Public infrastructure and the performance of the Canadian economy
Canada's publicly owned infrastructure has a tangible impact on the productivity and the economic performance of the business sector.
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Businesses with employees
There were 966,236 businesses with employees in the third quarter of 2003, a slight 0.07% less than in the second quarter. The decline affected all regions but the Prairies and British Columbia.
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Research and development personnel
The number of people employed in research and development activities has increased by about one-third during the past decade.
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Labour Force Survey
Employment rose by an estimated 65,000 in October, almost all in full-time jobs. Since the start of 2003, employment has grown by 1.0%. The unemployment rate fell 0.4 percentage points in October to 7.6%.
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Provincial and territorial economic accounts
Economic growth rates for 2002 have been revised upward for five provinces. The revised estimates show that real gross domestic product for 2002 increased faster than initially estimated in all four Eastern provinces and in British Columbia.
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Foreign control in the Canadian economy
Foreign control in the Canadian economy declined for the second straight year in 2000, returning to levels recorded a decade earlier.
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Business conditions in manufacturing
Following a summer with a major blackout, a case of mad cow disease and an increasingly strong dollar, manufacturers were more upbeat about fourth quarter production and employment prospects.
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Gross domestic product
Economic activity contracted sharply in August, largely the result of the blackout in Ontario. Gross domestic product plummeted 0.7%.
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Impact of the Ontario-US power outage on hours worked
An estimated 2.4 million workers in Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec, lost 26.4 million hours of work time in the second half of August because of the Ontario-US power outage and subsequent conservation period.
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Knowledge workers in Canada's workforce
The proportion of knowledge workers increased steadily over the last three decades, reflecting a growth trend that began long before the high-tech boom of the 1990s.
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Savers, investors and investment income
The number of Canadians reporting investment income and the amount of income they received both fell sharply in 2002.
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Employment Insurance
The estimated number of Canadians receiving regular Employment Insurance benefits in August increased 1.0% from July to 588,890, marking the seventh consecutive monthly rise.
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Industrial diversity of Canadian cities
The average Canadian city became more industrially diverse from 1992 to 2002. However, it was generally in small and medium-sized cities that diversity increased. /Daily/English/031027/d031027c.htmPayroll employment, earnings and hours
The estimated average weekly earnings of payroll employees declined 0.5% in August. The overall decrease offset increases recorded in the two previous months and was driven mainly by declines in the manufacturing sector in Ontario and Quebec.
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Registered retirement savings plan contributions
The number of Canadians who contributed to a registered retirement savings plan and the amount of their contributions have both dropped sharply in 2002 for the second straight year.
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Consumer Price Index
Consumers paid 2.2% more in September for the goods and services included in the Consumer Price Index basket than they did in September 2002. September's 12-month increase remains well below the recent highs of early 2003, when energy prices, and especially gasoline prices, were providing the bulk of the upward pressure.
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