Monthly Inventory Statement of Butter and Cheese - 2024

Why are we conducting this survey?

The purpose of this survey is to produce monthly statistics on stocks of butter and cheese held in cold storage warehouses.

The data are used by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the Canadian Dairy Commission, provincial governments and the Dairy Farmers of Canada to assist in the development, administration and evaluation of agricultural policies.

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

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

Other important information

Authorization to collect this information

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

Confidentiality

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

Record linkages

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

Data-sharing agreements

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

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

For this survey, there are Section 11 agreements with the provincial statistical agencies of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. The shared data will be limited to information pertaining to business establishments located within the jurisdiction of the respective province.

Section 12 of the Statistics Act provides for the sharing of information with federal, provincial or territorial government organizations. Under Section 12, you may refuse to share your information with any of these organizations by writing a letter of objection to the Chief Statistician, specifying the organizations with which you do not want Statistics Canada to share your data, and mailing it to the following address:

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

You may also contact us by email at Statistics Canada Help Desk or by fax at 613-951-6583.

For this survey, there are Section 12 agreements with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

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

Business or organization and contact information

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

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

Legal Name

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

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

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

Operating Name

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

• Legal name
• Operating name (if applicable)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Description and examples

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

Main activity

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

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

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

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

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

Dairy products — domestic and imported

1. What was the total inventory in kilograms (kg) of the following butter and butter oil products?

Include:

• domestic and imported products
• salted and unsalted butter.

Dairy products - domestic and imported

Include:

• inventory for all dairy products held in your establishment(s), whether owned by you or by others
• inventory stored in specially rented rooms to which only you have access (except in emergency)
• stocks held on government accounts.

Exclude products held in common or cold public storage (these will be reported by operators of those establishments).

Total inventory of butter and butter oil products

Please report all inventory of butter and butter oil products including domestic and imported butter and butter oil products.

a. to c. Creamery butter

Include:

• salted and unsalted butter
• whipped butter
• light or 'lite' butter
• cultured butter
• sweet butter
• calorie-reduced butter
• dairy spread.

Exclude reworked butter and manufacturing cream.

What was the total inventory in kilograms (kg) of the following butter and butter oil products?

1. What was the total inventory in kilograms (kg) of the following butter and butter oil products?	Total inventory on 1st of month (kg)
a. Creamery butter — held under Plan A
b. Creamery butter — held under Plan B
c. Creamery butter — held privately
Total creamery butter
d. Whey butter
e. Butter oil

2. What was the total inventory in kilograms (kg) of the following types of cheese?

Include domestic and imported products.

Dairy products - domestic and imported

Include:

• inventory for all dairy products held in your establishment(s), whether owned by you or by others
• inventory stored in specially rented rooms to which only you have access (except in emergency)
• stocks held on government accounts.

Exclude products held in common or cold public storage (these will be reported by operators of those establishments).

Total inventory of cheese

Please report all inventory of cheese including domestic and imported cheese.

a. Cheddar

Include all sizes of cheddar cheese: block, stirred curd, curd and cheddar cheese used to make processed cheese.

b. Mozzarella

Include:

• American full fat mozzarella (27% to 28 % B.F.)
• American low fat mozzarella (17% to 20 % B.F.)
• Italian full fat mozzarella (22% to 24 % B.F.)
• Italian low fat mozzarella (15 % B.F.)
• other mozzarella cheese products.

c. Other factory cheese (all varieties except cheddar, mozzarella and processed)

Include brick, casata, feta, gouda, marble, swiss, curd cheese, etc.

d. Processed cheese

Include processed cheese, processed cheese food, processed cheese spread made from cheddar cheese or other cheeses.

What was the total inventory in kilograms (kg) of the following types of cheese?

2. What was the total inventory in kilograms (kg) of the following types of cheese? Include domestic and imported products	Total inventory on 1st of month (kg)
a. Cheddar Include all sizes, curds, etc.
b. Mozzarella
c. Other factory cheese (all varieties except cheddar, mozzarella and processed)
d. Processed cheese
Total cheese

3. Of the above dairy products held on 1st of month (kg), were any owned by dairy processors?

• Yes
• No

Inventory owned by dairy processors

4. Of the dairy products held in inventory on 1st of month (kg), which of the following were owned by dairy processors?

Select all that apply.

Inventory owned by dairy processors

Please indicate whether or not any of the dairy products held in inventory were owned by dairy processors.

Include inventory of dairy products which were owned by dairy processors AND which were:

• held in your establishment(s) or
• stored in specially rented rooms to which only you have access (except in emergency) or
• held on government accounts.

Exclude dairy products held in common or cold public storage (these will be reported by operators of those establishments).

Of the dairy products held in inventory on 1st of month (kg), which of the following were owned by dairy processors?

4. Of the dairy products held in inventory on 1st of month (kg), which of the following were owned by dairy processors?	Inventory owned by dairy processors	Number of processors
Creamery butter — held under Plan A
Creamery butter - held under Plan B
Creamery butter - held privately
Whey butter
Butter oil
Cheddar
Mozzarella
Other factory cheese (all varieties except cheddar, mozzarella and processed)
Processed cheese

5. For the following dairy product(s), what is the name of the dairy processor(s) and the quantity of inventory owned in kilograms (kg) by each dairy processor?

Inventory owned by dairy processors

Include inventory of dairy products which were owned by dairy processors AND which were:

• held in your establishment(s) or
• stored in specially rented rooms to which only you have access (except in emergency) or
• held on government accounts.

Exclude dairy products held in common or cold public storage (these will be reported by operators of those establishments).

For the following dairy product(s), what is the name of the dairy processor(s) and the quantity of inventory owned in kilograms (kg) by each dairy processor?

5. For the following dairy product(s), what is the name of the dairy processor(s) and the quantity of inventory owned in kilograms (kg) by each dairy processor?	Name of dairy processor	Quantity owned on 1st of month (kg)
Creamery butter — held under Plan A
a. Dairy processor 1
b. Dairy processor 2
c. Dairy processor 3
d. Dairy processor 4
e. Dairy processor 5
f. Dairy processor 6
g. Dairy processor 7
h. Dairy processor 8
i. Dairy processor 9
Creamery butter — held under Plan B
a. Dairy processor 1
b. Dairy processor 2
c. Dairy processor 3
d. Dairy processor 4
e. Dairy processor 5
f. Dairy processor 6
g. Dairy processor 7
h. Dairy processor 8
i. Dairy processor 9
Creamery butter — held privately
a. Dairy processor 1
b. Dairy processor 2
c. Dairy processor 3
Dairy processor 4
d. Dairy processor 5
e. Dairy processor 6
f. Dairy processor 7
g. Dairy processor 8
h. Dairy processor 9
Whey butter
a. Dairy processor 1
b. Dairy processor 2
c. Dairy processor 3
d. Dairy processor 4
e. Dairy processor 5
f. Dairy processor 6
g. Dairy processor 7
h. Dairy processor 8
i. Dairy processor 9
Butter oil
a. Dairy processor 1
b. Dairy processor 2
c. Dairy processor 3
d. Dairy processor 4
e. Dairy processor 5
f. Dairy processor 6
g. Dairy processor 7
h. Dairy processor 8
i. Dairy processor 9
Cheddar
a. Dairy processor 1
b. Dairy processor 2
c. Dairy processor 3
d. Dairy processor 4
e. Dairy processor 5
f. Dairy processor 6
g. Dairy processor 7
h. Dairy processor 8
i. Dairy processor 9
Mozzarella
a. Dairy processor 1
b. Dairy processor 2
c. Dairy processor 3
d. Dairy processor 4
e. Dairy processor 5
f. Dairy processor 6
g. Dairy processor 7
h. Dairy processor 8
i. Dairy processor 9
Other factory cheese (all varieties except cheddar, mozzarella and processed)
a. Dairy processor 1
b. Dairy processor 2
c. Dairy processor 3
d. Dairy processor 4
e. Dairy processor 5
f. Dairy processor 6
g. Dairy processor 7
h. Dairy processor 8
i. Dairy processor 9
Processed cheese
a. Dairy processor 1
b. Dairy processor 2
c. Dairy processor 3
d. Dairy processor 4
e. Dairy processor 5
f. Dairy processor 6
g. Dairy processor 7
h. Dairy processor 8
i. Dairy processor 9

Changes or events

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

Select all that apply.

• Strike or lock-out
  • How many days in [reference month] was this business or organization open?
• Exchange rate impact
• Price changes in goods or services sold
• Contracting out
• Organizational change
• Price changes in labour or raw materials
• Natural disaster
  • How many days in [reference month] was this business or organization open?
• Recession
• Change in product line
• Sold business or business units
• Expansion
• New or lost contract
• Plant closures
  • How many days in [reference month] was this business or organization open?
• Acquisition of business or business units
• Merger of business or business units
• Equipment failure
  • How many days in [reference month] was this business or organization open?
• Seasonal operation
  • How many days in [reference month] was this business or organization open?
• Increased market demand
• Decreased market demand
• Other
  Specify the other changes or events:
• No changes or events

Contact person

1. Statistics Canada may need to contact the person who completed this questionnaire for further information.
Is the provided given names and the provided family name the best person to contact?

• Yes
• No

Who is the best person to contact about this questionnaire?

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

Feedback

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

Include the time spent gathering the necessary information.

• Hours:
• Minutes:

Do you have any comments about this questionnaire?