Table 6
Plant size models

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  Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4
Constant 20,619,000 (0.000) 9,532,000 (0.069) -3,247,000 (0.634) 8,599,000 (0.003)
Atlantic Canada -16,950,000 (0.000) -18,350,000 (0.000) 2,835,000 (0.725)
Quebec -16,730,000 (0.000) -15,170,000 (0.000) 109,000 (0.987)
Western Canada -11,970,000 (0.001) -9,484,000 (0.007) 2,265,000 (0.726)
Employment 1,388,000 (0.033) 1,127,000 (0.081) 346,000 (0.068)
x Urban -1,393,000 (0.032) -1,131,000 (0.079) -342,000 (0.079)
Urban 5,383,000 (0.102) 8,143,000 (0.147)
Export intensity 35,063,000 (0.000) 80,180,000 (0.000) 50,998,000 (0.000)
x Atlantic Canada -63,380,000 (0.001) -55,850,000 (0.000)
x Quebec -50,130,000 (0.000) -32,690,000 (0.001)
x Western Canada -39,280,000 (0.001) -45,000,000 (0.000)
x Urban -14,980,000 (0.610) -2,998,000 (0.708)
Labour-intensive -8,903,000 (0.334) -3,781,000 (0.675) -3,888,000 (0.665) -4,860,00 (0.170)
Scale-based 31,196,000 (0.000) 15,328,000 (0.010) 13,599,000 (0.023) 2,927,000 (0.519)
Product-differentiated -15,250,000 (0.235) -7,513,000 (0.544) -4,907,000 (0.689) -29,440,000 (0.000)
Science-based 46,143,000 (0.002) 33,665,000 (0.027) 36,119,000 (0.017) 30,670,000 (0.011)
1979 5,082,000 (0.000)
1984 3,996,000 (0.001)
1990 2,606,000 (0.028)
1993 5,894,000 (0.000)
1996 7,586,000 (0.000)
1997 8,573,000 (0.000)
1998 11,487,000 (0.000)
1999 12,183,000 (0.000)
Observations 2,151 2,151 2,151 2,151
Census divisions 239 239 239 239
R-squared 0.32 0.39 0.43 0.23
F (Probability>F) 16.8 (0.000) 14.5 (0.000) 11.8 (0.000) 17.5 (0.000)
Estimator between between between fixed effects

… not applicable

Note: P-values are in parentheses and are corrected for heteroskedasticity in Model 4.

Source: Statistics Canada, Annual Survey of Manufactures.