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Value-added exports, 2012

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Released: 2016-09-21

Value-added exports continue to recover

Value-added exports accounted for 21.7% of gross value added or gross domestic product (GDP) and almost 3 million jobs in 2012.

While value-added exports edged up in 2012, their contribution as a share of total GDP fell by 0.5 percentage points compared with 2011 and remained well below their high of 24.7% in 2008.

The number of jobs related to the export sector increased by 53,500 in 2012 and accounted for 16.8% of total jobs, up 0.1 percentage points from 2011. However, the number of export-related jobs in 2012 remained well below the 3,321,000 jobs recorded in 2008.

Value-added exports have limited impact on gross domestic product

Value-added exports grew in most major industrial sectors, led by increases of $1.9 billion in manufacturing, $1.3 billion in wholesaling, $1.3 billion in crop production and $1.1 billion in transportation. These rises were largely offset by declines in the mining (-$4.0 billion) and oil and gas extraction (-$3.3 billion) industries.

In 2012, gross exports were up $10.2 billion, leading to a $1.1 billion increase in GDP (when the value of import content is removed). The large difference was attributable to two compounding factors. The first factor was an increase in the relative export shares of industries that import a high proportion of their inputs, such as manufacturing (40% import share), and a decrease in the relative export shares of industries that import a low proportion of their inputs, such as mining and oil and gas extraction (12% import share).

The second factor was a rise in the import content of exports of some of the largest goods-exporting industries, including oil and gas extraction (+27%), mining (+19%) and manufacturing (+1.2%).

Job creation follows a more positive track

Job creation related to exports followed a slightly different trajectory than that of contributions to GDP. Of the 53,500 export-related jobs created in 2012, 41% were attributable to oil and gas extraction and 16% to manufacturing.

Non-conventional oil extraction was the main source of job growth in oil and gas extraction, adding almost 20,000 new jobs. Of these jobs, 16,000 were due to the subsector's purchases of non-capital goods and services from other supplying industries.

Despite job growth in 2012, the overall reliance of the Canadian job market on foreign exports remained 2.6 percentage points below the high of 19.4% in 2007. While 687,000 net jobs were created from 2007 to 2012, exports led to a loss of 331,000 jobs over the same period.

Manufacturing (-203,000) recorded the largest declines in jobs, more specifically manufacturing industries that export to the US market (-186,000). Conversely, some industries recorded export-related job growth throughout most of the period, mainly oil and gas extraction (+24,000), finance and real estate (+17,000) and mining (+14,000).


  Note to readers

The value-added exports database provides data on the exports and imports of industries, as well as the direct and indirect impact of each industry's production for exports on industry, total gross domestic product and jobs. Data cover the period from 2007 to 2012 and are based on the supply and use tables, which provide the basis for the calculations.

This release includes revisions to the previously-released estimates for 2007 to 2011.

For more information on the methodology, see the document Value-added exports: measurement framework.

Contact information

For more information, contact us (toll-free 1-800-263-1136; 514-283-8300; STATCAN.infostats-infostats.STATCAN@canada.ca).

To enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Andreas Trau (613-951-3466; andreas.trau@canada.ca), Industry Accounts Division.

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