Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP)

Reporting Guide

This guide is designed to assist you as you complete the 2015 Annual Non-Store Retail Survey. If you need more information, please call the Statistics Canada Help Line at the number below.

Help Line: 1-800-858-7921

Table of contents

Reporting instructions
Business activity
Reporting period information
Revenue
Expenses
Industry Characteristics
Sales by type of client
Distribution of operating revenue by method of sale
E-commerce
Sales of Commodities

Reporting instructions

1. Please print in ink.

2. Please report all dollar amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars ('000 CAN$).

3. Do not include sales tax.

4. All dollar amounts reported should be rounded to the nearest whole dollar (e.g., $55,417.40 should be rounded to $55,417). All percentages reported should be rounded to the nearest whole percent (e.g., 37.3% to 37%, 75.8% to 76%).

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

Business activity

The description on file for this business comes from the North American Industrial Classifications System (NAICS). This database contains a limited number of activity classifications. The classifications on file 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.

By selecting "Yes, this is the main activity.", you indicate that the description is applicable, and it describes the main economic activity which typically generates the most revenue for this business or organization.

By selecting "No, this is secondary activity." you indicate that the description is applicable, but that there is a different economic activity which typically generates more revenue for this business or organization. You will be given a chance to describe this business or organization’s main activity, and select an appropriate classification.

By selecting "No, this description is not applicable." you indicate that this description is not applicable as a main or a secondary activity of this business or organization. You will be given a chance to describe this business or organization’s main activity, and provide an appropriate classification.

If you answer “no”, indicating that your business unit is not a non-store retailer as defined above, then please call 1-800-858-7921 for further instructions.

Reporting period information

  • May 1, 2014 to April 30, 2015
  • June 1, 2014 to May 31, 2015
  • July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015
  • August 1, 2014 to July 31, 2015
  • September 1, 2014 to August 31, 2015
  • October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015
  • November 1, 2014 to October 31, 2015
  • December 1, 2014 to November 30, 2015
  • January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015
  • February 1, 2015 to January 31, 2016
  • March 1, 2015 to February 28, 2016
  • April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016

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

  • September 18, 2014 to September 15, 2015 (e.g., floating year-end)
  • June 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015 (e.g., a newly opened business)

Revenue

  1. 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 from Canadian locations (domestic and export sales); Transfers to other business units or a 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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).

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. Dividends

Include: Dividend income; Dividends from Canadian sources; Dividends from foreign sources; Patronage dividends.
Exclude: Equity income from investments in subsidiaries or affiliates.

  1. 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.

  1. Other revenue (please specify)

Include: Amounts not included in questions (1) to (7).

  1. Total revenue

The sum of questions (1) to (8).

Expenses

  1. 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.

  1. Employment costs and expenses
  1. 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 these amounts at question 3 - Subcontracts).

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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 question 21 - All other expenses).

  1. Utilities 

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

Include: Diesel, wood, natural gas, oil and propane; Sewage. 
Exclude: Energy expenses covered in your rental and leasing contracts; Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication (report this amount at question 8. - Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication); Vehicle fuel (report at question 21 - All other expenses).

  1. 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 this amount at question 8 - Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication).

  1. Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication

Include: Internet; Telephone and telecommunication; Cellular telephone; Fax machine; Pager.

  1. 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.

  1. 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

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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).

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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 question 19 - Interest expense).

  1. 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.

  1. 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

  1. 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 costs 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 questions 1 to 20 above.

  1. Total expenses

The sum of questions 1 to 21.

Industry Characteristics

All revenue reported should exclude sales taxes (GST/HST, PST and TVQ) 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 1.

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%.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

Distribution of operating revenue by method of sale

  1. 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.

  1. E-commerce

Please report total operating revenue 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.

  1. Catalogue and mail-order or telephone

Please report total operating revenue of goods and services generated from customer ordering their goods from catalogues and mail order flyers.
Include: sales purchased via telephone and fax.

  1. 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.

E-commerce

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 include 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, 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.

Sales of Commodities

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 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 (except 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 (except 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 (including 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, sherbets, 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, confectionery, confectionery nuts, granola bars, package sugar confectionery goods, sugar confectionery specialities, 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 (except bottled water)

 

Include: Canned soft drinks and bottled soft drinks (except bottled water)

 

Non-alcoholic beverages (except 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 (including coffee)

 

Include: Hot coffee, hot tea and hot chocolate.

Exclude: Packaged coffee, tea, hot chocolate and other packaged hot beverage products.

 

Alcoholic beverages (except served on premises)

 

Include: Beer (except non-alcoholic), wine (except non-alcoholic), spirits, liquor, liqueur and coolers.

Exclude: Alcoholic beverages served on premises.

 

Ice

 

Include: Ice cubes and ice blocks.

 

Prepared meals

 

Include: Sales of alcoholic beverages 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 7 to 18) and accessories.

Exclude: Very specialized sports clothing, used clothing.

 

Girls’ clothing and accessories

 

Include: Girls' clothing (sizes 7 to 16) and accessories.

Exclude: Very specialized sports clothing, used clothing.

 

Infants’ clothing and fabric accessories

 

Include: Baby clothing and accessories (infants' sizes 0 to 24 months), children's clothing and accessories (sizes 2 to 6X), 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 (except 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 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 (except 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.

 

Infants’ footwear

 

Include: Infants' or babies' (except children) footwear, all types of infants’ non-athletic footwear or shoes and infants’ 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)

 

Fine jewellery (including precious metal, diamonds, gemstones, and pearls)

 

Include: Fine jewellery.

Exclude: Watches.

 

Costume jewellery (including 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.

 

Infants’ furniture

 

Include: New infants' furniture, junior or toddler beds, infants' 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 (except 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 (except disposable), cookware, cookware sets, lunch boxes or bags, picnic baskets or accessories and disposable tableware.

Exclude: Kitchen and table linens, pot holders, electrical kitchen appliances and disposable tableware (plastic, plates, utensils and glasses, paper plates, cups and napkins, paper/plastic, tablecloths, etc.).

 

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.

 

Paper household supplies

 

Include: Toilet paper, facial tissues, paper products, wax paper, foil food wraps, disposable paper plates and disposable paper cups.

 

Miscellaneous household supplies, not elsewhere classified

 

Include: Disposable plasticware, disposable table linens, 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, multiplatform use non-rechargeable batteries, multiplatform use rechargeable batteries, light bulbs, fire extinguishers, smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors.

 

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 kitchen and cleaning 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 (except 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.

 

Cameras (except video cameras) and photographic equipment

 

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 DVD's, tapes and cassettes

 

Include: Rental services of movies and games on DVD's, tapes and cassettes, subscription rental of movies and games.

 

Computer equipment rental and leasing services

 

Include: Rental and leasing of computer equipment and laptops.

 

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 and game software

 

Include: Electronic games (except computer software games), Nintendo games, Playstation games, Xbox games, Wii games and iPad games.

 

Toys and games (except game consoles and 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.

 

Books

 

Include: Atlases, Bibles, "talking" books, new hard and soft cover books, reference and text books, trade mass market paperback books, professional or technical books and electronic books.

Exclude: Multimedia items (includes a book and a record, cassette or disc that are packaged and sold together), newspapers, magazines, periodicals, sales catalogues, colouring books, drawing books, albums (coin, stamp, photo, etc.), agendas, calendars, brochures, pamphlets, owners’ manuals and comic books.

 

Newspapers, magazines and periodicals

 

Include: Comic books, magazines, newspapers, periodicals and television guides.

 

Publications not elsewhere classified (including posters, art prints, maps and greeting cards)

 

Include: Art prints and related supplies, greeting cards, wedding and engagement cards, thank you and appreciation cards, maps and posters.

 

Audio and video recordings

 

Include: Pre-recorded audio discs, new pre-recorded audio tapes, CDs, DVDs, new pre-recorded media, new records, new pre-recorded audio and video tapes, new audio and video recordings, new audio compact disc and new digital video disc recordings

 

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.

 

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).

 

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 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 (except 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.

 

Motor vehicle chemicals

 

Include: Antifreeze, automotive oils, carburettor cleaners, fuel injector cleaners, automotive engine oils, gas line cleaners, automotive lubricating greases, windshield washer fluids.

Exclude: Automotive fuels.

 

Rental and non-financial leasing services of motor homes, travel trailers and campers

 

Include: Rental and non-financial leasing services without operator of motor homes, campers, tent trailers and road recreational vehicles containing sleeping space.

 

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 non-financial leasing services of automobiles and light trucks

 

Include: Rental and non-financial leasing services of automobiles and light trucks and vans, without operator.

 

Rental and non-financial leasing services of heavy trucks, truck trailers and buses, without operator

 

Include: Rental and non-financial leasing services of heavy trucks, truck trailers and buses, without operator.

 

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.

 

Vitamin, mineral 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.

 

Home health products, not elsewhere classified

 

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.

 

Infants’ and children’s car seats

 

Include: Infants’ 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-persperants, 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. (Including 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, etc. Garden tools, hoes, rakes, garden shovels, spades, etc.

 

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 (including 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, vinyl or cork 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 weather-stripping, 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 (except 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.

 

Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment rental and leasing services (except office equipment)

 

Include: Rental and non-financial 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, etc.

Exclude: Pets (see pets), tack and saddlery (see sporting equipment not elsewhere classified).

 

Tobacco products and accessories

 

Include: Tobacco, cigarettes, cigars, pipes, lighters, rolling machines, cigarette holders, snuff, etc.

Exclude: Matches (see miscellaneous household supplies not elsewhere classified).

 

Home office equipment, not elsewhere classified

 

Home office supplies, not elsewhere classified

Include: Home office computer inkjet cartridges, desk accessories, home office supplies (pens, pencils, markers, scotch tape, etc.), stationery (notepads, notebooks, envelopes, file folders, etc.), gift wraps and party supplies.

 

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, etc.

 

Equipment and supplies for nonfarm activities, not elsewhere classified

 

Include: Audio and video mixers, new personal aircraft and new aircraft parts and accessories.

 

Miscellaneous retail products not elsewhere classified

 

Include: Novelties, pins and crests, souvenirs, gift certificates, etc.

 

Artwork

 

Include: Sculptures, paintings, original drawings and artwork carvings.

 

Collectors’ items

 

Include: Stamps, coins, cards, autographed items, related albums, etc.

 

Antiques, and used or second-hand merchandise (except 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, CDs, DVDs and jewellery.

Exclude: Used automobiles, used automotive parts and accessories and used mobile homes.

 

Other retail

 

Retail trade commissions (except commissions from the provision of a service)

Include: Commissions earned from retail trade and commissions from catalogue sales.

Miscellaneous services

Office machinery and equipment rental and leasing services (except computer equipment)

Include: Rental and non-financial leasing services of office furniture and equipment.

Exclude: Rental and leasing services of computer equipment.

 

Rental and leasing services of other goods (except movies and games on DVD's, tapes and cassettes)

 

Include: Rental and 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 DVD's, tapes and cassettes.

 

Repair and maintenance services (except for buildings and motor vehicles)

 

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, etc.

Exclude: Repair and maintenance services for buildings and motor vehicles.

Other goods and services

2015 Survey of Service Industries: Traveller Accommodation

Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP)

Reporting Guide

This guide is designed to assist you as you complete the 2015 Survey of Service Industries. If you need more information, please call the Statistics Canada Help Line at the number below.

Help Line: 1-800-972-9692

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.

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Business activity
Reporting period information
Revenue
Expenses
Industry characteristics
Sales by type of client
International transactions
E-commerce

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Business activity

The description on file for this business comes from the North American Industrial Classifications System (NAICS). This database contains a limited number of activity classifications. The classifications on file 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.

By selecting "Yes, this is the main activity.", you indicate that the description is applicable, and it describes the main economic activity which typically generates the most revenue for this business or organization.

By selecting "No, this is secondary activity." you indicate that the description is applicable, but that there is a different economic activity which typically generates more revenue for this business or organization. You will be given a chance to describe this business or organization’s main activity, and select an appropriate classification.

By selecting "No, this description is not applicable." you indicate that this description is not applicable as a main or a secondary activity of this business or organization. You will be given a chance to describe this business or organization’s main activity, and provide an appropriate classification.

If none of the above activities describes your main source of revenue, please call 1-800-972-9692 for further instructions.

Reporting period information

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

  • May 1, 2014 to April 30, 2015
  • June 1, 2014 to May 31, 2015
  • July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015
  • August 1, 2014 to July 31, 2015
  • September 1, 2014 to August 31, 2015
  • October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015
  • November 1, 2014 to October 31, 2015
  • December 1, 2014 to November 30, 2015
  • January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015
  • February 1, 2015 to January 31, 2016
  • March 1, 2015 to February 28, 2016
  • April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2016

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

  • September 18, 2014 to September 15, 2015 (e.g., floating year-end)
  • June 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015 (e.g., a newly opened business)

Revenue

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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).

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. Dividends

Include: Dividend income; Dividends from Canadian sources; Dividends from foreign sources; Patronage dividends.
Exclude: Equity income from investments in subsidiaries or affiliates.

  1. 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.

  1. Other revenue - specify

Include: Amounts not included in questions (1) to (7).

  1. Total revenue

The sum of sub-questions (1) to (8).

Expenses

  1. 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 from question 1. These values should be included in question 2 and 3 below.

  1. Employment costs and expenses
  1. 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 these amounts at sub-question (3) - Subcontracts).

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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 sub-question (21) - All other expenses).

  1. 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 telecommunication (report at sub-question (8) - Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication); Vehicle fuel (report at sub-question (21) - All other expenses).

  1. 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 this amount at sub-question (8) - Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication).

  1. Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication

Include: Internet; Telephone and telecommunication; Cellular telephone; Fax machine; Pager.

  1. 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.

  1. 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

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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).

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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 sub-question (19) - Interest expense).

  1. 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.

  1. 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

  1. 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 costs 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 (1) to (20) above.

  1. Total expenses

(sum of sub-questions 1 to 21)

Industry characteristics

Sales

Please provide a breakdown of your sales.

  1. Room or unit accommodation for travellers

Please report all revenues derived from room rentals.

  1. Meals and non-alcoholic beverages, prepared and served or dispensed, for immediate consumption

Include all food sale revenue for restaurants owned by your establishment.

  1. Alcoholic beverages, prepared and served or dispensed for immediate consumption

Include all sales from restaurants, bars, owned by the establishment, including in-room bar.

  1. Sale of merchandise (e.g., packaged food and beverages, newspapers, magazines, books, tobacco, cigarettes and souvenirs)

Include items sold from vending machines or merchandise from a store owned by the establishment.

  1. Telephone and Internet access services

Include all revenues from telephone calls, Internet services.

  1. Rental of space and equipment

Include revenues derived from renting out conference rooms, banquet rooms, and any concession machines.

  1. Amusement and recreational services

Examples include golf courses, skiing and admissions to live performances.

  1. Other services

Include any other revenues derived from services such as parking and laundry services.

  1. Other revenue not elsewhere reported

Include any revenues which do not correspond to any of the above revenue items.

Cost of goods sold

Provide a breakdown in thousands of Canadian dollars.

  1. Cost of food products used in meal preparation

Correspond to the costs related to the sales derived from meals and non-alcoholic beverages (purchases).

  1. Cost of alcoholic beverages used or sold

Correspond to the costs related to the sales derived from alcoholic beverages (purchases).

  1. Cost of all other merchandise sold

Correspond to the costs related to the sales of all other merchandise (purchases).

  1. Total cost of goods sold

The sum of sub-questions 11 to 13

Occupancy rate

  1. Total number of rooms in this establishment

Refers to the total number of physical rooms in the property.

  1. Total number of room-nights available over your 2015 reporting period

Refers to the average number of rooms that were available for use and not under repair or renovations.

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%.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

International transactions

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licenses 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.

General information

E-commerce

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 include 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, 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.

2014 Survey of Service Industries: Motion Picture Theatres

Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP)

Reporting Guide

This guide is designed to assist you as you complete the 2014 Survey of Service Industries. If you need more information, please call the Statistics Canada Help Line at the number below.

Help Line: 1-800-972-9692

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

Business activity
Reporting period information
Revenue
Expenses
Industry characteristics
Sales by type of client
International transactions
General information
Data-sharing agreements
Record linkages

Business activity

The description on file for this business comes from the North American Industrial Classifications System (NAICS). This database contains a limited number of activity classifications. The classifications on file might be applicable for this business, even if it is not exactly how you would describe this business’s main activity.

By selecting "Yes, this is the main activity.", you indicate that the description is applicable, and it describes the main economic activity which typically generates the most revenue for this business.

By selecting "No, this is not the main activity.", you indicate that this description is not applicable as a main or a secondary activity of this business. You will be given a chance to describe this business’s main activity.

If none of the above activities describes your main source of revenue, please call 1-800-972-9692 for further instructions.

Reporting period information

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

  • May 1, 2013 to April 30, 2014
  • June 1, 2013 to May 31, 2014
  • July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014
  • August 1, 2013 to July 31, 2014
  • September 1, 2013 to August 31, 2014
  • October 1, 2013 to September 30, 2014
  • November 1, 2013 to October 31, 2014
  • December 1, 2013 to November 30, 2014
  • January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014
  • February 1, 2014 to January 31, 2015
  • March 1, 2014 to February 28, 2015
  • April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015

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

  • September 18, 2013 to September 15, 2014 (e.g., floating year-end)
  • June 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014 (e.g., a newly opened business)

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

Include: sales, commissions, rental and leasing revenue if they are this business’s primary revenue source.

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.

  1. Rental and leasing

Report only if this is a secondary revenue source. If rental and leasing are your primary revenue source, report in question 1.

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.

  1. Commissions

Report only if this is a secondary revenue source. If commissions are your primary revenue source, report in question 1.

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).

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

Include: Dividend income; Dividends from Canadian sources; Dividends from foreign sources; Patronage dividends.
Exclude: Equity income from investments in subsidiaries or affiliates.

  1. 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.

  1. Other revenue - specify (including intracompany transfers)

Include: Amounts not included in questions (1) to (7).

  1. Total revenue

The sum of sub-questions (1) to (8).

Expenses

  1. 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.

  1. opening inventories
  1. purchases

Include: raw materials, goods purchased for resale and non-returnable containers
Exclude: change in inventories

  1. closing inventories
  1. cost of goods sold

(opening inventories plus purchases minus closing inventories)

  1. Employment costs and expenses
  1. 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 these amounts at sub-question (3) - Subcontracts).

  1. 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.

  1. 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; Sub-contract and outside labour; Hired labour.

  1. 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.

  1. 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 sub-question (21) - All other expenses).

  1. 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 sub-question (21) - All other expenses).

  1. 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 this amount at sub-question (8) - Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication expenses).

  1. Telephone, Internet and other telecommunications

Include: Internet; Telephone and telecommunications; Cellular telephone; Fax machine; Pager.

  1. 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.

  1. 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

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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).

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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 sub-question (19) - Interest expense).

  1. 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.

  1. 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

  1. 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 costs 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 (1) to (20) above.

  1. Total expenses

(sum of sub-questions 1 to 21)

Industry characteristics

1. Total admission receipts

Please report revenue from admissions.

2. Advertising revenue

Please report revenue earned from business promotion activities.

Include:

  • on-screen advertising of products;
  • the distribution of sample products and newspapers;
  • the display of posters in the lobby;
  • revenue from government advertising (e.g., military recruiting or anti-smoking messages);
  • revenue received from selling advertising for smaller theatre chains.

Expenses

3. Amusement taxes collected

Please report the total amount of amusement taxes (municipal, provincial, territorial, etc.) collected by you on admissions.

4. Total number of seats in theatre

Include: the total number of seats in all auditoriums of the theatre or hall.

Usual number of performances per screen per week

Include: each showing of a film for which an admission fee is charged, a double billing is counted as one performance.

5. Language of screening

These refer to the language in which a film is shown. For dubbed films, this is the language in which the film was dubbed and not the original language of the film.

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%.

1. 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.

2. Clients outside Canada

Please report the share 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.

International transactions

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, and royalties and licences 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.

General information

Survey purpose

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, Quebec, 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 and returning it with the completed questionnaire. Please specify the organizations with which you do not want to share your data.

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.

Record linkages

To enhance the data from this survey, Statistics Canada may combine it with information from other surveys or from administrative sources.

Please note that Statistics Canada does not share any individual survey information with the Canada Revenue Agency.

Please visit our website at www.statcan.gc.ca/survey-enquete/index-eng.htm or call us at 1-800-972-9692 for more information about these data-sharing agreements.

Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP)

Reporting Guide

This guide is designed to assist you as you complete the 2014 Annual Electricity Supply and Disposition Survey. If you need more information, please call the Statistics Canada Help Line at the number below.

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.

Help Line: 1-877-604-7828

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Reporting Instructions
Electricity Generation Method
Combustible Fuel
Receipts of Electricity from the U.S.A.
Receipts of Electricity from Within Canada
Total Supply
Deliveries of Electricity to the U.S.A.
Deliveries of Electricity Within Province
Transmission, Distribution and Other Losses
General Information: Purpose of survey, Data-sharing agreements and Data linkage

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Reporting Instructions

Please report information for the period of January to December, 2014.

Please complete all sections as applicable.

If the information requested is unknown, please provide your best estimate.

This guide is designed to assist you as you complete the 2014 Annual Electricity Supply and Disposition Survey. If you need more information, please call 1-877-604-7828.

Electricity Generation Method

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

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

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

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

Solar: Electricity created using Photovoltaic (PV) technology which converts sunlight into electricity.

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

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

Combustible fuel

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

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

Wood (Report for “Dry” method): Wood and wood energy used as fuel, including round wood (cord wood), lignin, wood scraps from furniture and window frame manufacturing, wood chips, bark, sawdust, forest residues, charcoal and pulp waste.

Spent pulping liquor: A by-product in the paper making process, containing carbohydrate and lignin decomposition products.

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

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

Other biomass (food processing): Can include residues produced during the processing of a product, such as cheese whey, canning factory residues, fruit pits, apple pomace and coffee grounds.

Other biomass (type unknown): Any other type of biomass not otherwise identified on the questionnaire. Specify in the spaces provided.

Receipts of electricity from the U.S.A.

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

Receipts of electricity from within Canada

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

Total Supply

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

Deliveries of electricity to the U.S.A.

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

Deliveries of electricity within Canada

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

Transmission, distribution and other losses

Include :

  • transmission losses
  • adjustments
  • “unaccounted for” amounts which are subject to variation because of cyclical billing

Exclude :

  • generating station use output as measured at the generating station gate.

General information

Purpose of survey

The purpose of this survey is to obtain information on the supply of, and demand for, energy in Canada. This information serves as an important indicator of Canadian economic performance, and is used by all levels of government in establishing informed policies in the energy area. In the case of public utilities, it is used by governmental agencies to fulfill their regulatory responsibilities. The private sector also uses this information in the corporate decision-making process. Your information may also be used by Statistics Canada for other statistical and research purposes.

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, Quebec, 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 and returning it with the completed questionnaire. Please specify the organizations with which you do not want to share your data.

For this survey, there are Section 12 agreements with the statistical agencies of Prince Edward Island, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut as well as with the Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Natural Resources, the Ministère de l’énergie et des ressources naturelles du Québec, the Manitoba Department of Mineral Resources, Alberta Energy, the British Columbia Ministry of Energy and Mines, the British Columbia Ministry of Natural Gas Development, National Energy Board, Natural Resources Canada and Environment Canada.

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.

Record linkages

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

Reporting Guide

This guide is designed to assist you as you complete the 2014 Annual Oil and Gas Extraction Survey. If you need more information, please call the Statistics Canada Help Line at the number below.

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.

Help Line: 1-877-604-7828

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Reporting Instructions
Definitions
Revenue and expenses, deductions and net income
Balance sheet
Capital expenditures for crude oil in-situ, mining, upgraders or natural gas production
Operating expenditures for crude oil in situ, mining, upgraders or natural gas production
Royalties – non-conventional sector
Capital expenditures by asset type
Operating cost by provincial jurisdiction – conventional sector
Upstream exploration expenditures by provincial jurisdiction
Upstream development expenditures by provincial jurisdiction
Upstream production expenditures by provincial jurisdiction
Upstream overhead expenditures by provincial jurisdiction
Sales of crude oil, volume and value by provincial jurisdiction
Sales of natural gas other products, volume and value by provincial jurisdiction
Metric Conversion Factors
General Information: Purpose of survey, Data-sharing agreements and Data linkage

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Reporting Instructions

Please report information for the period of January to December, 2014.

Please complete all sections as applicable.

If the information requested is unknown, please provide your best estimate.

Definitions

Oil and gas extraction sector: The Non-Conventional Sector relates to operations taking place in the geographical areas of Cold Lake, Peace River and Athabasca.

In-situ refers to extraction employing techniques of drilling wells and then injecting steam, combustion or other sources of heat into the reservoir to warm the bitumen so it can be pumped to the surface.

Mining is the use of machinery and equipment to extract deposits that are close to the surface.

Upgraders convert heavy bitumen into lighter crude oil.

Unconventional natural gas is found in gas hydrates and specific formations including tight gas found in low-permeability rock (ex: sandstone, siltstones and carbonates), shale gas found in fine-grained, organic-rich rock and coalbed methane contained in coal.

Revenue and expenses, deductions and net income

Sales: Report the sales or transfer value of produced goods or services before any adjustment or intersegment elimination. Please include royalties and taxes that are imposed at the time of sale. Exclude G.S.T.

All other revenue: Include cash revenue items not reported elsewhere such as dividend receipts, rentals, overhead and processing revenue received as operator and /or owner of facilities. Such processing revenues should be reported gross.

Royalties and similar payments: The sum of Provincial and freehold royalties – non-conventional sector (question 23), federal and Crown royalties - conventional sector (question 30), provincial royalties - conventional sector (question 31) and non-Crown royalties - conventional sector (question 32).

Operating expenditures: Please include cost of materials and supplies used in production, surface lease rentals, lifting costs and all other expenditures which are related to producing operations. Exclude any ‘non-cash’ charges and royalties. All general and administrative costs related to producing activities and charged to current year operations should also be included here.

Salaries, wages and benefits: Include the cost of salaries and wages (including bonuses and commissions, employer contributions to pension, medical, unemployment insurance plans, etc.) paid to your own workforce during the reporting period.

Other operating expenditures: Include only costs associated with non-producing operations and other expense items not reported elsewhere.

Interest expense: Include interest paid on bank loans, bonds, etc.

Federal income tax: Include federal income tax pertaining to the current period and assumed to be currently due.

Provincial income tax: Include provincial income tax pertaining to the current period and assumed to be currently due. The amount reported should include the Saskatchewan Corporate Capital Tax Surcharge if applicable.

Deferred income tax: Include accrued tax obligations reflected as an expense in the income statement, but not payable in the current reporting period.

Exploration and development charged to current operations: Include exploration and development expenses charged to current operations.

Amortization and depreciation expense: The systematic charge-off to expense of costs for depreciable assets that had been initially capitalised or deferred. Write-downs of depreciable assets resulting from impairments should be included in this category. However, write-offs arising from unusual dispositions and gains/losses on sales of assets should be reported under “Write-offs and amortization of deferred charges” and “Other non-cash items” respectively.

Depletion: Include the current depletion charges for costs subject to such deduction. Write-offs resulting from the application of ceiling tests should be reported under “Write-offs and amortization of deferred charges”. Gains and losses on disposal of properties should be reported under “Other non-cash items”.

Write-offs and amortization of deferred charges: Adjustments may be made for non-operating items which the company ordinarily eliminates from its reported “Internal cash flow”.

Other non-cash expenses and deductions: Include non-cash items not reported elsewhere such as unrealised losses on currency transactions, non-controlling shareholders’ interest in earnings of consolidated subsidiaries, and the equity portion of losses of unconsolidated affiliates. This item should be reduced by such non-cash revenue items as unrealised currency gains, non-controlling shareholders’ interest in losses of consolidated subsidiaries, and equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates.

Number of employees: Provide the number of employees associated with salary, wages and benefits costs.

Balance sheet

Total current assets: Includes such items as cash, marketable securities, accounts receivable, inventories, etc.
Net capital assets: Includes land not held for the purpose of re-sale, amortizable assets such as buildings, machinery and equipment, etc. Other assets: Include all assets not reported as either current or capital assets.

Current liabilities: Includes such items as current portion of long-term debt, accounts payable, notes payable, etc.
Long term debt: Includes all debt with a maturity of greater than one year.
Other liabilities: Include all liabilities not reported as either a current liability or long-term debt.
Equity: Includes common shares, preferred shares, retained earnings and all other equity.

Capital expenditures for crude oil in-situ, mining, upgraders or natural gas production

Note: Regarding partnerships and joint venture activities or projects, report the expenditures reflecting your company’s net interest in such oil sands projects or ventures.

Oil rights acquisitions and retention costs:

  • In-situ: Expenditures associated with land and lease acquisition relating to oil rights, fees and retention.
  • Mining: Expenditures associated with the purchase of land and lease from others.

    Note: for in-situ and mining please include all fees associated with using land agents.
  • Upgraders: Include items such as boilers, compressors, motors, pumps and any other items that may be termed manufacturing or mining equipment as opposed to a fixed installation such as a building.
  • Natural gas production: Value of residential structures and related infrastructure within a company town-site.

Drilling and pre-mining expenditures: Drilling expenditures include core hole and delineation drilling. Include the cost of casing and other materials and equipment left in place, core analysis, logging, road building, and other directly related services. Pre-mining costs include overburden removal and other pre-production expenditures.

Cost of capitalized overhead: Report the cost of capitalized overhead not allocated above. These overhead charges should exclude any amounts to be reported under Operating cost by provincial jurisdiction – conventional sector and Upstream expenditures by provincial jurisdiction – conventional sector.

Research and any other expenditures: Include all research costs associated with non-conventional oil and/or natural gas, such as: laboratory work, consultants’ fees, performance evaluations, and experimental pilot plants (including any capitalised operating costs). Other costs include items such as drainage systems, roadways, tankages, anti-pollution equipment and fixed installations not including machinery and equipment (question 12).

Operating expenditures for crude oil in situ, mining, upgraders or natural gas production

Field, well or plant expenditures for crude oil: Include all direct operating expenses and any other expenses directly related to the mining, stimulation, processing, upgrading and delivery of the product, and cost of purchased fuel and electricity.

Tax expenditures: Include taxes to federal, provincial and municipal governments, but exclude royalties, income taxes, and taxes that are part of the list price of purchases.

Fuel and purchased electricity: Include costs for fuel and electricity for all sites.

Water handling and disposal: Include all costs pertaining to water handling and disposal.

Operating overhead: Include all remaining general and administrative expenses related to upstream operations, including any corporate allocation to this segment. (These overhead charges should exclude any reported under Capital¬ized overhead, question 15).

Royalties – non-conventional sector

Include all provincial royalties payable to provincial governments based on production.

Include all freehold royalties payable to mineral rights owner based on production.

Capital expenditures by asset type

Construction: Construction structures should be classified to an asset according to its principle 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 (i.e. elevators, heating equipment, sprinkler systems, environmental controls, intercom system etc.) should be reported as part of that structure as well as landscaping, associated parking lots, etc.

Machinery and equipment: Include items such as boilers, compressors, motors, pumps and any other items that may be termed manufacturing or mining equipment as opposed to a fixed installation such as a building.

Operating cost by provincial jurisdiction – conventional sector

Operating costs include all direct operating expenses such as wages and salaries, materials and supplies, fuel and power, well conditioning costs, municipal taxes, other direct operating expenses, maintenance and repairs expensed and contract services. Also include the non-capitalised cost of purchased injection materials used in enhanced recovery projects.

Field, well and gathering operations for oil and gas: Include primary, secondary, and tertiary recovery and pressure maintenance facilities, gathering systems and other well site facilities, surface lease rentals, and cost of purchased fuel and electricity.

Natural gas processing plants: Include expenses associated with field processing plants as well as reprocessing activities, recycling projects, and cost of purchased fuel and electricity.

Taxes: Include taxes to federal, provincial and municipal governments, but exclude royalties, income taxes, and taxes that are part of the list price of purchases

Overhead: Include all remaining general and administrative expenses related to upstream operations, including any corporate allocation to this segment. (These overhead charges should exclude any reported under upstream expenditures by provincial jurisdiction.)

Federal crown royalties: Amounts paid to the federal government, but excluding Indian lands royalties.

Provincial royalties and taxes: Amounts paid during the reporting period for royalty or royalty-like levies. In Alberta, include the “freehold mineral tax” together with the standard crown royalties on conventional oil and gas production. In Saskatchewan, include the standard crown royalties on oil and gas production plus the “freehold production tax”. In Manitoba, include the standard crown royalties and “freehold taxes” collected by the Manitoba government.

Non-Crown royalties and similar payments: Indian lands royalties: are amounts paid to Indian bands, either directly or indirectly, based on the level of production.

Freehold royalties: are royalties that have been paid to parties, other than the Crown, who own the mineral interest to the property.

Overriding royalties: are payments (normally free of all costs of development and operation) arising from an economic interest in a property.

Upstream exploration expenditures by provincial jurisdiction – conventional sector

Oil and gas rights acquisition and retention: Acquisition and retention costs and fees for oil and gas rights (include bonuses, legal fees and filing fees; exclude inter-company sales or transfers).

Land and leases purchased from other petroleum companies: Purchases from companies that are engaged primarily in petroleum activities.

Note: for questions 33 and 34 please include all fees associated with using land agents.

Geological and geophysical services: Include such activities as seismic crew expenses, both company owned and contract. Include camp, bulldozing and dirt work, flying crews in and out, seismograph, velocity survey, gravity meter, magnetometer, core drilling, photo geological digital processing, magnetic playback and bottom hole contributions and environmental impact studies and other similar pre-exploration expenditures. All seismic or geological and geophysical expenditures (including stratigraphic tests) should be reported here, whether such activity is deemed exploration or development by the company.

Exploration drilling: Drilling outside a proven area or within a proven area but to a previously untested horizon, in order to determine whether oil or gas reserves exist rather than to develop proven reserves discovered by previous drilling. Include costs of dry wells, casing and other materials and equipment abandoned in place, productive wells, including capped wells, and wells still in progress at year-end. Include, also, costs incurred in fighting blow-outs, runaways, and in replacing damaged equipment.

Upstream development expenditures by provincial jurisdiction– conventional sector

Development drilling: Drilling within the proven area of an oil or gas reservoir to the depth of a stratigraphic horizon known to be productive for the purpose of extracting oil or gas reserves. This will cover costs of dry wells, including casing and other materials and equipment abandoned in place; productive wells, including capped well; and wells still in progress at year end. Include, also, costs incurred in fighting blow-outs, runaways, and in replacing damaged equipment. Exclude costs associated with service wells.

Note: There should be no development expenditures until a development plan has been approved.

Proven purchased reserves: Purchases from those companies that are engaged primarily in petroleum activities.

Upstream production expenditures by provincial jurisdiction– conventional sector

Production facilities: Include tangible well and lease equipment comprising casing, tubing, wellheads, pumps, flowlines, separators, treaters, dehydrators. Include gathering pipelines, lease and centralized tank batteries and associated facilities prior to delivery to trunk pipelines terminals, and other production facilities. Include, also, costs associated with intangibles such as pre-production studies costs, and those expenditures that you consider to be pre-development.

Non-production facilities: Include automotive, aeroplane, communication, office and miscellaneous equipment not otherwise provided.

Enhanced recovery projects: Include only expenditures on facilities in tertiary projects involving steam injection, miscible flooding, etc. Include service wells, both tangible and intangible, including the costs of drilling and equipping injection wells and also the cost of capitalized injection fuel (miscible fluid) costs, but exclude non-recoverable injection fluids charged to current operations.

Natural gas processing plants: Report only the capitalized amounts of the plants, including structures, measuring, regulating and related equipment.

Drilling rigs and supply boats: Report expenditures including progress payments for the purchase of new and imported used and new drilling rigs (on and offshore) and supply boats.

Upstream overhead expenditures by provincial jurisdiction– conventional sector

Allocate capitalized upstream overhead to the categories indicated. These overhead charges should exclude any reported under Operating cost by provincial jurisdiction – conventional sector.

Sales of crude oil, volume and value by provincial jurisdiction

Note: Exclude oil and gas purchased for resale, refining, fractionating or further processing, but include value and volume of royalty portion of production.

Conventional crude oil and condensate: Includes field production of conventional light and heavy crude oil and condensate that is subject to old or new oil royalty rate.

Synthetic crude oil: Synthetic crude oil obtained by the upgrading of crude bitumen or by the modification of coal or other materials should be reported here.

Crude bitumen: Crude bitumen, in its naturally occurring viscous state, will not flow to a well.

Sales of natural gas and other products, volume and value by provincial jurisdiction

Marketable natural gas: Report here the volume of natural gas production equal to gross new production from natural reservoirs, less injected and stored, processing shrinkage, plus or minus statistical adjustment, less field disposition and uses, field flared and waste, gathering system disposition and uses, reprocessing flared and reprocessing fuel, and other disposition and uses.

NGL’s and LPG’s from field operations: Includes production derived from natural gas at the field processing plants. Report production measured after solvent flood or other ‘own-uses’.

NGL’s and LPG’s from processing plants: Includes production derived from natural gas at reprocessing/straddle plants.

Pentanes plus from field operations: Includes production derived from natural gas at the field processing plants. Do not include field condensates recovered at the wellhead, which should be reported with conventional crude oil.

Pentanes plus from processing plants: Includes production derived from natural gas at reprocessing/straddle plants.

Sulfur: Please report total production whether it was sold or charged to inventory (measured in thousands of metric tonnes).

Metric Conversion Factors

Metric Conversion Factors
Table summary
This table displays the results of Metric Conversion Factors. The information is grouped by To convert from (appearing as row headers), (appearing as column headers).
To convert from
Million cubic feet Million cubic metres Divide by
(106cf) – gas (106m3) 35.315
Thousand barrels Thousands cubic metres  
(103Bbls) - oil (103m3) 6.29

General information

Purpose of survey

The purpose of this survey is to obtain information on the supply of, and/or demand for, energy in Canada. This information serves as an important indicator of Canadian economic performance, and is used by all levels of government in establishing informed policies in the energy area. In the case of public utilities, it is used by governmental agencies to fulfill their regulatory responsibilities. The private sector also uses this information in the corporate decision-making process. Your information may also be used by Statistics Canada for other statistical and research purposes.

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, Quebec, 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 and returning it with the completed questionnaire. Please specify the organizations with which you do not want to share your data.

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

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.

Record linkages

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

2014 Annual End-Use of Natural Gas Survey

Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP)

Reporting Guide

This guide is designed to assist you as you complete the 2014 Annual End-Use of Natural Gas Survey. If you need more information, please call the Statistics Canada Help Line at the number below.

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.

Help Line: 1-877-604-7828

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Reporting Instructions
Definitions
Electric power generation
Agriculture, hunting and trapping industries
Mining, Oil and Gas Extraction
Forestry, logging and support activities
Construction
Manufacturing
Road transportation
Retail Pump
Pipeline transportation and natural gas distribution
Public administration
Commercial and institutional
Residential
Metric Conversion Factors
General information

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Reporting Instructions

Please report information for the period of January to December, 2014.

Please complete all sections as applicable.

If the information requested is unknown, please provide your best estimate.

This guide is designed to assist you as you complete the 2014 Annual End-Use of Natural Gas Survey. If you need more information, please call 1-877-604-7828.

Definitions

Direct Sales
Represents direct, non-utility, sales for consumption, where the utility acts solely as the transporter.

Sales to ultimate industrial consumers for end-use
Gas sold to customers engaged in a process that creates or changes raw or unfinished materials into another form or product. Includes firm, interruptible and buy/sell agreements.

Sales to ultimate commercial consumers
Gas sold to customers engaged in wholesale or retail trade, governments, institutions, office buildings, etc.

Sales to ultimate residential consumers
Gas sold usually for domestic purposes (for example, heating: space, water, cooking, etc.).

Electric power generation

Include all sales to establishments primarily engaged in the generation of bulk electric power, by hydro-electric power, fossil fuel, nuclear or other processes. NAICS code 22111. Exclude establishments primarily engaged in transmitting and/or distributing electric power which should be reported in question 13 - “Commercial and institutional”.

Agriculture, hunting and trapping industries

Include all sales to establishments with land holdings primarily engaged in agricultural, hunting and trapping activities and also establishments primarily engaged in providing support activities. Included are activities such as mushroom growers, greenhouses, nurseries and floriculture production, aquaculture, harvesting of wild animals, game retreats and hunting preserves. NAICS codes 111, 112, 1142, 1151 and 1152.

Mining, Oil and Gas Extraction

Include all sales to establishments primarily engaged in: mining, beneficiating or otherwise preparing iron ores. NAICS code 21221; the exploration for and/or production of crude oil and natural gas, whether by conventional or non conventional methods. NAICS code 211; contract drilling operations for crude oil and natural gas as well as services incidental to oil and gas extraction. NAICS codes 213111, and 213118; mining activities other than iron mines, crude oil and natural gas extraction and crude oil and natural gas support activities. This category includes metal mines, non metal mines, stone quarries and sand and gravel pits. NAICS codes 212, 213117 and 213119 (excl. 21221).

Forestry, logging and support activities

Include all sales to establishments primarily engaged in growing and harvesting timber including those performing particular support activities related to logging and forestry. NAICS codes 113 and 1153.

Construction

Include all sales to establishments primarily engaged in the construction of buildings, highways, dams etc., and those providing services to the construction industry. Also include special trade contractors primarily engaged in construction work in such specialties as plumbing, carpentry, painting, roofing, etc.. NAICS code 23. Exclude any offsite transportation fuel use, which should be included in road transportation.

Manufacturing

Include all sales to establishments primarily engaged in the manufacturing of products. Ex: food, textile, clothing, leather, plastics, rubber, paper, wood, furniture products, iron and steel mills and ferro-alloy, cold-rolled steel shape and steel foundries, alumina and aluminum production and non-ferrous metal smelting and refining, fabricated metal product, machinery, computer and electronic product, electrical equipment, appliance, component and transportation equipment, cement, petroleum and coal products, chemical pesticide and fertilizer, etc.

Road transportation

Include all sales to establishments primarily engaged in the truck transportation of goods, transit and ground passenger transportation (urban transit systems, interurban and rural bus transportation, taxi and limousine services, school and employee bus transportation, charter bus industry, limousine service to airports and stations, shuttle services and special needs transportation), scenic and sightseeing transportation, and support activities for road transportation. Include those establishments primarily providing specialized services to this category, such as freight forwarders, marine shipping agents and customs brokers. NAICS codes 484, 485, 4871, 4879, 4884-4889. Fuels used for heating and cooling buildings and offices should be reported in question 13 - “Commercial and institutional”.

Retail Pump

Include all sales to establishments engaged in retailing motor fuels to the general public by means of retail pumps (including marinas), irrespective of the type of ownership or operation. Establishments that operate gasoline stations on behalf of their owners and receive a commission on the sale of fuels are also included. NAICS code 447. Fuels used for heating and cooling buildings and offices should be reported in question 13 - “Commercial and institutional”.

Pipeline transportation and natural gas distribution

Include all sales to establishments primarily engaged in operating pipelines for the transport of natural gas, crude oil and other products. Also included are establishments engaged in the distribution of natural gas through a system of mains. This category covers codes 486 and 2212. . Fuels used for heating and cooling buildings and offices should be reported in question 13 - “Commercial and institutional”.

Public administration

Include all sales to establishments of federal, provincial and municipal governments primarily engaged in activities associated with public administration. This includes such establishments as the Federal Public Service, the Department of National Defence, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and provincial and local administrations. This category covers NAICS code 91.

Commercial and institutional

Include all sales to establishments which are primarily engaged in other activities not previously specified.

  • Water transportation: Include all sales made to establishments primarily engaged in the water transportation of passengers and goods, using equipment designed for those purposes and provided by ships. Commercial fishing is also included. NAICS codes 1141, 483, 4872 and 4883. Fuels used for heating and cooling buildings and offices should be reported in question 13 - “Commercial and institutional”.
  • Warehousing and storage: Include all sales to establishments primarily engaged in operating general merchandise, refrigerated and other warehousing and storage facilities. NAICS code 493.
  • Wholesale and retail trade: The wholesale sector comprises establishments primarily engaged in wholesaling merchandise and providing related logistics, marketing and support services. The retail sector comprises establishments primarily engaged in retailing merchandise, generally without transformation, and rendering services incidental to the sale of merchandise. NAICS codes 41, 44 and 45.
  • Education, health care and social assistance: Educational services comprises all sales to establishments primarily engaged in providing instruction and training in a wide variety of subjects. The health care and social assistance sector comprises all sales to establishments primarily engaged in providing health care by diagnosis and treatment, providing residential care for medical and social reasons and providing social assistance. NAICS codes 61 and 62.
  • Accommodation and food services: Include all sales to establishments primarily engaged in operating accommodation facilities, restaurants, take-out food and catering services, taverns, night clubs and bars. NAICS code 72.
  • Water, Sewage and Other Systems, NAICS 2213; Postal Service, NAICS 91; Couriers and Messengers, NAICS 92; Information and Cultural Industries, NAICS 51; Finance and Insurance, NAICS 52; Real Estate and Rental and Leasing, NAICS 53; Professional, Scientific and Technical Services, NAICS 54; Management of Companies and Enterprises, NAICS; Administrative and Support, Waste Management and Remediation Services, NAICS 56; Arts, Entertainment and Recreation; NAICS 71, Other Services (except Public Administration), NAICS 81.
  • Note: Exclude any offsite transportation fuel use, which should be included in road transport.

Residential

Include all sales destined to be used in a single residential meter service. (i.e. single family dwelling) or bulk residential metering service. (i.e. apartments, condominiums, etc.)

Metric Conversion Factors

Metric Conversion Factors
Table summary
This table displays the results of Metric Conversion Factors. The information is grouped by To convert from (appearing as row headers), (appearing as column headers).
To convert from
Million cubic feet Million cubic metres Divide by
(106cf) – gas (106m3) 35.315

General information

Purpose of survey

The purpose of this survey is to obtain information on the supply of, and demand for, energy in Canada. This information serves as an important indicator of Canadian economic performance, and is used by all levels of government in establishing informed policies in the energy area. In the case of public utilities, it is used by governmental agencies to fulfill their regulatory responsibilities. The private sector also uses this information in the corporate decision-making process. Your information may also be used by Statistics Canada for other statistical and research purposes.

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, Quebec, 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 and returning it with the completed questionnaire. Please specify the organizations with which you do not want to share your data.

For this survey, there are Section 12 agreements with the statistical agencies of Prince Edward Island, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut as well as with the Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Natural Resources, the Ministère de l’énergie et des ressources naturelles du Québec, the Manitoba Department of Mineral Resources, Alberta Energy, the British Columbia Ministry of Energy and Mines, the British Columbia Ministry of Natural Gas Development, National Energy Board, Natural Resources Canada and Environment Canada.

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.

Record linkages

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

Reference period: 2010/2011 to 2014/2015

History and background

The Elementary–Secondary Education Survey (ESES) began in 2003 as a Statistics Canada pilot project known as the Elementary–Secondary Education Statistics Project (ESESP). The ESESP survey content originated from three tables that were originally part of a survey sent out each year to all provinces and territories by the British Columbia Ministry of Education. Following formal consultation with all provinces, territories and data users, Statistics Canada introduced seven new tables to collect additional data. The project's goals were to collect elementary and secondary school expenditure data, and to replace several surveys that were collecting data on enrolments, graduates, and educators: the Elementary–Secondary School Enrolment Survey; the Secondary School Graduate Survey; the Elementary–Secondary Education Staff Survey; and the Principal's Statistical Report. Although the ESESP collected expenditure data, the Survey of Uniform Financial System – School Boards survey (SUFSB, record number 3119) remained active.

In January 2010, the ESESP was renamed the Elementary–Secondary Education Survey to symbolize the change from a pilot project to a Statistics Canada ongoing core survey. The main objectives of the collection tool remained: to produce relevant, comparable and timely statistics, and to reduce the respondent burden on educational organizations and school principals.

Statistics Canada maintains a close relationship with the Canadian Education Statistics Council (CESC), particularly its Strategic Management Committee (SMC), and seeks their ongoing advice and guidance on the survey. The CESC is a partnership between the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) and Statistics Canada. It was established in 1989 to improve the quality and comparability of Canadian education data and to provide information that can inform policy development in education. The CESC also produces two sets of education indicators, Education Indicators in Canada: Report of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (Statistics Canada catalogue number 81-582-X) and Indicators in Canada: An International Perspective (catalogue number 81-604-X), for policy makers, practitioners, and the general public to monitor the performance of education systems, across jurisdictions and over time.

Changes in data collection

The ESES is an annual survey of administrative data that focuses primarily on public schools. It collects aggregate data from the provincial/territorial ministries or departments of education. Information on enrolments and graduates is reported by type of program and by age and sex, and grade and sex. The ESES also collects information pertaining to full- and part-time educators.

Private school data collection:

In the summer of 2010, Statistics Canada conducted a jurisdictional review and was able to ascertain that of the data collected by the ESES for public schools, data for enrolment (grade), enrolment (age), enrolments in official languages programs, graduates, and educators could also be provided for private schools. Therefore, in January 2011, Statistics Canada commenced collection of private school data beginning with the 2009/2010 reference period.

Home-schooling data collection:

In the summer of 2011, Statistics Canada conducted another jurisdictional review and was able to ascertain that of the data collected by the ESES for public schools, data for enrolment (grade) and enrolment (age) could also be provided for home-schooling. Therefore, in January 2012, Statistics Canada commenced collection of home-schooling data beginning with the 2010/2011 reference period.

Note: Due to data quality concerns, data on private schools and home-schooling are not published at this time.

Definitions

In order to obtain consistent counts of students, educators, graduates, and expenditures for school boards and districts across provinces and territories, it is very important that respondents use common definitions.

Ministry/Department of Education: There is no federal department of education and no integrated national system of education in Canada. Ministries or departments of education in Canada's 10 provinces and 3 territories are responsible for the organization, delivery and assessment of education at the elementary and secondary levels.

School boards/districts: Local governance of education is usually entrusted to school boards, school districts, school divisions or district education councils (the terminology used varies by province/territory). The power delegated to these local authorities, whose members are elected by public ballot, is at the discretion of the provincial and territorial governments and generally consists of the operation and administration (including financial) of the group of schools within their board, district or division, curriculum implementation, responsibility for personnel, enrolment of students, and initiation of proposals for new construction or other major capital expenditures.

Public schools are publicly funded elementary and secondary schools that are operated by school boards or the province or territory. They include all regular public schools as well as provincial reformatory or custodial schools, and other schools that are recognized and funded by the province or territory.

Private schools encompass both elementary and secondary schools that, whether church affiliated or non-sectarian, are operated, managed and administered by private individuals and/or groups (e.g., a church, a trade union or a business enterprise, or a foreign or international agency) or that have a governing board that consists mostly of members not selected by a public agency.

The extent to which an institution receives its funding from public or private sources does not determine its classification as a public or private school.

Privately managed schools may be subject to some regulation or control by public authorities, but these institutions are nevertheless classified as private, provided that they are ultimately subject to private control. Public regulation may extend to areas such as curriculum, staffing appointments, admissions policies, and other matters.

The ESES does not distinguish between government-dependent private and independent private institutions.

Home-schooling is an alternative method of learning that takes place outside the public or private school environment. Parents choosing home-schooling have the primary responsibility of managing, delivering and supervising their children's courses and programs of learning, which can vary from a very structured curriculum to free-form learning.

The tables explained

Table 1: Expenditures

School district expenditures: Include all expenditures (operating and capital) paid directly by district school boards.

Ministry/Department of Education expenditures: Include all expenditures (operating and capital) paid on behalf of district school boards by Ministries/Departments of Education or any other entities responsible for education.

Other provincial/territorial government or agency expenditures: Include all expenditures (operating and capital) incurred by other provincial/territorial departments or agencies such as Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Transport, etc. Do not include expenses paid on behalf of school districts by Ministries of Education.

The following expenditures are included:

  • those for Regular programs for youth;
  • those for General programs for adults for secondary schools;
  • those for Vocational programs for youth and adults offered at the secondary level only.

The following expenditures are excluded:

  • federal expenditures (e.g., schools operated by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada or National Defence, or federal programs such as Canadian Heritage official languages programs, Employment and Social Development Canada programs, Global Affairs Canada programs, and social [health and welfare] programs);
  • those for private schools;
  • those related to programs at the postsecondary level;
  • intra-sectoral transactions;
  • principal portion of debt repayments or bank loans;
  • recoveries of expenditures from specified purpose;
  • provision for vacation pay and similar employee benefit;
  • provision for bad debts and any other provisions;
  • reserves and other suspense accounts;
  • deficits and write-off to losses;
  • depreciation on capital expenditures (amortization charges);
  • debenture discount;
  • taxes remitted to other government sub-sectors (e.g., municipal taxes).

School boards and districts

Educator remuneration:

Salaries, wages and allowances (row 1)
Salaries and wages are the remuneration to educators for services rendered. Include teachers, school administrators, such as principals and vice-principals; and other professional non-teaching staff, such as guidance counselors and librarians as well as pedagogical support personnel.

Allowances are payments made in addition to salaries/wages to compensate for isolation, additional administrative duties or other responsibilities and other similar costs. Include sick leave payments, maternity leave and other approved leave. Do not include ad hoc allowances for travel and accommodation (include in "Other operating expenditures [row 6]") and payments of superannuation or pension premiums on behalf of the educator.

Fringe benefits (except employer's contribution to the Canada and Quebec pension plans) (row 2)
Includes payment on behalf of the educator for Employment Insurance premiums, life insurance plans, health, dental and drug plans, vision care plans, workers' compensation plans, disability insurance plans, termination and early retirement gratuities, private use of institution's goods and services, employee discounts, professional fees related to professional development, payments to government work safety agencies, purchase and maintenance of clothing, moving fees, employee counseling services, union duties leave, annuity funds, paid recognition for years of service, paid holidays, trips, jury duty pay, employee parking lot fees, and board-sponsored recreation or paid memberships.

Educator pension plans:

Employer's contribution to Canada and Quebec pension plans (row 3)
Includes the employer's contribution to the Canada and Quebec pension plans.

Other pension plans (row 4)
Any other types of pension plans.

Periodic contributions to rectify actuarial deficiencies (row 5)
Adjustments made during the current year to ensure that the funds required are available, which are actuarial liability adjustments made to current service payments to reduce or eliminate the debt.

Other operating expenditures:

Other operating expenditures (row 6)
Include salary and non-salary costs related to business administration, instruction, educational services, food services, school facilities services, school transportation and any other expenditure related to the provision of services in the public school system. Do not include interests on debt services.

Total operating expenditures (row 7)
The sum of rows 1 to 6.

Capital expenditures:

Capital expenditures (row 8)
Include acquisitions of physical assets of a fixed or permanent nature with a useful life of more than one operating year. Include expenditures of an annual or cyclical nature for capital-lease and leasehold improvement (e.g., major repairs and upgrades to school and board buildings, new school and board furniture equipment and vehicles). Do not include expenditures for non-major repairs and maintenance designated as "plant operation" under "Other operating expenditures (row 6)".

Note that all capital expenditures must be reported with the historical cost in the year of the initial expenditure. If the capital expenditures are "amortized" during their useful life, they should be converted to the historical cost and reported to the year of the initial cost in order to insure the comparability of data between provinces and territories.

Interest on debt services (row 9)
Include the interest on loans and advances, bonds, debentures and mortgages, other debt charges such as bank service charges and other charges pertaining to the servicing of the public debt.

Total capital expenditures (row 10)
The sum of rows 8 and 9.

Total expenditures - School boards and districts (row 11)
The sum of rows 7 and 10.

Ministry of education

Educator remuneration:

Salaries/Wages and allowances (row 12)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 1).

Fringe benefits (except employer's contribution to pension plans) (row 13)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 2).

Educator pension plans:

Employer's contribution to pension plans (row 14)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 3).

Other pension plans (row 15)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 4)

Periodic contributions to rectify actuarial deficiencies (row 16)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 5).

Other operating expenditures:

Other operating expenditures (row 17)
Include only Ministry/Department of Education expenses relating to direct financial support of school boards; e.g., milk programs or textbooks, or library, guidance and audio–visual expenses. Do not include any grants or contributions to schools boards or districts.

General administration (row 18)
Include only administration expenses directly incurred by the Ministry/Department of Education; e.g., expenses for the Minister's office, including his/her salary, human resources, administrative support and financial services. If any of these administration expenses stated above are also lumped together with postsecondary education, please include or pro-rate out the elementary and secondary portion only.

Total operating expenditures (row 19)
The sum of rows 12 to 18.

Capital expenditures:

Capital expenditures (row 20)
Include only Ministry/Department of Education capital expenditures relating to direct financial support of school boards. Do not include any grants or contributions to schools boards or schools districts.

Interest on debt services (row 21)
Include the interest on loans and advances, bonds, debentures and mortgages. Also include other debt charges such as bank service charges and other charges pertaining to the servicing of the public debt.

Total capital expenditures (row 22)
The sum of rows 20 and 21.

Total expenditures – Ministry/Department of Education (row 23)
The sum of rows 19 and 22.

Other provincial/territorial departments or agencies

Educator remuneration:

Salaries, wages and allowances (row 24)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 1).

Fringe benefits (except employer's contribution to pension plans) (row 25)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 2).

Educator pension plans:

Employer's contribution to pension plans (row 26)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 3).

Other pension plans (row 27)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 4)

Periodic contributions to rectify actuarial deficiencies (row 28)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 5).

Other operating expenditures:

Other operating expenditures (row 29)
Include only Other provincial government or agencies expenses relating to direct financial support of school boards; e.g., provision of textbooks/school book bureaus, milk programs, guidance and audio–visual expenses. Do not include any grants or contributions to schools boards or schools districts, administration expenses (see row 17). Do not include any expenses from Ministry/Department of Education.

Total operating expenditures (row 30)
The sum of rows 24 to 29.

Capital expenditures:

Capital expenditures (row 31)
Include only Other provincial governments or agencies capital expenditures related to direct financial support of school boards. Do not include any grants or contributions to schools boards or schools districts. Do not include any expenses from Ministry/Department of Education.

Interest on debt services (row 32)
Include the interest on loans and advances, bonds, debentures and mortgages. Also include other debt charges such as bank service charges and other charges pertaining to the servicing of the public debt.

Total capital expenditures (row 33)
The sum of rows 31 and 32.

Total expenditures - Other provincial departments or agencies (row 34)
The sum of rows 30 and 33.

Total education expenditures:

Total education expenditures (row 35)
The sum of rows 11, 23 and 34.

Table 2A and Table 2B: Number of students, by type of program, grade and sex / age and sex, school boards and districts

Public enrolment (for tabs 2APubEnrolGradeSex and 2BPubEnrolAgeSex) is the number of students (headcount) enrolled in publicly funded schools operated by school boards or the province/territory in September (or as close as possible thereafter) of the school year.

Include all students (graded and ungraded) in regular publicly funded schools, provincial reformatory or custodial schools, and other students recognized and funded by a province or territory. Students in a specific elementary/secondary grade (graded) should, of course, be reported in the appropriate grade. If a student is not considered to be in a specific elementary/secondary grade because he/she is taking different subjects at a number of levels, report the student as ungraded.

Include other, non-standard, enrolments such as those for students receiving educational services (if recognized by the province/territory) and for schools and/or school boards that receive funding in a unique manner. They may be non-graduates who are taking only a few courses required to complete graduation; for example, a student who is enrolled in only 25% of a "regular" course load and for whom the school or school district receives only 25% of the usual funding. Note: This category may not apply to some provinces or territories.

Do not include students enrolled in: programs or schools outside the regular system; home-schooling programs; private/independent schools; or schools that are financed by federal departments (e.g., Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada or the Department of National Defence).

Private enrolment (for tabs 2APrivEnrolGradeSex and 2BPrivEnrolAgeSex) is the number of students enrolled in private schools in September (or as close as possible thereafter) of the school year.

Home-schooling enrolment (for tabs 2AHSEnrolGradeSex and 2BHSEnrolAgeSex) is similarly the number of students enrolled in home-schooling in September (or as close as possible thereafter) of the school year.

Vocational education is designed for students to acquire the practical skills, know-how and understanding necessary for employment in a particular occupation or trade or class of occupations or trades. Successful completion of these programs usually leads students to a relevant labour market vocational qualification recognized by the authorities in the province/territory in which it is obtained.

Vocational students must have at least 25 per cent of their instructional time in a vocational or technical program.

Table 2.1: Regular programs for youth
Report the number of students enrolled in general training programs geared toward and offered primarily to similarly aged young people. Although the majority of enrolments in this category will likely be for school-aged children and youth, some adults may be enrolled.

Table 2.2: Full-time equivalent (FTE) rate (adjustment factor) - Regular programs for youth
The full-time equivalent (FTE) rate represents the fraction of time spent in a classroom and for which the students are funded. If the fraction is unknown, an estimate should be provided; for example, for junior kindergarten and kindergarten students taking a half-time program that is funded, the FTE enrolment would be the headcount enrolment divided by two, which is 0.5. If a student is only taking a quarter of the usual course load and is funded on that basis, the FTE enrolment would be the headcount enrolment divided by four, which is 0.25.

For most jurisdictions, Grades 1 through 12 have an FTE of 1.0 as these grades are generally considered full time. FTEs of less than 1.0 are common for Junior Kindergarten and Kindergarten.

Table 2.3: General programs for adults
Report the number of students enrolled in general programs geared toward and offered primarily to adults within the elementary–secondary system. Some students in the youth sector may be enrolled in order to follow particular programs of study found only in adult education.

Do not include students enrolled in programs offered at the postsecondary level, or by any institution other than a school board.

Table 2.4: Vocational programs for youth and adults
Report the number of students enrolled in professional and technical training programs offered in public schools operated by school boards or the province/territory.

Do not include students enrolled in vocational programs offered at the postsecondary level, or by any institution other than a school board.

Table 3: Enrolments in official languages programs (headcounts)

Table 3.1 Regular second language programs (or core language programs)
Canada outside Quebec:

Enrolments in programs where French is taught to students attending English schools, as a subject in the regular course offerings.

Please note that Table 3.1 also includes extended core programs, for which one or more additional subjects can also be taught in French to students attending English schools.

Quebec:

Enrolments in programs where English is taught to students attending French schools, as a subject in the regular course offerings.

Please note that Table 3.1 also includes extended core programs, for which one or more additional subjects can also be taught in English to students attending French schools.

Table 3.2 French immersion programs

Enrolments in programs where French is the language of instruction for students attending English schools in Quebec and outside Quebec.

Note: Enrolments in intensive French programs should not be included with those in French immersion programs, but should be included in Table 3.1.

Table 3.3 First official language programs for the linguistic minority

Enrolments in programs for students from the official language minority of each province or territory (French outside Quebec, English in Quebec). These programs allow children in the linguistic minority to pursue their education in their first official language.

Core French (Programme de base de français):

A second language program offered at various grade levels, in which French is studied as a subject. This also includes the extended core program where one or more additional subjects can also be taught in the student's second official language (French outside Quebec, English in Quebec). (Core French programs should be reported in Table 3.1.)

Intensive French (Programme intensif de français):

An enrichment of the core French program that involves periods of intensive study and use of French, while the regular curriculum is "compressed" into the remainder of that school year. It is important to note that the French instruction is focused only on language acquisition. (Intensive French programs should be reported in Table 3.1.)

French immersion (Programme d'immersion en français):

A program in which French is the language of instruction for a significant part of the school day; that is, several or all subjects are taught in French, except for English language arts. Immersion is designed for students who want to develop a proficiency in French as a second language. (Immersion programs should be reported in Table 3.2.)

Table 4: Enrolments by type of Aboriginal language program, by grade, school boards and districts (headcounts)

Table 4.1: Aboriginal language as a subject (Aboriginal second language program or core Aboriginal)
Enrolments in programs where an Aboriginal language is taught as a subject (as a part of the regular course offerings). One or more additional subjects can also be taught in an Aboriginal language but may not exceed 25% of all instruction time. Table 4.1 captures data for all students, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal.

Table 4.2: Aboriginal language immersion programs (Aboriginal first language programs)
Enrolments in schools where all classroom instruction is taught in an Aboriginal language for Aboriginal students (exclude non-Aboriginal/First Nations students).

Table 5: Enrolments in programs for students with special needs

Note: Due to data quality concerns, data on special needs are not published at this time.

Table 6: Number of graduates, by type of program, age and sex, school boards and districts

Graduates represent first-time graduates only. Count late graduates but do not count the same graduate twice.

Table 6.1: Regular programs for youth
Include first-time graduates from general programs geared toward and offered primarily to similarly aged young people. Although the majority of these graduates will likely be typically school-aged youth, some adults may graduate from these programs.  

Table 6.2: General programs for adults
Include first-time graduates from general programs geared toward and offered primarily to adult learners within the elementary–secondary school system. This may include some graduates from the youth sector who have pursued particular programs of study only found in adult education, as well as older graduates.

Do not include any graduates of programs offered at the postsecondary level or by any institution other than a school board.

Tables 6.3 a, b: Vocational programs for youth and adults
Include first-time graduates from professional and technical training programs.

Do not include any graduates of vocational programs offered at the postsecondary level or by any institution other than a school board.

Table 7: Educators in public and private schools (headcounts)

Educator related tables include all employees working in public or private schools who belong to one of the three following categories: teachers, school administrators, and pedagogical support.

They include all educators in regular public or private schools.

They also include provincial reformatory or custodial schools, and other students recognized and funded by a province or territory, but do not include educators in correspondence or distance programs or independent schools financed by federal departments (e.g., the Department of National Defence and Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada).

Please note that all teachers in regular programs for youth, general programs for adults, and vocational programs for youth and adults should also be included. Exclude any programs offered at the postsecondary level or by any institution other than a school board.

Teachers include personnel involved in direct student instruction, either in a group or on a one-on-one basis. They include classroom teachers; special education teachers; specialists (music, physical education); and other teachers who work with students as a whole class in a classroom, in small groups in a resource room, or one-on-one inside or outside a regular classroom, including substitute/supply teachers. Chairpersons of departments who spend the majority of their time teaching and personnel temporarily not at work (e.g., for reasons of illness or injury, maternity or parental leave, holiday or vacation) should also be reported in this category. It excludes teacher's aides or student teachers as well as other personnel who do not get paid for their employment. For paid teacher's aides or educational assistants see category "pedagogical support" below.

School administrators include all personnel who support the administration and management of the school such as principals, vice-principals and other management staff with similar responsibilities only if they do not spend the majority of their time teaching. Exclude those who are in higher level management; receptionists, secretaries, clerks and other staff who support the administrative activities of the school; and those who are reported under "other than educators".

Pedagogical support staff includes professional non-teaching personnel who provide services to students to support their instruction program. It includes educational assistants, paid teacher's aides, guidance counselors and librarians. Exclude those in health and social support who should be reported under "other than educators".

Table 7.1: Number of full-time and part-time educators by age group and sex (headcounts)

Educator headcount is defined as the number of educators on September 30 (or as close as possible thereafter) of the school year who are responsible for providing services to the students reported in the enrolment (headcount) tables.

Table 7.2: Number of full-time equivalent (FTE) educators by category

Full-time equivalent (FTE) educator is defined as the number of full-time educators on September 30 (or as close as possible thereafter) of the school year, plus the sum of part-time educators according to their percentage of a full-time employment allocation (determined by the province or territory). For example, if a normal full-time work allocation is 10 months per year, an educator who works for 6 months of the year would be counted as 0.6 of a full-time equivalent (FTE) or an employee who works part time for 10 months at 60% of full time would be 0.6 of an FTE .

FTEs belong to one of three categories: teachers, school administrators, and pedagogical support.

2013 to 2014 collection period

History and background

The Elementary–Secondary Education Survey (ESES) began in 2003 as a Statistics Canada pilot project known as the Elementary–Secondary Education Statistics Project (ESESP). The ESESP survey content originated from three tables that were originally part of a survey sent out each year to all provinces and territories by the British Columbia Ministry of Education. Following formal consultation with all provinces, territories and data users, Statistics Canada introduced seven new tables to collect additional data. The project's goals were to collect elementary/secondary expenditure data, and to replace several surveys that were collecting data on enrolments, graduates, and educators the former Elementary-Secondary School Enrolment Survey the Secondary School Graduate Survey, the Elementary-Secondary Education Staff Survey and the Principal's Statistical Report. Although this project collected expenditure data, the Survey of Uniform Financial System – School Boards survey (SUFSB – record number 3119) remained active.

In January 2010, the ESESP was renamed the Elementary–Secondary Education Survey (ESES) to symbolize the change from a pilot project to a Statistics Canada ongoing core survey. The main objectives of the collection tool remained: to produce relevant, comparable and timely statistics, and to reduce the respondent burden on educational organizations and school principals.

Statistics Canada maintains a close relationship with the Canadian Education Statistics Council (CESC), particularly its Strategic Management Committee (SMC), and seeks their ongoing advice and guidance on the survey. The CESC is a partnership between the Council of Ministers of Education of Canada (CMEC) and Statistics Canada. It was established in 1989 to improve the quality and comparability of Canadian education data and to provide information that can inform policy-development in education. The CESC also produces two sets of education indicators, Education Indicators in Canada: Report of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (Statistics Canada catalogue number 81-582-X) and Indicators in Canada: An International Perspective (catalogue number 81-604-X) for policy makers, practitioners, and the general public to monitor the performance of education systems, across jurisdictions and over time.

Changes in data collection

Private school data collection:

In the summer of 2010, Statistics Canada conducted a jurisdictional review and was able to ascertain that of the data collected by the ESES for public schools, data for enrolment (grade), enrolment (age), minority language, graduates and educators could also be provided for private schools. Therefore, in January 2011, Statistics Canada commenced collection of private school data, beginning with the 2009/2010 collection period.

Home schooling data collection:

In the summer of 2011, Statistics Canada conducted another jurisdictional review and was able to ascertain that of the data collected by the ESES for public schools, data for enrolment (grade) and enrolment (age) could be provided for home schooling. Therefore, in January 2012, Statistics Canada commenced collection of home schooling data, beginning with the 2011/2012 collection period.

Note: Data on private schools and home schooling are not published.

Definitions

In order to obtain consistent counts of students, educators, graduates and expenditures for school boards and districts across provinces and territories, it is very important that respondents use common definitions.

School board encompasses district school boards, school authorities and/or their equivalent depending on the jurisdiction.

School district refers to all school boards and/or school districts.

Public schools are publicly funded elementary and secondary schools that are operated by school boards or the province or territory. They include all regular publicly funded schools (graded and ungraded), provincial reformatory or custodial schools and other schools that are recognized and funded by the province or territory.

Private schools encompass both elementary and secondary schools that, whether church affiliated, or non-sectarian, are operated, managed and administered by private individuals and/or groups ( e.g., a church, a trade union or a business enterprise, or a foreign or international agency), or that have a governing board that consists mostly of members not selected by a public agency.

The extent to which an institution receives its funding from public or private sources does not determine its classification as a public or private school.

Privately managed schools may be subject to some regulation or control by public authorities, but these institutions are nevertheless classified as private, provided that they are ultimately subject to private control. Public regulation may extend to areas such as curriculum, staffing appointments, admissions policies, and other matters.

The ESES does not distinguish between government dependent private and independent private institutions.

Reminder: Private school data are to be submitted as an aggregate at the provincial/territorial level, not at the school level.

Home schooling is an alternative method of learning that takes place outside of the public or private school environment. Parents choosing homeschooling have the primary responsibility of managing, delivering and supervising their children's courses and program of learning, which can vary from a very structured curriculum to free-form learning.

The tables explained

Table 1: Expenditures

School district expenditures include all expenditures (operating and capital) paid directly by district school boards.

Ministry of Education expenditures include all expenditures (operating and capital) expenses paid on behalf of district school boards by Ministries/Departments of Education or any other entities responsible for education (e.g., Ministry of Learning, Ministry of Advanced Education).

Other provincial governments or agency expenditures include all expenditures (operating and capital) incurred by other provincial departments or agencies such as Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Transport, etc. Do not include expenses paid on behalf of school districts by Ministries of Education.

Expenditures included are:

  • those for Regular programs for youth
  • those for Adult upgrading programs such as General Education Development (GED), Adult Basic Education (ABE) and other equivalent programs for secondary schools.
  • those for Vocational programs for youth and adults offered at the secondary level only.

Expenditures excluded are:

  • federal expenditures (e.g., schools operated by the Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada or the Department of National Defence, or federal programs such as Canadian Heritage official languages programs, or Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, Canadian International Development Agency, or Health Canada programs)
  • those for private schools
  • those related to programs at the post-secondary level
  • intra-sectoral transactions
  • principal portion of debt repayments or bank loans
  • recoveries of expenditures from specified purpose
  • provision for vacation pay and similar employee benefit
  • provision for bad debts and any other provisions
  • reserves and other suspense accounts
  • deficits and write-off to losses
  • depreciation on capital expenditures (amortization charges)
  • debenture discount
  • taxes remitted to other government sub-sectors (ex: municipal taxes).

School boards and districts

Educator remuneration:

Salaries, wages and allowances (row 1)
Salaries and wages are the remuneration to educators for services rendered. Include teachers, school administrators, such as principals and vice-principals; and other professional non-teaching staff, such as guidance counselors and librarians as well as pedagogical support personnel.

Allowances are payments made in addition to salaries/ wages to compensate for isolation, additional administrative duties or other responsibilities and other similar costs. Include sick leave payments, maternity leave and other approved leave. Do not include ad hoc allowances for travel and accommodation (include in "Other operating expenditures" [row 6]) and payments of superannuation or pension premiums on behalf of the educator.

Fringe benefits – except employer's contribution to the Canada and Quebec pension plans (row 2)
Includes payment on behalf of the educator for Employment Insurance premiums, life insurance plans, health, dental and drug plans, vision care plans, workers' compensation plans, disability insurance plans, termination and early retirement gratuities, private use of institution's goods and services, employee discounts, professional fees related to professional development, payments to government work safety agencies, purchase and maintenance of clothing, moving fees, employee counseling services, union duties leave, annuity funds, paid recognition for years of service, paid holidays, trips, jury duty pay, employee parking lot fees, and board-sponsored recreation or paid memberships.

Educator pension plans:

Employer's contribution to Canada and Quebec pension plans (row 3)
Includes the employer's contribution to the Canada and Quebec pension plans.

Others pension plans (row 4)
Any other types of pension plans.

Periodic contributions to rectify actuarial deficiencies (row 5)
Adjustments made during the current year to ensure that the funds required are available, which are actuarial liability adjustments made to current service payments to reduce or eliminate the debt.

Other operating expenditures:

Other operating expenditures (row 6)
Include salary and non salary costs related to business administration, instruction, educational services, food services, school facilities services, school transportation and any other expenditure related to the provision of services in the public school system. Do not include interests on debt services.

Total operating expenditures (row 7)
The sum of rows 1 to 6.

Capital expenditures:

Capital expenditures (row 8)
Include acquisitions of physical assets of a fixed or permanent nature with a useful life of more than one operating year. Include expenditures of an annual or cyclical nature for capital-lease and leasehold improvement (e.g., major repairs and upgrades to school and board buildings, new school and board furniture equipment and vehicles). Do not include expenditures for non-major repairs and maintenance designated as "plant operation" in "Other operating expenditures (row 6)".

Note that all capital expenditures must be reported with the historical cost in the year of the initial expenditure. If the capital expenditures are "amortized" during their useful life, they should be converted to the historical cost and reported to the year of the initial cost in order to insure the comparability of data between provinces and territories. Please include a description of each category on the Capital Expenditure Conversion form whenever the amortization of a fixed asset is used.

Interest on debt services (row 9)
Include the interest on loans and advances, bonds, debentures and mortgages, other debt charges such as bank service charges and other charges pertaining to the servicing of the public debt.

Total capital expenditures (row 10)
The sum of rows 8 and 9.

Total expenditures - School boards and districts (row 11)
The sum of rows 7 and 10.

Ministry of education

Educator remuneration:

Salaries, Wages and Allowances (row 12)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 1).

Fringe benefits – except employer's contribution to pension plans (row 13)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 2).

Educator pension plans:

Employer's contribution to pension plans (row 14)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 3).

Others pension plans (row 15)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 4)

Periodic contributions to rectify actuarial deficiencies (row 16)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 5).

Other operating expenditures:

Other operating expenditures (row 17)
Include only Ministry/Department of Education expenses relating to DIRECT financial support of school boards. For example, milk programs, textbooks, library, guidance and audio visual expenses. Do not include any grants or contributions to schools boards or districts.

General administration (row 18)
Include only administration expenses directly incurred by the Ministry/Department of Education; e.g,, the Minister's Office expenses including his/her salary, human resources, administrative support and financial services. If any of these administration expenses stated above are also lumped together with postsecondary education, please state or pro-rate the elementary and secondary portion only.

Total operating expenditures (row 19)
The sum of rows 12 to 18.

Capital expenditures:

Capital expenditures (row 20)
Include only Ministry/Department of Education capital expenditures relating to DIRECT financial support of school boards. Do not include any grants or contributions to schools boards or schools districts.

Interest on debt services (row 21)
Include the interest on loans and advances, bonds, debentures and mortgages. Include also other debt charges such as bank service charges and other charges pertaining to the servicing of the public debt.

Total capital expenditures (row 22)
The sum of rows 20 and 21.

Total expenditures – Ministry/Department of Education (row 23)
The sum of rows 19 and 22.

Other provincial departments or agencies

Educator remuneration:

Salaries, wages and allowances (row 24)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 1).

Fringe benefits – al, except employer's contribution to pension plans (row 25)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 2).

Educator pension plans:

Employer's contribution to pension plans (row 26)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 3).

Others pension plans (row 27)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 4)

Periodic contributions to rectify actuarial deficiencies (row 28)
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 5).

Other operating expenditures:

Other operating expenditures (row 29)
Include only Other provincial government or agencies expenses relating to DIRECT financial support of school boards; e.g., school book bureaus, milk programs, textbooks, guidance and audio visual expenses. Do not include any grants or contributions to schools boards or schools districts, administration expenses (see row 17). Do not include any expenses from Ministry/Department of Education.

Total operating expenditures (row 30)
The sum of rows 24 to 29.

Capital expenditures:

Capital expenditures (row 31)
Include only Other provincial governments or agencies capital expenditures related to DIRECT financial support of school boards. Do not include any grants or contributions to schools boards or schools districts. Do not include any expenses from Ministry/Department of Education.

Interest on debt services (row 32)
Include the interest on loans and advances, bonds, debentures and mortgages. Include also other debt charges such as bank service charges and other charges pertaining to the servicing of the public debt.

Total capital expenditures (row 33)
The sum of rows 31 and 32.

Total expenditures - Other provincial departments or agencies (row 34)
The sum of rows 30 and 33.

Total education expenditures:

Total Education Expenditures (row 35)
The sum of rows 11, 23 and 34.

Table 2A and Table 2B: Enrolments by type of program, grade and sex, age and sex, school boards and districts (headcounts)

Public enrolment (for tabs 2A_Public_Grade_&_Sex and 2B_Public_Age_&_Sex) is the number of students (headcount) enrolled in publicly funded schools operated by school boards or the province/territory in September (or as close as possible thereafter) of the school year. It includes all students (graded and ungraded) in regular publicly funded schools, provincial reformatory or custodial schools, and other students recognized and funded by a province or territory. Do not include correspondence or distance education enrolments, private school students, home schooled students, independent school students or students in schools financed by federal departments ( e.g., Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada or the Department of National Defence).

Include other non-standard enrolments including students receiving educational services (if recognized by the province/territory) and for schools and/or school districts that receive funding in a unique manner. They may be non-graduates who are taking only a few courses required to complete graduation. For example, a student who is enrolled in only 25% of a 'regular' course load and for whom the school or school district receives only 25% of the usual funding. This category may not apply to some provinces or territories.

Private enrolment (for tabs 2A_Private_Grade_&_Sex and 2B_Private_Age_&_Sex) is similarly the number of students enrolled in private schools in September (or as close as possible thereafter) of the school year.

Home schooling enrolment (for tabs 2A_Home_Schooling_Grade_&_Sex and 2B_Home_Schooling_Age_&_Sex) is similarly the number of students enrolled in home schooling in September (or as close as possible thereafter) of the school year.

Vocational education is designed for students to acquire the practical skills, know-how and understanding necessary for employment in a particular occupation or trade or class of occupations or trades. Successful completion of these programs usually leads students to a relevant labour-market vocational qualification recognized by the authorities in the province/territory in which it is obtained.

Vocational students must have at least 25 per cent of their instructional time in a vocational or technical program.

Table 2.1: Regular programs for youth
Enrolments for general training programs offered to similarly-aged students.

Table 2.2: Full-time equivalent (FTE) rate (adjustment factor) - Regular programs for youth
Full-time equivalent (FTE) rate represents the fraction of time spent in classroom and for which the students are funded. If the fraction of time is unknown, an estimate should be provided. For example, junior kindergarten and kindergarten students taking a half-time program and where a half-time program is being funded, the FTE enrolment would be the headcount enrolment divided by two, which is 0.5. If a student is only taking a quarter of the usual course load and is funded on that basis, the FTE enrolment would be the headcount enrolment divided by four, which is 0.25.

For most jurisdictions, grades 1-12 have an FTE of 1.0 as these grades are generally considered full-time. FTE 's of less than 1.0 are common for the Junior Kindergarten and Kindergarten grades.

Table 2.3: Upgrading programs for adults
Enrolments in General Education Development (GED), Adult Basic Education (ABE) and other equivalency programs. Do not include any enrolments in upgrading programs offered at the postsecondary level or by any institution other than a school board.

Table 2.4: Vocational programs for youth and adults
Enrolments in all professional and technical training programs offered in public schools operated by school boards or the province. Do not include any enrolments in vocational programs offered at the postsecondary level or by any institution other than a school board.

Table 3: Enrolments by type of official language programs (headcounts)

Table 3.1 Regular second language programs (or core language programs)
Canada outside Quebec:

Enrolments in programs where French is taught to students attending English schools, as a subject in the regular course offerings.

Please note that table 3.1 also includes extended core programs, for which one or more additional subjects can also be taught in French to students attending English schools.

Quebec:

Enrolments in programs where English is taught to students attending French schools, as a subject in the regular course offerings.

Please note that table 3.1 also includes extended core programs, for which one or more additional subjects can also be taught in English to students attending French schools.

Table 3.2: French Immersion Programs

Enrolments in programs where French is the language of instruction for students attending English schools in Quebec and outside Quebec.

Note: Enrolments in intensive French programs should not be included with those in French immersion programs, but should be included in Table 3.1.

Table 3.3: First official language programs for the linguistic minority

Enrolments in programs for students from the official language minority of each province or territory (French outside Quebec, English in Quebec). These programs allow children in the linguistic minority to pursue their education in their first official language.

Core French (Programme de base de français):

A second language program offered at various grade levels, in which French is studied as a subject. This also includes the extended core program where one or more additional subjects can also be taught in the student's second official language. (French outside Quebec, English in Quebec). (Core French programs should be reported in Table 3.1).

Intensive French (Programme intensif de français):

An enrichment of the core French program that involves periods of intensive study and use of French, while the regular curriculum is " compressed" into the remainder of that school year. It is important to note that the French instruction is focused only on language acquisition. (Intensive French programs should be reported in Table 3.1).

French immersion (Programme d'immersion en français):

A program in which French is the language of instruction for a significant part of the school day; that is several or all subjects are taught in French, except for English language arts. Immersion is designed for students who want to develop a proficiency in French as a second language (Immersion programs should be reported in Table 3.2).

Table 4: Enrolments by type of Aboriginal language program, by grade, school boards and districts (headcounts)

Table 4.1: Aboriginal Language as a Subject (Aboriginal Second Language Program or Core Aboriginal)
Enrolments in programs where an Aboriginal language is taught as a subject (as a part of the regular course offerings). One or more additional subjects can also be taught in an Aboriginal language but may not exceed 25% of all instruction time. Table 4.1 captures data for all students, aboriginal and non-aboriginal.

Table 4.2: Aboriginal Language Immersion Programs (Aboriginal First Language Programs)
Enrolments in schools where all classroom instruction is taught in an Aboriginal language for Aboriginal students (exclude non-Aboriginal/First Nation students).

Table 5: Enrolments in special needs education, by type of disability, type of class, school boards and districts (headcounts)

Special needs education accommodates students who have been identified with exceptionalities and for whom additional public and/or private resources are provided to support their education. Additional resources are resources made available over and above those generally available to regular students and are provided to support students who have difficulty following the regular curriculum. They include, but are not limited to, personnel resources (a more favorable teacher/student ratio, additional teachers, assistants or other personnel), material resources (aides or supports of various types, modification or adaptation to classroom, specialized teaching materials) or financial resources (modified funding formulae, money set aside within the regular budget allocation or additional payments).

Following the OECD definitions and recommendations from the Special Education and Student Services Directors of the Western and Northern Canada Protocol, these exceptionalities are broken in three sub-categories:

  • A. Sensory, physical and intellectual disabilities - Low incidence disabilities

Refers to students whose disabilities have clear biological causes – such as physical disabilities, visual impairment/blind, hearing impairment/deaf, moderate to severe/profound intellectual disability, chronic health problem, multiple disabilities, autism and fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS).

  • B. Learning disabilities and behavioral disabilities - High incidence disabilities

Refers to students who experience learning and/or behavioral difficulties.

  • C. To compensate for socio-economic or other disadvantages

Refers to students whose difficulties are considered to arise primarily from socio-economic, cultural and/or linguistic disadvantages for which the education system seeks to compensate.

If a student has multiple special educational needs, this student should be counted in each of the sub-categories. However, please make sure that these students are only counted once in the totals.

Regular class consists of a classroom composed of similarly aged students. 
Students who are withdrawn from a regular class to receive special education services for less than 25% of their instructional time or students who receive special supports while attending a regular class are deemed as attending a regular class.

Special class consists of a segregated (all-day or partial) classroom composed of students with identified special education needs. If a student spends 25% or more of her/his time outside of the regular classroom, they are considered as attending a special classroom.

Note: Data on enrolments in special needs education are not published.

Table 6: Number of graduates by type of program, by age and sex, school boards and districts

Graduates represent first-time graduates only. Count late graduates but do not count the same graduate twice.

Table 6.1: Regular programs for youth
Graduates of general training programs offered to similarly-aged students.

Table 6.2: Adult upgrading programs
Include graduates in General Education Development (GED), Adult Basic Education (ABE) and other equivalency programs. Do not include any graduates of upgrading programs offered at the postsecondary level or by any institution other than a school board.

Table 6.3 a, b: Vocational programs for youth and adults
Include graduates in all professional and technical training programs. Do not include any graduates of vocational programs offered at the postsecondary level or by any institution other than a school board

Table 7: Educators in public and private schools (headcounts)

Educator-related tables include all employees working in the public or private schools who belong to one of the three following categories: teachers, school administrators and pedagogical support.

They include all educators in regular public or private schools.

They also include provincial reformatory or custodial schools, and other students recognized and funded by a province or territory, but do not include educators in correspondence or distance programs or independent schools financed by federal departments (e.g., Indian Affairs and Northern Development Canada or the Department of National Defence).

Please note that all teachers in regular programs for youth, adult upgrading programs and vocational programs for youth and adults should also be included. Exclude any programs offered at the postsecondary level or by any institution other than a school board.

Teachers include personnel involved in direct student instruction in a group or one-on-one basis. They include classroom teachers; special education teachers; specialists (music, physical education); and other teachers who work with students as a whole class in a classroom, in small groups in a resource room, or one-on-one inside or outside a regular classroom, including substitute/supply teachers. Chairpersons of departments who spend the majority of their time teaching and personnel temporarily not at work (e.g. for reasons of illness or injury, maternity or parental leave, holiday or vacation) should also be reported in this category. It excludes teacher's aides or student teachers as well as other personnel who do not get paid for their employment. For paid teacher's aides or educational assistants see category "pedagogical support" below.

School administrators include all personnel who support the administration and management of the school such as principals, vice-principals and other management staff with similar responsibilities only if they do not spend the majority of their time teaching. Exclude those who are in higher level management; receptionists, secretaries, clerks and other staff who support the administrative activities of the school; and those who are reported under "other than educators".

Pedagogical support staff includes professional non-teaching personnel who provide services to students to support their instruction program. It includes educational assistants, paid teacher's aides, guidance counselors and librarians. Exclude those in health and social support who should be reported under "other than educators".

Table 7.1: Number of full-time and part-time educators by age group and sex (headcounts)

Educator headcount is defined as the number of educators on September 30th (or as close as possible thereafter) of the school year who are responsible for providing services to the students reported in the enrolment (headcount) tables.

Table 7.2: Number of full-time equivalent (FTE) educators by category

Full-time equivalent (FTE) educator is defined as the number of full-time educators on September 30th (or as close as possible thereafter) of the school year, plus the sum of part-time educators according to their percentage of a full-time employment allocation (determined by the province or territory). For example, if a normal full-time work allocation is 10 months per year, an educator who works for 6 months of the year would be counted as 0.6 of a full-time equivalent (FTE) or an employee who works part time for 10 months at 60% of full time would be 0.6 of an FTE .

FTE s belong to one of three categories: teachers, school administrators and pedagogical support.

Sampling Methodology Updates to the Industrial Consumption of Energy Survey

I. Introduction

As part of a corporate initiative to improve data coherence across the economic survey program, the annual industrial consumption of energy survey (ICE) has been incorporated into the new economic survey model, which is called the Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP).Note1

This report has two main objectives. The first is to inform ICE data users and other program stakeholders of the sampling changes that have been implemented to date as part of the transition to the IBSP. These changes will take effect when data for the reference year 2014 are released, in November 2015. The second objective is to provide context on how the program changes will impact data outputs.

The document is organized into three parts. Following the introduction, Part II highlights the key methodological changes resulting from the integration of the ICE survey into the IBSP framework and expected impacts on the data. Part III presents the conclusions.

II. Sampling methodological changes to the ICE survey under the IBSP

The IBSP provides a common survey framework for the various business surveys conducted at Statistics Canada. The integration of the ICE survey into the IBSP framework, which started with the reference year 2014 cycle, resulted in the following changes to the sampling methodology.

  1. Sampling Unit

Prior to reference year 2014, the sampling unit for the ICE survey was based on the business establishment.  As the IBSP adopts the business enterprise as the sampling unit, the sampling methodology for the ICE survey was updated towards using the enterprise as the sampling unit.

In this new scheme, when an enterprise is selected as in-scope for the ICE survey sample, all the in-scope establishments under that enterprise will be included in the sample. Given that the majority of ICE sample units represent the so-called simple single businesses consisting of a single business establishment, the impact of this change is not very significant.

  1. Random sampling method.

The IBSP uses the Bernouilli sampling method, while a simple random sampling method (SRS) was used for the ICE survey, before reference year 2014.

The major difference introduced by this new method is that, within each sampling stratum, the sample size is no longer a predetermined number. Given the fairly large overall sample size and the mini-censuses in many strata of the ICE survey, the general impact is not expected to be significant.

  1. Change of stratification method.

The previous Lavallée-Hidiroglou stratification algorithm used by the ICE survey has now been replaced by a general geometric stratification. This may lead to minor differences in calculating boundaries between sample strata. Overall, the general impact on the data is not expected to be significant.

In addition to the changes identified above, Statistics Canada’s Business Register, which provides the population frame for the ICE survey, is updated on a regular basis. These continuous improvements may impact the ICE survey from time to time. For instance, the determination of annual business revenue for each company/enterprise is currently being modified. Given the important role played by business revenue in the sampling process, this will result in some changes to the ICE survey sample.

The IBSP methodological and analytical approaches take into account core IBSP objectives, including reducing response burden, maintaining data quality, and maximizing the use of administrative data.

III. Conclusion

The new sampling methodology may result in some data variability from previous years in non census industries. For example, establishments belonging to the same enterprise may have a stronger tendency to consume similar energy products. This is not expected to have a large impact as many of the ICE sample units are simple single businesses where there is only one establishment per enterprise. Revenue updates in the BR and possible boundary changes to the strata may also result in minor data changes for the non census industries.

Notes

  1. For additional information, please see the Integrated Business Statistics Program Overview (68-515-X)

2015 Survey of Service Industries: Accounting Services

Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP)

Reporting Guide

This guide is designed to assist you as you complete the 2015 Survey of Service Industries. If you need more information, please call the Statistics Canada Help Line at the number below.

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.

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Business activity
Reporting period information
Revenue
Expenses
Industry characteristics
Sales by type of client
International transactions
E-commerce

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Business activity

The description on file for this business comes from the North American Industrial Classifications System (NAICS). This database contains a limited number of activity classifications. The classifications on file 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.

By selecting "Yes, this is the main activity.", you indicate that the description is applicable, and it describes the main economic activity which typically generates the most revenue for this business or organization.

By selecting "No, this is secondary activity." you indicate that the description is applicable, but that there is a different economic activity which typically generates more revenue for this business or organization. You will be given a chance to describe this business or organization’s main activity, and select an appropriate classification.

By selecting "No, this description is not applicable." you indicate that this description is not applicable as a main or a secondary activity of this business or organization. You will be given a chance to describe this business or organization’s main activity, and provide an appropriate classification.

By selecting "No, this is not the main activity.", you indicate that this description is not applicable as a main or a secondary activity of this business. You will be given a chance to describe this business’s main activity.

If none of the above activities describes your main source of revenue, please call 1-800-972-9692 for further instructions.

Reporting period information

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

  • May 1, 2014 to April 30, 2015
  • June 1, 2014 to May 31, 2015
  • July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015
  • August 1, 2014 to July 31, 2015
  • September 1, 2014 to August 31, 2015
  • October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015
  • November 1, 2014 to October 31, 2015
  • December 1, 2014 to November 30, 2015
  • January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015
  • February 1, 2015 to January 31, 2016
  • March 1, 2015 to February 28, 2016
  • April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016

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

  • September 18, 2014 to September 15, 2015 (e.g., floating year-end)
  • June 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015 (e.g., a newly opened business)

Revenue

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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).

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. Dividends

Include: Dividend income; Dividends from Canadian sources; Dividends from foreign sources; Patronage dividends.
Exclude: Equity income from investments in subsidiaries or affiliates.

  1. 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.

  1. Other revenue - specify

Include: Amounts not included in questions (1) to (7).

  1. Total revenue

The sum of sub-questions (1) to (8).

Expenses

  1. 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 from question 1. These values should be included in question 2 and 3 below.

  1. Employment costs and expenses
  1. 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 these amounts at sub-question (3) - Subcontracts).

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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 sub-question (21) - All other expenses).

  1. 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 telecommunication (report at sub-question (8) - Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication); Vehicle fuel (report at sub-question (21) - All other costs and expenses).

  1. 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 this amount at sub-question (8) - Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication).

  1. Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication

Include: Internet; Telephone and telecommunication; Cellular telephone; Fax machine; Pager.

  1. 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.

  1. 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

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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).

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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 sub-question (19) - Interest expense).

  1. 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.

  1. 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

  1. 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 costs 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 (1) to (20) above.

  1. Total expenses

(sum of sub-questions 1 to 21)

Industry characteristics

  1. Auditing and other assurance services

Include:

  • Financial auditing;
  • Tax auditing;
  • Review of financial statements with or without compilation;
  • Agreed-upon procedures for financial information;
  • Other assurance and related services.
  1. Taxation preparation and representation services

Include:

Services for companies and other clients such as:

  • Preparation of income and other tax returns;
  • Review of returns prepared by others;
  • Filing of returns;
  • Preparation of supplementary documents associated with returns;
  • Preparation for representation at tax audits and appeals.

Include compilation of financial statements when provided as a package with tax preparation for a single fee.

Tax planning and consulting services

Planning and consulting in order to minimize the impact of taxation and interpreting tax law.

  1. Bookkeeping, financial statement compilation, payroll services

General accounting services (include financial statement compilation services)

Include:

  • Bookkeeping;
  • Compilation of financial statements.

A compilation engagement is one in which an accountant receives information from a client and arranges it into the form of a financial statement. The accountant assures that the assembly of information is arithmetically correct. However, the accountant does not attempt to verify the accuracy or completeness of the information provided, and no endorsement or expression of assurance is provided.

Bookkeeping services

A service consisting of general transaction entry.

Include:

  • Maintenance of all journals and ledgers;
  • Preparation of trial balances and bank reconciliations;
  • Production of management information reports;
  • Billing and collection of accounts receivable;
  • Processing of accounts payable.

May include payroll calculation but not the overall payroll services.

Payroll services

Include:

  • Payroll processing;
  • Withholding deductions;
  • Remitting deductions and employer’s contributions to government-mandated and other plans;
  • Filing reports.
  1. Insolvency and receivership services

Include:

  • Overseeing the dissolution (bankruptcy) of a firm;
  • Payment of all creditors possible;
  • Filing of the necessary documents in compliance with government regulation.
  1. Management consulting services

Management consulting services in the areas of strategic and organizational planning, finance, human resources, marketing and production.

  1. Other sales of goods and services
  • All other sales of services not specified elsewhere such as:
  • Business incorporation services;
  • Personal financial planning services;
  • Legal services;
  • Accounting training services;
  • Litigation support services;
  • Business valuation services;
  • Computerized accounting systems services.

(Please Specify):

Please indicate any major items associated with the revenue reported for this category on the line provided. Sales from these goods and services, while not generally part of your principal source of revenue, complete the financial picture of the activities of your business unit.

Non-salaried partners and proprietors

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

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%.

1. 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.

2. 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.

International transactions

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licenses 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.

E-commerce

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 include 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, 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.