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The CD-ROM Canadian Business Patterns provides counts of active establishments by various geography levels, industry classification and employment size.
Canadian Business Patterns (CBP) is compiled from the Business Register, which is a repository of information on the Canadian business population.
Nationally, there were 2,331,337 active establishments recorded for December 2006. Data from the CBP are now available on CD-ROM. They are presented by the 2001 Standard Geographical Classification, the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS 2007), and by employment categories.
Beginning with this December 2006 edition, the new version of the NAICS 2007 has replaced the NAICS 2002 in the CBP tables. However, the majority of changes occur within sector boundaries. The product includes a concordance table indicating the relationship between NAICS 2002 and NAICS 2007.
Note: The Standard Industrial Classification is no longer available in the CBP tables.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 1105.
The December 2006 edition of Canadian Business Patterns (61F0040XCB) is now available. The cost varies between $150 and $2,000 depending on the number of tables or cells.
For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Beau Cinnamon (613-951-9021; BRDinfoDRE@statcan.gc.ca) or Alex Côté (613-951-0829), Business Register Division.
