Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP)

Reporting Guide

This guide is designed to assist you as you complete the Annual Capital and Repairs Expenditures Survey: Actual for 2019.

Your answers are confidential.

Statistics Canada is prohibited by law from releasing any information it collects which 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 information from this survey for statistical purposes.

Table of contents

Reporting period information
Definitions
Industry characteristics

Reporting period information

For the purpose of this survey, please report information for your 12 month fiscal period for which the final day occurs on or between April 1, 2019 — March 31, 2020.

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

  • May 1, 2018 to April 30, 2019
  • June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019
  • July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019
  • August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2019
  • September 1, 2018 to August 31, 2019
  • October 1, 2018 to September 30, 201
  • November 1, 2018 to October 31, 2019
  • December 1, 2018 to November 30, 2019
  • January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019
  • February 1, 2019 to January 31, 2020
  • March 1, 2019 to February 28, 2020
  • April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020

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

  • September 18, 2018 to September 15, 2019 (e.g., floating year-end)
  • June 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019 (e.g., a newly opened business)

Dollar amounts

  • all dollar amounts reported should be rounded to thousands of Canadian dollars (e.g., $6,555,444.00 should be rounded to $6,555);
  • exclude sales tax
  • your best estimates are acceptable when precise figures are not available;
  • if there are no capital expenditures, please enter '0'.

Definitions

What are Capital Expenditures?

Capital Expenditures are the gross expenditures on fixed assets for use in the operations of your organization or for lease or rent to others. Gross expenditures are expenditures before deducting proceeds from disposals, and credits (capital grants, donations, government assistance and investment tax credits).

Fixed assets are also known as capital assets or property, plant and equipment. They are items with a useful life of more than one year and are not purchased for resale but rather for use in the entity's production of goods and services.

Examples are buildings, vehicles, leasehold improvements, furniture and fixtures, machinery, and computer software.

Include:

  • Cost of all buildings, engineering structures, machinery and equipment which normally have a life of more than one year and are charged to fixed asset accounts
  • Modifications and major renovations
  • Capital costs such as feasibility studies, architectural, legal, installation and engineering fees
  • Subsidies used to fund capital expenditures
  • Capitalized interest charges on loans with which capital projects are financed
  • Work done by own labour force
  • Additions to capital work in progress

How to Treat Leases

Include:

  • assets acquired as a lessee through either a capital or financial lease;
  • assets acquired for lease to others as an operating lease.

Exclude:

  • business acquisitions
  • transfers and write-offs
  • assets acquired for lease to others, either as a capital or financial lease.

Operating lease

The lessor bears the risk of ownership and retains a significant "residual" economic interest in the leased property. The lessee has the right to temporary use of the property, for a term shorter than the economic life of the property, in exchange for regular payments. At the end of the lease, the lessee has the option of purchasing the property at fair market value.

Capital or financial lease

These leases are similar in that the lessor in effect finances the "purchase" of the leased property by the lessee and retains a security interest in the leased property. The lessee retains the leased property for substantially all of its economic life.

Industry characteristics

New Assets: Report capital expenditures for acquisitions of new assets including the portion of work in progress for the current year. Include imports of used assets since they represent newly acquired assets for the Canadian economy.

Purchase of Used Canadian Assets: The object of our survey is to measure the acquisitions of new fixed assets separately from used fixed assets in the Canadian economy as a whole. This is because the acquisition of used assets does not increase the total inventory of fixed assets, it only transfers them within the Canadian economy.

Renovation, Retrofit, Refurbishing, Overhauling and Restoration: Report capital expenditures for existing assets being upgraded, renovated, retrofitted, refurbished, overhauled or restored.

Expected Useful Life of Assets: Report the expected life of the asset in years. If you have purchased similar assets with varying expected useful lives, please combine the data and provide a weighted average for the number of years, or the expected useful life of the asset with the largest value.

Land: Capital expenditures for land should include all costs associated with the purchase of the land that are not amortized or depreciated. Improvements of land should be reported in Non-Residential Construction.

Residential Construction: Capital expenditures incurred during the reporting period for residential structures (on a contracted basis and/or by your own employees).

  • Include the housing portion of multi-purpose projects and of townsites.
  • Exclude buildings that have accommodation units without self contained or exclusive use of bathroom and kitchen facilities (e.g., some student and senior citizens residences) and associated expenditures on services.

Non-Residential Construction: Capital expenditures incurred during the reporting period for non-residential building and engineering construction (on a contracted basis and/or by your own employees) whether for your own use or rent to others. Construction structures should be classified to an asset according to its principal use unless it is a multi-purpose structure where we would like you to separate the components. The cost of any machinery and equipment which is an integral or built-in feature of the structure (i.e. elevators, heating equipment, sprinkler systems, environmental controls, intercom systems, etc.) should be reported as part of that structure as well as landscaping, associated parking lots, etc.

Include:

  • Manufacturing plants, warehouses, office buildings, shopping centres, etc.;
  • Roads, bridges, sewers, electric power lines, underground cables, etc.;
  • The cost of demolition of buildings, land servicing and site preparation;
  • Leasehold and land improvements.
  • Additions to work in progress;
  • Townsite facilities such as streets, sewers, stores and schools;
  • Buildings that have accommodation units without self contained or exclusive use of bathroom and kitchen facilities (e.g., some student and senior citizen residences) and associated expenditures on services;
  • All preconstruction planning and design costs such as engineer and consulting fees and any materials supplied to construction contractors for installation, etc.

Machinery and Equipment

Capital expenditures incurred during the reporting period for machinery and equipment, whether for your own use or for lease or rent to others. Machinery and equipment are generally housed in structures and can be removed or replaced without significantly altering the structure.

Include:

  • Automobiles, trucks, professional and scientific equipment, office and store furniture and appliances;
  • Computers (hardware only), broadcasting, telecommunications and other information and communication technologies equipment;
  • Motors, generators, transformers;
  • Any capitalized tooling expenses;
  • Acquisitions to work in progress;
  • Progress payments paid out before delivery in the year in which such payments are made;
  • Any balance owing or holdbacks should be reported in the year the cost is incurred.

Non-Capital Repair and Maintenance Expenditures

This question represents the repair and maintenance of assets in contrast to the acquisition of assets or the renovation of assets.

Non-capitalized repair and maintenance expenditures are that portion of current or operating expenditures charged against revenue in the year incurred and made for the purpose of keeping the stock of fixed assets in good working condition during the life originally intended.

Repair and maintenance allow such fixed assets to operate at output producing capacity during the asset life without undue amounts of down time (preventive function). A second purpose is the returning of any portion of the stock of fixed assets into a state of good working condition after any malfunctioning or reduced efficiency for whatever reason (curative function) short of replacement of such fixed assets or adding significantly to their life or productive efficiency.

Maintenance expenditures on buildings and other structures may include the routine care of assets such as janitorial services, snow removal and/or salting and sanding by the firm's own employees or persons outside the firm's employ.

Maintenance expenditures on machinery and equipment may include oil change and lubrication of vehicles and machinery.

Include:

  • Gross non-capital repair and maintenance expenditures on non-residential buildings, other structures and on machinery and equipment;
  • Value of repair work done by your own employees as well as payments to persons outside your employ;
  • Building maintenance such as janitorial services, snow removal and sanding;
  • Equipment maintenance such as oil changes and lubrication of vehicles and other machinery.

Oil and Gas and Mineral Exploration: These expenditures include mineral rights fees and retention costs, geological, geophysical and seismic expenses, exploration drilling, and other costs incurred during the reporting period in order to determine whether mineral, oil or gas reserves exist and can be exploited commercially. Report gross expenditures, before deducting any incentive grants. Exclude the cost of land and business acquisitions.

Work in Progress: Work in progress represents accumulated costs since the start of capital projects which are intended to be capitalized upon completion.

Cost component of expenditures – internal costs

Internal construction or development costs: (such as material and labour) that are capitalized as part of the asset costs (such as own employee installation or erection of fixed assets, systems and software development staff).

Include all materials and supplies provided free to contractors and all architects, engineering and consultants fees and similar services.

Salaries and Wages: Show the total value of salaries and wages paid to your employees. Salaries and wages are gross earnings before deductions such as income tax and include incentive bonuses and vacation pay but exclude fringe benefits.

Materials and Supplies: Report total cost of materials and supplies used by your own employees and those provided free to contractors relating to the expenditures reported.

Other Charges: Examples of other charges are insurance, power, telephone and also architectural, legal, and engineering fees considered to be applicable to the expenditures reported.

Source of Funding Breakdown

Sources of funding of capital expenditures include grants, subsidies, donations, credit and venture capital from external sources, as well as internal fundi

Environmental protection and resource management expenditures

These questions cover the capital and repair expenditures made by this organization in order to prevent, reduce or eliminate pollution and other forms of degradation of the environment while performing your production activity, i.e., within your organization. Expenditures made to restore the environment from a degraded state are included. It can also be expenditures made for resource management activities which result in the more efficient use of natural resources, thus safeguarding against their depletion or the use of goods that have been adapted to be significantly less energy or resource intensive than the industry standard. This includes expenditures that this specific operation incurred for pollution prevention and abatement and control. Exclude expenditures made to improve employee health, workplace safety, and site beautification. Please report all environmental protection or resource management expenditures whether or not they are in response to current or anticipated Canadian or international regulations, conventions or voluntary agreements.
Specific activities are: Solid waste management; Wastewater management; Air pollution management; Protection and remediation of soil, groundwater and surface water; Protection of biodiversity and habitat; Noise and vibration abatement; Protection against radiation; Heat or energy savings and management; Fuel efficient vehicles and transportation goods or technologies; Production of energy from renewable sources; Renewable energy; Production of nuclear energy; and any other environmental protection or resource management activities.

Drivers and obstacles: Drivers or obstacles to the adoption of new or significantly improved clean technologies, systems or equipment for the establishment. ng.

Disposal and sales of fixed assets

Selling price

The total value, or the sales of fixed assets which were disposed of or sold, even if traded in for credit in the acquisition or purchase of new fixed assets. When land and buildings are sold together, please report the selling price of the land separately, along with other land sales.

Gross book value

This value should represent total capital expenditures for an asset, at and since the time of original construction or purchase, including all subsequent capital expenditures for the purpose of modernization, expansion, etc. Any subsidies received should not be subtracted.

Age

Report the age of the fixed asset at the time of disposal.
If you have disposed of or sold similar assets of varying ages, report them separately or combine the data and provide a weighted average for the ages.

Annual Capital and Repair Expenditures Survey: Actual for 2019
Category Asset Code
Non-residential construction  
Asset description and codes
The asset items and categories listed below are groupings of fixed assets generally having a similar function which can apply to various industries.
 
Construction structures should be classified to an asset according to its principal use unless it is a multi-purpose structure where we would like you to separate the components. The cost of any machinery and equipment which is an integral or built-in feature of the structure (i.e. elevators, heating equipment, sprinkler systems, environmental controls, intercom systems, etc.) should be reported as part of that structure as well as landscaping, associated parking lots, etc.  
Industrial Building  
Manufacturing plants 6221121
Industrial depots and service buildings 6221131
Farm buildings and structures 6221111
Other industrial sites and structures - specify: 6221141
Commercial Building  
Industrial laboratories, research and development centres 6222311
Warehouses 6222321
Service stations 6222331
Office buildings 6222111
Hotels and Motels 6222351
Restaurants 6222341
Shopping centres, plazas, malls and stores 6222211
Theatres and halls 6222361
Indoor recreational facilities 6222363
Other collective dwellings 6222372
Student residences 6222371
Airports and other passenger terminals 6222380
Communications buildings 6222391
Sports facilities with spectator capacity 6222362
Other commercial properties, not elsewhere classified - specify: 6222392
Institutional Building  
Schools, colleges, universities and other educational buildings 6223111
Religious centres and memorial sites 6223311
Hospitals 6223211
Nursing homes and senior citizens homes 6223222
Health centres, clinics and other health care buildings 6223221
Daycare centres 6223341
Libraries 6223351
Historical sites 6223331
Public safety facilities 6223361
Museums 6223321
Other institutional buildings, not elsewhere classified- specify 6223371
Marine Engineering  
Seaports and harbours 6231311
Canals and waterways 6231331
Marinas 6231321
Other marine infrastructure - specify: 6231341
Transportation Engineering Infrastructure  
Parking lots and garages 6231211
Highways, roads and streets 6231111
Runways (include lighting) 6231231
Railway Tracks 6231221
Bridges 6231121
Tunnels 6231131
Other land transportation infrastructure, not elsewhere classified - specify: 6231241
Waterworks Engineering Infrastructure  
Water filtration plants 6235111
Water supply infrastructure 6235121
Sewage Engineering infrastructure  
Sewage treatment plants 6235211
Sewage collection and disposal infrastructure 6235221
Electric power engineering infrastructure  
Natural gas, coal and oil power plants 6233111
Nuclear power plants 6233112
Hydro-electric power plants 6233113
Other Power generating plants (wind, solar, biomass) 6233114
Power transmission networks 6233121
Power distribution networks 6233131
Communication Networks  
Telecommunications transmission cables and lines (except optical fibre) 6234111
Telecommunications transmission optical fibre cables 6234112
Telecommunications transmission support structures - towers, poles, conduit 6234113
Other communications networks - specify: 6234114
Oil and Gas Engineering Construction  
Oil refineries 6232121
Natural gas processing plants 6232122
Pipelines (except water supply conduits) 6232211
Development drilling for oil and gas 6711111
Production facilities in oil and gas extraction 6232111
Enhanced recovery techniques for oil and gas 6711113
Site development and maintenance services for oil and gas fields 6711112
Gas Distribution systems (main and services) and other oil and gas infrastructure 6232311
Mining Engineering Construction  
Mine surface buildings (except for beneficiation) 6236112
Mine buildings for ore beneficiation 6236111
Mine structures (except buildings) 6236113
Tailing disposal systems and settling ponds 6236114
Site development for mining 6711211
Other Engineering Construction  
Pollution abatement and control infrastructure 6236261
Outdoor recreational facilities 6236251
Waste disposal facilities 6236231
Irrigation networks 6236241
Reclaimed land 6236211
Flood protection infrastructure 6236221
Site remediation 7823131
Other engineering works, not elsewhere classified - specify: 6236262
Machinery and equipment  
Asset description and codes
The asset items and categories listed below are groupings of fixed assets generally having a similar function that can apply to various industries.
 
Machinery and equipment are generally housed in structures and can be removed or replaced without significantly altering the structure.  
Medium and Heavy Trucks, Buses and Other Motor Vehicles  
Medium and heavy-duty trucks 4121100
Buses 4121211
Freight and utility trailers 4121300
Special-purpose vehicles 4121221
Materials handling trucks and tractors 3454211
Other motor vehicles 4123100
Passenger Cars and Light Trucks  
Passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs 4110000
Other Transportation Equipment  
Locomotives, railway rolling stock, and rapid transit equipment 4411200
Civilian aircraft 4211112
Non-military ships, barges and platforms 4411112
Boats and personal watercraft 4421100
Other transportation equipment - specify: 4421259
Processing Equipment  
Water treatment equipment 3453311
Filters and strainers for fluids and fluid power systems 3454342
Packing, packaging, and bottling machinery 3454331
Mineral crushing, screening, processing and beneficiation machinery and equipment 3321151
Metalworking machinery 3411100
Industrial moulds, special dies, and patterns 3455110
Other industry-specific manufacturing machinery, not elsewhere classified - specify: 3431100
Computers and Office Equipment  
Computers and computer peripheral equipment 3611100
Optical and projection equipment, photocopiers, and office machines (except computers and peripherals) 3421110
Office furniture 3911400
Telecommunications, Cable and Broadcasting Equipment  
Broadcast, studio, alarm, and signalling equipment 3621200
Navigational and guidance instruments 3621300
Telephone and data communications equipment 3621100
Televisions and other audio and video equipment 3622100
Other communication equipment - specify: 3621419
Commercial and Service Industry Machinery and Equipment  
Commercial cooking and food-warming equipment 3421121
Commercial and service industry machinery and equipment, not elsewhere classified 3421130
Other Industrial Machinery and Equipment  
Heavy-gauge metal containers (including intermodal) 3454100
Hand tools and power hand tools (except welding and soldering equipment) 3454320
Logging machinery and equipment 3321111
Rock drilling machinery and equipment 3321141
Other mining and quarrying machinery and equipment, not elsewhere classified 3321142
Oil and gas field production machinery and equipment 3321160
Construction machinery and equipment 3321170
Nuclear reactor steam supply systems 3453113
Welding and soldering equipment 3454311
Industrial furnaces and ovens, and electric industrial heating equipment 3454341
Other materials handling equipment, conveyors, and elevators 3454249
Medical, Scientific and Technical Instruments and equipment  
Medical and laboratory equipment (except scientific instruments) 3631300
Scientific and technical instruments (except electromedical and irradiation equipment) 3631260
Other measuring, control, and scientific instruments (except electromedical and irradiation equipment) 3631269
Medical, dental and personal safety supplies 4751100
Other Machinery and Equipment  
Institutional and other furniture, not elsewhere classified (including furniture frames) 3911600
Engines (except gasoline and diesel engines for motor vehicles, and aircraft engines) and mechanical power transmission equipment 3451000
Pumps and compressors 3453200
Heating and cooling equipment (except household refrigerators and freezers) 3441100
Power and distribution transformers 3812211
Other transformers 3812220
Military aircraft 4211111
Military ships 4411111
Military armoured vehicles 4421231
Billboards 4751211
Non-residential mobile buildings 4711321
Waste and scrap of iron and steel (Disposal of fixed assets only) 1561111
Waste and scrap of aluminum and aluminum alloy (Disposal of fixed assets only) 1561211
Waste and scrap of other non-ferrous metals (Disposal of fixed assets only) 1561220
Electric motors and generators 3631100
Switchgear, switchboards, relays, and industrial control apparatus 3812300
Turbines, turbine generators, and turbine generator sets 3452111
Boilers, metal tanks, industrial valves and seals 3453159
Agricultural, lawn and garden machinery and equipment 3311100
Instruments for measuring electricity 3631230
Industrial and commercial fans, blowers and air purification equipment 3441200
Appliances 3820000
Unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) 4211113
Partitions, shelving, lockers and other fixtures 3911500
Batteries 4752300
Sporting and athletic goods 4753100
Other machinery and equipment - specify: 9999999

Why are we conducting 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.

For this survey, there are Section 11 agreements with the provincial and territorial statistical agencies of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Québec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and the Yukon. 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
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Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0T6

You may also contact us by email at statcan.esdhelpdesk-dsebureaudedepannage.statcan@statcan.gc.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.

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
      • Ceased operations
      • Sold operations
      • Amalgamated with other businesses or organizations
      • Temporarily inactive but will re-open
      • No longer operating due to other reasons
    • When did this business or organization close for the season?
      • Date
    • When does this business or organization expect to resume operations?
      • Date
    • 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
      • When was this business or organization sold?
        • Date
      • What is the legal name of the buyer?
      • 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?
      • 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?
      • 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
    • 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

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.

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Table summary
This table contains no data. It is an example of an empty data table used by respondents to provide data to Statistics Canada.
  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, 2019 and March 31, 2020

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

  • May 1, 2018 to April 30, 2019
  • June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019
  • July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019
  • August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2019
  • September 1, 2018 to August 31, 2019
  • October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019
  • November 1, 2018 to October 31, 2019
  • December 1, 2018 to November 30, 2019
  • January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019
  • February 1, 2019 to January 31, 2020
  • March 1, 2019 to February 28, 2020
  • April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020

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

  • September 18, 2018 to September 15, 2019 (e.g., floating year-end)
  • June 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019 (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

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?
Table summary
This table contains no data. It is an example of an empty data table used by respondents to provide data to Statistics Canada.
  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?
Table summary
This table contains no data. It is an example of an empty data table used by respondents to provide data to Statistics Canada.
  CAN$ '000
a. Cost of goods sold  
Opening inventories  
Purchases  
Closing inventories  
Cost of goods sold  
b. Employment costs and expenses  
Salaries, wages and commissions  
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 goods 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. Do not deduct the value of trade-ins.

a. Sales of all goods purchased for resale, net of returns and discounts

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 goods purchased for resale; please report gross sales of new and used goods less returns and discounts
  • parts used in generating repair and maintenance revenue (report the labour portion of repair and maintenance at question c.).

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
  • sales and revenue from concessions.

b. Sales of goods manufactured as a secondary activity by this retailing business unit

Report revenue from sales of goods of own manufacture.

c. Labour revenue from repair and maintenance

Include:

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

d. Revenue from rental and leasing of goods and equipment

Include:

  • video/computer game rental
  • rug shampoo equipment rental
  • tool rental.

e. Revenue from rental of real estate

Include revenue received from renting out or leasing property owned by this business unit.

What were this business's sales for each of the following goods and services?
Table summary
This table contains no data. It is an example of an empty data table used by respondents to provide data to Statistics Canada.
  CAN$ '000
a. Sales of all goods purchased for resale, net of returns and discounts  
b. Sales of goods manufactured as a secondary activity by this retailing business unit  
c. Labour revenue from repair and maintenance  
d. Revenue from rental and leasing of goods and equipment  
e. Revenue from rental of real estate  

Details on Purchased Services

1. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, this business reported expenses for the following items.

Please provide the requested details related to these expenses.

Please report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, this business reported expenses for the following items.
Table summary
This table contains no data. It is an example of an empty data table used by respondents to provide data to Statistics Canada.
  CAN$ '000
Professional and business fees  
Legal services  
Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services  
Management, scientific and technical consulting services  
Office administrative services  
Freight transportation arrangements and customs brokering services  
Brokerage and other insurance related services  
Security brokerage and securities dealing services  
Other purchased professional services  
Total expenses for professional and business fees  
Office and computer related expenses  
Data processing, hosting, and related services  
Business support services  
Other office and computer related purchased services  
Total expenses for office and computer related expenses  
Royalties, franchise fees and memberships  
Rights to non-financial intangible assets  
Membership fees or services  
Other royalties, franchise fees and memberships  
Total expenses for royalties, franchise fees and memberships  
Rental and leasing  
Non-residential real estate rental  
Motor vehicle rental and leasing  
Computer equipment rental and leasing  
Office machinery and equipment rental and leasing services  
Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment renting and leasing services, without operator  
Other rental services  
Total expenses for rental and leasing  
Repair and maintenance  
Security services and investigation  
Waste management and remediation services  
Motor vehicle repair and maintenance services  
Other repair and maintenance services  
Total expenses for repair and maintenance  

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?
Table summary
This table contains no data. It is an example of an empty data table used by respondents to provide data to Statistics Canada.
  Percentage
Clients in Canada - individuals and households  
Clients in Canada - businesses  
Clients in Canada - governments, not-for-profit organizations and public institutions  
Clients outside Canada  
Total percentage  

Distribution of operating revenue by method of sale

1. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what was the breakdown of the operating revenue by method of sale?

a. In-store sales

Please report total operating revenue of goods and services which are purchased in a fixed point-of-sale location accessible to the public.

Include sales at pumps for gasoline stations.

b. E-commerce revenue: sale of goods and services conducted over the Internet with or without online payment.

Include all revenue where the order is received and the commitment to purchase is made via the Internet, although payment can be made by other means, orders made in web pages, extranet, mobile devices or Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

Exclude orders made by telephone calls, facsimile or e-mail.

c. Catalogue and mail-order or telephone

Please report total operating revenue of goods and services generated from customers ordering their goods from catalogues and mail order flyers.

Include sales purchased via telephone and fax.

d. All other methods

Please report total operating revenue of goods and services generated from all other methods.

Include sales at trade shows, special events, in-home sales and card lock.

For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what was the breakdown of the operating revenue by method of sale?
Table summary
This table contains no data. It is an example of an empty data table used by respondents to provide data to Statistics Canada.
  Percentage
a. In-store sales  
b. E-commerce  
c. Catalogue and mail-order or telephone  
d. Other  
Total percentage  

E-Commerce

1. Please indicate the methods of sales used over the Internet:

Select all that apply

Mobile app

Include sales through any app, or application, that is downloaded and designed to run on a handheld device such as a smartphone or tablet (for example, places where a user may download these apps including Apple's App Store, Google Play or Blackberry App World).

Company website

Include sales through a browser-based website where your organization maintains control of the content.

Third-party website

Include sales through a browser-based website where a third-party maintains the structure of the website and control of the look and feel while your company only provides the product to be sold (for example, Amazon, Expedia or Etsy).

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

A standard format for exchanging business data. EDI is based on the use of message standards, ensuring that all participants use a common language.

  • Via a mobile app
  • Via your company website
  • Via a third-party website
  • Via Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
  • Other
    • Specify other methods

2. Does this business have any full-time staff dedicated solely to activities related to e-commerce?

  • Yes
  • No

3. Please identify the reasons why this business did not make sales over the Internet:

Select all that apply

  • Goods and services do not lend themselves to online sales
  • Prefer to maintain current business model
  • Lack of skilled workers to implement and maintain e-commerce infrastructure
  • Cost of development is too high
  • Security concerns
  • Other
    • Specify other reasons

Details on this business's locations

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.

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

  • Store ID or outlet number:
  • 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:

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
  • No

How many locations?

Details on this business's additional location # reported

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

  • Store ID or outlet number:
  • 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:

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

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

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

Comments

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

  • Part Year Operation Start Date:
  • Part Year Operation End Date:

11. 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

Notification of intent to web scrape

1. Does this business have a website?

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?

  • Yes
  • No

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?

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.

For this survey, there are Section 11 agreements with the provincial and territorial statistical agencies of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Québec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and the Yukon. 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.esdhelpdesk-dsebureaudedepannage.statcan@statcan.gc.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.

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 for ceased operations
    • 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
    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

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, 2019 and March 31, 2020.

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

  • May 1, 2018 to April 30, 2019
  • June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019
  • July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019
  • August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2019
  • September 1, 2018 to August 31, 2019
  • October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019
  • November 1, 2018 to October 31, 2019
  • December 1, 2018 to November 30, 2019
  • January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019
  • February 1, 2019 to January 31, 2020
  • March 1, 2019 to February 28, 2020
  • April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020.

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

  • September 18, 2018 to September 15, 2019 (e.g., floating year-end)
  • June 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019 (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.

The sum of questions a. to h.
  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.

The sum of sub-questions a. to u.
  CAN$ '000
a. Cost of goods sold  
a1. Opening inventories  
a2. Purchases  
a3. Closing inventories  
a4. 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 goods 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. Do not deduct the value of trade-ins.

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 goods purchased for resale; please report gross sales of new and used goods less returns and discounts
  • parts used in generating repair and maintenance revenue (exclude the labour portion of repair and maintenance).

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
  • labour portion of repair and maintenance.

Please report shipping and handling charges that are not embedded in the price of the merchandise, and which are therefore not reflected in the amount reported in the previous question a.

 
  CAN$ '000
a. Revenue from sales and goods purchased for resale or manufactured, net of returns, rebates and discounts  
b. Revenue from shipping and handling charges that is not embedded in the price of the merchandise  

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  

Sales by consumer location

1. What was the percentage breakdown of this business's sales by consumer location?

Consumer location is the location where the goods or services will ultimately be used.

If ultimate consumer location is not known, the following are acceptable substitutes:

  • shipping destination
  • client's billing address
  • location of this business's retail customers
  • location of this business's warehouses/distribution centres.
What was the percentage breakdown of this business's sales by consumer location?
  Percentage
Newfoundland and Labrador  
Prince Edward Island  
Nova Scotia  
New Brunswick  
Quebec  
Ontario  
Manitoba  
Saskatchewan  
Alberta  
British Columbia  
Yukon  
Northwest Territories  
Nunavut  
United States  
All other countries  
Total percentage  

Sales by consumer location

Distribution of operating revenue by method of sale

1. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what was the breakdown of the operating revenue by method of sale?

a. In-store sales

Please report total operating revenue of goods and services which are purchased in a fixed point-of-sale location accessible to the public.

Include sales at pumps for gasoline stations.

b. E-commerce revenue: sale of goods and services conducted over the Internet with or without online payment.

Include all revenue where the order is received and the commitment to purchase is made via the Internet, although payment can be made by other means, orders made in web pages, extranet, mobile devices or Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

Exclude orders made by telephone calls, facsimile or e-mail.

c. Catalogue and mail-order or telephone

Please report total operating revenue of goods and services generated from customers ordering their goods from catalogues and mail order flyers.

Include sales purchased via telephone and fax.

d. All other methods

Please report total operating revenue of goods and services generated from all other methods.

Include sales at trade shows, special events, in-home sales and card lock.

For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what was the breakdown of the operating revenue by method of sale?
  Percentage
a. In-store sales  
b. E-commerce  
c. Catalogue and mail-order or telephone  
d. Other  
Total percentage  

E-Commerce

1. Please indicate the methods of sales used over the Internet:

Select all that apply

Mobile app

Include sales through any app, or application, that is downloaded and designed to run on a handheld device such as a smartphone or tablet (for example, places where a user may download these apps including Apple's App Store, Google Play or Blackberry App World).

Company website

Include sales through a browser-based website where your organization maintains control of the content.

Third-party website

Include sales through a browser-based website where a third-party maintains the structure of the website and control of the look and feel while your company only provides the product to be sold (for example, Amazon, Expedia or Etsy).

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

A standard format for exchanging business data. EDI is based on the use of message standards, ensuring that all participants use a common language.

  • Via a mobile app
  • Via your company website
  • Via a third-party website
  • Via Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
  • Other
    Specify other methods

2. Does this business have any full-time staff dedicated solely to activities related to e-commerce?

  • Yes
  • No

3. Please identify the reasons why this business did not make sales over the Internet:

Select all that apply

  • Goods and services do not lend themselves to online sales
  • Prefer to maintain current business model
  • Lack of skilled workers to implement and maintain e-commerce infrastructure
  • Cost of development is too high
  • Security concerns
  • Other
    Specify other reasons

Sales of commodities

2. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, please select the commodity categories and sub-categories sold by this business unit within or outside Canada from the list below.

Select all that apply.

Food and beverages

  • Fresh meat and poultry
    Include beef, pork, fowl and game, poultry, turkey, cooked meats, cured and smoked meats (prepackaged meats such as bacon, sausages, wieners, bologna, cooked ham, etc.).
    Exclude frozen or canned meats, ''deli'' meat products.
  • Fresh fish and other fresh seafood
    Include fresh, smoked and cured fish and other seafood.
    Exclude frozen or canned fish and other seafood, ''deli'' fish and other seafood.
  • Fresh fruit and vegetables
    Include fresh fruits and vegetables.
    Exclude frozen, canned or dried fruits and vegetables.
  • Eggs and dairy products (exclude frozen desserts)
    Include fresh milk (include chocolate milk and soya milk), fresh eggs in shell, butter, fresh or processed cheese, fresh cream and fresh yogurt.
    Exclude ice cream, frozen yogurt, powdered, canned, condensed or evaporated dairy products.
  • Baked goods (exclude frozen products, cookies and crackers)
    Include in-house fresh bakery goods or baked foods, commercial fresh bakery goods or baked foods and products of fresh bakery products.
    Exclude frozen bakery products.
  • Perishable prepared foods (include fresh sliced deli meats, prepared entrées and fresh pasta)
    Include deli luncheon meats, deli poultry, deli food (except cheese), deli fish, deli seafood, deli party platters, prepared pizza, prepared foods for take-out, prepared pizza for take-out, deli salads, perishable prepared foods (except cheese), deli foods and salad bars and prepared foods for take-out (except cheese).
    Exclude cheese, meals and lunches.
  • Frozen food
    Include frozen meats, frozen game food, frozen cooked, cured and smoked meats, frozen poultry, frozen fish, frozen smoked and cured fish, frozen smoked and cured seafood, frozen smoked and cured shellfish, frozen fruits, frozen vegetables, ice cream, frozen yogurt, sherberts, popsicles, frozen juice concentrates, frozen bakery products, frozen TV dinners and frozen entrées.
  • Cookies, confectionery and snack foods
    Include candy, chewing gum, fruit pastilles, chips, chocolate preparations (except baking chocolate), cocoa paste, unsweetened cocoa powder, confectionary, confectionary nuts, granola bars, package sugar confectionary goods, sugar confectionary specialties, sesame bars, snack foods, popped popcorn, mixed nuts, prepackaged cookies, prepackaged biscuits or crackers, prepackaged cakes, prepackaged doughnuts, prepackaged buns and prepackaged muffins.
    Exclude candy and chocolate baking items, un-popped popcorn, products primarily sold as breakfast cereals.
  • Packaged food dry goods, not elsewhere classified
    Include canned or dried foods (except pet foods), baking supplies, baking chocolate, baking flour, baking powder, baking chopped nuts, breakfast cereals, dry coffee, powdered, canned, evaporated or condensed dairy products, dietetic foods, drink crystals, flour, food mixes, cake, biscuit and pancake mixes (except prepackaged), cooking oils, un-popped popcorn, rice, salad dressings, salt, herbs and spices, sugar, syrups and dry tea leaves.
    Exclude meals and lunches, pet food.
  • Soft drinks (exclude bottled water)
    Include canned soft drinks and bottled soft drinks (except bottled water).
  • Non-alcoholic beverages (exclude soft drinks, milk, hot beverages and frozen drinks)
    Include non-alcoholic beer (except root beer pops), non-alcoholic wine or cider, fruit drinks (except soft drinks and frozen concentrates), juices (except soft drinks and frozen concentrates), non-alcoholic cocktails or punch, vegetable juices (except frozen concentrates), water, sparkling beverages (except water and sodas) and ice tea.
    Exclude milk and cream, frozen juice concentrates, drink crystals.
  • Prepared hot beverages (include coffee)
    Include hot coffee, hot tea and hot chocolate.
    Exclude packaged coffee, tea, hot chocolate and other packaged hot beverage products.
  • Alcoholic beverages (exclude served on premises)
    Include beer (except non-alcoholic), wine (except non-alcoholic), spirits, liquor, liqueur and coolers.
    Exclude alcoholic beverages served on premises.
  • Alcoholic beverages for immediate consumption
    Include sales of alcoholic beverages served on premise.
  • Ice Include ice cubes and ice blocks.
  • Prepared meals
    Include lunches and meals services, sales of pizza served on premises, sales in restaurant, sales in sandwich bars, sales in diners, sales in delicatessens and sales of ice cream served on premise.

Clothing, footwear and accessories

  • Men's outerwear coats and jackets
    Include winter coats, fur coats, jackets (except sport jackets), rainwear, ski clothing, snowmobile clothing and windbreakers.
    Exclude suits, sport jackets and blazers.
  • Men's suits, sport jackets and blazers
    Include sport jackets and blazers and made-to-measure and ready-to wear suits.
    Exclude occupational uniforms.
  • Men's pants, shirts, sweaters and other bottoms and tops
    Include pants (dress and casual), shorts, dress or casual shirts (except evening dress shirts), vests (except as occupational uniforms), school uniforms, gym uniforms, indoor jackets and sweaters.
  • Men's sleepwear, underwear and hosiery
    Include socks, underwear, pyjamas, bathrobes and nightwear.
  • Men's hats, gloves, belts and other accessories
    Include caps or hats, belts, gloves (except for work), mitts, scarves, suspenders, ties, umbrellas and wallets.
    Exclude wigs, toupees.
  • Men's clothing, not elsewhere classified
    Include bathing suits, exercise and fitness clothing, work gloves, occupational clothing or uniforms, work jackets or vests, priest clothing, running and jogging wear and safety clothing.
  • Women's outerwear coats and jackets
    Include winter coats, jackets, parkas, rainwear, ski jackets or suits, snowmobile suits, snowsuits, windbreakers and anoraks.
    Exclude suit jackets and blazers.
  • Women's dresses and suits
    Include one-piece and two-piece dresses, evening gowns, evening dress shirts, suits (except ski suits, snowmobile suits, snowsuits and maternity suits) and maternity dresses.
    Exclude wedding gowns and occupational uniforms.
  • Women's skirts, pants, blouses, sweaters and other bottoms and tops
    Include skirts, blouses, pants (dress and casual), jeans, blazers, jackets (except for outdoors), shorts, maternity tops or bottoms, casual shirts (except evening dress shirts), sweat tops and bottoms, sweaters, T-shirts and other tops, school uniforms and gym uniforms.
  • Women's lingerie, sleepwear and underwear
    Include pyjamas, dressing gowns, bathrobes, foundation garments, lingerie, nightgowns, bras, nightshirts, slips and underwear.
    Exclude hosiery.
  • Women's hosiery
    Include pantyhose, stockings, nylons, socks, tights, leggings and leotards.
  • Women's handbags, purses and accessories
    Include hats or caps (sport and fashion), gloves (except for work), mitts, scarves, purses, wallets, backpacks, belts, hair accessories, headbands, handbags and umbrellas.
    Exclude wigs.
  • Women's clothing, not elsewhere classified
    Include bathing and swim suits, exercise and fitness clothing, wedding gowns, occupational clothing or uniforms, priest clothing, running and jogging wear, safety clothing and track suits.
  • Boys' clothing and accessories
    Include boys' clothing (sizes 2 to 20) and accessories.
    Exclude very specialized sports clothing, used clothing.
  • Girls' clothing and accessories
    Include girls' clothing (sizes 2 to 16) and accessories.
    Exclude very specialized sports clothing, used clothing.
  • Infant clothing, fabric and accessories
    Include baby clothing and accessories (infant sizes 0 to 24 months), baby bottles, nursery bedding, crib mobiles, diaper bags, baby blankets, baby linens, baby plastic pants, baby bibs, cloth diapers, breast pumps, nursery wall hangings, nursing pads, baby rattles, baby teething rings and baby soothers.
    Exclude very specialized sports clothing, used clothing, disposable / paper diapers, children's books.
  • Unisex clothing, costumes and vestments
    Include unisex clothing, unisex kilts (except as sport equipment), Halloween costumes, Christmas costumes, carnival costumes and dance costumes.
  • Men's athletic footwear
    Include aerobic shoes, athletic footwear or shoes (except ski boots, skates and cleats), running shoes, basketball shoes, tennis shoes (except table tennis) and cross-trainers footwear.
  • Men's footwear and accessories (exclude athletic)
    Include men's or boys' (except children) non-athletic footwear or shoes, fashion footwear or shoes, winter boots, rain boots, slippers, orthopedic shoes and men's work boots.
    Exclude sport specific cleated footwear, golf shoes, bowling shoes, broomball shoes, curling shoes, ski boots, skates.
  • Women's athletic footwear
    Include court shoes, athletic footwear or shoes (except ski boots, skates and cleats), cross-trainers footwear, running shoes, walking shoes and hiking boots.
  • Women's footwear and accessories (exclude athletic)
    Include women's or girls' (except children) non-athletic footwear or shoes, winter boots, rain boots, orthopedic shoes and shoe accessories or clip-on.
    Exclude sport specific cleated footwear, golf shoes, bowling shoes, broomball shoes, curling shoes, ski boots, skates.
  • Infant footwear
    Include infant or babies' (except children) footwear, all types of infant non-athletic footwear or shoes and infant orthopedic shoes.
  • Children's athletic footwear
    Include athletic footwear or shoes (except ski boots, skates and cleats) and all types of athletic footwear (except table tennis).
  • Children's footwear, not elsewhere classified
    Include non-athletic footwear or shoes, winter boots, rain boots, fashion footwear or shoes, orthopedic, safety footwear, sandals, shoe accessories or clip-on and slippers.
  • Fine jewellery (include precious metal, diamonds, gemstones, and pearls)
    Include fine jewellery.
    Exclude watches.
  • Costume jewellery (include base metal, glass, plastic, and synthetic stones)
    Include costume jewellery (except watches), all types of jewellery (except watches) and trinkets.
  • Watches
    Include pocket watches, wrist watches and pendant watches.
    Exclude antique watches.
  • Luggage, briefcases, knapsacks, and duffel bags
    Include attaché cases, backpacks, knapsacks, leather or leather-like briefcases, luggage, leather and leather-like school bags, sport bags, suitcases and leather and leather-like travel accessories.
    Exclude purses, wallets, billfolds, camera and instrument cases and fashion knapsacks.

Home furniture, furnishings, housewares, appliances and electronics

  • Mattresses and foundations
    Include bed frames, spring, foam and water mattresses (except crib and air mattresses), box springs and bedding foundations (except sofa beds and futons).
    Exclude headboards, crib mattresses, air mattresses.
  • Infant furniture
    Include new infant furniture, junior or toddler beds, infant changing tables, baby highchairs, baby crib and mattress sets, new nursery furniture or equipment and new nursery furniture parts.
    Exclude car seats (see Health, personal and household products).
  • Indoor home furniture, not elsewhere classified
    Include new bed headboards or footboards and parts, new indoor home furniture (except nursery) and parts, new indoor home office furniture and parts, new home futons and parts, new home office and office furniture and equipment and parts, all other new indoor furniture parts, home security safes and new home sofa beds and parts.
    Exclude nursery furniture, lamps, mattresses and foundations, counters and cupboards.
  • Outdoor home furniture
    Include patio furniture cushions, patio and garden furniture and cottage outdoor furniture.
  • Window treatments
    Include indoor window treatments (except furniture coverings), blinds or shades, curtains (except shower), drapes, valances and indoor window shutters.
  • Household textile products, not elsewhere classified
    Include furniture covers or throws, furniture coverings, bedding (except nursery), cushions and cushion covers, afghans, bathroom accessories, dishcloths or dish towels, cloth napkins, oven mitts, aprons, pot holders, doilies, non disposable table linens, tea towels and placemats or tablecloths.
    Exclude disposable paper tablecloths and napkins.
  • Decorative home furnishings (exclude textile products)
    Include household seasonal decorations or ornaments, candles, clocks (except with radio), figurines, fireplace screens and accessories, artificial and dried flowers or plants, picture or photograph frames, incense, jewellery boxes, music boxes, thermometers, barometers, room dividers, giftware, gift baskets and trophies.
    Exclude outdoor specialty lighting (security, landscape, patio, etc.), real Christmas trees, Christmas gift wrap, woodstoves and clock radios.
  • Tableware, kitchenware, cookware and bakeware
    Include bakeware, speciality bakeware, kitchenware, barbecue tools, cheese tools, egg tools, garlic or herbs tools, ice cream tools, kitchen utensils sets, speciality kitchenware, tableware, cookware, cookware sets, lunch boxes or bags, picnic baskets or accessories.
    Exclude household barbecue starter fuel (see Miscellaneous household supplies, not elsewhere classified), household disposable plastic tableware (see Miscellaneous household supplies, not elsewhere classified).
  • Household cleaning supplies
    Include air fresheners, toilet fresheners, fabric dyes, floor polish or wax, laundry detergent, furniture polish or wax, shoe polish, scouring powders or creams, baking soda, upholstery or rug spot removers.
    Exclude personal care products (toilet paper, facial tissues, shampoos, beauty soaps, etc.) and automotive waxes and cleaners.
  • Miscellaneous household supplies, not elsewhere classified
    Include barbecue starter fuel, glues or adhesives, garment bags, garbage or trash cans, recycling bins, clothes or laundry hampers, clothes or laundry drying racks, ironing boards, laces, matches, stools, outlet covers, cabinet locks, steps, multi-platform use non-rechargeable batteries, multi-platform use rechargeable batteries, light bulbs, fire extinguishers, smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors, toilet paper, household paper bags, household paper napkins, household paper towels, was paper, foil food wraps, gift-wrap paper.
    Exclude automotive batteries (see Section 5 Motor vehicle parts and accessories (except tires), new and used), computer batteries (see Section 3 Computers, peripherals, and networking equipment), household disposable paper or plastic tableware (utensils) (see Section 3 Tableware, kitchenware, cookware and bakeware), personal care supplies (see Section 7 Personal care supplies and equipment, not elsewhere classified), phone batteries (see Section 3 Telephones and related products), power tool batteries (see Section 8 Power tools), specialized batteries for cameras (see Section 3 Still cameras and other photographic equipment and supplies).
  • Small home appliances
    Include electric knives, central vacuum cleaners, coffee makers or grinders, waste compactors, dehumidifiers, electric fans, floor polishers, food processors, deep fryers, food steamers, garbage disposals, portable space heaters, portable humidifiers, electric kettles, electric food mixers or processors, electric personal care appliances, heating pads, rug cleaning equipment, sewing machines, toasters, new small electrical home appliances and parts or accessories and water purifiers.
    Exclude room air conditioners and microwave ovens.
  • Major home appliances
    Include room air conditioners, major appliances, microwave ovens, convection ovens, ranges, kitchen range hoods or fans, dishwashers and washing machines and clothes dryers.
  • Computers, peripherals and networking equipment
    Include blank audio disc, computer batteries, CD computer drives, blank computer CDs, DVD computer drives, blank computer DVDs, computer hard drives, computer integrated circuits, personal digital assistants (PDAs), printers (except toners), computer scanners, new computers and pre-loaded software, anti-glare screens, monitor stands, external numeric keypads, computer mice or mouse, computer mouse pads, CD, DVD and diskette storage boxes, cases or racks and new computers components or parts and accessories (except toners and cartridges).
  • Computer software (exclude games)
    Include computer software (except games), computer multimedia items (except electronic games), books packaged and sold together with software (except electronic games), cassettes packaged and sold together with software (except electronic games) and disks packaged and sold together with software (except electronic games).
  • Telephones and related products
    Include fax machines, phone answering machines, pagers (except messaging services), telephones (except phone services), new telephone or cellphone parts, telephone batteries and cellphone batteries.
  • Televisions and home audiovisual equipment
    Include non-automotive amplifiers, audio and video equipment or supplies (except mixers), clock radios, non-automotive mini disc players (except mixers), non-automotive DVD players (except mixers), films for movie and video cameras, ghetto blasters, boom boxes or sound boards, head cleaners for audio and video tape players, headphones, microphones (except for computer), movie cameras and accessories, MP3 players (except mixers), iPod, non-automotive audio receivers and tuners, reel-to-reel tape players (except mixers), satellite dishes, non-automotive sound systems (except mixers), non-automotive stereos (except mixers), non-automotive tape recorders and players or decks (except mixers), blank audio and video tapes, televisions, television audio and new video parts, videocassette recorders or VCRs and blank video tapes or videocassettes.
  • Still cameras and other photographic equipment and supplies (exclude video cameras)
    Include photo albums, still and digital cameras and accessories, photographic enlarging equipment, film for still cameras, still and digital cameras new parts, photographic equipment and supplies, slide projectors and accessories, photographic slides, camera lenses, photographic tripods, flash attachments, projector screens, still or digital camera cases and specialized batteries for digital video camera (except AA and AAA batteries).
    Exclude video cameras and related equipment and supplies, picture frames and binoculars.
  • Rental services of movies and games on DVDs , tapes and cassettes
    Include rental services of movies and games on DVDs , tapes and cassettes, subscription rental of movies and games.
  • Rental and operating leasing services of computer equipment
    Include rental and operating leases of desktop computers, rental and operating leases of laptop computers, rental and operating leases of office plasma (liquid crystal display (LCD) or light emitting diode (LED)) walls and screens, rental and operating leases of office wall projectors, rental and operating leases of printers, rental and operating leases of scanners, licensing of software as part of computer equipment rental agreements, rental and operating leases of computers and related peripheral equipment, rental and operating leases of related peripheral equipment, rental of office wall projectors, licensing of software as part of computer equipment rental agreements.
    Exclude financial leases for computers and related peripheral equipment.

Sporting and leisure products

  • Bicycles and biking equipment and accessories
    Include bicycles (except children's tricycles), specialized bike clothing, biking equipment and accessories, bicycle helmets, bicycle locks and new bicycle parts (except children's tricycles).
  • Exercise equipment
    Include exercise equipment (except clothing and videos), fitness equipment (except clothing and videos), exercise or fitness treadmills, exercise or fitness ellipticals, exercise or fitness, weighted vests, fully-assembled workout stations and home gyms.
  • Golf equipment
    Include golf equipment (except clothing), golf fairway woods, motorized golf pull carts, non-motorized golf pull carts, golf bags, golf towels, golf accessories (except clothing), golf club head covers and golfing kilts.
    Exclude motorized golf carts.
  • Skiing and snowboarding equipment
    Include ski equipment, ski boots, aerodynamic racing ski suits, insulators for ski, boots or gloves, snowboarding equipment, snowboards, snowboard accessories, snowboard cleaning brushes and snowboard carriers.
    Exclude ski jackets and apparel and water ski equipment.
  • Hunting, fishing and camping equipment
    Include camping air mattresses (except water air mattresses), hunting ammunition, target shooting ammunition, bait, camouflage and hunting clothing, camping equipment and supplies, firearm collections, fishing equipment and accessories, hunting equipment and accessories, lanterns, fishing lures or scents, hunting lures or scents, sleeping bags, camping stoves, fishing tackle boxes, tents and bows or arrows.
    Exclude tent trailers.
  • Team sporting equipment
    Include balls (except golf and exercise balls), baseball, football and soccer cleats or shoes, baseball, soft ball, football, basketball, soccer, volleyball, ringette, rugby and hockey uniforms (except as street wear) and equipment.
    Exclude baseball caps and other sports clothing for street wear.
  • Sporting equipment, not elsewhere classified
    Include water air mattresses, badminton equipment, bowling equipment or accessories, boxing equipment or accessories, broomball equipment or accessories, curling equipment or accessories, curling sliders or grippers (except discs), fencing sport equipment, harness goods, halters or leads, in-line skates, figure skates, billiard (include pool equipment and accessories and snooker equipment and accessories), racquet sports equipment, tennis equipment or accessories (except footwear and clothing), rock climbing equipment or accessories, snowshoes, squash equipment or supplies (except footwear and clothing), sailboards, scuba gear, snorkels, skateboards, roller skates, surfboards, trampolines and fireworks.
    Exclude used sporting goods.
  • Electronic game consoles (except game software)
    Include video game consoles, electronic game consoles.
    Exclude downloadable game software (see Game software), game software on physical media (see Game software on physical media).
  • Game software on physical media
    Include 3D game software, on physical media, action game software, on physical media, electronic games for game consoles, on physical media, electronic tablet games, on physical media, game applications for tablets, on physical media, game software for computer, on physical media, game software on physical media, ordered online and delivered to the client, role-paying game software, on physical media, simulation game software, on physical media, sports video game, on physical media, strategy and tactics game software, on physical media, trivia quiz game software, on physical media, video game software, on physical media, printed books, packaged and sold together with game software on physical media.
    Exclude game consoles (see Section 4 Electronic game consoles), used or second-hand sales of physical media containing video games or game software (see Section 9 Antiques, and used or second-hand merchandise.
  • Game software, downloadable
    Include downloadable 3D game software, downloadable action game software, downloadable role-paying game software, downloadable simulation game software, downloadable sports video game, downloadable strategy and tactics game software, downloadable trivia quiz game software, electronic games for game consoles, downloadable electronic tablet games, downloadable game applications for smart phones, downloadable game applications for tablets, downloadable game software for computer.
    Exclude game consoles (see Electronic game consoles), game software on physical media, bought online (see Game software on physical media), games on demand streamed over the Internet to fixed and mobile devices.
  • Toys and games (exclude game consoles and game software)
    Include ball toys, non-electronic games, microscope toy models, telescope toy models, puzzle games, toy and hobby racing sets, sleds, sleighs, toboggans, soccer table games, soccer table balls, video games, wagon toys, air tennis table games, board games, specialized replacement toy batteries (except AA, AAA, D, C, 9V, Common Button Cells), playground structures and playground equipment.
    Exclude computer software games, three-wheeled bikes for adults, used toys and games.
  • Artists' equipment and supplies
    Include brushes, charcoal supplies, paint supplies, paintbrushes supplies, canvases supplies and easel supplies.
  • Musical instruments and print music
  • Include new musical instruments, accessories and supplies, musical whistles, drums, turntables, samplers, musical synthesizers and organs.
    Exclude amplifiers, sound boards, mixers, speakers and microphones.
  • Sewing and knitting supplies
    Include yarns or threads, knitting yarns, sewing threads, ribbons, fabrics, measuring tapes, notions, buttons, crochet hooks and dressmakers or sewing patterns.
    Exclude sewing machines.
  • Craft and hobby kits and leisure supplies, not elsewhere classified
    Include air hockey game equipment, hobby supplies, table hockey games, make-up, hobby model kits, craft supplies, bows craft supplies, glue guns and other glues craft supplies, handicraft kits and stained glass making supplies.
    Exclude household and industrial glues and adhesives.
  • Printed books
    Include printed atlases, printed bibles, printed books ordered online and delivered to the client, printed hardcover children's books, printed hardcover non-fiction books, printed new soft cover books, printed paperback literary fiction books, printed reference books, printed talking books, printed technical books, printed textbooks, printed trade hardcover books, electronic books stored on a physical media.
    Exclude coloring books (see Craft and hobby kits, and leisure supplies), printed books packaged and sold together with game software on physical media (see Game software on physical media), printed books packaged and sold together with software (except game software) (see Computer software (except game)), printed comic books (see Newspapers, magazines and other periodicals, printed).
  • E-books
    Include children's e-books, e-Atlases, e-Bibles, e-Textbooks, literary fiction e-books, professional e-books, scholarly e-books, technical e-books, trade e-books, comic e-books.
    Exclude books stored and sold in CDs and DVDs, but not sold as downloads (see Printed books).
  • Newspapers, magazines and other periodicals, printed
    Include printed community newspapers, printed daily newspapers, printed ethnic newspapers, printed magazines, printed newspapers ordered online and delivered to the client, printed periodicals, printed comic books.
  • Newspapers, magazines and other periodicals, online
    Include online community newspapers, online daily newspapers, online ethnic newspapers, online magazines, online periodicals.
    Exclude newspapers, magazines and other printed periodicals bought online (see Newspapers, magazines and other periodicals, printed).
  • Other publications not elsewhere classified, printed
    Include anniversary cards, printed, art prints, greeting cards printed, love cards printed, posters, printed maps, wedding cards printed.
    Exclude printed postcards, invitations, calendars, diaries and planners (see Home office supplies not elsewhere classified).
  • Other publications not elsewhere classified, online
    Include digital maps, online anniversary cards, online birthday cards, online Christmas cards, online greeting cards, online love cards, online wedding cards.
  • Audio recordings, on physical media
    Include audio recordings on physical media ordered online and delivered to the client, digital recorded natural sounds, on physical media, digital recordings on physical media, musical songs on physical media, new pre-recorded audio CDs, new pre-recorded audio discs, new vinyl records, ocean or sea sound recordings, on physical media, spoken voices or words recordings on physical media, wildlife sound recordings, on physical media.
    Exclude used or second-hand sales of physical media containing audio recordings (see Section 9 Antiques, and used or second-hand merchandise).
  • Audio recordings, downloadable
    Include digital recorded natural sound downloads, downloadable music albums, downloadable musical songs, downloadable ocean or sea sound recordings, downloadable spoken voices or words recordings, downloadable wildlife sound recordings, MP3 music downloads.
    Exclude audio on demand streamed over the Internet on fixed and mobile devices; audio recordings on physical media bought online (see Audio recordings, on physical media).
  • Movies, on physical media
    Include action or adventure movies on physical media, documentary movies on physical media, drama movies on physical media, movies on physical media ordered online and delivered to the client, new pre-recorded movie DVDs , new pre-recorded movie laser discs, romance movies on physical media, science fiction movies on physical media.
    Exclude used or second-hand sales of physical media containing movie recordings (see Section 9 Antiques, and used or second-hand merchandise).
  • Movies, downloadable
    Include action or adventure movies downloads, documentary movies downloads, drama movies downloads, romance movies downloads, science fiction movies downloads.
    Exclude movies on demand streamed over the Internet to fixed and mobile devices, movies on physical media bought online (see Movies, on physical media).
  • Television programs and other video recordings, on physical media
    Include reality television program recordings, on physical media, television drama and comedy program recordings, on physical media, television formal education and pre-school program recordings, on physical media, television long-form documentary program recordings, on physical media, television music and dance program recordings, on physical media, television music video clips program recordings, on physical media, television programs and other video recordings, on physical media, ordered online and delivered to the client, television sports program recordings, on physical media, television talk or panel show program recordings, on physical media.
    Exclude used or second-hand sales of physical media containing television programs and other video recordings (see Section 9 Antiques, and used or second-hand merchandise).
  • Television programs and other video recordings, downloadable
    Include reality television program recordings downloads, television drama and comedy program recordings downloads, television formal education and pre-school program recordings downloads, television long-form documentary program recordings downloads, television music and dance program recordings downloads, television music video clips program recordings downloads, television talk or panel show program recordings downloads.
    Exclude television programs and other video recordings, on physical media, bought online (see Television programs and other video recordings, on physical media); television programs and other videos on demand streamed over the Internet to fixed and mobile devices.

Motor vehicles, recreational vehicles, motor vehicles parts and accessories

  • New passenger automobiles
    Include new automobiles (except jeeps, vans, light trucks, SUVs, pickup trucks, medium and heavy trucks).
    Exclude parts and accessories.
  • New minivans, sport utility vehicles and light trucks
    Include new jeeps, minivans, pickup trucks, sport utility vehicles, light trucks and vans (except converted vans).
    Exclude parts and accessories.
  • New medium and heavy trucks
    Include new buses and class 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 trucks.
    Exclude parts and accessories.
  • Used passenger automobiles
    Include antique cars and used cars.
    Exclude parts and accessories.
  • Used minivans, sport utility vehicles and light trucks
    Include used and antique light truck, used and antique vans (except converted vans), used and antique jeeps, used minivans, used pickup trucks, used sport utility vehicles, used street legal army light trucks and used street legal army jeeps.
    Exclude parts and accessories
  • Used medium and heavy trucks
    Include used buses and used class 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 trucks.
    Exclude parts and accessories.
  • New motorcycles and scooters
    Include motorcycle clothing, motorcycles (except all-terrain vehicles), motorcycle parts and accessories, scooters, scooter parts and accessories, motorized scooters, motorized scooter parts and accessories, motorcycle trailers, non-automotive motorcycles parts and accessories, non-automotive scooter parts and accessories and non-automotive moped parts and accessories.
  • New motor homes, travel trailers and truck campers
    Include truck camper appliances, motor home appliances, travel trailer appliances, truck mounted campers, recreational converted vans, motor homes, motor home parts and accessories, non-automotive motor home parts, non-automotive travel trailer parts, non-automotive truck camper parts, non-automotive converted van parts, tent trailers, tent trailer parts and accessories, travel trailers, travel trailer parts and accessories, truck camper parts and accessories, truck campers and folding camping trailers.
  • New snowmobiles and other personal off-road vehicles
    Include all-terrain vehicles, all-terrain vehicle parts and accessories, non-automotive all-terrain vehicle parts and accessories, snowmobiles, snowmobile parts and accessories, personal watercraft trailers, snowmobile trailers and non-automotive snowmobile parts and accessories.
  • New recreational boats and other recreational vehicles, not elsewhere classified
    Include yacht appliances, cruise appliances, boat parts and accessories, houseboats, boats, boating radar equipment, fishing boats and motors, speeding boats and motors, cabin cruisers, yachts, sails, non-automotive boat parts and accessories, canoes, kayaks and utility trailers, new motorized golf carts.
  • Used motorcycles and scooters
    Include used scooters, motorcycles (except all-terrain vehicles) and mopeds, scooters, motorcycles and mopeds used parts and accessories, non-automotive motorbike and mopeds used parts and accessories.
  • Used motor homes, travel trailers and truck campers
    Include used motor homes, tent trailers, travel trailers, truck campers and converted recreational vans, used motor home, travel trailers, truck camper and converted van parts and accessories, used camper and travel trailer appliances, used non-automotive motor home, travel trailers, truck camper and converted van parts.
  • Used snowmobiles and other personal off-road vehicles
    Include used snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles, snowmobile and all-terrain vehicles used parts and accessories, non-automotive snowmobile and all-terrain vehicles used parts and accessories, used snowmobile trailers.
  • Used recreational boats and other used recreational vehicles, not elsewhere classified
    Include used personal aircraft, parts and accessories, used boats, parts and accessories, used canoes, houseboats, motorized golf carts, yachts, kayaks, boat oars, fishing boats and motors, speeding boats and motors, cabin cruisers, boat paddles, canoe paddles, kayak paddles, sails and used non-automotive boat parts and accessories.
  • New motor vehicle tires
    Include new, used and retreaded tires for buses, medium trucks or class 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 trucks, cars, minivans or vans, farm equipment, recreational vehicles, utility trailers and heavy trucks
  • Motor vehicle parts and accessories, new and used (exclude tires)
    Include automotive air conditioners, automotive new and used parts and accessories (except tires, tubes and baby car seats), trailer hitches, hubcaps, new and used bus parts (except tires and tubes), new and used medium truck parts (except tires and tubes), new and used class 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 truck parts (except tires and tubes), new and used heavy truck parts (except tires and tubes), used car parts (except tires, tubes and baby car seats), new pickup truck parts (except tires and tubes), used pickup truck parts (except tires and tubes), new and used van or minivan parts (except tires, tubes and baby car seats), new and used jeep and other sport utility vehicle parts (except tires, tubes and baby car seats), automotive new or used parts for farm equipment (except tires and tubes), automotive new or used parts for recreational vehicles (except tires and tubes), car radios and remote car starters.
  • Automotive chemicals
    Include antifreeze, automotive oils, carburetor cleaners, fuel injector cleaners, automotive engine oils, gas line cleaners, automotive lubricating greases, windshield washer fluids.
    Exclude automotive fuels.
  • Motor vehicle maintenance and repair services
    Include maintenance and repair services for automobiles and light trucks, motor homes, travel trailers and campers, heavy trucks and buses.
  • Rental and operating leasing services of motor homes, travel trailers and campers
    Include rental and operating leasing services without operator of motor homes, campers, tent trailers and road recreational vehicles containing sleeping space.
    Exclude financial leases for campers, motor homes, travel trailers.
  • Rental and operating leasing services of automobiles and light trucks, without operator
    Include rental and non-financial leasing services of automobiles and light trucks and vans, without operator.
    Exclude rental of passenger automobiles and light trucks or vans with operator or driver.
  • Rental and operating leasing services of heavy trucks, truck trailers and buses, without operator
    Include rental and operating leasing services of heavy trucks, truck trailers and buses, without operator.
    Exclude financial leases of heavy truck, truck trailers and buses, rental or operating leasing of buses or coaches with driver, rental of heavy truck and truck trailers, with operator, for general freight transportation, rental of heavy truck and truck trailers, with operator, for specialized freight transportation.

Automotive and household fuels

  • Automotive fuels
    Include diesel fuel, ethanol fuel blends, gasoline, automotive natural gas and automotive propane fuel.
  • Household fuels
    Include coal fuel, electrical supply, electric power supply, firewood, home heating fuels, natural gas for home appliance and heating, propane for household use, wood pellets fuel, heating oils, kerosene and wood for stoves and fireplaces.

Health, personal and household products

  • Prescription pharmaceuticals
    Include drugs purchased with a prescription.
    Exclude over-the-counter drugs and drugs purchased without a prescription.
  • Non-prescription pharmaceuticals
    Include over-the-counter drugs (except vitamin, mineral, and other health supplements), non-prescription drugs (except vitamin, mineral, and other health supplements) and non-prescription sleeping aids.
    Exclude drugs purchased with a prescription and other toiletries/personal care products.
  • Vitamins, minerals, and other health supplements
    Include herbal health supplement remedies, mineral health supplements, nutritional power bars, vitamins or multivitamins and body enhancing supplements.
  • Prescription eyewear
    Include prescription glasses (eyeglasses) or spectacles, contact lenses (with prescription) and prescription sunglasses.
    Exclude eyewear bought without a prescription (including sunglasses), frames bought separately, eyeglass cases and other accessories and contact lens solutions and cleaners.
  • Non-prescription eyewear
    Include non-prescription sunglasses, non-prescription glasses or eyeglasses, eyewear accessories, eyeglass cases, eyeglass frames bought separately and non-prescription contact lenses.
    Exclude prescription eyewear, including prescription sunglasses and contact lenses and contact lens solutions and cleaners.
    Include home health care equipment and supplies, parts and accessories of home health care equipment and supplies, sick room equipment and supplies, artificial limbs, bedpans, braces, walking canes, crutches, first-aid kits, hearing aids, orthotic devices, health care thermometers, walkers health care equipment, walkers medical equipment and wheelchairs.
    Exclude eyewear, orthopedic shoes, exercise and fitness equipment and drugs/medications.
  • Disposable diapers
    Include disposable baby diapers and disposable adult diapers.
  • Infant and children's car seats
    Include infant or children's car seats.
  • Strollers and infant care products, not elsewhere classified
    Include baby carriers, baby strollers, baby carriages, baby monitors and baby walkers.
  • Cosmetics and fragrances
    Include cosmetics and fragrances (except personal care goods), concealer makeup, face powder makeup, rouge (blush or blusher) makeup, contour powder or cream makeup, highlight (cream, liquid or powder) makeup, bronzer makeup, mascara, nail colour polishes, makeup removers, face creams and lotions, hand lotions or cream and facial masks or peels.
  • Toiletries
    Include personal toiletries, hair shampoos and conditioners, aftershave (cream, liquid or gel), shaving creams or gels, toothpastes, skin lotions, personal liquid soap, personal soaps, bath and shower gels, bath and shower oils, bath and shower salts, personal deodorants, personal anti-perspirants, body or skin toners, mouthwashes, denture cleaners, non-electric toothbrushes, non-electric razors, non-electric depilatories, razor blades, hand mirrors, pumice stones, rubbing alcohol, haircare preparations, foot care sprays, foot care powders and astringents.
  • Feminine hygiene products
    Include sanitary napkins, sanitary towels, pantyliners and menstrual cups.
  • Personal care supplies and equipment, not elsewhere classified
    Include wigs, toupees, hair pieces, baby care products, bandages, personal hair bleaches, condoms, contact lens solutions and cleaners, non-prescription contraceptives, cosmetic bags, cotton balls and batting, emery boards, nail files or clippers, health and beauty aids, hot water bottles, nail polishers and removers, artificial finger nails, non-electric personal care products (except toiletries), pregnancy test kits, prophylactics, optical saline solutions, sunscreens and petroleum jelly.
    Exclude electric personal care appliances (shavers, razors, toothbrushes, hair dryers, curling irons, heating pads, etc.), drugs, cosmetics and fragrances, eyewear, hair accessories and home health care equipment and supplies (crutches, canes, wheelchairs, etc.).

Hardware, tools, renovation and lawn and garden products

  • Hardware
    Include builders' hardware, home hardware, farm hardware, cabinet hardware, furniture hardware, kitchen hardware. (Include locksets, key blanks, fasteners, nuts, bolts, nails, screws, washers, hinges, knobs and pulls, etc.).
  • Hand tools
    Include files and rasps, non-powered glue guns and glue, hammers, hatchets, non-automotive jacks, ladders, measuring tapes, propane torch kits, non-power mechanics' tools, non-powered hand tools (except garden tools), non-powered staple guns, snow shovels (except electric), hand tool belts and toolboxes for non-powered hand tools.
    Exclude garden tools, hoes, rakes, garden shovels, spades.
  • Power tools
    Include power saws (except chain saws), rechargeable batteries for power tools, power tool batteries, power tools belts, power carpenters' tools, power mechanics' tools, electric snow shovels, electric snow scoops, soldering irons, toolboxes for power tools, power tools (except garden tools) and electric picks.
    Exclude chainsaws.
  • Major household air conditioning, heating and water heating equipment
    Include central air conditioners, household air exchangers, household air cleaners, baseboard heaters, furnace belts, household air or heating ducts, air or heating vents, water heating equipment and cooling equipment and supplies.
  • Plumbing and electrical supplies (include fixtures)
    Include bathtubs, cables (electrical), home circuit breakers, electrical equipment and supplies, exhaust fans, faucets, fireplace inserts, home heating furnaces, fuse boxes, heating equipment and supplies, humidifiers attached to furnace, indoor Jacuzzis, light plugs, home plumbing pipes or valves, stove pipes, electrical plates or covers, plumbing equipment and supplies, home power generators, shower heads, sinks, solar panel heating kits, home electrical switches, home electrical plugs, household thermostat, household toilets, indoor whirlpools and woodstoves.
  • Paint, painting supplies and wallpaper
    Include household paint brushes or rollers, paint strippers or thinners, household paint, wood stains, varnishes and household wallpaper.
    Exclude craft and artists' paints and thinners, automotive paints and glass.
  • Flooring, floor coverings and floor and wall tiles
    Include carpets or rugs, household floor mats (except bath and for fitness equipment), floor tiles, ceramic, porcelain, clay or cork tile countertops, fireplace tiles, hardwood or parquet flooring and linoleum flooring.
    Exclude ceiling tiles.
  • Lumber and other renovation materials and supplies
    Include baseboard trim, bathroom cabinets (except medicine), fibreglass insulation batting, structural beams, lumber boards, building or paving bricks, caulking compounds, ceiling tiles, corrugated steel roofing, countertops, doors, drywall, eavestroughing, fencing, door or window frames, garage door, kitchen cabinets, building lumber, medium density fibreboard sheets, moulding, plywood, posts or poles, prefabricated stairs and other structural pieces, shingles, outdoor shutters, siding, non-automotive weatherstripping, windows and pressure-treated wood.
    Exclude hardwood flooring, tiles, marble and granite.
  • Hardware and renovation related products, not elsewhere classified
    Include ceiling fans, household interior or exterior lighting fixtures, decorative mirrors, convex or concave mirrors for security, household alarm systems, asphalt sealing compounds, industrial cleaning compounds, concrete sealing compounds, driveway sealing compounds (oil base or acrylic), duct tape, electrical tape, flagpoles, garage door openers, industrial glues or adhesives, general purpose lubricating greases, house numbers or letters, mailboxes hardware, masking tape, medicine cabinets, lubricating oils (except cooking and automotive), water pressure cleaners, propane torch cylinders, sandpaper, shelving or brackets, vacuum cleaners or shop vacs, non-electrical wire and safety equipment (except safety clothing and footwear for women, men, children and infants).
  • Lawnmowers, snowblowers and gardening tools
    Include chain saws, new garden tractors, lawnmowers, snowblowers, tillers, leaf loaders, trimmers, concrete curbing machines, gardening tools, top soil mixtures lawn dressings, lawn sprinklers, plant and tree pruners, garden shovels, garden spades, garden tools, wheelbarrows, outdoor urns and outdoor planters.
  • Live plants, seeds and other home and garden supplies (exclude agricultural fertilizers and pesticides)
    Include outdoor hot tubs, outdoor spas, outdoor whirlpools, above ground pools, plant bulbs, bushes and shrubs, cut real Christmas trees, lawn and garden flowers, peat moss, lawn and garden plants, nursery stock seedlings, seeds, sod, outdoor soil, nursery stock trees, live plants, picnic tables, barbecues and accessories, composters, lawn ornaments, outdoor specialty lighting, pool chemicals and propane tanks for barbecues.
  • Rental and operating leasing services of commercial and industrial machinery and equipment (exclude office equipment)
    Include rental and operating leasing services of air, rail, and water transportation equipment (without operator) or other commercial or industrial machinery (without operator).
    Exclude rental and leasing services of office equipment.

Miscellaneous retail products

  • Pets
    Include domestic and exotic household pets.
    Exclude pet food, accessories and supplies (see pet foods, supplies and accessories).
  • Pet food, supplies and accessories
    Include pet foods, snacks and treats, wild bird feed, pet toys, leashes, shampoo, clippers, aquariums, cages, beds.
    Exclude pets (see pets), tack and saddlery (see sporting equipment not elsewhere classified).
  • Tobacco products and accessories (exclude e-cigarettes)
    Include tobacco, cigarettes, cigars, pipes, lighters, rolling machines, cigarette holders, snuff, tobacco papers, cigarette lighters, cigarette holders, cigarette filters.
    Exclude household matches (see Section 3 Miscellaneous household supplies not elsewhere classified), e-cigarettes (see Electronic cigarettes, e-liquid refills, vaporizers and other e-liquid delivery systems).
  • Electronic cigarettes, e-liquid refills, vaporizers and other e-liquid delivery systems
    Include atomizers for e-cigarettes, cartomizers for e-cigarettes, cartridges for e-liquids, clearomizers for e-cigarettes, disposable e-cigarettes, e-cigarette drip tips, e-cigarette kits, e-liquids with or without nicotine (refills), e-pipes, rechargeable e-cigarette kits, vape pens, vaporizers for e-cigarettes.
    Exclude battery chargers, sold separately (see Section 3, Miscellaneous household supplies, not elsewhere classified), digital display incorporating light emitting diodes (LED), not assembled or mounted, for small electronic devices, sold separately (see Section 9 Other miscellaneous equipment and supplies, not elsewhere classified), household batteries, sold separately (see Section 3, Miscellaneous household supplies, not elsewhere classified), microchips and other printed and integrated circuits, not assembled or mounted, for electronic devices, (see Section 9, Other miscellaneous equipment and supplies, not elsewhere classified), plastic and glass vial containers, not assembled or mounted in e-cigarettes, (see Section 9, Other miscellaneous equipment and supplies, not elsewhere classified), universal serial bus (USB) connectors, adapters or cables, sold separately (see Section 3, Miscellaneous household supplies, not elsewhere classified).
  • Home office equipment, not elsewhere classified
    Include adding machines, photocopiers, typewriters.
  • Home office supplies, not elsewhere classified
    Include home office computer ink jet cartridges, desk accessories, home office supplies (pens, pencils, markers, scotch tape, etc.), stationery (notepads, notebooks, envelopes, file folders, etc.), party supplies.
    Exclude gift wrapping paper (see Miscellaneous household supplies, not elsewhere classified).
  • Farm equipment
    Include new and used tractors, hay balers, harrows, combines, horse and cattle trailers and other specialized farm equipment (include parts).
  • Farm supplies
    Include animal feed, seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and insecticides, herbicides and livestock.
  • Supplies for beer and wine making
    Include concentrates, malts, beer and wine making chemicals, corks and beer caps, beer and wine making labels and bottles.
    Exclude fees for beer and/or wine making.
  • Cut flowers, indoor potted plants and floral supplies
    Include cut flowers, indoor potted plants, potting soil and floral supplies.
    Exclude fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides, herbicides and outdoor nursery stock and supplies.
  • Monuments and tombstones
    Include coffins, caskets, tombstones and urns.
  • Manufactured mobile homes
    Include new and used mobile homes.
  • Professional and scientific instruments
    Include microscopes, surveyor's equipment, laboratory equipment, telescopes.
  • Equipment and supplies for non-farm activities, not elsewhere classified
    Include audio and video mixers, new personal aircraft and new aircraft parts and accessories.
  • Artwork
    Include sculptures, paintings, original drawings and artwork carvings.
  • Collectors' items
    Include stamps, coins, cards, autographed items, related albums.
  • Antiques, and used or second-hand merchandise (exclude motor vehicles and mobile homes)
    Include used, second-hand or antique goods such as sporting goods, clothing, footwear, furniture, appliances, computers, electronics, books, musical instruments, musical recordings, CD, DVDs and jewellery.
    Exclude used automobiles, used automotive parts and accessories and used mobile homes.
  • Other miscellaneous equipment and supplies not elsewhere classified
    Include crests, digital display incorporating light emitting diodes (LED), for small electronic devices, gift cards, gift certificates, glass vial containers, not assembled or mounted in e-cigarettes, key chains, key rings, key tags, marital aids, microchips and other printed and integrated circuits, for electronic devices, novelties, phone cards, pins, plastic vial containers, not assembled or mounted in e-cigarettes, souvenirs.

Other retail

  • Retail trade commissions
    Include commissions from catalogue sales, commissions from gift cards sales, commissions from gift certificates sales, commissions from leasing of home audiovisual equipment, commissions from leasing of motor homes (except with operator), commissions from rental of computer equipment, commissions from rental of household appliances, commissions from the sales of lottery tickets and other games of chance to gamblers, sales of instant tickets for sports pool games to gamblers, for a fee or commission, sale of instant-win lottery tickets to gamblers for a fee or commission, charity commissions, commissions from repairs and maintenance.
    Exclude lottery tickets issued by the lottery operator, the service of buying and selling merchandise on own account at the final step in the distribution chain.

Miscellaneous services

  • Rental and operating leasing services of office furniture and equipment (exclude computer equipment)
    Include rental and operating leases of cubicle partitions, office chairs, desks, filing cabinets, office safes, cash registers, fax machines, photocopiers, word processors.
    Exclude rental and leasing services of computer and peripheral equipment (see section 3, Rental and operating leasing services of computer equipment), financial leases for office furniture and equipment.
  • Rental and operating leasing services of other goods (exclude movies and games on DVDs, tapes and cassettes)
    Include rental and operating leasing services of audiovisual equipment and appliances, of formal wear, costumes and accessories, of home health care equipment, of equipment for parties and other social events, of recreational goods and equipment, rental and non-financial leasing services of household furniture and furnishings.
    Exclude rental and leasing services of movies and games on DVDs, tapes and cassettes (see section 3, Rental services of movies and games on DVDs, tapes and cassettes).
  • Repair and maintenance services (exclude for buildings and transportation equipment)
    Include maintenance and repair services for commercial and industrial machinery and equipment, electronic and precision equipment and personal and household goods, computer hardware, boats, tent trailers, motorcycles, snowmobiles, sporting equipment.
    Exclude repair and maintenance services for buildings and motor vehicles.

Other goods and services

Sales of commodities

3. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, how many other goods and services were sold by this business?

Number:

Sales of commodities

4. Please describe the other goods and services sold.

  • Other goods and services 1
  • Other goods and services 2
  • Other goods and services 3
  • Other goods and services 4
  • Other goods and services 5
  • Other goods and services 6
  • Other goods and services 7
  • Other goods and services 8
  • Other goods and services 9
  • Other goods and services 10

Sales of commodities

5. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, please report sales of all commodities (goods and services) sold by this business unit within or outside Canada.

If precise figures are not available, provide your best estimate.

 
  CAN$ '000
Fresh meat and poultry  
Fresh fish and other seafood  
Fresh fruit and vegetables  
Eggs and dairy products (exclude frozen desserts)  
Baked goods (except frozen products, cookies and crackers)  
Perishable prepared foods (include fresh sliced deli meats, prepared entrées and fresh pasta)  
Frozen food  
Cookies, confectionery, and snack foods  
Packaged food dry goods, not elsewhere classified  
Soft drinks (exclude bottled water)  
Non-alcoholic beverages (exclude soft drinks, milk, hot beverages and frozen drinks)  
Prepared hot beverages (include coffee)  
Alcoholic beverages (exclude served on premises)  
Alcoholic beverages for immediate consumption  
Ice  
Prepared meals  
Men's outerwear coats and jackets  
Men's suits, sport jackets and blazers  
Men's pants, shirts, sweaters and other bottoms and tops  
Men's sleepwear, underwear and hosiery  
Men's hats, gloves, belts, and other accessories  
Men's clothing, not elsewhere classified  
Women's outerwear coats and jackets  
Women's dresses and suits  
Women's skirts, pants, blouses, sweaters and other bottoms and tops  
Women's lingerie, sleepwear and underwear  
Women's hosiery  
Women's handbags, purses and accessories  
Women's clothing, not elsewhere classified  
Boys' clothing and accessories  
Girls' clothing and accessories  
Infant clothing, fabric and accessories  
Unisex clothing, costumes and vestments  
Men's athletic footwear  
Men's footwear and accessories (exclude athletic)  
Women's athletic footwear  
Women's footwear and accessories (exclude athletic)  
Infant footwear  
Children's athletic footwear  
Children's footwear, not elsewhere classified  
Fine jewellery (include precious metal, diamonds, gemstones, and pearls)  
Costume jewellery (include base metal, glass, plastic, and synthetic stones)  
Watches  
Luggage, briefcases, knapsacks, and duffel bags  
Mattresses and foundations  
Infant furniture  
Indoor home furniture, not elsewhere classified  
Outdoor home furniture  
Window treatments  
Household textile products, not elsewhere classified  
Decorative home furnishings (exclude textile products)  
Tableware, kitchenware, cookware and bakeware  
Household cleaning supplies  
Miscellaneous household supplies, not elsewhere classified  
Small home appliances  
Major home appliances  
Computers, peripherals, and networking equipment  
Computer software (exclude games)  
Telephones and related products  
Televisions and home audiovisual equipment  
Still cameras and other photographic equipment and supplies (exclude video cameras)  
Rental services of movies and games on DVD's , tapes and cassettes  
Rental and operating leasing services of computer equipment  
Bicycles and biking equipment and accessories  
Exercise equipment  
Golf equipment  
Skiing and snowboarding equipment  
Hunting, fishing and camping equipment  
Team sporting equipment  
Sporting equipment, not elsewhere classified  
Electronic game consoles (except game software)  
Game software on physical media  
Game software, downloadable  
Toys and games (exclude game consoles and game software)  
Artists' equipment and supplies  
Musical instruments and print music  
Sewing and knitting supplies  
Craft and hobby kits and leisure supplies, not elsewhere classified  
Printed books  
E-books  
Newspapers, magazines and other periodicals, printed  
Newspapers, magazines and other periodicals, online  
Other publications not elsewhere classified, printed  
Other publications not elsewhere classified, online  
Audio recordings, on physical media  
Audio recordings, downloadable  
Movies, on physical media  
Movies, downloadable  
Television programs and other video recordings, on physical media  
Television programs and other video recordings, downloadable  
New passenger automobiles  
New minivans, sport utility vehicles and light trucks  
New medium and heavy trucks  
Used passenger automobiles  
Used minivans, sport utility vehicles and light trucks  
Used medium and heavy trucks  
New motorcycles and scooters  
New motor homes, travel trailers and truck campers  
New snowmobiles and other personal off-road vehicles  
New recreational boats and other recreational vehicles, not elsewhere classified  
Used motorcycles and scooters  
Used motor homes, travel trailers and truck campers  
Used snowmobiles and other personal off-road vehicles  
Used recreational boats and other recreational vehicles, not elsewhere classified  
New motor vehicle tires  
Motor vehicle parts and accessories, new and used (exclude tires)  
Automotive chemicals  
Motor vehicle maintenance and repair services  
Rental and operating leasing services of motor homes, travel trailers and campers  
Rental and operating leasing services of automobiles and light trucks, without operator  
Rental and operating leasing services of heavy trucks, truck trailers and buses, without operator  
Automotive fuels  
Household fuels  
Prescription pharmaceuticals  
Non-prescription pharmaceuticals  
Vitamin, mineral, and other health supplements  
Prescription eyewear  
Non-prescription eyewear  
Home health products, not elsewhere classified  
Disposable diapers  
Infant and children's car seats  
Strollers and infant care products, not elsewhere classified  
Cosmetics and fragrances  
Toiletries  
Feminine hygiene products  
Personal care supplies and equipment, not elsewhere classified  
Hardware  
Hand tools  
Power tools  
Major household air conditioning, heating, and water heating equipment  
Plumbing and electrical supplies (include fixtures)  
Paint, painting supplies and wallpaper  
Flooring, floor coverings and floor and wall tiles  
Lumber and other renovation materials and supplies  
Hardware and renovation related products, not elsewhere classified  
Lawnmowers, snowblowers and gardening tools  
Live plants, seeds and other home and garden supplies (exclude agricultural fertilizers and pesticides)  
Rental and operating leasing services of commercial and industrial machinery and equipment (exclude office equipment)  
Pets  
Pet food, supplies, and accessories  
Tobacco products and accessories (exclude e-cigarettes)  
Electronic cigarettes, e-liquid refills, vaporizers and other e-liquid delivery systems  
Home office equipment, not elsewhere classified  
Home office supplies, not elsewhere classified  
Farm equipment  
Farm supplies  
Supplies for beer and wine making  
Cut flowers, indoor potted plants and floral supplies  
Monuments and tombstones  
Manufactured mobile homes  
Professional and scientific instruments  
Equipment and supplies for non-farm activities, not elsewhere classified  
Artwork  
Collectors' items  
Antiques, and used or second-hand merchandise (exclude motor vehicles and mobile homes)  
Other miscellaneous equipment and supplies not elsewhere classified  
Retail trade commissions  
Rental and operating leasing services of office furniture and equipment (exclude computer equipment)  
Rental and operating leasing services of other goods (exclude movies and games on DVDs, tapes and cassettes)  
Repair and maintenance services (exclude for buildings and transportation equipment)  
Other goods and services 1  
Other goods and services 2  
Other goods and services 3  
Other goods and services 4  
Other goods and services 5  
Other goods and services 6  
Other goods and services 7  
Other goods and services 8  
Other goods and services 9  
Other goods and services 10  
Total sales of goods and services  

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?

  • Yes
  • No

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?

Why are we conducting 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.

For this survey, there are Section 11 agreements with the provincial and territorial statistical agencies of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Québec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and the Yukon. 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.esdhelpdesk-dsebureaudedepannage.statcan@statcan.gc.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.

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
    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?
        • 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 is the legal name of the resulting or continuing business or organization?
    • Temporarily inactive but will re-open
      • When did this business or organization become temporarily inactive?
        • Date
      • 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., 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:

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.

Table 8. Approximately what percentage of this business or organization's revenue is generated by each of the following activities?
Table summary
This is an empty data table used by respondents to provide data to Statistics Canada. This table contains no data.
  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, 2019 and March 31, 2020.

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

  • May 1, 2018 to April 30, 2019
  • June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019
  • July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019
  • August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2019
  • September 1, 2018 to August 31, 2019
  • October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019
  • November 1, 2018 to October 31, 2019
  • December 1, 2018 to November 30, 2019
  • January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019
  • February 1, 2019 to January 31, 2020
  • March 1, 2019 to February 28, 2020
  • April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020

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

  • September 18, 2018 to September 15, 2019 (e.g., floating year-end)
  • June 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019 (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.

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

Report net of returns and allowances.

Sales of goods and services are defined as amounts derived from the sale of goods 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 a head office of your 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 (for example, compensation for collecting sales tax).

d. Subsidies (including grants, donations, fundraising and sponsorships)

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. All other revenue (Include intracompany transfers)

Include amounts not included in questions a. to g.

Total revenue

The sum of sub-questions a. to h.

Table h. All other revenue (Include intracompany transfers)
Table summary
This is an empty data table used by respondents to provide data to Statistics Canada. This table contains no data.
  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  

E-commerce

The following questions are about e-commerce activities.

E-commerce revenue: Sales of goods and services conducted over the Internet with or without online payment.

Include all revenue for which an order is received and commitment to purchase is made via the Internet, although payment can be made by other means, such as orders made on web pages, an extranet, mobile devices or Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

Exclude orders made by telephone, facsimile or email.

Sales from automated kiosks located within the business's establishments are excluded from E-commerce sales.

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

Include:

  • sales of goods and services
  • rental, leasing and property management
  • commissions
  • subsidies, grants, donations, fundraising and sponsorships
  • royalties
  • rights
  • licensing and franchise fees
  • dividends, interest and other revenue.

Report dollar amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Total revenue in CAN$ '000

2. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, did this business have any e-commerce revenue?

E-commerce revenue: Sales of goods and services conducted over the Internet with or without online payment.

Include all revenue for which an order is received and commitment to purchase is made via the Internet, although payment can be made by other means, such as orders made on web pages, an extranet, mobile devices or Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

Exclude orders made by telephone, facsimile or email.

  • Yes
  • No

3. Of the $ [amount] amount reported in total revenue, what was the total e-commerce revenue?

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

Report dollar amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Total e-commerce revenue in CAN$ '000

4. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, did this business make sales over the Internet through any of the following methods?

Select all that apply.

Mobile app
Include sales through any app, or application, that is downloaded and designed to run on a handheld device such as a smartphone or tablet (for example, places where a user may download these apps, including Apple's App Store, Google Play or Blackberry App World).

Company website
Include sales through a browser-based website where your organization maintains control of the content.

Third-party website
Include sales through a browser-based website where a third-party maintains the structure of the website and control of the look and feel while your company only provides the product to be sold (for example, Amazon, Expedia or Etsy).

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
A standard format for exchanging business data. EDI is based on the use of message standards, ensuring that all participants use a common language.

  • Via a mobile app
  • Via your company website
  • Via a third-party website
  • Via Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
  • Other - Specify the other methods

5. Does this business have any full-time staff dedicated solely to activities related to e-commerce?

  • Yes
  • No

6. Why did this business not make sales over the Internet?

Select all that apply.

  • Goods and services do not lend themselves to online sales
  • Prefer to maintain current business model
  • Lack of skilled workers to implement and maintain e-commerce infrastructure
  • Cost of development is too high
  • Security concerns
  • Other - Specify the other reasons

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

Report dollar 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 resale - 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 and heating.

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
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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 and 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.

Table u. The sum of sub-questions a. to u.
Table summary
This is an empty data table used by respondents to provide data to Statistics Canada. This table contains no data.
  CAN$ '000
a. Cost of goods sold  
a1. Opening inventories  
a2. Purchases  
a3. Closing inventories  
a4. 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 goods and services?

Please report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

a. Sales of alcoholic beverages for immediate consumption on the premises

Revenue generated from sales of alcoholic beverages (beer, wine and liquor) prepared and served or dispensed for immediate consumption, including alcoholic beverages served with meals.

Exclude retailing of alcoholic beverages sold in unopened cans, bottles, cartons or other containers (report at question c).

b. Sales of food and non-alcoholic beverages

Revenue generated from the sales of meals, snacks, other food items and non alcoholic beverages prepared and served or dispensed for immediate consumption.

c. Sales of merchandise

Revenue generated from the sale or disposition of goods sold in the same condition in which they were purchased (e.g., toys, gifts, cigarettes, newspapers).

d. Fees and commissions from coin operated machines

The fees or commissions received from the owners or lessors of coin operated machines such as video lottery terminals, slot machines, video games, vending machines, children's mechanical rides, etc.

e. Other sales

Sales from other sources (e.g., rentals, cover charge, coat check, delivery service fees).

Table e. What were this business's sales for each of the following goods and services?.
Table summary
This is an empty data table used by respondents to provide data to Statistics Canada. This table contains no data.
  CAN$ '000
Sales of alcoholic beverages for immediate consumption on the premises  
Sales of food and non-alcoholic beverages  
Sales of merchandise  
Fees and commissions from coin operated machines such as video gambling terminals, video games and vending machines  
Total sales of goods and services  

2. What were the following costs of goods sold for this business?

The cost of goods sold is divided into three categories: alcoholic beverages, food and non-alcoholic beverages, and merchandise purchased for resale. The cost of goods sold is obtained by calculating opening inventory plus total purchases minus closing inventory. Please exclude salary costs.

a. Alcoholic beverages

Include:

  • beer
  • wine
  • liquor
  • alcoholic drinks served with meals.

b. Food and non-alcoholic beverages

Cost of materials required for meal preparation

c. Merchandise

Include:

  • gifts
  • toys
  • newspapers
  • cigarettes
  • alcohol not sold with meals and for consumption away from the premises.
Table c. What were the following costs of goods sold for this business's sales for each of the following goods and services?.
Table summary
This is an empty data table used by respondents to provide data to Statistics Canada. This table contains no data.
  CAN$ '000
Alcoholic beverages  
Food and non-alcoholic beverages  
Merchandise  
Total cost of goods sold  

Details on Purchased Services

1. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, this business reported expenses for the following items.

Please provide the requested details related to these expenses.

Please report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, this business reported expenses for the following items.
Table summary
This is an empty data table used by respondents to provide data to Statistics Canada. This table contains no data.
  CAN$ '000
Professional and business fees  
Legal services  
Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services  
Management, scientific and technical consulting services  
Office administrative services  
Freight transportation arrangements and customs brokering services  
Brokerage and other insurance related services  
Security brokerage and securities dealing services  
Other purchased professional services  
Total expenses for professional and business fees  
Office and computer related expenses  
Data processing, hosting, and related services  
Business support services  
Other office and computer related purchased services  
Total expenses for office and computer related expenses  
Royalties, franchise fees and memberships  
Rights to non-financial intangible assets  
Membership fees or services  
Other royalties, franchise fees and memberships  
Total expenses for royalties, franchise fees and memberships  
Rental and leasing  
Non-residential real estate rental  
Motor vehicle rental and leasing  
Computer equipment rental and leasing  
Office machinery and equipment rental and leasing services  
Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment renting and leasing services, without operator  
Other rental services  
Total expenses for rental and leasing  
Repair and maintenance  
Security services and investigation  
Waste management and remediation services  
Motor vehicle repair and maintenance services  
Other repair and maintenance services  
Total expenses for repair and maintenance  

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?

  • Yes
  • No

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?

Retail Trade Survey (Monthly): CVs for Total sales by geography - January 2020

CVs for Total sales by geography - January 2020
Table summary
This table displays the results of Annual Retail Trade Survey: CVs for Total sales by geography - January 2020. The information is grouped by Geography (appearing as row headers), Month and Percent (appearing as column headers).
Geography Month
202001
%
Canada 0.6
Newfoundland and Labrador 1.0
Prince Edward Island 0.9
Nova Scotia 1.8
New Brunswick 1.6
Quebec  1.3
Ontario 1.0
Manitoba 0.9
Saskatchewan 2.5
Alberta 1.5
British Columbia 1.6
Yukon Territory 1.1
Northwest Territories 0.1
Nunavut 1.5

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.

For this survey, there are Section 11 agreements with the provincial and territorial statistical agencies of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Québec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and the Yukon. 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.esdhelpdesk-dsebureaudedepannage.statcan@statcan.gc.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 and Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

Additional information

In cases where information is reported on an amalgamated basis and relates to operations in more than one province or territory, Statistics Canada may allocate a portion of the reported information to these provincial or territorial operations. The allocated information will be shared in accordance with the Section 11 or 12 agreements of the Statistics Act, as described above.

In cases where there is a separate head office, Statistics Canada may adjust the reported revenues of that head office so that those revenues more fully reflect the value of the services the head office provides. In such cases, there will be a corresponding adjustment to the reported expenses of the units served. The adjusted information will be shared in accordance with the Section 11 or 12 agreements of the Statistics Act, as described above.

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 for ceased operations
    • 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., 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, 2019 and March 31, 2020.

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

  • May 1, 2018 to April 30, 2019
  • June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019
  • July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019
  • August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2019
  • September 1, 2018 to August 31, 2019
  • October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019
  • November 1, 2018 to October 31, 2019
  • December 1, 2018 to November 30, 2019
  • January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019
  • February 1, 2019 to January 31, 2020
  • March 1, 2019 to February 28, 2020
  • April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020.

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

  • September 18, 2018 to September 15, 2019 (e.g., floating year-end)
  • June 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019 (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:

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.

Please report all 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 goods 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 of finfish, molluscs, aquaculture services, aquaculture by-products, seed, sales of goods purchased for resale and consulting revenue.

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, et cetera.

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 (government assistance to offset certain eligible current expenses or to supplement current revenue)

Include:

  • grants, donations and fundraising
  • 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 Include sales of finfish, molluscs, aquaculture services, aquaculture by-products, seed, sales of goods purchased for resale and consulting revenue.  
b. Rental and leasing Report only if this is a secondary revenue source. If rental and leasing are your primary revenue source, report at question a.  
c. Commissions Report only if this is a secondary revenue source. If commissions are your primary revenue source, report at question a.  
d. Subsidies (government assistance to offset certain eligible current expenses or to supplement current revenue) Include grants, donations, fundraising and sponsorships.  
e. Royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees  
f. Dividends  
g. Interest  
h. Other Include intracompany transfers. Specify all other revenue:  
Total revenue  

Expenses

1. For the reporting period of 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. Purchases

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: feed, therapeutants, purchases of fish e.g., live fish, mollusc seed, spat and live larvae for grow-out or processing and purchases of goods for resale

b. Employment costs and expenses (for all employees who were issued a T4)

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.,seperate 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 Other).

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
  • vehicle fuel (report at Other).

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 upgrade expenses
  • data processing.

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

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 must 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, convention and seminar expenses
  • passenger transportation (e.g., airfare, bus, train)
  • 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:

  • management fees, transportation, shipping, warehousing/storage, postage and courier, processing services and veterinary fees
  • production costs
  • gross overriding royalties
  • other producing property rentals
  • other lease rentals
  • other direct costs
  • equipment hire and operation
  • freight-in and duty
  • overhead expenses allocated to costs of sales
  • other expenses
  • cash over/short (negative expenses)
  • reimbursement of parent company expenses
  • warranty expenses
  • recruiting expenses
  • general and administrative expenses
  • interdivisional expenses
  • interfund transfers (minus expense recoveries)
  • exploration and development
  • amounts not included in questions a. to t. above.

Total expenses

The sum of questions a. to u.

For the reporting period of of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what were this business's expenses for the following items?
  CAN$ '000
a. Purchases
Include feed, therapeutants, purchases of fish e.g., live fish, mollusc seed, spat and live larvae for grow-out or processing and purchases of goods for resale.
Exclude change in inventories.
 
b. Employment costs and expenses
Include all employees who were issued a T4.
Exclude commissions to be paid to non-employees, report at sub-question c.
 
b1. Salaries, wages and commissions  
b2. Employee benefits  
c. Subcontracts
Include commissions to non-employees.
Exclude research and development.
 
d. Research and development fees.
Exclude in-house research and development.
 
e. Professional and business fees
e.g., legal, accounting, consulting, scientific and property management fees
 
f. Utilities
e.g., electricity, water, gas
 
g. Office and computer related expenses
e.g., office supplies, postage, computer upgrades
 
h. Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication  
i. Business taxes, licenses and permits
e.g., beverage tax, business tax, license fees, property taxes
 
j. Royalties, franchise fees and memberships
Exclude Crown royalties.
 
k. Crown charges
(for logging, mining and energy industries only)
 
l. Rental and leasing
Include land buildings, equipment, vehicles.
 
m. Repair and maintenance
Include buildings, equipment, vehicles.
 
n. Amortization and depreciation  
o. Insurance  
p. Advertising, marketing, promotion, meals and entertainment  
q. Travel, meetings and conventions  
r. Financial services
e.g., bank charges, transaction fees
 
s. Interest expense  
t. Other non-production-related costs and expenses
Include bad debts, loan losses, donations, political contributions and inventory write-down.
 
u. All other costs and expenses
Include intracompany expenses, management fees, transportation, shipping, warehousing, storage, postage and courier, processing services and veterinary fees.
Specify all other costs and expenses:
 
Total expenses   

Industry characteristics

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

Notes:

  • please report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Include all sales within or outside Canada recorded in your accounts for sales to other businesses and for transfers to other units of your business.

Exclude GST/HST, PST and QST.

Sales

Sales should be reported net of excise and provincial or territorial sales taxes, HST/GST, trade discounts, returns and allowances and charges for outward transportation by common or contract carriers. Sales denominated in foreign currency should be converted into Canadian dollars at the exchange rate on the day of transaction. Dollar amounts and percentages should be rounded to whole numbers. When precise figures are not available, please provide your best estimate.

a. to f. Production of finfish (hatchery or grow-out)

This category is comprised of establishments primarily engaged in farm-raising finfish. These establishments use some form of intervention in the rearing process to enhance production, such as keeping animals in captivity, regular stocking and feeding of animals, and protecting them from predators.

Finfish production is reported as gutted head-on and the value is based on a farm-gate value.

Exclude establishments primarily engaged in catching or taking fish and other aquatic animals from their natural habitat.

g. to j. Production of shellfish (seed or grow-out)

This category is comprised of establishments primarily engaged in farm-raising shellfish. These establishments use some form of intervention in the rearing process to enhance production, such as keeping animals in captivity, regular stocking and feeding of animals, and protecting them from predators.

Shellfish is reported as whole, and the value is based on a farm-gate value.

Exclude establishments primarily engaged in catching or taking fish and other aquatic animals from their natural habitat.

l. Sales of goods purchased for resale

Report sales of goods that have not been processed or altered in your business unit and that have been purchased and resold in the same condition.

What were this business's sales for each of the following goods and services?
  CAN$ '000
a. Whole fish dressed, fresh or chilled Exclude fillets.  
b. Fish eggs and live fish for grow-out  
c. Whole fish live
Exclude fish sold for grow-out.
 
d. Whole fish dressed and frozen
Exclude frozen fillets.
 
e. Fish fillets, fresh or frozen and other fish meat  
f. Fish, dried, smoked or in brine  
g. Oysters  
h. Mussels  
i. Clams  
j. Scallops  
k. Aquaculture services  
l. Sales of goods purchased for resale (in the same condition as purchased)  
m. Consulting revenue  
Other
e.g., other molluscs, aquaculture by-products, seed Sales of all other goods and services produced:
 
Total sales of goods and services  

Industry characteristics

2. What were this business's expenses for each of the following goods and services?

Notes:

  • please report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Include all expenses within or outside Canada recorded by this business unit.

Exclude GST/HST, PST and QST.

Materials, components and supply expenses

Exclude capital expenditures.

g. Management fees or any other service fees paid to head office and other business support units

Management fees or any other service fees paid to head office (e.g., legal fees, advertising fees, insurance) and other business support units (e.g., warehouses, sales centres, trucking facilities).

h. to j. Purchased service expenses

Purchased service expenses are services purchased from external businesses (e.g., third parties). Exclude purchased services that have been reported at question g. (management fees or any other service fees paid to head office and other business support units).

h. Transportation, shipping (contracted out), warehousing, storage, postage and courier

Report transportation and storage costs/expenses if they can be reported separately from purchases.

Include:

  • freight transport services by air, sea, or land (including rental with operator)
  • postage and courier expenses (including local messenger and delivery)
  • storage or warehousing services
  • moving services. Exclude shipping using your own vehicles.

i. Processing services

Processing services are the costs incurred when another company provides services related to gutting, cleaning, slitting or shelling.

What were this business's expenses for each of the following goods and services?
  CAN$ '000
a. Feed  
b. Therapeutants e.g., pesticides, drugs, vaccinations  
c. Purchases of fish e.g., live fish, mollusc seed, spat and live larvae for grow-out  
d. Purchases of fish e.g., live fish, mollusc seed, spat and live larvae for processing  
e. Purchases of goods for resale (in the same condition as purchased)  
f. Other Specify all other purchases:  
g. Management fees or any other service fees paid to head office and other business support units e.g., legal, advertising, insurance, warehouses, sales centres, trucking facilities  
h. Transportation, shipping (contracted out), warehousing, storage, postage and courier  
i. Processing services e.g., gutting, cleaning, slitting, shelling of product by another farm  
j. Veterinary fees  

3. What were this business's inventories for each of the following goods?

Notes:

  • Inventories are to be reported at book value i.e., the value maintained in the accounting records
  • Please report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Include inventory owned by this business unit within or outside Canada (including inventory held at any warehouse, selling outlet, in transit or on consignment).

Exclude inventory held on consignment for others.

What were this business's inventories for each of the following goods?
  Value of opening inventory CAN$ '000 Value of closing inventory CAN$ '000
a. Raw materials e.g., feed    
b. Goods in process e.g., in pools, pens, on beaches and on grow-out sites    
c. Finished products e.g., finfish, molluscs and crustacea ready for market    
d. Goods purchased for resale (in the same condition as purchased)    
Value of total inventory    

Industry characteristics

4. What was the average number of people employed during the reporting period?

Include full-time, part-time and temporary employees and employees absent with pay.

Exclude contract workers who are not part of your payroll.

Number:

Details on Purchased Services

1. For the reporting period YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, this business reported expenses for the following items.

Please provide the requested details related to these expenses.

Please report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

This table contains no data. It is an example of an empty data table used by respondents to provide data to Statistics Canada.
  CAN$ '000
Professional and business fees  
Legal services  
Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services  
Management, scientific and technical consulting services  
Office administrative services  
Freight transportation arrangements and customs brokering services  
Brokerage and other insurance related services  
Security brokerage and securities dealing services  
Other purchased professional services  
Total expenses for professional and business fees  
Office and computer related expenses  
Data processing, hosting, and related services  
Business support services  
Other office and computer related purchased services  
Total expenses for office and computer related expenses  
Royalties, franchise fees and memberships  
Rights to non-financial intangible assets  
Membership fees or services  
Other royalties, franchise fees and memberships  
Total expenses for royalties, franchise fees and memberships  
Rental and leasing  
Non-residential real estate rental  
Motor vehicle rental and leasing  
Computer equipment rental and leasing  
Office machinery and equipment rental and leasing services  
Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment renting and leasing services, without operator  
Other rental services  
Total expenses for rental and leasing  
Repair and maintenance  
Security services and investigation  
Waste management and remediation services  
Motor vehicle repair and maintenance services  
Other repair and maintenance services  
Total expenses for repair and maintenance  

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 Provided Given Names, Provided Family Name the best person to contact?

  • Yes
  • No

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

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Include the time spent gathering the necessary information.

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Statistics Canada Data Strategy

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Catalogue no. 89-26-00032020001

A message from the Chief Statistician of Canada

In 2018, Statistics Canada marked its centennial: 100 years of service in managing confidential data from Canadians and using its expertise to transform these data into meaningful insights on Canada's economy, society and environment. The agency's activities have always been driven by sound and robust data strategies to address emerging needs while maintaining the trust and confidentiality of Canadians.

Statistics Canada has a mandate to promote and develop integrated social, economic and environmental statistics pertaining to Canadians, the provinces and the territories. This mandate includes collaborating with government departments and agencies to collect, compile and publish statistical information, including information derived from departmental activities; to promote integration; and to avoid duplication of the information collected. The agency provides unbiased, high-quality data that are integral to the well-functioning of society and a statistical framework upon which the nation makes decisions.

In Canada, and globally, data and the digital economy are driving innovation, along with economic and social opportunity. Businesses, governments and citizens are seeing an explosion in the volume of data and data analytics technologies. But more data does not automatically result in greater knowledge and increased prosperity and social inclusion in Canada. This new data environment poses real challenges to governments and citizens. For example, technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are reshaping analysis and have the potential to change the basis of decision making. The advent of "alternative facts" from dubious sources and a growing disregard for evidence and analysis in political and civil discourse all emphasize the need for greater data literacy and access to objective evidence for all Canadians. Statistics Canada recognizes that as institutions evolve in the midst of a data revolution, and as citizens are bombarded with large volumes of data from a variety of sources, the need for trusted, high quality data and competent data stewardship has never been greater.

Capitalizing on the data revolution will require a number of key enablers, including a modern, adaptive and agile statistical agency. Statistics Canada's data strategy is embedded in its modernization agenda. The agency is actively researching, developing, and implementing solutions to provide Canadians and decision-makers with increased access to high-quality, relevant and timely information on issues affecting our society using methods that preserve privacy, confidentiality and security; to provide expertise to partners, users and citizens; to provide trusted data insights and standards; to decrease response burden and capitalize on existing administrative data (non-survey based); to use innovative data collection approaches, such as crowdsourcing; and to expand and leverage innovative partnerships. Statistics Canada must continue to work closely with partners and stakeholders to remove barriers to data sharing, including technical, cultural and legislative.

Over the past year, Statistics Canada's modernization included investments in data infrastructure (for the development of the Data Analytics as a Service platform), improved gender-based analysis, and statistical capacity building for Indigenous peoples.

Statistics Canada's ongoing modernization and expertise as a world-leading data steward will provide great value to Canadians. In particular, Statistics Canada is committed to:

  • improving transparency and openness;
  • continuing the development of innovative methods to preserve privacy, confidentiality and security;
  • increasing access to data and microdata to create information that drives innovation, inclusion and drives insights;
  • increasing data literacy and statistical capacity building; and
  • leading and fostering the strengthening of the national statistical system.

The Statistics Canada Data Strategy (SCDS) will be an evergreen document to provide a course of action for managing and leveraging the agency's data assets to ensure their optimal use and value while maintaining public trust. As the nation's trusted provider of high-quality data and information to support evidence-based policy and decision-making, the SCDS also naturally extends into the agency's course of action for supporting and providing expertise on data to other government organizations (federal, provincial, and territorial), non-government organizations, the private sector, academia, and other national and international communities. Statistics Canada coordinates the national statistical system (NSS) working with provinces, territories, municipalities, the private sector and non-government organizations Statistics Canada seeks the expertise and counsel of many advisory groups and has a comprehensive and well-established system of committees to ensure oversight and robustness of the system

This document provides a roadmap for how Statistics Canada will continue to govern and manage its valuable data assets as part of its modernization agenda and in alignment with and response to other federal government strategies and initiatives including the Data Strategy for the Federal Public Service, Canada's 2018-2020 National Action Plan on Open Government, and the Treasury Board Secretariat Digital Operations Strategic Plan: 2018-2022.

Finally, I would like to thank Statistics Canada employees for drawing on their collective expertise to guide the creation of this strategy. The SCDS will ensure that core functions of the agency, in the form of strategic data capabilities, will continue to make data more accessible, drive innovation, and ensure evidence-based decisions in support of an inclusive and data-driven economy and society while maintaining public trust.

Summary

Over the last 100 years Statistics Canada has evolved from a centralized statistical agency producing data tables on the state of Canadian economy and society to a modern, dynamic organization producing insights which result in data-driven policy decisions and better services for Canadians. As Canada's national statistical office, Statistics Canada has a clear vision: to deliver insight through data for a better Canada. The agency's role in a whole-of-government approach to data stewardship and data management is to ensure the availability of high-quality, trusted data to inform government programs and services, while safeguarding information and protecting the privacy of Canadians. Further, it is also the agency's role to help public servants and Canadians become more data savvy. Canadians need high-quality, insightful, accessible and timely data. The agency is committed to leading the integration of statistics and strengthening the national statistical system by enabling the strategic use of data and delivering data insights through innovative collaborations and partnerships.

Statistics Canada is achieving its vision through its modernization effort, which was initiated in 2017. Modernizing Statistics Canada's workplace culture and its approach to collecting and producing statistics is resulting in better and faster access for Canadians to the statistical products they need. Specifically, the goals of modernization are to:

  • produce more timely and responsive statistics—ensure Canadians have the data they need when they need them;
  • develop and release more granular statistics to ensure Canadians have the detailed information they need to make the best possible decisions;
  • raise awareness about Statistics Canada's data and provide seamless secure access;
  • provide leadership and expertise in strengthening the national statistical system—improve and increase alignment and collaboration with counterparts at all levels of government and within the private sector and regulatory bodies to create a holistic and integrated approach to data collection, sharing, analysis and use while maintaining public trust.

Statistics Canada's modernization agenda is built on five pillars which align with the agency's mission ("serving Canada with high-quality statistical information that matters"), vision ("delivering insight through data for a better Canada") and values (trustworthy, purposeful, caring and inclusive, and curious and always learning). These pillars provide the foundation for the Statistics Canada Data Strategy (SCDS). They respond to the ever-changing data landscape and to users' and stakeholders' requirements for more data, provided faster, and made available in multiple formats and from multiple access points. The modernization agenda aims to find the right balance between openness and transparency while protecting privacy and confidentiality.

Delivering insight through data for a better Canada.
Description: Statistics Canada Modernization

This image displays an overview of Statistics Canada modernization.  The five pillars of modernization are displayed as foundational blocks at the bottom of the image: user-centric service delivery, statistical capacity building and leadership, sharing and collaboration, leading-edge methods and data integration and flexible and modern workplace.

Drivers of modernization are displayed as icons at the top of the image: generation and collection, integration, dissemination, analysis and visualization, and consumption.

The goal of modernization is to delivery insight through data for a better Canada by providing better data, better insights and better services.

Statistics Canada's reputation as the country's premier, trusted data provider, and the agency's recognized expertise as a data steward, will further drive the modernization agenda toward an enterprise-wide (whole-of-government) approach to strategic data management with a focus on collaborative approaches to providing data and insights.

Strategic Collaboration on Energy Statistics

Statistics Canada is currently working in partnership with Natural Resources Canada on the creation of an independent, one-stop website designed to provide Canadians with comprehensive energy information to support Canada's transition to a low-carbon energy future. The website will provide Canadians with free access to independent, credible information and expert analyses. This will help Canadians make important decisions for their businesses, their communities and the environment. The website will be hosted by Statistics Canada and will be guided by a joint federal-provincial-territorial steering committee and will seek advice from Canadians, Indigenous peoples, industry, academics and municipalities.

Gender, Diversity and Inclusion Statistics

Statistic Canada is enhancing its gender, diversity and inclusion statistics to support the implementation of Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) across the Government of Canada. The agency has three key objectives in this area:

  • Regular reporting to Canadians
  • Generating new information to address data gaps
  • Building statistical capacity by sharing and collaborating with new and existing partners

The agency has also established a public-facing hub to support evidence-based policy development and decision-making within the federal government and beyond. The hub is a one-stop shop, linking users to data tables and research relevant to GBA+, gender results framework indicators, Sustainable Development Goals data, and useful national and international resources.

The SCDS has been organized along five strategic data capabilities and four sub-capabilities under data stewardship. The data stewardship capabilities provide the enabling infrastructure for achieving the other core capabilities. These five capabilities provide the foundation to ensure that the agency remains an independent and effective leader of the national statistical system, and a global leader in official statistics.

The five strategic data capabilities are:

  • data governance
  • data stewardship, including:
    • data discovery
    • data digitalization
    • data interoperability
    • data management
  • data resources
  • data trust framework
  • data leadership

Each strategic data capability also includes short-term activities (what we are doing now), medium-term activities (what will we do next) and future activities (what will be the ideal mature state); as well as expected outcomes towards improved services to Canadians and increased evidence-informed decision making. Each strategic data capability will also require performance measurement criteria aligned to modernization. Performance criteria will be developed directly with each program area and will be integral to the next steps in the creation of a Data Stewardship Strategic Engagement Plan.

The importance of data stewardship in a "whole-of-government" approach

Statistics Canada's role in a whole-of-government approach to data stewardship is to ensure the availability of high-quality, trusted data to inform government programs and services. Statistics Canada brings quality, relevancy and expertise, in the form of standards and harmonized concepts, to the management of government of Canada data assets. The agency is committed to enabling the strategic use of data and delivering data insights to inform policy decisions which provide better services to Canadians.

Activities at a glance

 
Strategic Data Capability Short-term activities Medium-term activities Future state
Governance Strategically realign to respond to ever-evolving data ecosystem and align with modernization agenda. Formalize program data stewards.
Increase intergovernmental leadership and synergies on data governance.
Develop well-established roles and responsibilities relating to enterprise-wide data governance and stewardship.
Discovery Identify and increasingly gain access to administrative data sources for statistical purposes—master data are catalogued and available for use. Establish and maintain ongoing, mutually beneficial relationships with data providers—ongoing data use monitoring offers BI insights to most-used and least-used data. Collaborate with other government organizations (including the provinces, the territories and local area governments) to enhance the usefulness of administrative data for statistical purposes and reduce duplication.
Digitalization Modernize IT infrastructure, ensure adoption of business-led and technology-enabled solutions, and ensure alignment. Ensure alignment to IM vision, including moving to cloud-native storage and processing and role and policy based access control and data visualization. Implement trusted digital identities and state of the art encryption.
Implement data analytics as a service and remote data ingestion.
Implement secure multi-party computing and privacy-preserving record sharing.
Interoperability Research and select appropriate open data standards. Continue research and collaboration on international statistical standards and data reference models. Continue to work on StatCan interoperability framework, ontologies, taxonomies, vocabularies and data visualization. Conduct continuous research and improvement toward full interoperability.
Management Create a "fit-for-use" StatCan data inventory.
Design and perform initial seeding of statistical registers.
Conduct a quality assurance framework (QAF) review.
Develop a fully realized corporate data inventory.
Establish centralized and distributed data stores linked via virtualization layers. Develop realized statistical registers.
Research enterprise QAF.
Ensure enterprise Government of Canada (GC) data inventory pulls directly from StatCan's meta store. Fully develop integrated statistical registers. Develop enterprise QAF (whole-of-government approach).
Resources Establish programs to attract and retain employees with the right skills for current work, and ensure employees have appropriate tools to respond to agency priorities. Conduct targeted hiring for employees with appropriate skill sets. Use refreshed suite of training options to develop and maintain required competencies and skills, including greater flexibility to access software and tools across the agency. Conduct continuous campaigns to recruit and retain appropriate staff, and ensure evolutionary tool box for research and methods. Encourage and support culture of continuous learning to maintain relevant competencies and skills.
Trust framework Ensure increased communication transparency of existing privacy and confidentiality practices and sharing of "root cause" user stories. Research new and emerging methods for privacy and confidentiality protection.
Implement role and policy based access control and automated auditing.
Fully automate data access control and audits.
Implement appropriate levels of privacy control. Publish code and methods on Open Data Portal for transparency.
Leadership StatCan, Privy Council Office and Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) will clarify role of GC Chief Data Steward (CDS). GC CDS, StatCan and TBS will co-lead work on the development of frameworks, principles, protocols and guidance for ethical and secure use of data. Use continuous learning and GC and international information and best practices to exchange with other public and private sector organizations and academia.

Statistics Canada Data Strategy Framework

Statistics Canada Data Strategy Framework
Description: Statistics Canada Data Strategy Framework

This placemat displays the Statistics Canada Data Strategy in the form of a summary framework.  The row headers provide a breakdown for each strategic data capability, governance, stewardship broken down by discovery, digitalization, interoperability and management, resources, trust framework and leadership.  The column headers provide information on evolution and progress sub-divided as short-term activities, medium-term activities and future activities.

The summary framework also includes a header with our pillars: user-centric service delivery, statistical capacity-building and leadership, leading-edge methods and data integration, sharing and collaboration, and modern and flexible workforce.

The framework contains a second header row with goals: people have knowledge and tools to access, use and share data, data are managed strategically through effective and horizontal governance and stewardship, data are accessible and secure, data are stored and accessed in an integrated and streamlined digital infrastructure and data literacy scientific methods and analytics are core competencies at StatCan.

The framework includes a footer row with our values: curious and always learning, caring and inclusive, trustworthy and purposeful.

Drivers, challenges and goals

Drivers

The greatest driver of the SCDS is the changing requirements for data and information of Canadians, Canadian businesses and Canadian institutions. Canadians want an authoritative source of information about what is important to them – relevant information and insights which respond to the increasingly complex economy and society. The legalization of cannabis, the opioid crisis, and the effect of foreign ownership on property values are some recent examples. Statistics Canada like many other National Statistical Offices (NSOs) around the world is responding to this need by reshaping its business model, building new networks and expertise, and devising new ways of unlocking the value of data for public good.

Challenges

The Data Strategy Roadmap for the Federal Public Service (DSFPS) included details on challenges faced by Government of Canada (GC) organizations:

  • Absence of horizontal governance for strategic direction on data issues
  • Lack of data literacy and cultural reticence to break silos
  • Lack of adequate digital infrastructure and a complex rules framework
  • Challenge of acquiring, governing, and managing large volumes of disparate data

Statistics Canada faces similar challenges. The agency modernization agenda is addressing these challenges through digital transformation in the form of IT modernization, the move to a broader use of administrative and alternative data sources, and fostering collaboration and partnerships with external partners including other NSOs.

Goals

The goals of the SCDS are to ensure that data are discoverable, accessible, interoperable, reusable, reproducible and open. These goals are realized through the following guiding principles:

  • People have knowledge and tools to access, use and share data.
  • Data are managed strategically through effective and horizontal governance and stewardship.
  • Data are accessible and secure.
  • Data are stored and accessed in an integrated and streamlined environment with modern digital infrastructure.
  • Data literacy, a focus on modern scientific methods and analytical capabilities continue to be core competencies at Statistics Canada.

The SCDS is driven by the evolving and changing data and information requirements of Canadians, responds to challenges faced by GC organizations, including those detailed in the Data Strategy for the Federal Public Service, and will be realized through the activities listed under the key strategic data capabilities in this report.

Data governance

Statistics Canada's Data Strategy (SCDS) is aligned with, and in many cases supports or enables, the commitments of various federal government strategies such as the Data Strategy for the Federal Public Service (DSFPS). The SCDS ensures that Statistics Canada's data initiatives and priorities follow a common method and structure that is repeatable, thus ensuring efficient oversight, implementation, measurement and communication throughout the agency as well as the built-in potential to scale them across the enterprise if and when needed.

Statistics Canada's governance framework includes a policy suite (policies, directives, guidelines) and an organizational structure which includes accountabilities for its mandate and priorities. Statistics Canada's internal governance structure, with designated accountabilities for decision making around data, is documented in the roles and responsibilities sections of the Directive on the Management of Statistical Microdata Files and the Directive on the Management of Aggregate Statistics, and in the mandates of the senior management committees, including the Information Management Committee, the Microdata Access Management Committee, the Microdata Review and Release Committee, the Methods, Standards and Quality Committee, and the Communications and Dissemination Committee.
Statistics Canada Executive Management Board is divided into four committees, each with a clear mandate to facilitate responsible experimentation, innovation and action:

  • the Strategic Management Committee
  • the Modernization Management Committee
  • the Corporate Planning Committee
  • the Operations Committee

Statistics Canada has also designated several key executives with roles and accountabilities for data. These include Chief Information Officer, Chief Data Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Procurement Officer, Chief Security Officer, Chief Privacy Officer and Chief Talent Officer.

Additionally, Statistics Canada seeks the expertise and counsel of many advisory groups and consultative committees, including the recently formed Advisory Council on the Modernization of Microdata Access and the Canadian Statistics Advisory Council whose mandate is to advise on the statistical system's overall quality, including the relevance, accuracy, accessibility and timeliness of its data.

Current agency governance practices ensure that agency programs and policies promote holistic data decisions and provide strategic direction aligned to modernization. Moving forward, Statistics Canada's governance structure must ensure that it is strategically aligned to better serve clients and citizens, and to reduce barriers and increase collaboration within the agency. Statistics Canada must work collectively to respond to initiatives and emerging needs, such as cloud adoption, microdata access, data science and engagement with Canadians. Creating synergies and collaborating horizontally across the agency in order to break down silos is vital. The organizational structure must be designed to turn vertical accountabilities into horizontal collaborations to ensure integration of cross-cutting activities. Statistics Canada's organizational structure must also ensure that roles and responsibilities include the following:

  • conducting strategic planning to increase stakeholder engagement and outreach
  • expanding the use of data visualizations, developing integrated portals, and creating horizontal storylines to promote responsive, comprehensive and collaborative analytical insights
  • providing a full continuum of access from public dissemination to microdata integration across the agency
  • optimizing emerging technological opportunities, including the continued digitalization of data to provide access to new data sources
  • accessing and leveraging digital technologies such as the cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning
  • accessing powerful tools to effectively manage the volume, velocity and variety of data, including enhancing focus on data science, training and innovation
  • focusing on cyber security and remaining vigilant to mitigate internal and external threats to the security of personal information
  • enhancing responsiveness to emerging data requirements by recognizing the inherent horizontality of these issues and the agency's unique position as an integrator.

Organizing for Success

Statistics Canada reorganized its structure to give greater focus by placing staff under two new fields. The new Strategic Engagement and Communications Field will ensure that Canadians think of Statistics Canada when they need information. This new field's driving mandate is to ensure that "engagement is about user experience and connecting people with products and services."

The newly created Digital Solutions Field will ensure that modern and digital solutions are leveraged to solve business problems. The field will also ensure alignment with the recently released Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) Policy on Service and Digital, and the TBS cloud strategy.

Short-term activities

  • Realign and organize the agency in response to the evolving data ecosystem; this includes realigning senior management committees as needed.
  • Formalize key executive responsibilities, including roles of CDO and CIO and supporting organizational units.
  • Modernize Statistics Canada's Information Management (IM) Vision to ensure IM/IT alignment toward digital solutions.

Medium-term activities

  • Formalize data stewards for each program.
  • Increase intergovernmental leadership and synergies on data governance by co-chairing the Data Governance Working Group under the Enterprise Data Community of Practice.

Future activities

  • Develop well-established roles and responsibilities relating to enterprise-wide data governance and stewardship.

Expected outcomes

  • Increased consistency and confidence in decision making for requirements of the NSS.
  • Better enabled planning and the minimizing or eliminating of redundant work and processes.
  • Aligned accountabilities and performance measures for data and information.

Data stewardship

Data stewardship is the management and oversight of data assets to ensure they are of high quality, easily accessible and used appropriately in a consistent manner. Data stewardship is a business function that ensures alignment between business and information technology (IT) so that data assets are properly managed throughout their lifecycle. This includes ensuring that data are used efficiently and in a way that addresses privacy preservation, confidentiality and security requirements. Data stewardship is a key function of Statistics Canada and includes data discovery, digitalization, interoperability and management; these operational and tactical capabilities enable all other data capabilities that form part of the SCDS.

Data discovery

Statistics Canada is currently modernizing its statistical programs to respond to a rapidly changing and increasingly complex economy and society, a proliferation of data and providers, and increased user expectations for "real-time" and micro-detailed data

Statistics Canada's modernization includes an administrative-data-first agenda, an environment where data and insights already present in the data ecosystem are leveraged before surveys or other collection methods are used. This includes creating strategic partnerships with other organizations and researching and discovering data inputs that can be used by statistical programs, such as administrative data, open data, found data, commercial data, crowdsourced data and web-scraped data, while respecting privacy and maintaining public trust.

Modern data collection

October, 2018 the production and sale of cannabis was legalized for non-medical purposes. To prepare for this momentous change, Statistics Canada launched two important initiatives, aimed at understanding the cost of and frequency of cannabis usage in Canada and to be able to monitor changes in behaviour as a result of legalization. Before legalization, Statistics Canada launched a crowdsourcing application called StatsCannabis that included questions on cannabis prices, location, consumption, and quantity purchased. To supplement the crowdsourcing information, the National Cannabis Survey (NCS) went into collection in February of 2018 with the results published on a quarterly basis since April 2018. After legalization, Statistics Canada updated the NCS content to track additional changes in consumer behaviours. These updates included new questions on the source of supply (legal or illegal) and first-time use. The National Cannabis Survey was conducted as part of Statistics Canada's 'RapidStats' program – a new survey model aimed at improving timeliness and in response to emerging issues. The complementary cannabis pricing data collected through the crowdsourcing app were released (with a data quality note) in the first quarter of 2019.

Statistics Canada is committed to the privacy, confidentiality and protection of data and information pertaining to Canadians, Canadian businesses and Canadian institutions. Current data acquisition research efforts have been directed at ensuring that Statistics Canada brings in the right data and that the data obtained is proportional and effective to the need for the data, having considered alternatives.

A New Framework

Statistics Canada is ensuring that privacy protection methods and protocols continue to evolve as new data sources with varying levels of sensitivity emerge. Current efforts are focused on creating a necessity and proportionality framework. The framework is being developed to ensure increasing transparency in the data acquisition process, to provide stronger justification (necessity) for data acquisition, and to be more explicit about the efforts used to gather data in a manner that is both efficient and proportional to its necessity and sensitivity. This includes ensuring that necessity (requirement for data or information) is well-defined; applying the scientific approach and a series of checkpoints on sensitivity, ethics and proportionality (quality, sample size, content and risk mitigation); considering alternative methods; and requiring a privacy impact assessment and communication throughout the process to ensure transparency.

The agency must also ensure it continues to have the appropriate skills and tools to continue on the data discovery journey. Statistics Canada has responded to this challenge by developing tools, templates and communications to streamline the process, including an Administrative Data Inventory, an administrative data handbook, updated policy instruments and common templates for acquisition agreements.

The first phase of modernization at Statistics Canada included the implementation of four pathfinder projects which helped guide modernization, engage with stakeholders, consult with users, and implement leading-edge tools and methods to produce relevant, high-quality statistics. Over the last several years, efforts have been concentrated on discovering and acquiring administrative data files that directly feed the pathfinder projects: Measuring Cannabis, Transition to a Low-carbon Economy (Clean Technology), Measuring Growth in International Visitors to Canada, and the Canadian Housing Statistics Program. These pathfinder projects are providing lessons learned for the broader modernization plan at Statistics Canada. Specifically, lessons learned in acquiring these new data sources will be leveraged as the agency continues to pursue its administrative-data-first agenda.

Filling the gap

The Canadian Housing Statistics Program (CHSP), a joint program between Statistics Canada and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), launched in 2017 and provides information on residential property ownership in Canada. This framework relies exclusively on administrative data collected from private and public data sources. This information is used by Canadians in a number of ways, including by policy makers to design programs that answer economic and societal needs, by academics to drive the creation of new knowledge, and by businesses and individuals with interest in the real estate market.

The program first released insights on non-resident ownership for Toronto and Vancouver in late 2017, and when fully completed, the program will provide comprehensive data on housing ownership and financial characteristics at the sub census metropolitan area (CMA). The program is filling data gaps related to housing in the measurement of foreign-buyer activity, something that had previously been unmeasurable using traditional methods.

Statistics Canada is also building capacity in the areas of negotiation and outreach, particularly as they relate to building strategic partnerships and win-win relationships with data and information providers. To ensure transparency, the agency is developing communications related to the acquisition, treatment and use of administrative data files by Statistics Canada.

Data-driven Partnerships

Statistics Canada is in the process of developing a Northern Data Strategy to more effectively coordinate a growing number of requests for northern data. The Northern Data Strategy will develop a sustainable way to produce statistics for each of the territories in partnership with the statistical focal points in the North. To do this a Northern Data Steering Committee and four sub‑committees (Data Needs, Gatekeeping, Data Transformation and Indigenous Lens) were created to address the challenges of high response burden in the north, insufficient granularity of data, numerous data gaps and high collection costs. Working with the territories, key federal partners and Indigenous organizations, innovative data strategies will be developed using modern methods to exploit alternative data and to undertake surveys when no administrative data are available.

Building Statistical Capacity

Statistics Canada's is currently directing activities towards engagement with national indigenous organizations and providing statistical capacity building grounded in the needs of indigenous peoples. Many indigenous organizations and communities are requesting access to and ownership of relevant data to develop policies, deliver services, tell their own stories and sustain their own statistical capacity. The Agency is exploring partnerships to support collection, analysis and dissemination in the North and in indigenous communities.

The Project for the Regional Advancement of Statistics in the Caribbean (PRASC) is Statistics Canada's largest technical assistance project to date. Since the project launched in 2015, the agency has been providing technical assistance and enhancing statistical capacity in 14 Caribbean countries. PRASC focuses on statistical development in four major areas: national accounts, statistical infrastructure for business and household surveys, and communications and dissemination. The PRASC project embodies all the pillars of modernization – from leading-edge methods and sharing and collaboration to statistical capacity building and leadership.

Short-term activities

  • Identify and increasingly gain access to administrative and alternative data sources for statistical purposes to produce more timely insights and to fill data gaps.
  • Continue to implement, develop, and elaborate the administrative data first agenda and ensure employees have the necessary tools and skills for data discovery and access.
  • Create clear, plain language communications around the acquisition, treatment and use of administrative data to ensure transparency, and work toward a more self-serve model for use by all Statistics Canada programs.
  • Update the quality guidelines to reflect the increased use of administrative and alternative data in statistical programs.
  • Update current policies and directives to respond to the administrative data first agenda.
  • Create new policies and directives to respond to the requirement to bring alternative data sources into the agency, including the creation of a policy instrument and operational procedures for web scraping.
  • Update policy instruments regarding the implementation of proportionality and necessity concepts during the data discovery stage.

Medium-term activities

  • Establish and maintain ongoing, mutually beneficial relationships with data providers.
  • Establish mechanisms to include community engagement in data acquisition and use, including using stories on how Statistics Canada's output leads to programs and policies that affect the lives of Canadians, and engaging in open dialogue on privacy concerns and data treatment at Statistics Canada (de-identification, anonymization, use of synthetic data).
  • Collaborate with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to finalize the development of the proportionality framework.

Future activities

  • To foster interoperability from the local to the national level, collaborate with other government organizations (including the provinces, the territories and local area governments) to enhance the usefulness of administrative data for statistical purposes and to reduce duplication, including ensuring the optimization of the legal framework.
  • Establish a culture of data reuse and sharing to ensure efficiency, especially with public sector data assets.
  • Ensure Statistics Canada has well-established processes to support the acquisition of data that are shared, accessed or ingested from multiple access points.

Expected outcomes

  • Data gaps are filled in order to provide new, relevant information to Canadians and support evidence-informed policies (ensure that funding is directed to where it's needed most).
  • Increased transparency of the processes and uses of data to maintain social license and trust of Canadians.

Data digitalization

Data-driven organizations require a digital transformation plan. Under the SCDS, a key requirement of our digital transformation is to align operational decisions to the systematic (and automatic as much as possible) interpretation of data. This is rooted in Statistics Canada's ability to deploy advanced analytics at every point of interaction—human as well as machine—to continuously improve decision-making quality and accuracy. The SCDS also ensures that the agency adopts "business-led/technology-enabled" solutions.

The need for tools to collect, store, analyze, manage, share and visualize data is increasing in all departments. Enabling open standards, open source, interoperability and expertise sharing requires access to a common set of data tools commensurate with data needs. Departments also need a flexible framework to explore new tools and more advanced options that are both interoperable and secure. The Government of Canada's (GC) IT infrastructure must be able to support its data system's ambitious agenda. There is a growing need for higher computing capacity and for the modernization of older data infrastructureFootnote 1

Statistics Canada continues to renew its aging and mission-critical IT infrastructure and systems. This work has been prioritized to enable innovative solutions that support modernization.

Statistics Canada's three-year IT strategy includes moving from a "custom-build" approach to a "borrow and buy" approach—only building when necessary to improve agility and responsiveness, and leveraging relationships and collaborating more closely with government departments, other national statistical agencies, the private sector and academia.

The following strategic actions will support the agency's modernization agenda and the GC's direction:

  • implement a modern IT organizational model to better support the agency's strategic direction while ensuring sustained ongoing operations
  • report regularly on key areas of IT system health performance to drive continuous improvement and reduce maintenance cost
  • further develop IT skill sets and partnerships in the areas of IT security, open source, data science, cloud-related disciplines, agile development, user experience design, and technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, smart machines, analytics, digital workplace platforms, containers, and micro services
  • implement bimodal governance to better support innovation and remove unnecessary bureaucracy, while aligning and leveraging GC enterprise governance
  • develop a digital strategy that aligns with Statistics Canada's modernization agenda and GC digital policy
  • modernize IT operational services to support new technologies and approaches, such as cloud enablement and software-defined infrastructure
  • adopt risk-based security approaches to support the cloud-first strategy, data access and a mobile workforce
  • create a digital workplace so that all employees can work from anywhere, at any time, using modern secure tools
  • facilitate greater access to Statistics Canada data holdings, including anonymized microdata, by giving researchers, policy makers and other stakeholders convenient virtual access to more data and statistical information that will be enriched by new dissemination tools, such as data visualization dashboards and portals, all while continuing to protect privacy and confidentiality
  • offer powerful data analytics services with key components like a data management hub, data ingestion services, and data analysis using artificial intelligence, machine learning techniques and high-performance data processing.Footnote 2

Increasing Virtual Access to Data

In partnership with Compute Canada, work is underway to modernize the IT infrastructure in Statistics Canada's research data centres (RDCs) to build on the agency's business and security processes, and to foster greater access to data for academic and policy research. The agency is also piloting virtual infrastructure that provides access to linked administrative and business data for its federal and provincial partners. More than 80 new files have been added to the RDC collection since April 2017.

Data Analytics as a Service (DAaaS)

Statistics Canada is establishing data analytics as a service, which will enable the delivery of business capabilities in a more agile, responsive manner. Key components include a data management hub, data ingestion services, and data analysis tools using artificial intelligence, machine learning techniques and high-performance data processing. It will also enable others to securely use the data and increase the availability of Statistics Canada products across Canada. External partners will be able to collaborate through new leading-edge tools and easy access to more data.

Short-term activities

  • Deploy experimental projects to secure cloud in fall 2019.
  • Begin Data Analytics as a Service (DAaaS) business requirements gathering.
  • Develop business case and requirements for high powered computing (HPC) resources to facilitate scientific research (AI, ML, deep learning).

Medium-term activities

  • Implement cloud native storage and processing and role and policy based access control and data visualization.

Future activities

  • Implement trusted digital identities and state of the art encryption.
  • Implement data analytics as a service and remote data ingestion.
  • Implement secure multi-party computing and privacy-preserving record sharing.

Expected outcomes

  • Digital projects and initiatives successfully align with the GC digital direction including enterprise-wide IT standards, security, and strategic direction ensuring consistency of approach and efficient and effective deployment.

Data interoperability

Interoperability is the ability to access and process data from multiple sources without losing meaning, and then integrate those data for mapping, visualization, and other forms of representation and analysis. Interoperability enables people to find, explore and understand the structure and content of datasets. In essence, it is the ability to "join up" data from different sources to help create more holistic and contextual information for simpler, and sometimes automated, analysis; better decision making; and accountability purposes.Footnote 3

Adopting standards and adhering to them fosters interoperability, integration and rapid response. Statistics Canada's standards ecosystem includes data standards, classifications, foundational models, and vocabularies or ontologies.

Statistics Canada has experience and networks, nationally and internationally, to facilitate the definition of standards. National and international standards development organizations are modernizing methods for governing data. Canada is participating to address this still relatively new challenge and maximize our impact through a collaborative approach.

Collaborating on Standards

The Chief Statistician is co-chair of the Canadian Data Governance Standardization Collaborative (DGSC), which is working toward delivering a comprehensive roadmap of standards that will benefit Canadian organizations and citizens.

The objectives of the collaborative are to:

  • Identify and scope Canadian priority areas for Data Governance that might benefit from standardization;
  • Oversee the delivery of a comprehensive roadmap describing the current and desired Canadian data governance standardization landscape, including recommendations to address gaps and new areas where standards and conformity assessment are needed; and
  • Recommend proposals for national and international standardization initiatives, timelines and organizations that can perform the work.

Statistics Canada actively develops and maintains statistical standards, promotes and monitors their implementation, and provides guidance on their interpretation. Statistical standards include populations, statistical units, variables and classifications (based on international standards to ensure interoperability).

Statistics Canada also develops, maintains and disseminates statistical metadata for statistical programs under the terms of the Policy on Informing Users of Data Quality and Methodology. The metadata include information on the variables, classifications, data sources, methodology, data quality, questionnaires, survey questions and response choices.

Future research will be directed toward the use and adoption of open data standards and information exchange protocols. This work will ensure interoperability across the government and with key stakeholders, including non-governmental organizations, think tanks, academia and private sector organizations.

Common Statistical Data Architecture

Statistics Canada is an active member of the High-Level Group for the Modernization of Official Statistics (HLG-MOS), a group of committed Chief Statisticians who are actively steering the modernization of statistical organisations with a mission to work together to identify trends, threats, and opportunities in modernising statistical organisations. Statistics Canada has led efforts on the creation of a common statistical data architecture (CSDA). The CSDA provides a common architectural model and way forward to support statistical organisations in the design, integration, production and dissemination of official statistics based on both traditional and new types of data sources.

Short-term activities

  • Research and select appropriate open data standards.
  • Continue research and collaboration on international statistical standards and the data reference model, including current commitments to HLG-MOS.
  • Create vision, concept case and proof of concept for analytics data pipeline using common, industry-standard open data format.
  • Continue participation in the Canadian Data Governance Standardization Collaborative.

Medium-term activities

  • Continue to work on the interoperability framework: ontologies, taxonomies, vocabularies and data virtualization.
  • Contribute to Pan-Canadian Real-world Health Data Network, metadata standardization.

Future activities

  • Conduct continuous research and improvement toward full interoperability.
  • Move Statistics Canada toward a standards accreditation body to create national standards.
  • Implement Aria classification management (reference data) which forms the initial stages of a whole-of-government approach to classification management.

Expected outcomes

  • Adherence to standards will optimize use of data and facilitate sharing and collaboration to ensure whole of government approach and ensure greater public value from data and greater usability and reusability of valuable data assets.

Data management

Data management is the practice of organizing and maintaining data processes to meet ongoing information lifecycle needs. Key components of data lifecycle management include a searchable data inventory, reference and master data management, and a quality assessment framework.

As a knowledge-based agency and a highly regarded National Statistical Office (NSO), Statistics Canada takes pride in the information it produces. Effective and efficient management of the data and information collected, compiled, analyzed and published is integral to meeting Statistics Canada's mandate. However, changes in technology have introduced new challenges in data and information management worldwide. Information is being produced at an ever-increasing rate because of the ease with which it can be created, transmitted and duplicated. New electronic formats continue to emerge, while others become obsolete. Organizations are finding themselves burdened with large amounts of unorganized legacy information to sort through while new information is being created at an unprecedented rate.

Increasing demands for flexibility in the work environment, the need to be agile when responding to evolving client and employee needs, and the radical technological shift to cloud are changing the information management landscape. There has never been a stronger need for an integrated, user-based approach—focusing on what information users need and in what form they need it—coupled with the provision of a trusted and authoritative data source. Statistics Canada must fully integrate information management into business processes and IT solution development to excel in and fulfill its mandate to provide insights to Canadians while meeting privacy preservation, confidentiality and security requirements.

Statistics Canada is developing a renewed, lasting and comprehensive enterprise-wide information management vision. This is a critical first step for Statistics Canada to respond to these new information challenges and to ensure the continued delivery of its products and services in an efficient and effective manner.

When fully deployed, the Statistics Canada Picasso platform will give all employees the ability to search and discover data assets and statistical metadata. Data assets include data from all sources, including surveys, administrative data, record linkage projects, big data and web scraping. The Picasso platform will be a key enabler of data stewardship of key strategic assets, as it delivers machine-readable metadata to drive processes, interpretability, coherence, confidentiality, replicability and reversibility. It will be a single toolkit for managing data and statistical metadata, and will lead to minimum storage of archived files. Picasso will replace several legacy systems and ensure a holistic approach to metadata standardization, access and use.

Sharing expertise

Statistics Canada will release a proof of concept application programming interface (API) that will make available a selection of data holdings and related statistical metadata from the 2019 Picasso database to all Government of Canada (GC) departments. An inventory of administrative data providers from the public sector will be made available in machine-ingestible format. Future work will include developing the capability to ingest metadata stores from other GC organizations and an external user interface to view information from Picasso.

Statistics Canada is currently working with other GC organizations to share lessons learned from the development and deployment of Picasso. Statistics Canada also co-chairs the Data Catalogue Working Group under the Enterprise Data Community of Practice, and the goal of the working group is to develop business requirements for a GC data catalogue.

Reference and master data management are key components of enterprise data management. Statistics Canada has reviewed Scandinavian models for modernizing and creating statistical registers and has launched projects to research, develop, initialize, maintain, update and integrate an interoperable and flexible statistical register infrastructure that will serve as the foundation of statistical activities at Statistics Canada. This includes statistical registers or databases on:

  • Buildings and building units
  • Geospatial information
  • Businesses
  • Population

Leading on Reference and Master Data Management and Sharing

Government of Canada organizations must develop sharing standards to facilitate information exchange toward interoperability. Statistics Canada is in a position to provide GC organizations access to standardized reference and master data which will facilitate data sharing and enable interoperability. Statistics Canada is currently working with Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) on a pilot project that will demonstrate how standardized reference data (in the form of addresses and address variants) can facilitate interoperability and the use of data sharing platforms. This initiative would also be a first step toward creating an accurate, standardized national address register. This information would be available to GC organizations via a service on the Canadian Digital Exchange as part of the "tell us once" initiative, and would be released as "open data" in response to Canada's National Action Plan on Open Government. This would be a proof of concept prototype whereby reference/master data stewarded by Statistics Canada would be accessed by other GC organizations and potentially other levels of government.

Data quality management and quality control are core business activities at Statistics Canada. A key commitment of the Data Strategy for the Federal Public Service is creating a comprehensive GC data quality framework. Statistics Canada and the Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS), under policy direction and with input from other selected organizations, will develop, implement and support data quality management strategies, policies and practices to support the framework. The proposed framework will establish common enterprise-wide standards to ensure interoperability and will be adaptable to the various realities and data ecosystems of GC organizations.

Statistics Canada currently has several strategies and tools in place to facilitate and ensure effective quality management in all its statistical programs and initiatives, including the Quality Secretariat, the Quality Assurance Framework (QAF) and Quality Guidelines. These tools can be adapted for an enterprise-wide approach to the quality and maintenance of GC data assets.

Short-term activities

  • Support the administrative-data-first approach by identifying and developing processes and tools to improve user-centric services by establishing a strengthened self-serve model (Data Governance and Stewardship Support Services).
  • Create clear and plain language communications about the use of the self-serve model (Data Governance and Stewardship Support Services).
  • Perform Picasso enhancements that respond to needs of Data Stewardship, Data Analytics as a Service, and reporting requirements of approved specific performance measures.
  • Design and perform initial seeding of Statistical Registers, and present concept case for reference data as a service (RDaaS) to the Government of Canada Enterprise Architecture Review Board (GC EARB).
  • Work with TBS and other key business owners to establish government-wide master data management program.
  • Conduct a quality assurance framework review related to administrative data and non-statistical uses of data and the creation of interdepartmental working group.
  • Create improved data stewardship toolkit (training, documented processes and procedures, policy instruments, performance measures, etc.).
  • Update the quality guidelines to document the proportionality and necessity concepts for data lifecycle management.
  • Update policy instruments regarding the implementation of proportionality and necessity concepts for data lifecycle management.
  • Co-chair the Data Quality Working Group under the Enterprise Data Community of Practice.

Medium-term activities

  • Develop a fully realized corporate data inventory (Picasso).
  • Further develop statistical registers and decommission other registers and frames.
  • Research enterprise QAF, which includes assessing the applicability of Statistics Canada's QAF and Quality Guidelines for broader use, including non-statistical data uses; begin developing quality-related training strategies for the GC.

Future activities

  • Ensure the enterprise GC data inventory pulls directly from Statistics Canada's meta-store (Picasso platform).
  • Fully develop integrated statistical registers (data flow through registers for harvesting and de-identification).
  • Develop enterprise QAF (whole-of-government approach).

Expected outcomes

  • Data is used more efficiently and effectively throughout the enterprise to ensure everyone views and analyses the same, most recent information to ensure greater usability and public value from data.

Data resources

Statistics Canada currently has a robust recruitment program in place for analysts, IT professionals and methodologists. Recent recruitment campaigns have targeted data scientists, data engineers, business-intelligence experts and cyber-security professionals. Statistics Canada is also continuing to create strong development programs for all new recruits and for current employees seeking to update their skills or learn new ones. Statistics Canada strives to be a "learning organization" and is constantly building statistical capacity and increasing data literacy.

In a time of rapid change and increasing competition for talent, collaboration with partners outside Statistics Canada is essential in progressing the agency's modernization agenda and its ability to remain responsive to the needs of Canadians and decision makers. Partnerships with postsecondary institutions provide mutually beneficial opportunities with positive short-term and long-term outcomes, including:

  • creating mutually beneficial learning opportunities
  • creating practical student work experiences for the future workforce, and gaining access to new and developing talent
  • establishing career opportunities for highly qualified, experienced graduates who are aware of and interested in the agency's work (this could be at several levels, such as undergraduate [recruit level] and postdoctoral [mid-level])

The Statistics Canada postsecondary institution partnership approach outlines a framework and assigns roles and responsibilities to the Strategic Management Committee, Modernization Management Committee, Talent Acquisition Committee, assistant chief statistician-level champions, director and assistant director partnership project leads, partnership project teams, and the Human Resources Branch.

Currently, the agency is actively recruiting individuals from the data science community, given the growing requirement for these types of skills within the agency and across all industries. Statistics Canada has developed a data scientist development strategy and partnership framework that outlines key success factors and expected outcomes.

In light of Statistics Canada's growing need for data scientists, an inter-field working group at the senior management level has been created to establish a corporate recruitment strategy for data scientists. To ensure the right talent and capacity are in place now and for the future, the working group will address human resources practices, including traditional and innovative hiring.

The agency recently created the Data Science Division, which will promote a hub and spoke model to increase awareness, provide expert advice to further data science projects, and expand the use of data science tools and techniques across the agency. Statistics Canada also recently launched a data science fellowship program. Data science fellows will be employed by Statistics Canada and will work within GC departments to leverage its wealth of data for insight and decision making.

Support to the Digital Academy

The Data Strategy Roadmap for the Federal Public Service recognized the need to improve data literacy and digital literacy of public servants to fully leverage the value of data and to improve services and programs for Canadians. The Canada School of Public Service (CSPS) created the Digital Academy in response to this requirement.

Statistics Canada is playing a key role in mapping the future direction of data literacy within the federal public service and has provided significant support to the CSPS on the Digital Academy. This support has included course auditing and feedback, training in data analytics and digital (including artificial intelligence and machine learning), and tutoring and course creation. Statistics Canada has also presented workshops on digital and data innovation, and created synthetic data and a data linkage environment for use by Digital Academy attendees.

Statistics Canada will remain a key partner with CSPS in developing course materials and curriculum for future iterations of the Digital Academy to ensure that learners emerge with a sound foundation of both digital and data literacy. Future direction will also include creating course materials and training on data governance and data stewardship.

Statistics Canada also has a growing number of grassroots communities of practice (CoPs), which self-manage and share a wealth of information and learning resources for data science and general data literacy skills. Current CoPs include the machine learning CoP, the data analytics CoP, and the geomatics CoP, as well as the R/Python Users Group, the Power BI Users Group and the Machine Learning Club.

The agency has also organized several innovation hackathon events, which are collaborative problem-solving events that bring together multidisciplinary teams (GC and academics) to build capacity to mobilize data; increase data literacy; and socialize leading-edge methods and tools, data stewardship best practices and user-centric approaches. These hackathons also provide an opportunity for the agency to attract new talent and encourage more collaborations.

Statistics Canada is also ensuring that, as resource requirements change, the agency provides employees with opportunities to grow and to learn new skills and capabilities to meet these changing requirements. As the agency moves toward more partnerships, more data sharing, and more ingestion of data assets from external sources, the requirements will grow for employees with partnering, negotiation, and engagement skills, and for technical writers, strategists and storytellers.

New Skills Development

Statistics Canada is making significant headway on modernization in the context of a global data revolution. As part of this, the agency is focused on building and nurturing partnerships with clients, businesses and government. The agency recently rolled out a two-day workshop to help employees learn the process, strategies and techniques for successful negotiation. The workshop will ensure employees understand the negotiation process and the agency commitment to mutually beneficial agreements, and how to develop plans, strategies and tactics for effective negotiations.

Short-term activities

  • Understand desired competencies and skills for data literacy and data science, including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.
  • Establish science-based CoPs and working groups with access to appropriate tools; expand recruitment programs to attract and retain data scientists and data engineers.
  • Work directly with the Canada School of Public Service (CSPS) on the Digital Academy roll-out and skill requirements.
  • Launch the Data Science Fellowship.
  • Establish a Data Science Division.
  • Establish an Innovation Secretariat.
  • Conduct continuous recruitment campaigns directed toward the right skills required for current priorities.
  • Launch a results-driven research and development (R&D) board.
  • Work directly with partners across the federal government to establish data literacy competencies for public servants, measure literacy and build training programs.

Medium-term activities

  • Collaborate with the CSPS to refresh the suite of training offered to develop and maintain required competencies and skills.
  • Increase targeted hiring (science-related skills), AI, machine learning, and the ethical use of automation and AI and other skills as required.
  • Improve flexibility to access software and tools across the agency.
  • Increase sharing and collaboration within and outside the GC, including access to and use of GitHub, GitLab, Trello and Slack, as well as GCconnex and GCcollab.
  • Become the test bed for data science acceleration in the federal government; have GC data scientists work on Statistics Canada premises (with access to data, registers, quality assessment framework (QAF), analytical resources) to create analytical code and processes.

Future activities

  • Encourage and support a culture of continuous learning to maintain relevant competencies and skills (Statistics Canada as a "learning organization").
  • Run continuous campaigns to recruit and retain appropriate staff (flexi-CAD, free agent program, academic exchange).
  • Establish an evolutionary toolbox for research and methods (ensure scientists have access to the right tools and resources to effectively and efficiently perform their work).
  • Become a world leader in data science.

Expected outcomes

  • The skills and competencies required to ensure data is used as a strategic asset, including data science, data analysis, communications, engagement and strategy are addressed and responded to ensure increased evidence-informed decision-making.

Data trust framework

The SCDS mission statement is "delivering insight through data for a better Canada." This is expressed in Statistics Canada's core values, which are to be trustworthy, purposeful, caring and inclusive, and curious and always learning.

Statistics Canada has spent more than a century collecting data for statistical purposes and is evolving as information needs grow and new data sources offer new possibilities for information. Currently, the agency is working with experts from businesses and academia from around the world, as well as with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, to develop new statistical methods based on necessity and proportionality. Necessity determines what data Statistics Canada is mandated to produce to ensure society, the economy and the environment are measured. Proportionality ensures that the volume of data and data sources required by program areas is balanced with response burden, while maintaining protection of privacy. This work complements the work of the agency to ensure social acceptance by maintaining social licence, which is a key driver of the data trust framework.

Statistics Canada currently has, in addition to robust physical and IT security measures, a strong confidentiality awareness program and corporate tools for data access control and confidentiality classification; the application of the new proportionality framework further enhances the privacy preserving principles of the agency.

Future direction is aimed at increased communication and transparency of current practices, and research on new and emerging methods for role and policy based data access control, automated active auditing, and the development of protocols on appropriate use of synthetic, de-identified and anonymized datasets for training, testing and research as well as the development of improved privacy and confidentiality preserving methods.

A Century of trust, safety, facts

Statistics Canada's Trust Centre, which launched on the agency's website in spring 2019, includes features and information on why collected data and information are required and how they are kept safe and private, details on Canadian privacy laws, and information on the agency's commitment to transparency and accountability.

Short-term activities

  • Increase communication transparency of existing privacy and confidentiality practices.
  • Work collaboratively with other National Statistical Offices, businesses, academia and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner to develop new statistical methods based on necessity and proportionality.

Medium-term activities

  • Research new and emerging methods for privacy and confidentiality protection.
  • Implement role and policy based access control and automated active auditing.

Future activities

  • Fully automate data access control and audits.
  • Implement appropriate levels of privacy control.
  • Publish code and methods on the Open Data Portal for transparency.

Expected outcomes

  • Protection of individuals' information and privacy ensure that Canadians remain confident of the work of Statistics Canada and the agency remains a trusted source of data and insights.

Data trust leadership

As a result of the strategic data capabilities outlined throughout this document, Statistics Canada is well positioned to take a leadership role in ensuring the strategic use of data across the federal government. Through partnerships and collaboration with all levels of government, the agency is working to optimize data access and use, provide guidance on data management, and support data-driven innovation in order to bring value to Canadians. The agency is in a position to inform on standards to ensure consistency across the federal government and to lead in areas such as the ethical and secure use of data, data quality, data catalogues and inventories, data integration, capacity building, and information generation through statistical science. Statistics Canada is also providing guidance and support to other departments on the development and operationalization of their departmental data strategies.

Statistics Canada co-led, in partnership with the Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) and the Privy Council Office (PCO), the drafting of the Data Strategy Roadmap for the Federal Public Service (DSFPS). Statistics Canada is currently chairing or co-chairing several federal government working groups under the Enterprise Data Community of Practice, including the Data Governance Working Group, the Data Catalogue Working Group, the Data Reference Working Group and the Data Quality Working Group. The goal of the working groups is to build capacity throughout departments by sharing expertise and best practices. Statistics Canada's role is to share the agency's unique expertise in making relevant and high-quality data accessible to users while minimizing the risk of disclosing information on a specific individual, business or institution.

While Statistics Canada is leading, co-leading and supporting on a number of initiatives from the DSFPS, the agency is currently developing implementation plans for three key initiatives which have been identified as a priority for the agency: data literacy and training, data stewardship engagement strategy, and a data science community of practice.

The data literacy initiative is being launched in response to the need, as outlined in the DSFPS, for data literacy training to increase competency and skills among public servants. This need has also been identified by Statistics Canada's data users and stakeholders. The goal of the initiative is to provide user-centric training that targets a range of skill levels such that learners will have the necessary skills to use and understand Statistics Canada data to make evidence-based decisions.

The data stewardship engagement initiative will begin by focusing on the sharing of reference and master data. A pilot project, in collaboration with Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), will demonstrate how standardized reference data can facilitate interoperability and the use of data sharing platforms. The outcome of the pilot is the creation of a proof of concept prototype whereby reference data stewarded by Statistics Canada is accessed by other GC organizations thus releasing them from the burden of creating and stewarding the data themselves. The longer-term objectives of the data stewardship engagement strategy are to leverage partnerships and key governance tables to optimize the use of data as a strategic asset across the federal government by making high-quality data discoverable and accessible in a consistent manner, leveraging expertise across the enterprise, facilitating data sharing and integration, reducing duplication, increasing transparency, and ensuring that Canadians have greater trust in the quality, confidentiality, and value of public sector data and information.

The goal of the data science community of practice (CoP) initiative is to create an inter-governmental CoP for data science specialists. This CoP will establish the foundations of a government-wide data science ecosystem which will allow expertise to be shared across the government for establishment of best practices. The outcome of the CoP will be the creation of a forum for knowledge sharing and collaboration, GC capacity building in data science, and the creation of collaborative networks with academics and industry to further drive government outputs.

As a world-class National Statistical Office, Statistics Canada also occupies a leadership role on the international stage including within UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe), UNSD (United Nations Statistics Division) and the HLG-MOS (High-Level Group for the Modernization of Official Statistics), to name a few. National Statistical Offices around the world are showing leadership in governance, ethics, privacy protection, quality, data sharing, data interoperability, analytics, data stewardship, data literacy, and more. Statistics Canada represents the nation on international committees, associations and working groups on subjects such as data architecture, international standards and standards boards, data sharing and strategic partnership frameworks, data interoperability, and statistical methods and research. The agency achieved this by fostering collaboration through international partnerships. While Statistics Canada shares expertise in many of these forums, the agency also gains insight and information that is beneficial to the agency and National Statistical System. This is information that can be shared across the GC to further drive enterprise data management and stewardship.

Short-term activities

  • With the Privy Council Office and TBS, clarify the potential role of Chief Data Steward for the Government of Canada.
  • Develop work plans and implement on three key initiatives: data literacy training, data stewardship engagement strategy, and data science community of practice.
  • Continue leading and expanding on innovative partnerships and experimentation (for example through hackathons and horizontal reviews).

Medium-term activities

  • In partnership with TBS, co-lead work on the development of frameworks, principles, protocols and guidance for ethical and secure data use.

Future activities

  • Develop modern and non-invasive stewardship rules, guidelines and principles that involve the changing data ecosystem through continuous learning and GC and international information and best practices exchange with other public and private sector organizations and academia.

Expected outcomes

  • Optimized use of data across the federal government resulting in increased public good; increased public trust and confidence in the value of public sector data and information.

Leading on development of measurement frameworks

In a fast-moving Federal Public Service, organizations are looking at data to inform how to internally invest resources effectively and efficiently and to better understand the impact these investments have on employees. Statistics Canada is leading work with interdepartmental partners to develop high-quality strategies that measure key priorities of the Government of Canada and directly affect the daily lives of Federal Public Servants. Through the development of measurement frameworks for Beyond 2020: Public Service Renewal, the Federal Public Service Workplace Mental Health Strategy, and the Accessibility Strategy for the Federal Public Service, Statistics Canada is bringing direction and clarity to complex issues in support of a modern and data-driven Federal Public Service.

Next steps

Shortly after submission of the SCDS on September 30, 2019, a governance committee (new or existing) will be assigned responsibility for creation of an implementation plan for the SCDS. The governance committee will ensure that accountabilities for the SCDS, in the form of performance measures, are assigned to program areas. These program areas will work with the Strategic Data Management Branch and the Corporate Strategy and Management Field to ensure alignment to modernization and to the requirements of the 2019 Management Accountability Framework.

Statistics Canada is committed to sharing best practices, building capacity, collaborating with our partners, and meeting our users' needs as the data landscape evolves. The SCDS is a living, evergreen document that will be updated as required in response to this evolution.

Glossary of terms

Data ecosystem

A data ecosystem is defined as the collection of stakeholders, capacities, processes, policies and infrastructure used to capture and analyze data.

National statistical system

The national statistical system (NSS) is the ensemble of statistical organizations and units within a country that jointly collect, process and disseminate official statistics on behalf of national government. OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms, February 4, 2004.

Why are we conducting 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.

For this survey, there are Section 11 agreements with the provincial and territorial statistical agencies of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Québec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and the Yukon. 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.esdhelpdesk-dsebureaudedepannage.statcan@statcan.gc.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.

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
      • Ceased operations
      • Sold operations
      • Amalgamated with other businesses or organizations
      • Temporarily inactive but will re-open
      • No longer operating due to other reasons
    • When did this business or organization close for the season?
      • Date
    • When does this business or organization expect to resume operations?
      • Date
    • 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
    • When was this business or organization sold?
      • Date
    • What is the legal name of the buyer?
    • 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?
    • 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?
    • 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
    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

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, 2019 and March 31, 2020.

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

  • May 1, 2018 to April 30, 2019
  • June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019
  • July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019
  • August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2019
  • September 1, 2018 to August 31, 2019
  • October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019
  • November 1, 2018 to October 31, 2019
  • December 1, 2018 to November 30, 2019
  • January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019
  • February 1, 2019 to January 31, 2020
  • March 1, 2019 to February 28, 2020
  • April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020.

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

  • September 18, 2018 to September 15, 2019 ( e.g., floating year-end)
  • June 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019 ( 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

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, commissions, services revenue)

Report net of returns and allowances.

Sales of goods and services are defined as amounts derived from the sale of goods 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 a head office of your 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 (for example, compensation for collecting sales tax).

d. Subsidies (including grants, donations, fundraising and sponsorships)

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. All other revenue (Include intracompany transfers)

Include amounts not included in questions a. to g.

Total revenue

The sum of sub-questions a. to h.

The sum of sub-questions a. to h.
  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. Other  
Total revenue  

E-commerce

The following questions are about e-commerce activities.

E-commerce revenue: Sales of goods and services conducted over the Internet with or without online payment. Include all revenue for which an order is received and commitment to purchase is made via the Internet, although payment can be made by other means, such as orders made on web pages, an extranet, mobile devices or Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

Exclude orders made by telephone, facsimile or email.

Sales from automated kiosks located within the business's establishments are excluded from E-commerce sales.

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

Include:

  • sales of goods and services
  • rental, leasing and property management
  • commissions
  • subsidies, grants, donations, fundraising and sponsorships
  • royalties
  • rights
  • licensing and franchise fees
  • dividends, interest and other revenue.

Report dollar amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Total revenue in CAN$ '000

2. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, did this business have any e-commerce revenue?

E-commerce revenue: Sales of goods and services conducted over the Internet with or without online payment.

Include all revenue for which an order is received and commitment to purchase is made via the Internet, although payment can be made by other means, such as orders made on web pages, an extranet, mobile devices or Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

Exclude orders made by telephone, facsimile or email.

  • Yes
  • No

3. Of the [amount] reported in total revenue, what was the total e-commerce revenue?

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

Report dollar amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Total e-commerce revenue in CAN$ '000

4. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, did this business make sales over the Internet through any of the following methods?

Select all that apply.

  • Mobile app
    Include sales through any app, or application, that is downloaded and designed to run on a handheld device such as a smartphone or tablet (for example, places where a user may download these apps, including Apple's App Store, Google Play or Blackberry App World).
  • Company website
    Include sales through a browser-based website where your organization maintains control of the content.
  • Third-party website
    Include sales through a browser-based website where a third-party maintains the structure of the website and control of the look and feel while your company only provides the product to be sold (for example, Amazon, Expedia or Etsy).
  • Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
    A standard format for exchanging business data. EDI is based on the use of message standards, ensuring that all participants use a common language.
  • Via a mobile app
  • Via your company website
  • Via a third-party website
  • Via Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
  • Other
    Specify the other methods

5. Does this business have any full-time staff dedicated solely to activities related to e-commerce?

  • Yes
  • No

6. Why did this business not make sales over the Internet?

Select all that apply.

  • Goods and services do not lend themselves to online sales
  • Prefer to maintain current business model
  • Lack of skilled workers to implement and maintain e-commerce infrastructure
  • Cost of development is too high
  • Security concerns
  • Other
    Specify the other reasons

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

Report dollar 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 resale - 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 and heating.

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
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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 and 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.

The sum of sub-questions a. to u.
  CAN$ '000
a. Cost of goods sold  
Opening inventories  
Purchases  
Closing inventories  
Cost of goods sold  
b. Employment costs and expenses  
Salaries, wages and commissions  
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 goods and services?

Please report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

a. Architectural services

a1. Single-family residential projects

Architectural services provided for single-family residential building projects.

Include:

  • the design of single-family homes in subdivision developments
  • townhouses with a floor-to-ceiling wall between each unit.

Exclude historical restoration projects.

a2. Multi-family residential projects

Architectural services provided for multi-family residential building projects.

Include the design of apartment blocks.

Exclude:

  • the design of nursing homes and similar residential health care building projects
  • the design of hotels, resorts and similar temporary overnight accommodation building projects
  • historical restoration projects.

a3. Office building projects

Architectural services for all types of office buildings, including those for public and institutional clients.

Include office parks.

Exclude historical restoration projects.

a4. Retail and restaurant projects

Architectural services for stores, restaurants and similar buildings.

Include:

  • shopping centres
  • retail stores
  • restaurants
  • gas stations.

Exclude historical restoration projects.

a5. Hotel and convention centre projects

Architectural services for buildings providing temporary overnight accommodations.

Include:

  • hotels
  • motels
  • resorts
  • convention centres.

Exclude historical restoration projects.

a6. Health care projects ( e.g., hospitals, nursing homes and similar projects)

Architectural services for buildings which provide health care.

Include:

  • active care hospitals and clinics
  • nursing homes
  • respite care centres.

Exclude historical restoration projects.

a7. Entertainment, recreational, and cultural building projects

Architectural services for entertainment, recreational and cultural building projects.

Include:

  • cinemas and theatres
  • museums
  • zoos
  • aquariums
  • health clubs
  • swimming pools
  • stadiums and arenas
  • community centres
  • monuments.

Exclude historical restoration projects.

a8. Educational building projects ( e.g., schools, colleges, universities)

Architectural services for educational buildings.

Include:

  • elementary, secondary and postsecondary projects
  • school and college instructional buildings
  • college dormitories and other buildings on college campuses
  • daycare centres.

Exclude historical restoration projects.

a9. Industrial building projects

Architectural services for industrial buildings.

Include:

  • mine buildings
  • manufacturing plants and similar processing and assembly buildings.

Exclude:

  • warehouses
  • historical restoration projects.

a10. Transportation and distribution facility projects

Architectural services for transportation and distribution facility projects, ( e.g., buildings involved in the movement of goods and people and the storage of goods).

Include:

  • bus stations
  • train stations
  • airport terminals
  • warehouses
  • distribution centres
  • truck terminals.

Exclude historical restoration projects.

a11. Other non-residential building projects ( e.g., churches, prisons)

Other specialized non-residential public building projects.

Include:

  • churches
  • prisons
  • religious building projects
  • military building projects.

Exclude historical restoration projects.

a12. Historical restoration projects

Architectural services that incorporate legal requirements to preserve or restore the historic character of a building.

a13. Architectural advisory services

The provision of advice, studies and reports on architectural matters, except when the advice relates to a specific project. Advice, studies and reports provided in conjunction with a project are classified based on the project type.

b. Landscape architectural services

Landscape architectural services are concerned with the design of built landscape.

Include:

  • landscape architectural services for a design-build project provided on a sub-contract basis
  • the provision of designs and construction documents
  • plans, studies and other advisory services related to specific projects
  • construction contract administration services.

Exclude:

  • non-landscape architectural products related to building projects, provided on a stand-alone basis ( e.g., construction management services, engineering design services and drafting services)
  • design-build contracts, in which you assume the construction risk as well as the design risk.

c. Urban planning services

Urban planning services develop plans for the use of land to achieve a community's objectives for a built and natural environment that is aesthetically pleasing, efficient and functional. Urban plans express public policies related to land use and development as outlined by municipalities or other levels of governments. They provide a framework within which the plans for actual projects can be developed.

Exclude the design of site master plans for actual construction projects.

d. Project site master planning services

Services that provide plans for a construction site with the proposed location of buildings, roads, parking lots and other features.

Exclude urban planning services.

e. Interior design services

Business activities related to the planning, designing and administering of projects in interior spaces to meet the physical and aesthetic needs of people, taking into consideration building codes, health and safety regulations, traffic patterns and floor planning, mechanical and electrical needs, and interior fittings and furniture.

Exclude retail or wholesale locations that also provide interior design or decorating as a service.

f. Engineering services

The application of physical laws and principles in the design, development, and utilization of machines, materials, instruments, structures, processes, and systems.

Include:

  • the provision of designs, plans, and studies related to engineering projects
  • engineering design services for a design-build project that are provided on a sub-contract basis.

g. Other sales of goods and services - specify

All other architectural and landscape architectural services not defined above.

What were this business's sales for each of the following goods and services?
  CAN$ '000
Architectural services  
Single-family residential projects  
Multi-family residential projects  
Office building projects  
Retail and restaurant projects  
Hotel and convention centre projects  
Health care projects  
Entertainment, recreational and cultural building projects  
Educational building projects  
Industrial building projects  
Transportation and distribution facility projects  
Other non-residential building projects  
Historical restoration projects  
Architectural advisory services  
Landscape architectural services  
Urban planning services  
Project site master planning services  
Interior design services  
Engineering services  
Other  
Total sales of goods and services  

Industry characteristics

2. What were this business's sales by the following types of revenue?

a. Fee income

Revenues collected by the company for professional service fees rendered.

Exclude:

  • reimbursable expenses
  • subcontract fees awarded to other companies.

b. Subcontracts

Please report the value of the subcontracts awarded by you to other firms/consultants.

c. Reimbursables

Include the cost of all contract-related materials used in a project that are billed to the client.

Exclude subcontract fees.

What were this business's sales by the following types of revenue?
  CAN$ '000
Fee income  
Subcontracts  
Architectural consulting  
Other consulting  
Reimbursables  
Other  
Total sales  

3. During this reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, how many non-salaried partners and proprietors did this business have?

For unincorporated businesses, please report the number of partners and proprietors for whom earnings will be the net income of the partnership or proprietorship.

During this reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, how many non-salaried partners and proprietors did this business have?
  Number
Number of partners and proprietors, non-salaried, during this reporting period  

Details on Purchased Services

1. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, this business reported expenses for the following items.

Please provide the requested details related to these expenses.

Please report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, this business reported expenses for the following items.
  CAN$ '000
Professional and business fees  
Legal services  
Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services  
Management, scientific and technical consulting services  
Office administrative services  
Freight transportation arrangements and customs brokering services  
Brokerage and other insurance related services  
Security brokerage and securities dealing services  
Other purchased professional services  
Total expenses for professional and business fees  
Office and computer related expenses  
Data processing, hosting, and related services  
Business support services  
Other office and computer related purchased services  
Total expenses for office and computer related expenses  
Royalties, franchise fees and memberships  
Rights to non-financial intangible assets  
Membership fees or services  
Other royalties, franchise fees and memberships  
Total expenses for royalties, franchise fees and memberships  
Rental and leasing  
Non-residential real estate rental  
Motor vehicle rental and leasing  
Computer equipment rental and leasing  
Office machinery and equipment rental and leasing services  
Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment renting and leasing services, without operator  
Other rental services  
Total expenses for rental and leasing  
Repair and maintenance  
Security services and investigation  
Waste management and remediation services  
Motor vehicle repair and maintenance services  
Other repair and maintenance services  
Total expenses for repair and maintenance  

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.

 
  Percentage
Clients in Canada — individuals and households  
Clients in Canada — businesses  
Clients in Canada — governments, not-for-profit organizations and public institutions  
Clients outside Canada  
Total percentage  

Sales by consumer location

1. What was the percentage breakdown of this business's sales by consumer location?

Consumer location is the location where the goods or services will ultimately be used.

If ultimate consumer location is not known, the following are acceptable substitutes:

  • shipping destination
  • client's billing address
  • location of this business's retail customers
  • location of this business's warehouse/distribution centres.
 
  Percentage
Newfoundland and Labrador  
Prince Edward Island  
Nova Scotia  
New Brunswick  
Quebec  
Ontario  
Manitoba  
Saskatchewan  
Alberta  
British Columbia  
Yukon  
Northwest Territories  
Nunavut  
United States  
All other countries  
Total percentage  

Sales by consumer location

International transactions - revenue received from exports

1. During the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, did this business receive revenue from clients outside Canada for the sale of products, services, royalties, rights, licensing or franchise fees?

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licensing fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

  • Yes
  • No

2. What was the revenue received from clients outside Canada?

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licensing fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

Revenue received ( CAN$ '000 )

3. What was the percentage breakdown of revenue received from clients outside Canada by goods, services and royalties?

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licensing fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

What was the percentage breakdown of revenue received from clients outside Canada by goods, services and royalties?
  Percentage
Goods  
Services  
Royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees  
Total percentage  

4. What was the percentage breakdown of revenue received from clients outside Canada by country?

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licensing fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

What was the percentage breakdown of revenue received from clients outside Canada by country?
  Percentage
United States  
Mexico  
Provide the percentage of revenue received from any other countries - top 4 clients only  
Other country 1  
Other country 2  
Other country 3  
Other country 4  
Total percentage  

International transactions - purchases from outside Canada (imports)

5. During the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, did this business make payments to suppliers outside Canada for the purchase of products, services, royalties, rights, licensing or franchise fees?

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licensing fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

  • Yes
  • No

6. What were the payments made to suppliers outside Canada?

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licensing fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

Payments made ( CAN$ '000 )

7. What was the percentage breakdown of payments made to suppliers outside Canada by goods, services and royalties?

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licensing fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

What was the percentage breakdown of payments made to suppliers outside Canada by goods, services and royalties?
  Percentage
Goods  
Services  
Royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees  
Total percentage  

8. What was the percentage breakdown of payments made to suppliers outside Canada by country?

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licensing fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

What was the percentage breakdown of payments made to suppliers outside Canada by country?
  Percentage
United States  
Mexico  
Provide the percentage of payments made to any other countries - top 4 suppliers only  
Other country 1  
Other country 2  
Other country 3  
Other country 4  
Total percentage  

Changes or events

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I. Introduction

A. Description

The Tuition and Living Accommodation Costs (TLAC) survey collects data for full-time students in degree programs at Canadian public postsecondary institutions. The survey was developed to provide an overview of tuition and additional compulsory fees, and living accommodation costs that students can expect to pay for an academic year.

TLAC survey data:

  • provides stakeholders, the public and students with annual tuition costs and changes in tuition fees from the previous year
  • contributes to a better understanding of the costs to obtain a degree
  • contributes to education policy development
  • contributes to the Consumer Price Index
  • facilitates interprovincial comparisons
  • facilitates comparisons between institutions

B. Reference period

2020/2021 academic year

C. Population

The target population is all publicly funded degree-granting institutions (universities and colleges) in Canada.

The survey target population includes institutions that have degree-granting status for the academic year 2020/2021. Institutions that do not have degree-granting status are excluded even if they provide portions of programs that lead to a degree granted by another institution. The survey is limited to institutions whose operations are primarily funded by provincial governments. Institutions that do not receive grants from Education ministries or departments, and institutions that receive grants only from Health ministries and departments are excluded.

D. Fields of study

The field of study classification for both undergraduate and graduate programs are adapted from the 2016 Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP), Statistics Canada's standard for field of study classification. The CIP's structure comprises several groupings developed jointly by Statistics Canada and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in the USA. It is based on work undertaken as part of the creation of the North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) by Canada, the United States and Mexico.

TLAC CIP groupings for Undergraduate programs:

  • Education
  • Visual and Performing Arts, and Communications Technologies
  • Humanities
  • Social and Behavioural Sciences, and Legal Studies
  • Law
  • Business, Management and Public Administration
  • Physical and Life Sciences and Technologies
  • Mathematics, Computer and Information Sciences
  • Engineering
  • Architecture
  • Agriculture, Natural Resources and Conservation
  • Dentistry
  • Medicine
  • Nursing
  • Pharmacy
  • Veterinary Medicine
  • Optometry
  • Other Health, Parks, Recreation and Fitness
  • Personal, Protective and Transportation Services
  • Other

TLAC CIP groupings for Graduate programs:

Includes all of the undergraduate program groupings with the exception of Medicine and the addition of:

  • Executive MBA
  • Regular MBA

Refer to Appendix A: CIP

Note: Dental, Medical and Veterinary Residency Programs offered in teaching hospitals and similar locations that may lead to advanced professional certification are excluded.

E. Submission Date

The completed questionnaire must be returned by July 10, 2020 by uploading the file back in the Secure Internet Site (E-File transfer Service).

If you require further information or assistance with completing the questionnaire, please contact: statcan.education-education.statcan@statcan.gc.ca.

II. Instructions

General

Tuition fee tables disseminated by Statistics Canada are based on an academic year for full-time students with a full course load in degree programs, regardless of the number of credits.

Tuition should be reported based on the academic year (8 months) or semester (4 months) regardless of the number of credits. If it is not possible to provide tuition data for a semester or academic year, tuition should be reported per credit.

Final fees should be reported. If they have not yet been determined, report an estimate and check the box on the questionnaire to state that these are estimated fees for 2020/2021.

Part A: Tuition fees for full-time students

How to Report Tuition Fees:

  1. Report tuition fees for full-time students in degree programs only. The degree must be conferred by your institution, which means that students start and complete their degree at your institution. DO NOT include associate degrees, diplomas and certificates.
  2. Verify and update the previous year data (2019/2020) on each page if required.
  3. Report fees with decimals, NO commas. Example 2415.45.
  4. Quebec, Nova-Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador: Lower fees represent Canadian students that have a permanent address in the province (in-province students) and the Upper fees represent Canadian students with an out-of-province permanent address.
  5. Academic year (8 months): When tuition is reported based on the academic year, report the full cost of the program regardless of the number of credits.
  6. Semester (4 months): When tuition is reported based on semester, report the full cost of the semester regardless of the number of credits. Semester fees will be multiplied by two to calculate tuition for the academic year (8 months).
  7. Per Credit: Only report per credit if you cannot report based on semester or academic year regardless of the number of credits. We assume 30 credits as the minimum number of credits to calculate academic year fees. Therefore, when reporting based on per credit, tuition will be multiplied by 30 credits.
  8. Report additional compulsory fees for materials or equipment on pages 4 (undergraduate) and 5 (graduate).
  9. NEW degree programs must be specified in the Comments section at the bottom of page 2 (undergraduate) and page 3 (graduate).
  10. Undergraduate Law page 2, only professional designations for Law (LLB, JD, BCL), from a Faculty of Law should be reported in this grouping.
  11. Graduate Law page 3, only professional Law degrees from a Faculty of Law (post-LLB/JD), should be reported in this grouping.
  12. Tuition for legal studies degree programs (non-professional Law degrees) on page 2 and page 3, should be reported under "Social and Behavioural Sciences, and Legal Studies". See Appendix A.
  13. Only Medicine (MD, doctor of medicine) program should be reported under undergraduate Medicine, page 2 of the questionnaire. See appendix A.
  14. Personal, Protective and Transportation Services includes:
    1. 43.0103 Criminal justice / law enforcement administration
    2. 43.0104 Criminal justice / safety studies
    3. 43.0106 Forensic science and technology
    4. 43.0107 Criminal justice / police science

Part B: Additional Compulsory fees for full-time Canadian Students

How to Report Additional Compulsory Fees:

In part B of the questionnaire, report additional compulsory fees for full-time Canadian students in the first row of the table where these fees do not vary according to their field of study for all full-time undergraduate students (page 4) and graduate students (page 5).

Important note: Health Plan and Dental Plan fees that students can opt out of with proof of comparable coverage should not be included. However, this information should be noted in the comments section of the questionnaire.

Part C: Living Accommodation costs at residences/housing

Accommodation costs should be reported wherever possible for full-time students living in residence. If it is not possible to separate the room and the meal plan costs for single students only a total should be reported.

III. Definitions

Tuition Fees

Tuition that is charged to a full-time student with a full course load, regardless of the number of credits.

Additional Compulsory fees

Additional compulsory fees collected by the TLAC survey are those that all students must pay regardless of the field of study (TLAC grouping).

These fees cover services that vary from institution to institution, year to year, faculty to faculty, or school to school within the same institution.

Additional compulsory fees may include: general fees (admission, registration, examination, internship, etc.), technology fees, student services fees, student association fees, contributions to student activities, copyright fees, premiums for compulsory insurance plans, fees for athletics and recreational facilities/activities, and other fees such as transcript, degree, laboratory, uniform, u-pass, etc.

TLAC Additional Compulsory Fee Breakdown

Athletics fees

Mandatory fees that support intercollegiate athletics, they cover athletics facilities and campus recreational activities (intramurals, fitness and recreation courses, etc.)

Health Services fees

Mandatory fees support the on-campus clinic facilities providing services of doctors and nurses. Health and dental plan fees: if students can opt out of these plans with proof of comparable coverage, these fees should be excluded from the survey.

Student Association fee

Mandatory fees support the general operating expenses of the association.

Other fees

If compulsory fees are reported in "Other please specify" you must provide further details on the types of fees reported. For example, u-pass, transcript, laboratory, technology fee, etc.

IV. Suggestions

Statistics Canada would welcome any suggestions for changes in the survey which you may wish to propose.

statcan.education-education.statcan@statcan.gc.ca

Appendix A: Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP)

TLAC CIP

  • 01 - Education
    • 13. Education
      • 13.01 Education, General
      • 13.02 Bilingual, Multilingual and Multicultural Education
      • 13.03 Curriculum and Instruction
      • 13.04 Educational Administration and Supervision
      • 13.05 Educational/Instructional Technology
      • 13.06 Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Research
      • 13.07 International and Comparative Education
      • 13.09 Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education
      • 13.10 Special Education and Teaching
      • 13.11 Student Counselling and Personnel Services
      • 13.12 Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods
      • 13.13 Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas
        • 13.1301 Agricultural teacher education
        • 13.1302 Art teacher education
        • 13.1303 Business teacher education
        • 13.1304 Driver and safety teacher education
        • 13.1305 English/English language arts teacher education
        • 13.1306 Aboriginal and foreign language teacher education
        • 13.1307 Health teacher education
        • 13.1308 Family and consumer sciences/home economics teacher education
        • 13.1309 Technology teacher education/industrial arts teacher education
        • 13.1310 Sales and marketing operations/marketing and distribution teacher education
        • 13.1311 Mathematics teacher education
        • 13.1312 Music teacher education
        • 13.1314 Physical education teaching and coaching
        • 13.1315 Reading teacher education
        • 13.1316 Science teacher education/general science teacher education
        • 13.1317 Social science teacher education
        • 13.1318 Social studies teacher education
        • 13.1319 Technical teacher education
        • 13.1320 Trade and industrial teacher education
        • 13.1321 Computer teacher education
        • 13.1322 Biology teacher education
        • 13.1323 Chemistry teacher education
        • 13.1324 Drama and dance teacher education
        • 13.1325 French language/French language arts teacher education
        • 13.1326 German language teacher education
        • 13.1327 Health occupations teacher education
        • 13.1328 History teacher education
        • 13.1329 Physics teacher education
        • 13.1330 Spanish language teacher education
        • 13.1331 Speech teacher education
        • 13.1332 Geography teacher education
        • 13.1333 Latin teacher education
        • 13.1334 School librarian/school library media specialist
        • 13.1335 Psychology teacher education
        • 13.1337 Earth science teacher education
        • 13.1338 Environmental teacher education
      • 13.14 Teaching English or French as a Second or Foreign Language
      • 13.99 Education, Other
  • 02 - Visual and Performing Arts, and Communications Technologies
    • 50. Visual and Performing Arts
      • 50.01 Visual, Digital and Performing Arts, General
      • 50.02 Crafts/Craft Design, Folk Art and Artisanry
      • 50.03 Dance
      • 50.04 Design and Applied Arts
        • 50.0401 Design and visual communications, general
        • 50.0402 Commercial and advertising art
        • 50.0404 Industrial and product design
        • 50.0406 Commercial photography
        • 50.0407 Fashion/apparel design
        • 50.0408 Interior design
        • 50.0409 Graphic design
        • 50.0410 Illustration
        • 50.0411 Game and interactive media design
      • 50.05 Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft
      • 50.06 Film/Video and Photographic Arts
      • 50.07 Fine Arts and Art Studies
      • 50.09 Music
      • 50.10 Arts, entertainment, and media management
      • 50.99 Visual and Performing Arts, Other
    • 10. Communications Technologies/Technicians and Support Services
      • 10.01 Communications Technology/Technician
      • 10.02 Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians
      • 10.03 Graphic Communications
      • 10.99 Communications Technologies/Technicians and Support Services, Other
  • 03 - Humanities
    • 16. Aboriginal and Foreign Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
      • 16.01 Linguistic, Comparative and Related Language Studies and Services
      • 16.02 African Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
      • 16.03 East Asian Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
      • 16.04 Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
      • 16.05 Germanic Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
      • 16.06 Modern Greek Language and Literature
      • 16.07 South Asian Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
      • 16.08 Iranian/Persian Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
      • 16.09 Romance Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
      • 16.10 Aboriginal Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
      • 16.11 Middle/Near Eastern and Semitic Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
      • 16.12 Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
      • 16.13 Celtic Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
      • 16.14 Southeast Asian and Australasian/Pacific Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
      • 16.15 Turkic, Ural-Altaic, Caucasian and Central Asian Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
      • 16.16 Sign Language
      • 16.17 Second Language Learning
      • 16.99 Aboriginal and Foreign Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, Other
    • 23. English Language and Literature/Letters
      • 23.01 English Language and Literature, General
      • 23.13 English Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies
      • 23.14 English Literature
      • 23.99 English Language and Literature/Letters, Other
    • 24. Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities
      • 24.01 Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities
    • 30. Multidisciplinary/Interdisciplinary Studies
      • 30.13 Medieval and Renaissance Studies
      • 30.21 Holocaust and Related Studies
      • 30.22 Classical and Ancient Studies
      • 30.29 Maritime Studies
    • 38. Philosophy and Religious Studies
      • 38.00 Philosophy and Religious Studies, General
      • 38.01 Philosophy, Logic and Ethics
      • 38.02 Religion/Religious Studies
      • 38.99 Philosophy and Religious Studies, Other
    • 39. Theology and Religious Vocations
      • 39.02 Bible/Biblical Studies
      • 39.03 Missions/Missionary Studies and Missiology
      • 39.04 Religious Education
      • 39.05 Religious/Sacred Music
      • 39.06 Theological and Ministerial Studies
      • 39.07 Pastoral Counselling and Specialized Ministries
      • 39.99 Theology and Religious Vocations, Other
    • 54. History
      • 54.01 History
    • 55. French Language and Literature/Letters
      • 55.01 French Language and Literature, General
      • 55.13 French Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies
      • 55.14 French Literature
      • 55.99 French Language and Literature/Letters, Other
  • 04 - Social and Behavioural Sciences, and Legal Studies
    • 05. Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies
      • 05.01 Area Studies
      • 05.02 Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender and Group Studies
      • 05.99 Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender and Group Studies, Other
    • 09. Communication, Journalism and Related Programs
      • 09.01 Communication and Media Studies
      • 09.04 Journalism
      • 09.07 Radio, Television and Digital Communication
        • 09.0701 Radio and television
        • 09.0702 Digital communication and media/multimedia
        • 09.0799 Radio, television and digital communication, other
      • 09.09 Public Relations, Advertising and Applied Communication
        • 09.0900 Public relations, advertising and applied communication, general
        • 09.0901 Organizational communication, general
        • 09.0902 Public relations/image management
        • 09.0903 Advertising
        • 09.0904 Political communication
        • 09.0905 Health communication
        • 09.0906 Sports communication
        • 09.0907 International and intercultural communication
        • 09.0908 Technical and scientific communication
        • 09.0999 Public relations, advertising and applied communication, other
      • 09.10 Publishing
      • 09.99 Communication, Journalism and Related Programs, Other
    • 19. Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences
      • 19.00 Work and Family Studies
      • 19.01 Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General
      • 19.02 Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences Business Services
      • 19.04 Family and Consumer Economics and Related Services
      • 19.05 Foods, Nutrition and Related Services
      • 19.06 Housing and Human Environments
      • 19.07 Human Development, Family Studies and Related Services
      • 19.09 Apparel and Textiles
      • 19.99 Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, Other
    • 30. Multidisciplinary/Interdisciplinary Studies
      • 30.05 Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution
      • 30.10 Biopsychology
      • 30.11 Gerontology
      • 30.14 Museology/Museum Studies
      • 30.15 Science, Technology and Society
      • 30.17 Behavioural Sciences
      • 30.20 International/Global Studies
      • 30.23 Intercultural/Multicultural and Diversity Studies
      • 30.25 Cognitive Science
      • 30.26 Cultural studies/critical theory and analysis
      • 30.28 Dispute resolution
      • 30.31 Human computer interaction
      • 30.33 Sustainability studies
    • 42. Psychology
      • 42.01 Psychology (general)
        • 42.01 Psychology, General
      • 42.27 Research and experimental psychology
        • 42.2701 Cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics
        • 42.2702 Comparative psychology
        • 42.2703 Developmental and child psychology
        • 42.2704 Experimental psychology
        • 42.2705 Personality psychology
        • 42.2706 Physiological psychology/psychobiology
        • 42.2707 Social psychology
        • 42.2708 Psychometrics and quantitative psychology
        • 42.2709 Psychopharmacology
        • 42.2799 Research and experimental psychology, other
      • 42.28 Clinical, counselling and applied psychology
        • 42.2801 Clinical psychology
        • 42.2802 Community psychology
        • 42.2803 Counselling psychology
        • 42.2804 Industrial and organizational psychology
        • 42.2805 School psychology
        • 42.2806 Educational psychology
        • 42.2807 Clinical child psychology
        • 42.2808 Environmental psychology
        • 42.2809 Geropsychology
        • 42.2810 Health/medical psychology
        • 42.2811 Family psychology
        • 42.2812 Forensic psychology
        • 42.2813 Applied psychology
        • 42.2814 Applied behaviour analysis
        • 42.2899 Clinical, counselling and applied psychology, other
      • 42.99 Psychology, other
        • 42.99 Psychology, Other
    • 45. Social Sciences
      • 45.02 Anthropology
      • 45.03 Archeology
      • 45.04 Criminology
      • 45.05 Demography and Population Studies
      • 45.06 Economics
      • 45.07 Geography and Cartography (Geomatics BA/BSc, Geographic Information Systems/Science BA/BSc)
      • 45.09 International Relations and National Security Studies
      • 45.10 Political Science and Government
      • 45.11 Sociology
      • 45.12 Urban Studies/Affairs
      • 45.13 Sociology and anthropology
      • 45.14 Rural Sociology
      • 45.99 Social Sciences, Other
    • 22. Legal Professions and Studies
      • 22.00 Non-professional General Legal Studies (Undergraduate)
      • 22.03 Legal Support Services
      • 22.99 Legal professions and studies, other
  • 05 - Law
    • 22. Legal Professions and Studies
      • 22.0101 Law (LLB, JD, BCL)
      • 22.0201 Advanced legal research/studies, general (LLM, MCL, MLI, MSL, LLD, JSD/SJD)
      • 22.0202 Programs for foreign lawyers (LLM, MCL)
      • 22.0203 American/US law/legal studies/jurisprudence (LLM, MCJ, LLD, JSD/SJD)
      • 22.0204 Canadian law/legal studies/jurisprudence (LLM, MCJ, LLD, JSD/SJD)
      • 22.0205 Banking, corporate, finance and securities law (LLM, LLD, JSD/SJD)
      • 22,0206 Comparative law (LLM, MCJ, LLD, JSD/SJD)
      • 22.0207 Energy, environment and natural resources law (LLM, MS, MSc, LLD, JSD/SJD)
      • 22.0208 Health law (LLM, MJ, LLD, JSD/SJD)
      • 22.0209 International law and legal studies (LLM, LLD, JSD/SJD)
      • 22.0210 International business, trade and tax law (LLM, LLD, JSD/SJD)
      • 22,0211 Tax law/taxation (LLM, LLD, JSD/SJD)
      • 22.0212 Intellectual property law (LLM, LLD, JSD/SJD)
      • 22.0299 Legal research and advanced professional studies (post-LLB/JD), other
      • 22.9999 Legal professions and studies, other
  • 06 - Business, Management and Public Administration
    • 30. Multidisciplinary/Interdisciplinary Studies
      • 30.16 Accounting and Computer Science
    • 44. Public Administration and Social Service Professions
      • 44.00 Human Services, General
      • 44.02 Community Organization and Advocacy
      • 44.04 Public Administration
      • 44.05 Public Policy Analysis
      • 44.07 Social Work
      • 44.99 Public Administration and Social Service Professions, Other
    • 52. Business, Management, Marketing and Related Support Services (excluding the MBA programs)
      • 52.01 Business/Commerce, General
      • 52.02 Business Administration, Management and Operations
      • 52.03 Accounting and Related Services
      • 52.04 Business Operations Support and Assistant Services
      • 52.05 Business/Corporate Communications
      • 52.06 Business/Managerial Economics
      • 52.07 Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations
      • 52.08 Finance and Financial Management Services
      • 52.09 Hospitality Administration/Management
      • 52.10 Human Resources Management and Services
      • 52.11 International Business/Trade/Commerce
      • 52.12 Management Information Systems and Services
      • 52.13 Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods
      • 52.14 Marketing
      • 52.15 Real Estate
      • 52.16 Taxation
      • 52.17 Insurance
      • 52.18 General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations
      • 52.19 Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations
      • 52.20 Construction Management
      • 52.21 Telecommunications Management
      • 52.99 Business, Management, Marketing and Related Support Services, Other
  • 07 - Physical and Life Sciences and Technologies
    • 26. Biological and Biomedical Sciences
      • 26.01 Biology, General
      • 26.02 Biochemistry/Biophysics and Molecular Biology
      • 26.03 Botany/Plant Biology
      • 26.04 Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical Sciences
      • 26.05 Microbiological Sciences and Immunology
      • 26.07 Zoology/Animal Biology
      • 26.08 Genetics
      • 26.09 Physiology, Pathology and Related Sciences
      • 26.10 Pharmacology and Toxicology
      • 26.11 Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology
      • 26.12 Biotechnology
      • 26.13 Ecology, Evolution, Systematics and Population Biology
      • 26.14 Molecular Medicine
      • 26.15 Neurobiology and Neurosciences
      • 26.99 Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other
    • 30. Multidisciplinary/Interdisciplinary Studies
      • 30.01 Biological and Physical Sciences
      • 30.18 Natural Sciences
      • 30.19 Nutrition Sciences
      • 30.27 Human biology
      • 30.32 Marine sciences
    • 40. Physical Sciences
      • 40.01 Physical Sciences, General
      • 40.02 Astronomy and Astrophysics
      • 40.04 Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology
      • 40.05 Chemistry
      • 40.06 Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences
      • 40.08 Physics
      • 40.10 Materials Sciences
      • 40.99 Physical Sciences, Other
  • 08 - Mathematics, Computer and Information Sciences
    • 11. Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services
      • 11.01 Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, General
      • 11.02 Computer Programming
      • 11.03 Data Processing and Data Processing Technology/Technician
      • 11.04 Information Science/Studies
      • 11.05 Computer Systems Analysis/Analyst
      • 11.06 Data Entry/Microcomputer Applications
      • 11.07 Computer Science
      • 11.08 Computer Software and Media Applications
      • 11.09 Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications
      • 11.10 Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management
      • 11.99 Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Other
    • 25. Library Science
      • 25.01 Library Science and Administration
      • 25.03 Library and archives assisting
      • 25.99 Library Science, Other
    • 27. Mathematics and Statistics
      • 27.01 Mathematics
      • 27.03 Applied Mathematics
      • 27.05 Statistics
      • 27.99 Mathematics and Statistics, Other
    • 30. Multidisciplinary/Interdisciplinary Studies
      • 30.06 Systems Science and Theory
      • 30.08 Mathematics and Computer Science
      • 30.30 Computational science
  • 09 - Engineering
    • 14. Engineering
      • 14.01 Engineering, General
      • 14.02 Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering
      • 14.03 Agricultural Engineering
      • 14.04 Architectural Engineering
      • 14.05 Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering
      • 14.06 Ceramic Sciences and Engineering
      • 14.07 Chemical Engineering
      • 14.08 Civil Engineering
      • 14.09 Computer Engineering
      • 14.10 Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
      • 14.11 Engineering Mechanics
      • 14.12 Engineering Physics/Applied Physics
      • 14.13 Engineering Science
      • 14.14 Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering
      • 14.18 Materials Engineering
      • 14.19 Mechanical Engineering
      • 14.20 Metallurgical Engineering
      • 14.21 Mining and Mineral Engineering
      • 14.22 Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
      • 14.23 Nuclear Engineering
      • 14.24 Ocean Engineering
      • 14.25 Petroleum Engineering
      • 14.27 Systems Engineering
      • 14.28 Textile Sciences and Engineering
      • 14.32 Polymer/Plastics Engineering
      • 14.33 Construction Engineering
      • 14.34 Forest Engineering
      • 14.35 Industrial Engineering
      • 14.36 Manufacturing Engineering
      • 14.37 Operations Research
      • 14.38 Surveying Engineering (geomatics, geodetic)
      • 14.39 Geological/Geophysical Engineering
      • 14.40 Paper science and engineering
      • 14.41 Electromechanical engineering
      • 14.42 Mechatronics, robotics, and automation engineering
      • 14.43 Biochemical engineering
      • 14.44 Engineering chemistry
      • 14.45 Biological/biosystems engineering
      • 14.99 Engineering, Other
    • 15. Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields
      • 15.00 Engineering technology, general
      • 15.01 Architectural engineering technology/technician
      • 15.02 Civil engineering technology/technician
      • 15.03 Electrical and electronic engineering technologies/technicians
      • 15.04 Electromechanical and instrumentation and maintenance technologies/technicians
      • 15.05 Environmental control technologies/technicians
      • 15.06 Industrial production technologies/technicians
      • 15.07 Quality control and safety technologies/technicians
      • 15.08 Mechanical engineering related technologies/technicians
      • 15.09 Mining and petroleum technologies/technicians
      • 15.10 Construction engineering technology/technician
      • 15.11 Engineering-related technologies
      • 15.12 Computer engineering technologies/technicians
      • 15.13 Drafting/design engineering technologies/technicians
      • 15.14 Nuclear engineering technology/technician
      • 15.15 Engineering-related fields
      • 15.16 Nanotechnology
      • 15.99 Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields, other
  • 10 - Architecture
    • 04. Architecture and Related Services
      • 04.02 Architecture (BArch, BA, BS, BSc, MArch, MA, MS, /MSc, PhD)
      • 04.03 City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning
      • 04.04 Environmental Design/Architecture
      • 04.05 Interior Architecture
      • 04.06 Landscape Architecture (BS, BSc, BSLA, BLA, MSLA, MLA, PhD)
      • 04.08 Architectural History and Criticism
      • 04.09 Architectural Sciences and Technology
        • 04.0902 Architectural and building sciences/technology (BArch, BA, BS, BSc, MArch, MA, MS, MSc, PhD)
      • 04.99 Architecture and Related Services, Other
    • 30. Multidisciplinary/Interdisciplinary Studies
      • 30.1201 Historic preservation and conservation, general
      • 30.1202 Cultural resource management and policy analysis
  • 11 - Agriculture, Natural Resources and Conservation
    • 01. Agriculture, Agriculture Operations and Related Sciences
      • 01.00 Agriculture, General
      • 01.01 Agricultural Business and Management
      • 01.02 Agricultural Mechanization
      • 01.03 Agricultural Production Operations
      • 01.04 Agricultural and Food Products Processing
      • 01.05 Agricultural and Domestic Animal Services
      • 01.06 Applied Horticulture/Horticultural Business Services
      • 01.07 International Agriculture
      • 01.08 Agricultural Public Services
      • 01.09 Animal Sciences
      • 01.10 Food Science and Technology
      • 01.11 Plant Sciences
      • 01.12 Soil Sciences
      • 01.99 Agriculture, Agriculture Operations and Related Sciences, Other
    • 03. Natural Resources and Conservation
      • 03.01 Natural Resources Conservation and Research
        • 03.0103 Environmental Studies
        • 03.0104 Environmental Science
      • 03.02 Natural Resources Management and Policy
      • 03.03 Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management
      • 03.05 Forestry
      • 03.06 Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management
      • 03.99 Natural Resources and Conservation, Other
  • 12 - Medicine
    • 51. Health Professions and Related Programs
      • 51.12 Medicine (MD)
  • 13 - Other health, Parks, Recreation and Fitness
    • 31. Parks, Recreation, Leisure and Fitness Studies
      • 31.01 Parks, Recreation and Leisure Studies
      • 31.03 Parks, Recreation and Leisure Facilities Management
        • 31.0302 Golf course operation and grounds management
      • 31.05 Health and Physical Education/Fitness
        • 31.0501 Health and Physical Education, General
        • 31.0505 Kinesiology and Exercise Science
      • 31.99 Parks, Recreation, Leisure and Fitness Studies, Other
    • 51. Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences
      • 51.00 Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General
      • 51.01 Chiropractic (DC)
      • 51.02 Communication Disorders Sciences and Services
        • 51.0201 Communication sciences and disorders, general
        • 51.0202 Audiology/Audiologist
        • 51.0203 Speech language pathology/pathologist
        • 51.0204 Audiology/audiologist and speech-language pathology/pathologist
      • 51.07 Health and Medical Administrative Services
      • 51.09 Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention and Treatment Professions
      • 51.10 Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions
      • 51.14 Medical Scientist (MS, MSc, PhD)
      • 51.15 Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions
      • 51.19 Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy (DO)
      • 51.21 Podiatric Medicine/Podiatry (DPM)
      • 51.22 Public Health
      • 51.23 Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions
      • 51.27 Medical Illustration and Informatics
      • 51.31 Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services
        • 51.3101 Dietetics/dietitian (RD)
        • 51.3102 Clinical nutrition/nutritionist
      • 51.32 Bioethics/Medical Ethics
      • 51.33 Alternative and Complementary Medicine and Medical Systems
      • 51.34 Alternative and Complementary Medical Support Services
      • 51.35 Somatic Bodywork and Related Therapeutic Services
      • 51.36 Movement and Mind-Body Therapies
      • 51.37 Energy-based and Biologically-based Therapies
      • 51.99 Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other
  • 14 - Personal, Protective and Transportation Services
    • 43. Security and Protective Services
      • 43.0103 Criminal justice/law enforcement administration
      • 43.0104 Criminal justice/safety studies
      • 43.0106 Forensic science and technology
      • 43.0107 Criminal justice/police science
      • 43.0111 Criminalistics and criminal science
      • 43.0116 Cyber/computer forensics and counterterrorism
      • 43.0117 Financial forensics and fraud investigation
      • 43.0302 Crisis/emergency/disaster management
      • 43.0399 Security and protective services, specialized programs, other
    • 49. Transportation and Materials Moving
      • 49.01 Air Transportation
      • 49.02 Ground Transportation
      • 49.03 Marine Transportation
      • 49.99 Transportation and Materials Moving, Other
  • 15 - Other
  • 16 - Dentistry
    • 51. Health Professions and Related Programs
      • 51.04 Dentistry (DDS, DMD)
      • 51.05 Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences (Cert., MS, MSc, PhD)
  • 17 - Nursing
    • 51. Health Professions and Related Programs
      • 51.3801 Registered nursing/registered nurse (RN, ASN, BSN, BScN, MSN, MScN)
      • 51.3802 Nursing administration (MSN, MS, MScN, MSc, PhD)
      • 51.3803 Adult health nurse/nursing
      • 51.3804 Nurse anesthetist
      • 51.3805 Primary health care nurse/nursing and family practice nurse/nursing
      • 51.3806 Maternal/child health and neonatal nurse/nursing
      • 51.3807 Nurse midwife/nursing midwifery
      • 51.3808 Nursing science (MS, MSc, PhD)
      • 51.3809 Pediatric nurse/nursing
      • 51.3810 Psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing
      • 51.3811 Public health/community nurse/nursing
      • 51.3812 Perioperative/operating room and surgical nurse/nursing
      • 51.3813 Clinical nurse specialist
      • 51.3814 Critical care nurse/nursing
      • 51.3815 Occupational and environmental health nurse/nursing
      • 51.3816 Emergency room/trauma nurse/nursing
      • 51.3817 Nursing education
      • 51.3818 Nursing practice
      • 51.3819 Palliative care nurse/nursing
      • 51.3820 Clinical nurse leader
      • 51.3821 Geriatric nurse/nursing
      • 51.3822 Women's health nurse/nursing
      • 51.3823 Registered psychiatric nurse/nursing
      • 51.3899 Registered nursing, nursing administration, nursing research and clinical nursing, other
  • 18 - Pharmacy
    • 51. Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences
      • 51.2001 Pharmacy (PharmD, BS, BSc, BPharm)
      • 51.2002 Pharmacy administration and pharmacy policy and regulatory affairs (MS, MSc, PhD)
      • 51.2003 Pharmaceutics and drug design (MS, MSc, PhD)
      • 51.2004 Medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry (MS, MSc, PhD)
      • 51.2005 Natural products chemistry and pharmacognosy (MS, MSc, PhD)
      • 51.2006 Clinical and industrial drug development (MS, MSc, PhD)
      • 51.2007 Pharmacoeconomics/pharmaceutical economics (MS, MSc, PhD)
      • 51.2008 Clinical, hospital and managed care pharmacy (MS, MSc, PhD)
      • 51.2009 Industrial and physical pharmacy and cosmetic sciences (MS, MSc, PhD)
      • 51.2010 Pharmaceutical sciences
      • 51.2011 Pharmaceutical marketing and management
      • 51.2099 Pharmacy, pharmaceutical sciences and administration, other
  • 19 - Veterinary Medicine
    • 51. Health Professions and Related Programs
      • 51.2401 Veterinary medicine (DVM)
      • 51.2501 Veterinary sciences/veterinary clinical sciences, general (Cert., MS, MSc, PhD)
      • 51.2502 Veterinary anatomy (Cert., MS, MSc, PhD)
      • 51.2503 Veterinary physiology (Cert., MS, MSc, PhD)
      • 51.2504 Veterinary microbiology and immunobiology (Cert., MS, MSc, PhD)
      • 51.2505 Veterinary pathology and pathobiology (Cert., MS, MSc, PhD)
      • 51.2506 Veterinary toxicology and pharmacology (Cert., MS, MSc, PhD)
      • 51.2507 Large animal/food animal and equine surgery and medicine (Cert., MS, MSc, PhD)
      • 51.2508 Small/companion animal surgery and medicine (Cert., MS, MSc, PhD)
      • 51.2509 Comparative and laboratory animal medicine (Cert., MS, MSc, PhD)
      • 51.2510 Veterinary preventive medicine, epidemiology and public health (Cert., MS, MSc, PhD)
      • 51.2511 Veterinary infectious diseases (Cert., MS, MSc, PhD)
      • 51.2599 Veterinary biomedical and clinical sciences (Cert., MS, MSc, PhD), other
  • 20 - Executive MBA (graduate programs)
    • 52. Business, Management, Marketing and Related Support Services
      • (Specifically the MBA compressed graduate programs for executives)
  • 21 - Regular MBA (graduate programs)
    • 52. Business, Management, Marketing and Related Support Services
      • (Specifically Graduate MBA programs in the regular stream)
  • 22 - Optometry
    • 51. Health Professions and Related Programs
      • 51.17 Optometry (OD) – optometrist, optometry doctor of optometry (OD)