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Information on methods and data quality
The National Economic Accounts module features an up-to-date portrait of national and provincial economies and their structure. This includes comprehensive information and overviews of all the components of the accounts as well as more than 300 free statistical tables.
Release dates
- Gross domestic product by income and by expenditure (National income and expenditure accounts)
- Gross domestic product by industry
- Balance of international payments
- Financial flow accounts
- Labour productivity, hourly compensation and unit labour cost
- International investment position
- National balance sheet accounts
Revision policy
Gross domestic product by income and by expenditure, Balance of international payments, Financial flows, Labour productivity, International investment position, National balance sheet accounts:
Preceding quarters of the year are revised when the current quarter is published. Each year, revisions extending back four years are made with the publication of first quarter data. They are not normally revised again except when historical revisions are carried out.
Gross domestic product by industry:
Revisions arise from updates to benchmark data, projectors and seasonal adjustment. January to June: Back to previous year; July: Back to January of fifth previous year; August to December: Back to January of current year. Occasionally, there are historical revisions due to conceptual, methodological and classification changes - the most recent with the July 2002 GDP release.
Guides
- Guide to the Income and Expenditure Accounts
- Gross Domestic Product by Industry: Sources and Methods with Industry Details
- Gross Domestic Product by Industry: Sources and Methods
- A Guide to Deflating the Input-Output Accounts: Sources and Methods
- Canada's Balance of International Payments and International Investment Position, Concepts, Sources, Methods and Products
- Guide to the National Tourism Indicators: Sources and Methods
- Productivity Growth in Canada - Appendix 1 - The Statistics Canada Productivity Program: Concepts and Methods
Research papers
- Income and Expenditure Accounts Technical Series
- The Canadian Economy in Transition
- Update on Economic Analysis
- Insights on the Canadian Economy
- Economic Analysis Research Paper Series
- Economic Analysis Methodology Paper Series: National Accounts
- The 1997 Historical Revision of the Canadian System of National Accounts
- Overview of Productivity Research Program and Description of Publications
Information on methods and data quality
- National Income and Expenditure Accounts
- Estimates of Labour Income
- Gross Domestic Product by Industry - National (Monthly)
- Canada's Balance of International Payments
- Canada's International Transactions in Securities
- Canada's International Transactions in Services
- Financial Flow Accounts
- Labour Productivity Measures - National (Quarterly)
- Canada's International Investment Position
- National Balance Sheet Accounts
- Provincial Economic Accounts
