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Sound recording: data tables
Data for 2005 should not be compared with previously published data on sound recording due to significant changes in coverage and methodology in the new survey. Key national trends can still be determined as this release includes record production and integrated record production and distribution data for the two previous survey years, 2003 and 2000, using the new 2005 methodology. Music publishing and sound recording studios were not covered by the previous survey.
The new Survey of Service Industries: Sound Recording and Music Publishing collects data using a sample, which represents 95% of the total revenue earned by these companies. A limited set of financial data from administrative sources are also included for firms whose combined revenues represent the remaining 5% of total industry revenues.
Data are now collected using the Business Register, a central Statistics Canada database of businesses that have been classified using the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). This industry-based classification is a departure from the activity-based classification used previously by the Culture Statistics Program, where all businesses with record production or integrated record production and distribution activities were surveyed. Some of these activities which were previously included in the survey are now excluded if they represent only secondary activities within the company.
The survey now covers four NAICS industries:
- NAICS 512210 - Record production
- NAICS 512220 - Integrated record production and distribution
- NAICS 512230 - Music publishers
- NAICS 512240 - Sound recording studios
It should be noted that the data by province reflect the economic activity that is taking place in that province, rather than the economic activity reported according to the head office location of the company.
Despite these changes, a number of data points for two earlier survey years have been produced so that key trends can still be determined. Although these backcasted estimates should be used with caution, they represent our best estimates of historical data that would have been produced using this new coverage and methodology for those years.
For music publishers, NAICS 512230, data are only available at the national level. Data quality concerns and the lack of any other year’s data to compare with the 2005 data, have made editing, imputation and verification of the data difficult. However, we do anticipate that provincial data will be available in the future.
Caution should be taken when interpreting the data tables, given that definitions used in 2005 are different from those used in other survey years. For example, operating profit margin is different from the variable profit margin before taxes, used in other survey years. For an overview of survey changes and collection and processing methodologies, see "The new culture of the Culture Statistics Program" at 87-004-XIE2003003.
