offered to new employees
Increase benefits offered to existing employees
Offer signing bonuses or incentives to new employees
Offer option to work remotely
Offer flexible scheduling
Apply for learning and development programs provided by governments in order to upskill or reskill current employees
Work with education and training institutions to offer work-integrated learning programs such as co-ops, internships, and apprenticeships
Provide tuition support to employees to take courses or programs
Provide employees with paid time to engage in learning and development programs
Provide training to employees to take other positions within this business or organization
Encourage employees to participate in on-the-job training
Encourage employees to acquire micro-credentials which help individuals develop job-related competencies
Micro-credentials are short, concentrated groups of courses that are based on industry needs. They are generally offered in shorter or more flexible timespans and tend to be more narrowly focused in comparison with traditional degrees and certificates. Some micro-credentials may be stackable and can be combined to form a part of a larger credential.
OR
None of the above

Liquidity and debt

17. Does this business or organization have the cash or liquid assets required to operate for the next three months?

Yes
No
- Will this business or organization be able to acquire the cash or liquid assets required?
  - Yes
  - No
  - Don't know
Don't know

18. Does this business or organization have the ability to take on debt?

Yes
No
Don't know

Working arrangements

19. Over the next three months, what percentage of the employees of this business or organization is anticipated to do each of the following?

Exclude staff that are primarily engaged in providing driving or delivery services or staff that primarily work at client premises.

Provide your best estimate rounded to the nearest percentage.
If the percentages are unknown, leave the question blank.

Work on-site exclusively
Percentage of employees:
Work on-site most hours
Percentage of employees:
Work the same amount of hours on-site and remotely
Percentage of employees:
Work remotely most hours
Percentage of employees:
Work remotely exclusively
Percentage of employees:

Flow condition: If 100% of this business's or organization's workforce is anticipated to work remotely exclusively in Q19, go to Q21. Otherwise, go to Q20.

20. Over the next three months, for this business or organization, is insufficient technology a limiting factor in having more employees working remotely?

e.g., computers, video conference tools

Yes
No
Don't know

Technology and automation

21. Over the next 12 months, does this business or organization plan to adopt new or additional digital technologies?

e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics, automation, cloud computing services, collaboration tools, security software tools, software or databases for purposes other than telework and online sales.
Note: Press the help button (?) for additional information.
(?) Digital technologies include technologies that can improve productivity and accelerate business growth, such as:

Software or hardware using artificial intelligence
e.g., machine learning, predictive technology, virtual personal assistants, online customer support bots, image or speech recognition
Robotics
Automation of certain tasks
e.g., through the use of robots or computer algorithms
Cloud computing services that are used over the internet to access software, computing power, or storage capacity
e.g., Microsoft 365®, Google Cloud™, Dropbox™
Collaboration tools
e.g., Zoom™, Microsoft Teams™, Slack™
Security software tools
e.g., anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-malware, firewalls
Software or databases for purposes other than telework and online sales
Digital technology to move business operations or sales online (for purposes other than teleworking or remote working)

Yes
No
- For which of the following reasons does this business or organization not plan to adopt any digital technologies over the next 12 months?
  Select all that apply.
  - COVID-19 has delayed the business's or organization's plans to adopt digital technologies
  - This business or organization does not have the necessary financial resources
  - This business or organization does not have the necessary human resources
  - This business or organization has recently adopted digital technologies
  - Other reason
    - Specify other :
  - Digital technologies are not relevant to this business or organization
Don't know

Future outlook

22. Over the next 12 months, what is the future outlook for this business or organization?

Very optimistic
Somewhat optimistic
Somewhat pessimistic
Very pessimistic
Don't know

2021 revenues compared with 2019

23. Compared to 2019, how did the revenues of this business or organization change in 2021?

Revenues were higher or the same in 2021
- How were revenues impacted by COVID-19?
  - Revenues were not affected or have been higher due to COVID-19
  - Revenues were affected by COVID-19 but have recovered since
  - Don't know
Revenues were 1% to less than 25% lower in 2021
Revenues were 25% to less than 50% lower in 2021
Revenues were 50% to 75% lower in 2021
Revenues were 75% to 100% lower in 2021
Revenues were 100% lower in 2021
Don't know

Employment information

24. For each of the employment categories below, please provide the proportion of employees of this business or organization that are women and men.

For a smaller business or organization, a senior management position could be the owner or operator.
For a larger business or organization, senior management positions may include: Executive Director, President, Vice-President, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, General Manager, Chairperson, or Corporate Controller.
Note: Press the help button (?) for additional information.
(?) Employees in senior management positions are responsible for developing and establishing the directions and goals for the business or organization. They are responsible for managing the staff and finances of the business or organization. They may also plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate the operations of the business or organization in relation to established objectives.
All other management positions are defined as all other managers, excluding senior managers.
All non-management positions are defined as employees in non-management positions.
Provide your best estimate rounded to the nearest percentage.

In senior management positions
- Percentage of employees that are women:
- Percentage of employees that are men:
In all other management positions
- Percentage of employees that are women:
- Percentage of employees that are men:
In all other positions
i.e., employees who do not occupy a management position
- Percentage of employees that are women:
- Percentage of employees that are men:

Flow condition: If the business or organization is a private sector business, go to Q25. Otherwise, go to "Contact person".

Ownership

(i) The groups identified within the following questions are included in order to gain a better understanding of businesses owned by members of various communities across Canada.

25. What percentage of this business or organization is owned by women?

Provide your best estimate rounded to the nearest percentage.

Percentage:

Don't know

26. What percentage of this business or organization is owned by First Nations, Métis or Inuit peoples?

Provide your best estimate rounded to the nearest percentage.

Percentage:

Don't know

27. What percentage of this business or organization is owned by immigrants to Canada?

Provide your best estimate rounded to the nearest percentage.

Percentage:

Don't know

28. What percentage of this business or organization is owned by persons with a disability?

Include visible and non-visible disabilities.
Provide your best estimate rounded to the nearest percentage.

Percentage:

Don't know

29. What percentage of this business or organization is owned by LGBTQ2 individuals?

The term LGBTQ2 refers to persons who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and/or two-spirited.
Provide your best estimate rounded to the nearest percentage.

Percentage:

Don't know

30. What percentage of this business or organization is owned by members of visible minorities?

A member of a visible minority in Canada may be defined as someone (other than an Indigenous person) who is non-white in colour or race, regardless of place of birth.
Provide your best estimate rounded to the nearest percentage.

Percentage:

Don't know

Flow condition: If more than 50% of this business or organization is owned by members of visible minorities, go to Q31. Otherwise, go to "Contact person".

31. It was indicated that at least 51% of this business or organization is owned by members of visible minorities. Please select the categories that describe the owner or owners.

Select all that apply.

South Asian
e.g., East Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan
Chinese
Black
Filipino
Latin American
Arab
Southeast Asian
e.g., Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Thai
West Asian
e.g., Afghan, Iranian
Korean
Japanese
Other group
- Specify other group:
OR
Prefer not to say

Monthly Survey of Food Services and Drinking Places: CVs for Total Sales by Geography - October 2021

Monthly Survey of Food Services and Drinking Places: CVs for Total Sales by Geography – October 2021
Table summary
This table displays the results of CVs for Total sales by Geography. The information is grouped by Geography (appearing as row headers), Month and percentage (appearing as column headers).
Geography	Month
	202010	202011	202012	202101	202102	202103	202104	202105	202106	202107	202108	202109	202110
	percentage
Canada	0.21	0.20	0.25	0.20	0.19	0.47	1.44	1.59	1.32	3.40	0.43	0.21	0.25
Newfoundland and Labrador	1.53	0.30	0.48	1.08	0.48	2.16	2.05	2.53	0.46	0.60	0.54	0.69	1.00
Prince Edward Island	0.84	1.08	1.81	1.63	1.04	1.29	16.69	1.05	0.92	0.96	0.83	2.86	1.56
Nova Scotia	0.77	0.36	1.03	0.91	0.40	0.87	2.76	3.16	0.96	0.47	0.39	0.44	0.65
New Brunswick	0.33	0.39	0.49	0.98	0.50	0.39	1.08	1.75	0.46	0.57	0.47	0.64	0.85
Quebec	0.65	0.55	0.79	0.68	0.67	1.11	5.08	4.52	4.28	16.06	0.66	0.67	0.54
Ontario	0.25	0.28	0.45	0.34	0.24	0.99	2.56	2.99	2.64	1.24	0.88	0.30	0.36
Manitoba	0.72	0.93	0.78	0.89	0.46	0.45	1.21	2.59	0.67	0.81	0.43	0.50	0.93
Saskatchewan	0.91	1.04	0.75	0.91	0.52	0.46	1.22	0.88	0.61	10.59	0.96	0.86	2.01
Alberta	0.33	0.36	0.54	0.52	0.33	0.81	3.06	4.31	0.45	2.28	0.66	0.45	0.77
British Columbia	0.72	0.68	0.39	0.33	0.56	0.99	1.88	2.78	0.79	1.62	0.34	0.39	0.58
Yukon Territory	1.72	1.71	4.34	5.07	1.96	3.01	65.36	2.72	1.85	2.87	4.89	2.26	3.77
Northwest Territories	2.10	2.04	1.97	6.05	1.83	2.93	74.26	3.73	1.86	3.13	5.75	2.41	3.96
Nunavut	2.45	67.48	2.75	2.54	2.39	2.67	3.88	4.83	1.27	84.13	2.88	3.59	5.77

Retail Trade Survey (Monthly): CVs for total sales by geography – October 2021

CVs for Total sales by geography
This table displays the results of Retail Trade Survey (monthly): CVs for total sales by geography – October 2021. The information is grouped by Geography (appearing as row headers), Month and Percent (appearing as column headers)
Geography	Month
	202110
	%
Canada	0.7
Newfoundland and Labrador	1.5
Prince Edward Island	1.0
Nova Scotia	2.1
New Brunswick	1.7
Quebec	1.4
Ontario	1.6
Manitoba	1.5
Saskatchewan	2.7
Alberta	1.3
British Columbia	1.3
Yukon Territory	1.0
Northwest Territories	0.5
Nunavut	2.2

CVs for operating revenue - Wholesale trade – 2020

CVs for operating revenue - Wholesale trade - 2020
Table summary
This table displays the results of CVs for operating revenue - Wholesale trade for 2020. The information is grouped by Geography (appearing as row headers), CVs for operating revenue, calculated using percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Geography	CVs for operating revenue
Geography	percent
Canada	0.73
Newfoundland and Labrador	1.15
Prince Edward Island	1.67
Nova Scotia	0.95
New Brunswick	2.30
Quebec	2.13
Ontario	0.89
Manitoba	1.49
Saskatchewan	0.48
Alberta	1.85
British Columbia	0.65
Yukon	3.14
Northwest Territories	0.25
Nunavut	0.00

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