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Why do we conduct this survey?

This survey is conducted by Statistics Canada in order to collect the necessary information to support the Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP). This program combines various survey and administrative data to develop comprehensive measures of the Canadian economy.

The statistical information from the IBSP serves many purposes, including:

  • calculating each province and territory's fair share of federal-provincial transfer payments for health, education and social programs
  • establishing government programs to assist businesses
  • assisting the business community in negotiating contracts and collective agreements
  • supporting the government in making informed decisions about fiscal, monetary and foreign exchange policies
  • indexing social benefit programs and determining tax brackets
  • enabling academics and economists to analyze the economic performance of Canadian industries and to better understand rapidly evolving business environments.

Your information may also be used by Statistics Canada for other statistical and research purposes.

Your participation in this survey is required under the authority of the Statistics Act.

Other important information

Authorization to collect this information

Data are collected under the authority of the Statistics Act, Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, Chapter S-19.

Confidentiality

By law, Statistics Canada is prohibited from releasing any information it collects that could identify any person, business, or organization, unless consent has been given by the respondent, or as permitted by the Statistics Act. Statistics Canada will use the information from this survey for statistical purposes only.

Record linkages

To enhance the data from this survey and to reduce the reporting burden, Statistics Canada may combine the acquired data with information from other surveys or from administrative sources.

Data-sharing agreements

To reduce respondent burden, Statistics Canada has entered into data-sharing agreements with provincial and territorial statistical agencies and other government organizations, which have agreed to keep the data confidential and use them only for statistical purposes. Statistics Canada will only share data from this survey with those organizations that have demonstrated a requirement to use the data.

Section 11 of the Statistics Act provides for the sharing of information with provincial and territorial statistical agencies that meet certain conditions. These agencies must have the legislative authority to collect the same information, on a mandatory basis, and the legislation must provide substantially the same provisions for confidentiality and penalties for disclosure of confidential information as the Statistics Act. Because these agencies have the legal authority to compel businesses to provide the same information, consent is not requested and businesses may not object to the sharing of the data.

For this survey, there are Section 11 agreements with the provincial and territorial statistical agencies of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Québec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and the Yukon. The shared data will be limited to information pertaining to business establishments located within the jurisdiction of the respective province or territory.

Section 12 of the Statistics Act provides for the sharing of information with federal, provincial or territorial government organizations. Under Section 12, you may refuse to share your information with any of these organizations by writing a letter of objection to the Chief Statistician, specifying the organizations with which you do not want Statistics Canada to share your data and mailing it to the following address:

Chief Statistician of Canada
Statistics Canada
Attention of Director, Enterprise Statistics Division
150 Tunney's Pasture Driveway
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0T6

You may also contact us by email at statcan.esdhelpdesk-dsebureaudedepannage.statcan@statcan.gc.ca or by fax at 613-951-6583.

For this survey, there are Section 12 agreements with the statistical agencies of Prince Edward Island, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

For agreements with provincial and territorial government organizations, the shared data will be limited to information pertaining to business establishments located within the jurisdiction of the respective province or territory.

Business or organization and contact information

1. Verify or provide the business or organization's legal and operating name and correct where needed.

Note: Legal name modifications should only be done to correct a spelling error or typo.

Legal Name
The legal name is one recognized by law, thus it is the name liable for pursuit or for debts incurred by the business or organization. In the case of a corporation, it is the legal name as fixed by its charter or the statute by which the corporation was created.

Modifications to the legal name should only be done to correct a spelling error or typo.

To indicate a legal name of another legal entity you should instead indicate it in question 3 by selecting 'Not currently operational' and then choosing the applicable reason and providing the legal name of this other entity along with any other requested information.

Operating Name
The operating name is a name the business or organization is commonly known as if different from its legal name. The operating name is synonymous with trade name.

Legal name:

Operating name (if applicable):

2. Verify or provide the contact information of the designated business or organization contact person for this questionnaire and correct where needed.

Note: The designated contact person is the person who should receive this questionnaire. The designated contact person may not always be the one who actually completes the questionnaire.

First name:

Last name:

Title:

Preferred language of communication:

  • English
  • French

Mailing address (number and street):

City:

Province, territory or state:

Postal code or ZIP code:

Country:

  • Canada
  • United States

Email address:

Telephone number (including area code):

Extension number (if applicable):
The maximum number of characters is 10.

Fax number (including area code):

3. Verify or provide the current operational status of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name above.

  • Operational
  • Not currently operational
    • Why is this business or organization not currently operational?
      • Seasonal operations
        • When did this business or organization close for the season?
          • Date
        • When does this business or organization expect to resume operations?
          • Date
      • Ceased operations
        • When did this business or organization cease operations?
          • Date
        • Why did this business or organization cease operations?
          • Bankruptcy
          • Liquidation
          • Dissolution
          • Other - specify the other reasons for ceased operations
      • Sold operations
        • When was this business or organization sold?
          • Date
        • What is the legal name of the buyer?
      • Amalgamated with other businesses or organizations
        • When did this business or organization amalgamate?
          • Date
        • What is the legal name of the resulting or continuing business or organization?
        • What are the legal names of the other amalgamated businesses or organizations?
      • Temporarily inactive but will re-open
        • When did this business or organization become temporarily inactive?
          • Date
        • When does this business or organization expect to resume operations?
          • Date
        • Why is this business or organization temporarily inactive?
      • No longer operating due to other reasons
        • When did this business or organization cease operations?
          • Date
        • Why did this business or organization cease operations?

4. Verify or provide the current main activity of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name above.

Note: The described activity was assigned using the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

This question verifies the business or organization's current main activity as classified by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is an industry classification system developed by the statistical agencies of Canada, Mexico and the United States. Created against the background of the North American Free Trade Agreement, it is designed to provide common definitions of the industrial structure of the three countries and a common statistical framework to facilitate the analysis of the three economies. NAICS is based on supply-side or production-oriented principles, to ensure that industrial data, classified to NAICS, are suitable for the analysis of production-related issues such as industrial performance.

The target entity for which NAICS is designed are businesses and other organizations engaged in the production of goods and services. They include farms, incorporated and unincorporated businesses and government business enterprises. They also include government institutions and agencies engaged in the production of marketed and non-marketed services, as well as organizations such as professional associations and unions and charitable or non-profit organizations and the employees of households.

The associated NAICS should reflect those activities conducted by the business or organizational units targeted by this questionnaire only, as identified in the 'Answering this questionnaire' section and which can be identified by the specified legal and operating name. The main activity is the activity which most defines the targeted business or organization's main purpose or reason for existence. For a business or organization that is for-profit, it is normally the activity that generates the majority of the revenue for the entity.

The NAICS classification contains a limited number of activity classifications; the associated classification might be applicable for this business or organization even if it is not exactly how you would describe this business or organization's main activity.

Please note that any modifications to the main activity through your response to this question might not necessarily be reflected prior to the transmitting of subsequent questionnaires and as a result they may not contain this updated information.

The following is the detailed description including any applicable examples or exclusions for the classification currently associated with this business or organization.

Description and examples

  • This is the current main activity
  • This is not the current main activity
    Provide a brief but precise description of this business or organization's main activity:
    e.g., breakfast cereal manufacturing, shoe store, software development

Main activity

5. You indicated that is not the current main activity.

Was this business or organization's main activity ever classified as: ?

  • Yes
    When did the main activity change?
    Date:
  • No

6. Search and select the industry classification code that best corresponds to this business or organization's main activity.

Select this business or organization's activity sector (optional)

  • Farming or logging operation
  • Construction company or general contractor
  • Manufacturer
  • Wholesaler
  • Retailer
  • Provider of passenger or freight transportation
  • Provider of investment, savings or insurance products
  • Real estate agency, real estate brokerage or leasing company
  • Provider of professional, scientific or technical services
  • Provider of health care or social services
  • Restaurant, bar, hotel, motel or other lodging establishment
  • Other sector

7. You have indicated that the current main activity of this business or organization is:

Main activity

Are there any other activities that contribute significantly (at least 10%) to this business or organization's revenue?

  • Yes, there are other activities
    Provide a brief but precise description of this business or organization's secondary activity:
    e.g., breakfast cereal manufacturing, shoe store, software development
  • No, that is the only significant activity

8. Approximately what percentage of this business or organization's revenue is generated by each of the following activities?

When precise figures are not available, provide your best estimates.

  Percentage of revenue
Main activity  
Secondary activity  
All other activities  
Total percentage  

Reporting period information

1. What are the start and end dates of this business's or organization's most recently completed fiscal year?

For this survey, the end date should fall between April 1, 2019 and March 31, 2020.

Here are twelve common fiscal periods that fall within the targeted dates:

  • May 1, 2018 to April 30, 2019
  • June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019
  • July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019
  • August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2019
  • September 1, 2018 to August 31, 2019
  • October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019
  • November 1, 2018 to October 31, 2019
  • December 1, 2018 to November 30, 2019
  • January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019
  • February 1, 2019 to January 31, 2020
  • March 1, 2019 to February 28, 2020
  • April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020.

Here are other examples of fiscal periods that fall within the required dates:

  • September 18, 2018 to September 15, 2019 (e.g., floating year-end)
  • June 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019 (e.g., a newly opened business).

Fiscal year start date:

Fiscal year-end date:

2. What is the reason the reporting period does not cover a full year?

Select all that apply:

  • Seasonal operations
  • New business
  • Change of ownership
  • Temporarily inactive
  • Change of fiscal year
  • Ceased operations
  • Other - Specify reason the reporting period does not cover a full year:

Additional reporting instructions

1. Throughout this questionnaire, please report financial information in thousands of Canadian dollars.

For example, an amount of $763,880.25 should be reported as:

CAN$ '000: $764,000

I will report in the format above

Revenue

1. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what was this business's revenue from each of the following sources?

Notes:

  • a detailed breakdown may be requested in other sections
  • these questions are asked of many different industries. Some questions may not apply to this business.

Report dollar amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Revenue

a. Sales of goods and services (e.g., fees, commissions, services revenue)

Report net of returns and allowances.

Sales of goods and services are defined as amounts derived from the sale of goods and services (cash or credit), falling within a business's ordinary activities. Sales should be reported net of trade discount, value added tax and other taxes based on sales.

Include:

  • sales from Canadian locations (domestic and export sales)
  • transfers to other business units or a head office of your firm.

Exclude:

  • transfers into inventory and consignment sales
  • federal, provincial and territorial sales taxes and excise duties and taxes
  • intercompany sales in consolidated financial statements.

b. Rental and leasing
Include rental or leasing of apartments, commercial buildings, land, office space, residential housing, investments in co-tenancies and co-ownerships, hotel or motel rooms, long and short term vehicle leasing, machinery or equipment, storage lockers, etc.

c. Commissions
Include commissions earned on the sale of products or services by businesses such as advertising agencies, brokers, insurance agents, lottery ticket sales, sales representatives and travel agencies - compensation could also be reported under this item (for example, compensation for collecting sales tax).

d. Subsidies (including grants, donations, fundraising and sponsorships)

Include:

  • non-repayable grants, contributions and subsidies from all levels of government
  • revenue from private sector (corporate and individual) sponsorships, donations and fundraising.

e. Royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees
A royalty is defined as a payment received by the holder of a copyright, trademark or patent.
Include revenue received from the sale or use of all intellectual property rights of copyrighted materials such as musical, literary, artistic or dramatic works, sound recordings or the broadcasting of communication signals.

f. Dividends

Include:

  • dividend income
  • dividends from Canadian sources
  • dividends from foreign sources
  • patronage dividends.

Exclude equity income from investments in subsidiaries or affiliates.

g. Interest

Include:

  • investment revenue
  • interest from foreign sources
  • interest from Canadian bonds and debentures
  • interest from Canadian mortgage loans
  • interest from other Canadian sources.

Exclude equity income from investments in subsidiaries or affiliates.

h. All other revenue (Include intracompany transfers)
Include amounts not included in questions a. to g.

Total revenue

The sum of sub-questions a. to h.

  CAN$ '000
a. Sales of goods and services
Include sales, commissions, rental and leasing revenue if they are this business's primary revenue source.
 
b. Rental and leasing
Report only if this is a secondary revenue source. If rental and leasing are your primary revenue source, report at question a.
 
c. Commissions
Report only if this is a secondary revenue source. If commissions are your primary revenue source, report at question a.
 
d. Subsidies
Include grants, donations, fundraising and sponsorships.
 
e. Royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees  
f. Dividends  
g. Interest  
h. Other
Include intracompany transfers.
Specify all other revenue:
 
Total revenue  

E-commerce

1. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what was this business's total revenue?

Include:

  • sales of goods and services
  • rental, leasing and property management
  • commissions
  • subsidies, grants, donations, fundraising and sponsorships
  • royalties
  • rights
  • licensing and franchise fees
  • dividends, interest and other revenue.

Report dollar amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Total revenue in CAN$ '000:

2. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, did this business have any e-commerce revenue?

E-commerce revenue: Sales of goods and services conducted over the Internet with or without online payment.

Include all revenue for which an order is received and commitment to purchase is made via the Internet, although payment can be made by other means, such as orders made on web pages, an extranet, mobile devices or Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

Exclude orders made by telephone, facsimile or e-mail.

  • Yes
  • No

3. Of the [amount] amount reported in total revenue, what was the total e-commerce revenue?

When precise figures are not available, provide your best estimates.

Total e-commerce revenue in CAN$ '000:

4. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, did this business make sales over the Internet through any of the following methods?

Select all that apply:

  • Mobile app
    Include sales through any app, or application, that is downloaded and designed to run on a handheld device such as a smartphone or tablet (for example, places where a user may download these apps, including Apple's App Store, Google Play or Blackberry App World).
  • Company website
    Include sales through a browser-based website where your organization maintains control of the content.
  • Third-party website
    Include sales through a browser-based website where a third-party maintains the structure of the website and control of the look and feel while your company only provides the product to be sold (for example, Amazon, Expedia or Etsy).
  • Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) - A standard format for exchanging business data. EDI is based on the use of message standards, ensuring that all participants use a common language.
  • Via a mobile app
  • Via your company website
  • Via a third-party website
  • Via Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
  • Other - specify the other methods:

5. Does this business have any full-time staff dedicated solely to activities related to e-commerce?

  • Yes
  • No

6. Why did this business not make sales over the Internet?

Select all that apply:

  • Goods and services do not lend themselves to online sales
  • Prefer to maintain current business model
  • Lack of skilled workers to implement and maintain e-commerce infrastructure
  • Cost of development is too high
  • Security concerns
  • Other- specify the other reasons:

Expenses

1. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what were this business's expenses for the following items?

Notes:

  • a detailed breakdown may be requested in other sections
  • these questions are asked of many different industries. Some questions may not apply to this business.

Report dollar amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Expenses

a. Cost of goods sold

Many business units distinguish their costs of materials from their other business expenses (selling, general and administrative). This item is included to allow you to easily record your costs/expenses according to your normal accounting practices.

Include:

  • cost of raw materials and/or goods purchased for resale - net of discounts earned on purchases
  • freight in and duty.

Exclude all costs associated with salaries, wages, benefits, commissions and subcontracts (report at Employment costs and expenses, and Subcontracts).

b. Employment costs and expenses

b1. Salaries, wages and commissions

Please report all salaries and wages (including taxable allowances and employment commissions as defined on the T4 - Statement of Remuneration Paid) before deductions for this reporting period.

Include:

  • vacation pay
  • bonuses (including profit sharing)
  • employee commissions
  • taxable allowances (e.g., room and board, vehicle allowances, gifts such as airline tickets for holidays)
  • severance pay.

Exclude all payments and expenses associated with casual labour and outside contract workers (report at Subcontracts).

b2. Employee benefits

Include contributions to:

  • health plans
  • insurance plans
  • employment insurance
  • pension plans
  • workers' compensation
  • association dues
  • contributions to any other employee benefits such as child care and supplementary unemployment benefit (SUB) plans
  • contributions to provincial and territorial health and education payroll taxes.

c. Subcontracts

Subcontract expense refers to the purchasing of services from outside of the company rather than providing them in-house.

Include:

  • hired casual labour and outside contract workers
  • custom work and contract work
  • subcontract and outside labour
  • hired labour.

d. Research and development fees

Expenses from activities conducted with the intention of making a discovery that could either lead to the development of new products or procedures, or to the improvement of existing products or procedures.

e. Professional and business fees

Include:

  • legal services
  • accounting and auditing fees
  • consulting fees
  • education and training fees
  • appraisal fees
  • management and administration fees
  • property management fees
  • information technology (IT) consulting and service fees (purchased)
  • architectural fees
  • engineering fees
  • scientific and technical service fees
  • other consulting fees (management, technical and scientific)
  • veterinary fees
  • fees for human health services
  • payroll preparation fees
  • all other professional and business service fees.

Exclude service fees paid to Head Office (report at All other costs and expenses).

f. Utilities

Utility expenses related to operating your business unit such as water, electricity, gas, heating and hydro.

Include:

  • diesel, fuel wood, natural gas, oil and propane
  • sewage.

Exclude:

  • energy expenses covered in your rental and leasing contracts
  • telephone, Internet and other telecommunications
  • vehicle fuel (report at All other costs and expenses).

g. Office and computer related expenses

Include:

  • office stationery and supplies, paper and other supplies for photocopiers, printers and fax machines
  • postage and courier (used in the day to day office business activity)
  • computer and peripherals upgrade expenses
  • data processing.

Exclude telephone, Internet and other telecommunication expenses (report at Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication).

h. Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication

Include:

  • internet
  • telephone and telecommunications
  • cellular telephone
  • fax machine
  • pager.

i. Business taxes, licenses and permits

Include:

  • property taxes paid directly and property transfer taxes
  • vehicle license fees
  • beverage taxes and business taxes
  • trade license fees
  • membership fees and professional license fees
  • provincial capital tax.

j. Royalties, franchise fees and memberships

Include:

  • amounts paid to holders of patents, copyrights, performing rights and trademarks
  • gross overriding royalty expenses and direct royalty costs
  • resident and non-resident royalty expenses
  • franchise fees.

Exclude Crown royalties

k. Crown charges

Federal or Provincial royalty, tax, lease or rental payments made in relation to the acquisition, development or ownership of Canadian resource properties.

Include:

  • Crown royalties
  • Crown leases and rentals
  • oil sand leases
  • stumpage fees.

l. Rental and leasing

Include:

  • lease rental expenses, real estate rental expenses, condominium fees and equipment rental expenses
  • motor vehicle rental and leasing expenses
  • studio lighting and scaffolding
  • machinery and equipment rental expenses
  • storage expenses
  • road and construction equipment rental
  • fuel and other utility costs covered in your rental and leasing contracts.

m. Repair and maintenance

Include:

  • buildings and structures
  • machinery and equipment
  • security equipment
  • vehicles
  • costs related to materials, parts and external labour associated with these expenses
  • janitorial and cleaning services and garbage removal.

n. Amortization and depreciation

Include:

  • direct cost depreciation of tangible assets and amortization of leasehold improvements
  • amortization of intangible assets (e.g., amortization of goodwill, patents, franchises, copyrights, trademarks, deferred charges, organizational costs).

o. Insurance

Insurance recovery income should be deducted from insurance expenses.

Include:

  • professional and other liability insurance
  • motor vehicle and property insurance
  • executive life insurance
  • bonding, business interruption insurance and fire insurance.

p. Advertising, marketing, promotion, meals and entertainment

Include:

  • newspaper advertising and media expenses
  • catalogues, presentations and displays
  • tickets for theatre, concerts and sporting events for business promotion
  • fundraising expenses
  • meals, entertainment and hospitality purchases for clients.

q. Travel, meetings and conventions

Include:

  • travel expenses
  • meeting and convention expenses, seminars
  • passenger transportation (e.g., airfare, bus, train)
  • accommodations
  • travel allowance and meals while travelling
  • other travel expenses.

r. Financial services

Include:

  • explicit service charges for financial services
  • credit and debit card commissions and charges
  • collection expenses and transfer fees
  • registrar and transfer agent fees
  • security and exchange commission fees
  • other financial service fees.

Exclude interest expenses (report at Interest expense).

s. Interest expense

Report the cost of servicing your company's debt.

Include:

  • interest
  • bank charges
  • finance charges
  • interest payments on capital leases
  • amortization of bond discounts
  • interest on short-term and long-term debt, mortgages, bonds and debentures.

t. Other non-production-related costs and expenses

Include:

  • charitable donations and political contributions
  • bad debt expense
  • loan losses
  • provisions for loan losses (minus bad debt recoveries)
  • inventory adjustments.

u. All other costs and expenses (including intracompany expenses)

Include:

  • production costs
  • pipeline operations, drilling, site restoration
  • gross overriding royalty
  • other producing property rentals
  • well operating, fuel and equipment
  • other lease rentals
  • other direct costs
  • equipment hire and operation
  • log yard expense, forestry costs, logging road costs
  • freight in and duty
  • overhead expenses allocated to cost of sales
  • other expenses
  • cash over/short (negative expense)
  • reimbursement of parent company expense
  • warranty expense
  • recruiting expenses
  • general and administrative expenses
  • interdivisional expenses
  • interfund transfer (minus expense recoveries)
  • exploration and development (including prospect/geological, well abandonment and dry holes, exploration expenses, development expenses)
  • amounts not included in sub-questions a. to t. above.

Total expenses

The sum of sub-questions a. to u.

  CAN$ '000
a. Cost of goods sold  
a1. Opening inventories  
a2. Purchases
Include raw materials, goods purchased for resale and non-returnable containers.
Exclude change in inventories.
 
a3. Closing inventories  
a4. Cost of goods sold
Opening inventories plus purchases minus closing inventories.
 
b. Employment costs and expenses
Include all employees who were issued a T4.
Exclude commissions to be paid to non-employees, report at sub-question c.
 
b1. Salaries, wages and commissions  
b2. Employee benefits  
c. Subcontracts
Include commissions to non-employees.
Exclude research and development.
 
d. Research and development fees.
Exclude in-house research and development.
 
e. Professional and business fees
e.g., legal, accounting, consulting, scientific and property management fees
 
f. Utilities
e.g., electricity, water, gas
 
g. Office and computer related expenses
e.g., office supplies, postage, computer upgrades
 
h. Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication  
i. Business taxes, licenses and permits
e.g., beverage tax, business tax, license fees, property taxes
 
j. Royalties, franchise fees and memberships
Exclude Crown royalties.
 
k. Crown charges
(for logging, mining and energy industries only)
 
l. Rental and leasing
Include land buildings, equipment, vehicles.
 
m. Repair and maintenance
Include buildings, equipment, vehicles.
 
n. Amortization and depreciation  
o. Insurance  
p. Advertising, marketing, promotion, meals and entertainment  
q. Travel, meetings and conventions  
r. Financial services
e.g., bank charges, transaction fees
 
s. Interest expense  
t. Other non-production-related costs and expenses
Include bad debts, loan losses, donations, political contributions and inventory write-down.
 
u. All other costs and expenses
Include intracompany expenses.
Specify all other costs and expenses:
 
Total expenses   

Industry characteristics

1. What were this business's sales for each of the following goods and services?

Please report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

  CAN$ '000
a. Automotive repair and maintenance services  
a1. Automobiles and light trucks
Include body shop, glass replacement, exhaust, washing and cleaning services.
 
a2. Heavy trucks and buses  
a3. Motor homes, travel trailers and campers  
b. Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance services  
c. Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services  
d. Sale of goods purchased for resale, as is
e.g., wipers, fuses, tires, batteries
Exclude sales reported previously.
 
e. Other
Specify all other sales of goods and services:
 
Total sales of goods and services  

2. Of this business's total sales [amount], what was the percentage breakdown for parts and labour?

  Percentage
a. Parts  
b. Labour  

3. What were this business's opening inventory, purchases and closing inventory for the following items?

  Opening inventory CAN$ '000 Purchases
CAN$ '000
Closing inventory CAN$ '000
a. Parts used in repair work only      
b. Other over-the-counter merchandise      
Total inventory      

Details on Purchased Services

1. For the reporting period YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, this business reported expenses for the following items.

Please provide the requested details related to these expenses.

Please report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

  CAN$ '000
Professional and business fees  
Legal services  
Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services  
Management, scientific and technical consulting services  
Office administrative services  
Freight transportation arrangements and customs brokering services  
Brokerage and other insurance related services  
Security brokerage and securities dealing services  
Other purchased professional services  
Total expenses for professional and business fees  
Office and computer related expenses  
Data processing, hosting, and related services  
Business support services  
Other office and computer related purchased services  
Total expenses for office and computer related expenses  
Royalties, franchise fees and memberships  
Rights to non-financial intangible assets  
Membership fees or services  
Other royalties, franchise fees and memberships  
Total expenses for royalties, franchise fees and memberships  
Rental and leasing  
Non-residential real estate rental  
Motor vehicle rental and leasing  
Computer equipment rental and leasing  
Office machinery and equipment rental and leasing services  
Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment renting and leasing services, without operator  
Other rental services  
Total expenses for rental and leasing  
Repair and maintenance  
Security services and investigation  
Waste management and remediation services  
Motor vehicle repair and maintenance services  
Other repair and maintenance services  
Total expenses for repair and maintenance  

Sales by type of client

1. What was this business's breakdown of sales by the following types of client?

Sales by type of client

This section is designed to measure which sector of the economy purchases your services.

Please provide a percentage breakdown of your sales by type of client.

Please ensure that the sum of percentages reported in this section equals 100%.

a. to c. Clients in Canada

a. Individuals and households

Please report the percentage of sales to individuals and households who do not represent the business or government sector.

b. Businesses

Percentage of sales sold to the business sector should be reported here.

Include sales to Crown corporations.

c. Governments, not-for-profit organizations and public institutions (e.g., hospitals, schools)

Percentage of sales to federal, provincial, territorial and municipal governments should be reported here.

Include: sales to hospitals, schools, universities and public utilities.

d. Clients outside Canada

Please report the percentage of total sales to customers or clients located outside Canada including foreign businesses, foreign individuals, foreign institutions and/or governments.

Include sales to foreign subsidiaries and affiliates.

  Percentage
a. Clients in Canada — individuals and households  
b. Clients in Canada — businesses  
c. Clients in Canada — governments, not-for-profit organizations and public institutions
e.g., hospitals and schools
 
d. Clients outside Canada  
Total percentage  

International transactions - revenue received from exports

1. During the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, did this business receive revenue from clients outside Canada for the sale of products, services, royalties, rights, licensing or franchise fees?

International transactions

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licenses fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

  • Yes
  • No

2. What was the revenue received from clients outside Canada?

International transactions

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licenses fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

Revenue received (CAN$ '000):

3. What was the percentage breakdown of revenue received from clients outside Canada by goods, services and royalties?

International transactions

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licenses fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

  Percentage
a. Goods  
b. Services  
c. Royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees  
Total percentage  

4. What was the percentage breakdown of revenue received from clients outside Canada by country?

International transactions

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licenses fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

Percentage of revenue received from clients outside Canada by country
Table summary
This table contains no data. It is an example of an empty data table used by respondents to provide data to Statistics Canada.
  Percentage
United States  
Mexico  
Provide the percentage of revenue received from any other countries - top 4 clients only  
Other 1  
Other 2  
Other 3  
Other 4  
Total percentage  
List of countries
  • Aruba
  • Afghanistan
  • Angola
  • Anguilla
  • Åland Islands
  • Albania
  • Andorra
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • American Samoa
  • Antarctica
  • French Southern Territories
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Burundi
  • Belgium
  • Benin
  • Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba
  • Burkina Faso
  • Bangladesh
  • Bulgaria
  • Bahrain
  • Bahamas
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Saint Barthélemy
  • Belarus
  • Belize
  • Bermuda
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Barbados
  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Bhutan
  • Bouvet Island
  • Botswana
  • Central African Republic
  • Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  • Switzerland
  • Chile
  • China
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Cameroon
  • Congo, The Democratic Republic of the
  • Congo, Republic of the
  • Cook Islands
  • Colombia
  • Comoros
  • Cape Verde
  • Costa Rica
  • Cuba
  • Curaçao
  • Christmas Island
  • Cayman Islands
  • Cyprus
  • Czech Republic
  • Germany
  • Djibouti
  • Dominica
  • Denmark
  • Dominican Republic
  • Algeria
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • Eritrea
  • Western Sahara
  • Spain
  • Estonia
  • Ethiopia
  • Finland
  • Fiji
  • Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
  • France
  • Faroe Islands
  • Micronesia, Federated States of
  • Gabon
  • United Kingdom
  • Georgia
  • Guernsey
  • Ghana
  • Gibraltar
  • Guinea
  • Guadeloupe
  • Gambia
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Greece
  • Grenada
  • Greenland
  • Guatemala
  • French Guiana
  • Guam
  • Guyana
  • Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
  • Heard Island and McDonald Islands
  • Honduras
  • Croatia
  • Haiti
  • Hungary
  • Indonesia
  • Isle of Man
  • India
  • British Indian Ocean Territory
  • Ireland, Republic of
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Iceland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Jersey
  • Jordan
  • Japan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Cambodia
  • Kiribati
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Korea, South
  • Kuwait
  • Laos
  • Lebanon
  • Liberia
  • Libya
  • Saint Lucia
  • Liechtenstein
  • Sri Lanka
  • Lesotho
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Latvia
  • Macao Special Administrative Region
  • Saint Martin (French part)
  • Morocco
  • Monaco
  • Moldova
  • Madagascar
  • Maldives
  • Marshall Islands
  • Macedonia, Republic of
  • Mali
  • Malta
  • Burma (Myanmar)
  • Montenegro
  • Mongolia
  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • Mozambique
  • Mauritania
  • Montserrat
  • Martinique
  • Mauritius
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Mayotte
  • Namibia
  • New Caledonia
  • Niger
  • Norfolk Island
  • Nigeria
  • Nicaragua
  • Niue
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Nepal
  • Nauru
  • New Zealand
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Panama
  • Pitcairn
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Palau
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Poland
  • Puerto Rico
  • Korea, North
  • Portugal
  • Paraguay
  • West Bank and Gaza Strip (Palestine)
  • French Polynesia
  • Qatar
  • Réunion
  • Romania
  • Russian Federation
  • Rwanda
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Sudan
  • Senegal
  • Singapore
  • South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
  • Saint Helena
  • Svalbard and Jan Mayen
  • Solomon Islands
  • Sierra Leone
  • El Salvador
  • San Marino
  • Somalia
  • Saint Pierre and Miquelon
  • Serbia
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Suriname
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Sweden
  • Swaziland
  • Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
  • Seychelles
  • Syria
  • Turks and Caicos Islands
  • Chad
  • Togo
  • Thailand
  • Tajikistan
  • Tokelau
  • Turkmenistan
  • Timor-Leste
  • Tonga
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Tuvalu
  • Taiwan
  • Tanzania
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • United States Minor Outlying Islands
  • Uruguay
  • Uzbekistan
  • Holy See (Vatican City State)
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Venezuela
  • Virgin Islands, British
  • Virgin Islands, United States
  • Viet Nam
  • Vanuatu
  • Wallis and Futuna
  • Samoa
  • Kosovo
  • Yemen
  • South Africa, Republic of
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

International transactions - purchases from outside Canada (imports)

5. During the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, did this business make payments to suppliers outside Canada for the purchase of products, services, royalties, rights, licensing or franchise fees?

International transactions

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licenses fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

  • Yes
  • No

6. What were the payments made to suppliers outside Canada?

International transactions

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licenses fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

Payments made (CAN$ '000):

7. What was the percentage breakdown of payments made to suppliers outside Canada by goods, services and royalties?

International transactions

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licenses fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

  Percentage
a. Goods  
b. Services  
c. Royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees  
Total percentage  

8. What was the percentage breakdown of payments made to suppliers outside Canada by country?

International transactions

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licenses fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

Percentage of revenue received from clients outside Canada by country
Table summary
This table contains no data. It is an example of an empty data table used by respondents to provide data to Statistics Canada.
  Percentage
United States  
Mexico  
Provide the percentage of revenue received from any other countries - top 4 clients only  
Other 1  
Other 2  
Other 3  
Other 4  
Total percentage  
List of countries
  • Aruba
  • Afghanistan
  • Angola
  • Anguilla
  • Åland Islands
  • Albania
  • Andorra
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • American Samoa
  • Antarctica
  • French Southern Territories
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Burundi
  • Belgium
  • Benin
  • Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba
  • Burkina Faso
  • Bangladesh
  • Bulgaria
  • Bahrain
  • Bahamas
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Saint Barthélemy
  • Belarus
  • Belize
  • Bermuda
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Barbados
  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Bhutan
  • Bouvet Island
  • Botswana
  • Central African Republic
  • Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  • Switzerland
  • Chile
  • China
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Cameroon
  • Congo, The Democratic Republic of the
  • Congo, Republic of the
  • Cook Islands
  • Colombia
  • Comoros
  • Cape Verde
  • Costa Rica
  • Cuba
  • Curaçao
  • Christmas Island
  • Cayman Islands
  • Cyprus
  • Czech Republic
  • Germany
  • Djibouti
  • Dominica
  • Denmark
  • Dominican Republic
  • Algeria
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • Eritrea
  • Western Sahara
  • Spain
  • Estonia
  • Ethiopia
  • Finland
  • Fiji
  • Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
  • France
  • Faroe Islands
  • Micronesia, Federated States of
  • Gabon
  • United Kingdom
  • Georgia
  • Guernsey
  • Ghana
  • Gibraltar
  • Guinea
  • Guadeloupe
  • Gambia
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Greece
  • Grenada
  • Greenland
  • Guatemala
  • French Guiana
  • Guam
  • Guyana
  • Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
  • Heard Island and McDonald Islands
  • Honduras
  • Croatia
  • Haiti
  • Hungary
  • Indonesia
  • Isle of Man
  • India
  • British Indian Ocean Territory
  • Ireland, Republic of
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Iceland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Jersey
  • Jordan
  • Japan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Cambodia
  • Kiribati
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Korea, South
  • Kuwait
  • Laos
  • Lebanon
  • Liberia
  • Libya
  • Saint Lucia
  • Liechtenstein
  • Sri Lanka
  • Lesotho
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Latvia
  • Macao Special Administrative Region
  • Saint Martin (French part)
  • Morocco
  • Monaco
  • Moldova
  • Madagascar
  • Maldives
  • Marshall Islands
  • Macedonia, Republic of
  • Mali
  • Malta
  • Burma (Myanmar)
  • Montenegro
  • Mongolia
  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • Mozambique
  • Mauritania
  • Montserrat
  • Martinique
  • Mauritius
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Mayotte
  • Namibia
  • New Caledonia
  • Niger
  • Norfolk Island
  • Nigeria
  • Nicaragua
  • Niue
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Nepal
  • Nauru
  • New Zealand
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Panama
  • Pitcairn
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Palau
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Poland
  • Puerto Rico
  • Korea, North
  • Portugal
  • Paraguay
  • West Bank and Gaza Strip (Palestine)
  • French Polynesia
  • Qatar
  • Réunion
  • Romania
  • Russian Federation
  • Rwanda
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Sudan
  • Senegal
  • Singapore
  • South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
  • Saint Helena
  • Svalbard and Jan Mayen
  • Solomon Islands
  • Sierra Leone
  • El Salvador
  • San Marino
  • Somalia
  • Saint Pierre and Miquelon
  • Serbia
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Suriname
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Sweden
  • Swaziland
  • Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
  • Seychelles
  • Syria
  • Turks and Caicos Islands
  • Chad
  • Togo
  • Thailand
  • Tajikistan
  • Tokelau
  • Turkmenistan
  • Timor-Leste
  • Tonga
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Tuvalu
  • Taiwan
  • Tanzania
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • United States Minor Outlying Islands
  • Uruguay
  • Uzbekistan
  • Holy See (Vatican City State)
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Venezuela
  • Virgin Islands, British
  • Virgin Islands, United States
  • Viet Nam
  • Vanuatu
  • Wallis and Futuna
  • Samoa
  • Kosovo
  • Yemen
  • South Africa, Republic of
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Changes or events

1. Indicate any changes or events that affected the reported values for this business or organization, compared with the last reporting period.

Select all that apply:

  • Strike or lock-out
  • Exchange rate impact
  • Price changes in goods or services sold
  • Contracting out
  • Organizational change
  • Price changes in labour or raw materials
  • Natural disaster
  • Recession
  • Change in product line
  • Sold business or business units
  • Expansion
  • New or lost contract
  • Plant closures
  • Acquisition of business or business units
  • Other - specify the other changes or events:
  • No changes or events

Contact person

1. Statistics Canada may need to contact the person who completed this questionnaire for further information.

Is Provided Given Names, Provided Family Name the best person to contact?

  • Yes
  • No

Who is the best person to contact about this questionnaire?

First name:

Last name:

Title:

Email address:

Telephone number (including area code):

Extension number (if applicable):
The maximum number of characters is 5.

Fax number (including area code):

Feedback

1. How long did it take to complete this questionnaire?

Include the time spent gathering the necessary information.

Hours:

Minutes:

2. Do you have any comments about this questionnaire?

Why do we conduct this survey?

This survey is conducted by Statistics Canada in order to collect the necessary information to support the Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP). This program combines various survey and administrative data to develop comprehensive measures of the Canadian economy. 

The statistical information from the IBSP serves many purposes, including:

  • calculating each province and territory's fair share of federal-provincial transfer payments for health, education and social programs
  • establishing government programs to assist businesses
  • assisting the business community in negotiating contracts and collective agreements
  • supporting the government in making informed decisions about fiscal, monetary and foreign exchange policies
  • indexing social benefit programs and determining tax brackets
  • enabling academics and economists to analyze the economic performance of Canadian industries and to better understand rapidly evolving business environments.

Your information may also be used by Statistics Canada for other statistical and research purposes.

Your participation in this survey is required under the authority of the Statistics Act.

Other important information

Authorization to collect this information

Data are collected under the authority of the Statistics Act, Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, Chapter S-19.

Confidentiality

By law, Statistics Canada is prohibited from releasing any information it collects that could identify any person, business, or organization, unless consent has been given by the respondent, or as permitted by the Statistics Act. Statistics Canada will use the information from this survey for statistical purposes only.

Record linkages

To enhance the data from this survey and to reduce the reporting burden, Statistics Canada may combine the acquired data with information from other surveys or from administrative sources.

Data-sharing agreements

To reduce respondent burden, Statistics Canada has entered into data-sharing agreements with provincial and territorial statistical agencies and other government organizations, which have agreed to keep the data confidential and use them only for statistical purposes. Statistics Canada will only share data from this survey with those organizations that have demonstrated a requirement to use the data.

Section 11 of the Statistics Act provides for the sharing of information with provincial and territorial statistical agencies that meet certain conditions. These agencies must have the legislative authority to collect the same information, on a mandatory basis, and the legislation must provide substantially the same provisions for confidentiality and penalties for disclosure of confidential information as the Statistics Act. Because these agencies have the legal authority to compel businesses to provide the same information, consent is not requested and businesses may not object to the sharing of the data.

For this survey, there are Section 11 agreements with the provincial and territorial statistical agencies of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Québec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and the Yukon. The shared data will be limited to information pertaining to business establishments located within the jurisdiction of the respective province or territory.

Section 12 of the Statistics Act provides for the sharing of information with federal, provincial or territorial government organizations. Under Section 12, you may refuse to share your information with any of these organizations by writing a letter of objection to the Chief Statistician, specifying the organizations with which you do not want Statistics Canada to share your data and mailing it to the following address:

Chief Statistician of Canada
Statistics Canada
Attention of Director, Enterprise Statistics Division
150 Tunney's Pasture Driveway
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0T6

You may also contact us by email at statcan.esd-helpdesk-dse-bureaudedepannage.statcan@canada.ca or by fax at 613-951-6583.

For this survey, there are Section 12 agreements with the statistical agencies of Prince Edward Island, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

For agreements with provincial and territorial government organizations, the shared data will be limited to information pertaining to business establishments located within the jurisdiction of the respective province or territory.

Business or organization and contact information

1. Verify or provide the business or organization's legal and operating name and correct where needed.

Note: Legal name modifications should only be done to correct a spelling error or typo.

Legal Name

The legal name is one recognized by law, thus it is the name liable for pursuit or for debts incurred by the business or organization. In the case of a corporation, it is the legal name as fixed by its charter or the statute by which the corporation was created.

Modifications to the legal name should only be done to correct a spelling error or typo.

To indicate a legal name of another legal entity you should instead indicate it in question 3 by selecting 'Not currently operational' and then choosing the applicable reason and providing the legal name of this other entity along with any other requested information.

Operating Name

The operating name is a name the business or organization is commonly known as if different from its legal name. The operating name is synonymous with trade name.

  • Legal name
  • Operating name (if applicable)

2. Verify or provide the contact information of the designated business or organization contact person for this questionnaire and correct where needed.

Note: The designated contact person is the person who should receive this questionnaire. The designated contact person may not always be the one who actually completes the questionnaire.

  • First name
  • Last name
  • Title
  • Preferred language of communication
    • English
    • French
  • Mailing address (number and street)
  • City
  • Province, territory or state
  • Postal code or ZIP code
  • Country
    • Canada
    • United States
  • Email address
  • Telephone number (including area code)
  • Extension number (if applicable)
    The maximum number of characters is 10.
  • Fax number (including area code)

3. Verify or provide the current operational status of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name above.

  • Operational
  • Not currently operational
    Why is this business or organization not currently operational?
    • Seasonal operations
      • When did this business or organization close for the season?
        • Date
      • When does this business or organization expect to resume operations?
        • Date
    • Ceased operations
      • When did this business or organization cease operations?
        • Date
      • Why did this business or organization cease operations?
        • Bankruptcy
        • Liquidation
        • Dissolution
        • Other - Specify the other reasons for ceased operations
    • Sold operations
      • When was this business or organization sold?
        • Date
      • What is the legal name of the buyer?
    • Amalgamated with other businesses or organizations
      • When did this business or organization amalgamate?
        • Date
      • What is the legal name of the resulting or continuing business or organization?
      • What are the legal names of the other amalgamated businesses or organizations?
    • Temporarily inactive but will re-open
      • When did this business or organization become temporarily inactive?
        • Date
      • When does this business or organization expect to resume operations?
        • Date
      • Why is this business or organization temporarily inactive?
    • No longer operating due to other reasons
      • When did this business or organization cease operations?
        • Date
      • Why did this business or organization cease operations?

4. Verify or provide the current main activity of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name above.

Note: The described activity was assigned using the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

This question verifies the business or organization's current main activity as classified by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is an industry classification system developed by the statistical agencies of Canada, Mexico and the United States. Created against the background of the North American Free Trade Agreement, it is designed to provide common definitions of the industrial structure of the three countries and a common statistical framework to facilitate the analysis of the three economies. NAICS is based on supply-side or production-oriented principles, to ensure that industrial data, classified to NAICS , are suitable for the analysis of production-related issues such as industrial performance.

The target entity for which NAICS is designed are businesses and other organizations engaged in the production of goods and services. They include farms, incorporated and unincorporated businesses and government business enterprises. They also include government institutions and agencies engaged in the production of marketed and non-marketed services, as well as organizations such as professional associations and unions and charitable or non-profit organizations and the employees of households.

The associated NAICS should reflect those activities conducted by the business or organizational units targeted by this questionnaire only, as identified in the 'Answering this questionnaire' section and which can be identified by the specified legal and operating name. The main activity is the activity which most defines the targeted business or organization's main purpose or reason for existence. For a business or organization that is for-profit, it is normally the activity that generates the majority of the revenue for the entity.

The NAICS classification contains a limited number of activity classifications; the associated classification might be applicable for this business or organization even if it is not exactly how you would describe this business or organization's main activity.

Please note that any modifications to the main activity through your response to this question might not necessarily be reflected prior to the transmitting of subsequent questionnaires and as a result they may not contain this updated information.

The following is the detailed description including any applicable examples or exclusions for the classification currently associated with this business or organization.

Description and examples

  • This is the current main activity
  • This is not the current main activity
    Provide a brief but precise description of this business or organization's main activity
    • e.g., breakfast cereal manufacturing, shoe store, software development

Main activity

5. You indicated that is not the current main activity.

Was this business or organization's main activity ever classified as: ?

  • Yes
    When did the main activity change?
    • Date
  • No

6. Search and select the industry classification code that best corresponds to this business or organization's main activity.

Select this business or organization's activity sector (optional)

  • Farming or logging operation
  • Construction company or general contractor
  • Manufacturer
  • Wholesaler
  • Retailer
  • Provider of passenger or freight transportation
  • Provider of investment, savings or insurance products
  • Real estate agency, real estate brokerage or leasing company
  • Provider of professional, scientific or technical services
  • Provider of health care or social services
  • Restaurant, bar, hotel, motel or other lodging establishment
  • Other sector

7. You have indicated that the current main activity of this business or organization is:

Main activity

Are there any other activities that contribute significantly (at least 10%) to this business or organization's revenue?

  • Yes, there are other activities
  • No, that is the only significant activity
    Provide a brief but precise description of this business or organization's secondary activity
    • e.g., breakfast cereal manufacturing, shoe store, software development

8. Approximately what percentage of this business or organization's revenue is generated by each of the following activities?

When precise figures are not available, provide your best estimates.

Approximately what percentage of this business or organization's revenue is generated by each of the following activities?
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  Percentage of revenue
Main activity  
Secondary activity  
All other activities  
Total percentage  

Reporting period information

1. What are the start and end dates of this business's or organization's most recently completed fiscal year?

For this survey, the end date should fall between April 1, 2019 and March 31, 2020.

Here are twelve common fiscal periods that fall within the targeted dates:

  • May 1, 2018 to April 30, 2019
  • June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019
  • July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019
  • August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2019
  • September 1, 2018 to August 31, 2019
  • October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019
  • November 1, 2018 to October 31, 2019
  • December 1, 2018 to November 30, 2019
  • January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019
  • February 1, 2019 to January 31, 2020
  • March 1, 2019 to February 28, 2020
  • April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020.

Here are other examples of fiscal periods that fall within the required dates:

  • September 18, 2018 to September 15, 2019 ( e.g., floating year-end)
  • June 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019 ( e.g., a newly opened business).
  • Fiscal year start date
  • Fiscal year-end date

2. What is the reason the reporting period does not cover a full year?

Select all that apply.

  • Seasonal operations
  • New business
  • Change of ownership
  • Temporarily inactive
  • Change of fiscal year
  • Ceased operations
  • Other
    Specify reason the reporting period does not cover a full year 

Additional reporting instructions

1. Throughout this questionnaire, please report financial information in thousands of Canadian dollars.

For example, an amount of $763,880.25 should be reported as:

CAN$ '000 : $764,000

I will report in the format above

Revenue

1. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what was this business's revenue from each of the following sources?

Notes:

  • a detailed breakdown may be requested in other sections
  • these questions are asked of many different industries. Some questions may not apply to this business

Report dollar amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Revenue

a. Sales of goods and services ( e.g., fees, commissions, services revenue)

Report net of returns and allowances.

Sales of goods and services are defined as amounts derived from the sale of goods and services (cash or credit), falling within a business's ordinary activities. Sales should be reported net of trade discount, value added tax and other taxes based on sales.

Include:

  • sales from Canadian locations (domestic and export sales)
  • transfers to other business units or a head office of your firm.

Exclude:

  • transfers into inventory and consignment sales
  • federal, provincial and territorial sales taxes and excise duties and taxes
  • intercompany sales in consolidated financial statements.

b. Rental and leasing

Include rental or leasing of apartments, commercial buildings, land, office space, residential housing, investments in co-tenancies and co-ownerships, hotel or motel rooms, long and short term vehicle leasing, machinery or equipment, storage lockers, etc.

c. Commissions

Include commissions earned on the sale of products or services by businesses such as advertising agencies, brokers, insurance agents, lottery ticket sales, sales representatives and travel agencies - compensation could also be reported under this item (for example, compensation for collecting sales tax).

d. Subsidies (including grants, donations, fundraising and sponsorships)

Include:

  • non-repayable grants, contributions and subsidies from all levels of government
  • revenue from private sector (corporate and individual) sponsorships, donations and fundraising.

e. Royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees

A royalty is defined as a payment received by the holder of a copyright, trademark or patent.

Include revenue received from the sale or use of all intellectual property rights of copyrighted materials such as musical, literary, artistic or dramatic works, sound recordings or the broadcasting of communication signals.

f. Dividends

Include:

  • dividend income
  • dividends from Canadian sources
  • dividends from foreign sources
  • patronage dividends.

Exclude equity income from investments in subsidiaries or affiliates.

g. Interest

Include:

  • investment revenue
  • interest from foreign sources
  • interest from Canadian bonds and debentures
  • interest from Canadian mortgage loans
  • interest from other Canadian sources.

Exclude equity income from investments in subsidiaries or affiliates.

h. All other revenue (Include intracompany transfers)

Include amounts not included in questions a. to g.

Total revenue

The sum of sub-questions a. to h.

For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what was this business's revenue from each of the following sources?
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  CAN$ '000
a. Sales of goods and services
Include sales, commissions, rental and leasing revenue if they are this business's primary revenue source.
 
b. Rental and leasing
Report only if this is a secondary revenue source. If rental and leasing are your primary revenue source, report at question a.
 
c. Commissions
Report only if this is a secondary revenue source. If commissions are your primary revenue source, report at question a.
 
d. Subsidies
Include grants, donations, fundraising and sponsorships.
 
e. Royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees  
f. Dividends  
g. Interest  
h. Other
Include intracompany transfers.
Specify all other revenue:
 
Total revenue  

E-commerce

1. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what was this business's total revenue?

Include:

  • sales of goods and services
  • rental, leasing and property management
  • commissions
  • subsidies, grants, donations, fundraising and sponsorships
  • royalties
  • rights
  • licensing and franchise fees
  • dividends, interest and other revenue.

Report dollar amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Total revenue in CAN$ '000

2. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, did this business have any e-commerce revenue?

E-commerce revenue: Sales of goods and services conducted over the Internet with or without online payment.

Include all revenue for which an order is received and commitment to purchase is made via the Internet, although payment can be made by other means, such as orders made on web pages, an extranet, mobile devices or Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

Exclude orders made by telephone, facsimile or e-mail.

  • Yes
  • No

3. Of the [amount] amount reported in total revenue, what was the total e-commerce revenue?

When precise figures are not available, provide your best estimates.

Total e-commerce revenue in CAN$ '000

4. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, did this business make sales over the Internet through any of the following methods?

Select all that apply.

Mobile app

Include sales through any app, or application, that is downloaded and designed to run on a handheld device such as a smartphone or tablet (for example, places where a user may download these apps, including Apple's App Store, Google Play or Blackberry App World).

Company website Include sales through a browser-based website where your organization maintains control of the content.

Third-party website Include sales through a browser-based website where a third-party maintains the structure of the website and control of the look and feel while your company only provides the product to be sold (for example, Amazon, Expedia or Etsy).

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

A standard format for exchanging business data. EDI is based on the use of message standards, ensuring that all participants use a common language.

  • Via a mobile app
  • Via your company website
  • Via a third-party website
  • Via Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
  • Other
    Specify the other methods 

5. Does this business have any full-time staff dedicated solely to activities related to e-commerce?

  • Yes
  • No

6. Why did this business not make sales over the Internet?

Select all that apply.

  • Goods and services do not lend themselves to online sales
  • Prefer to maintain current business model
  • Lack of skilled workers to implement and maintain e-commerce infrastructure
  • Cost of development is too high
  • Security concerns
  • Other
    Specify the other reasons 

Expenses

1. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what were this business's expenses for the following items?

Notes:

  • a detailed breakdown may be requested in other sections
  • these questions are asked of many different industries. Some questions may not apply to this business

Report dollar amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Expenses

a. Cost of goods sold

Many business units distinguish their costs of materials from their other business expenses (selling, general and administrative). This item is included to allow you to easily record your costs/expenses according to your normal accounting practices.

Include:

  • cost of raw materials and/or goods purchased for resale - net of discounts earned on purchases
  • freight in and duty.

Exclude all costs associated with salaries, wages, benefits, commissions and subcontracts (report at Employment costs and expenses, and Subcontracts).

b. Employment costs and expenses

b1. Salaries, wages and commissions

Please report all salaries and wages (including taxable allowances and employment commissions as defined on the T4 - Statement of Remuneration Paid) before deductions for this reporting period.

Include:

  • vacation pay
  • bonuses (including profit sharing)
  • employee commissions
  • taxable allowances ( e.g., room and board, vehicle allowances, gifts such as airline tickets for holidays)
  • severance pay.

Exclude all payments and expenses associated with casual labour and outside contract workers (report at Subcontracts).

b2. Employee benefits

Include contributions to:

  • health plans
  • insurance plans
  • employment insurance
  • pension plans
  • workers' compensation
  • association dues
  • contributions to any other employee benefits such as child care and supplementary unemployment benefit (SUB) plans
  • contributions to provincial and territorial health and education payroll taxes.

c. Subcontracts

Subcontract expense refers to the purchasing of services from outside of the company rather than providing them in-house.

Include:

  • hired casual labour and outside contract workers
  • custom work and contract work
  • subcontract and outside labour
  • hired labour.

d. Research and development fees

Expenses from activities conducted with the intention of making a discovery that could either lead to the development of new products or procedures, or to the improvement of existing products or procedures.

e. Professional and business fees

Include:

  • legal services
  • accounting and auditing fees
  • consulting fees
  • education and training fees
  • appraisal fees
  • management and administration fees
  • property management fees
  • information technology (IT) consulting and service fees (purchased)
  • architectural fees
  • engineering fees
  • scientific and technical service fees
  • other consulting fees (management, technical and scientific)
  • veterinary fees
  • fees for human health services
  • payroll preparation fees
  • all other professional and business service fees.

Exclude service fees paid to Head Office (report at All other costs and expenses).

f. Utilities

Utility expenses related to operating your business unit such as water, electricity, gas, heating and hydro.

Include:

  • diesel, fuel wood, natural gas, oil and propane
  • sewage.

Exclude:

  • energy expenses covered in your rental and leasing contracts
  • telephone, Internet and other telecommunications
  • vehicle fuel (report at All other costs and expenses).

g. Office and computer related expenses

Include:

  • office stationery and supplies, paper and other supplies for photocopiers, printers and fax machines
  • postage and courier (used in the day to day office business activity)
  • computer and peripherals upgrade expenses
  • data processing.

Exclude telephone, Internet and other telecommunication expenses (report at Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication).

h. Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication

Include:

  • internet
  • telephone and telecommunications
  • cellular telephone
  • fax machine
  • pager.

i. Business taxes, licenses and permits

Include:

  • property taxes paid directly and property transfer taxes
  • vehicle license fees
  • beverage taxes and business taxes
  • trade license fees
  • membership fees and professional license fees
  • provincial capital tax.

j. Royalties, franchise fees and memberships

Include:

  • amounts paid to holders of patents, copyrights, performing rights and trademarks
  • gross overriding royalty expenses and direct royalty costs
  • resident and non-resident royalty expenses
  • franchise fees.

Exclude Crown royalties

k. Crown charges

Federal or Provincial royalty, tax, lease or rental payments made in relation to the acquisition, development or ownership of Canadian resource properties.

Include:

  • Crown royalties
  • Crown leases and rentals
  • oil sand leases
  • stumpage fees.

l. Rental and leasing

Include:

  • lease rental expenses, real estate rental expenses, condominium fees and equipment rental expenses
  • motor vehicle rental and leasing expenses
  • studio lighting and scaffolding
  • machinery and equipment rental expenses
  • storage expenses
  • road and construction equipment rental
  • fuel and other utility costs covered in your rental and leasing contracts.

m. Repair and maintenance

Include:

  • buildings and structures
  • machinery and equipment
  • security equipment
  • vehicles
  • costs related to materials, parts and external labour associated with these expenses
  • janitorial and cleaning services and garbage removal.

n. Amortization and depreciation

Include:

  • direct cost depreciation of tangible assets and amortization of leasehold improvements
  • amortization of intangible assets ( e.g., amortization of goodwill, patents, franchises, copyrights, trademarks, deferred charges, organizational costs).

o. Insurance

Insurance recovery income should be deducted from insurance expenses.

Include:

  • professional and other liability insurance
  • motor vehicle and property insurance
  • executive life insurance
  • bonding, business interruption insurance and fire insurance.

p. Advertising, marketing, promotion, meals and entertainment

Include:

  • newspaper advertising and media expenses
  • catalogues, presentations and displays
  • tickets for theatre, concerts and sporting events for business promotion
  • fundraising expenses
  • meals, entertainment and hospitality purchases for clients.

q. Travel, meetings and conventions

Include:

  • travel expenses
  • meeting and convention expenses, seminars
  • passenger transportation ( e.g., airfare, bus, train)
  • accommodations
  • travel allowance and meals while travelling
  • other travel expenses.

r. Financial services

Include:

  • explicit service charges for financial services
  • credit and debit card commissions and charges
  • collection expenses and transfer fees
  • registrar and transfer agent fees
  • security and exchange commission fees
  • other financial service fees.

Exclude interest expenses (report at Interest expense).

s. Interest expense

Report the cost of servicing your company's debt.

Include:

  • interest
  • bank charges
  • finance charges
  • interest payments on capital leases
  • amortization of bond discounts
  • interest on short-term and long-term debt, mortgages, bonds and debentures.

t. Other non-production-related costs and expenses

Include:

  • charitable donations and political contributions
  • bad debt expense
  • loan losses
  • provisions for loan losses (minus bad debt recoveries)
  • inventory adjustments.

u. All other costs and expenses (including intracompany expenses)

Include:

  • production costs
  • pipeline operations, drilling, site restoration
  • gross overriding royalty
  • other producing property rentals
  • well operating, fuel and equipment
  • other lease rentals
  • other direct costs
  • equipment hire and operation
  • log yard expense, forestry costs, logging road costs
  • freight in and duty
  • overhead expenses allocated to cost of sales
  • other expenses
  • cash over/short (negative expense)
  • reimbursement of parent company expense
  • warranty expense
  • recruiting expenses
  • general and administrative expenses
  • interdivisional expenses
  • interfund transfer (minus expense recoveries)
  • exploration and development (including prospect/geological, well abandonment and dry holes, exploration expenses, development expenses)
  • amounts not included in sub-questions a. to t. above.

Total expenses

The sum of sub-questions a. to u.

For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what were this business's expenses for the following items?
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  CAN$ '000
a. Cost of goods sold  
a1. Opening inventories  
a2. Purchases
Include raw materials, goods purchased for resale and non-returnable containers.
Exclude change in inventories.
 
a3. Closing inventories  
a4. Cost of goods sold
Opening inventories plus purchases minus closing inventories.
 
b. Employment costs and expenses
Include all employees who were issued a T4.
Exclude commissions to be paid to non-employees, report at sub-question c.
 
b1. Salaries, wages and commissions  
b2. Employee benefits  
c. Subcontracts
Include commissions to non-employees.
Exclude research and development.
 
d. Research and development fees.
Exclude in-house research and development.
 
e. Professional and business fees
e.g., legal, accounting, consulting, scientific and property management fees
 
f. Utilities
e.g., electricity, water, gas
 
g. Office and computer related expenses
e.g., office supplies, postage, computer upgrades
 
h. Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication  
i. Business taxes, licenses and permits
e.g., beverage tax, business tax, license fees, property taxes
 
j. Royalties, franchise fees and memberships
Exclude Crown royalties.
 
k. Crown charges
(for logging, mining and energy industries only)
 
l. Rental and leasing
Include land buildings, equipment, vehicles.
 
m. Repair and maintenance
Include buildings, equipment, vehicles.
 
n. Amortization and depreciation  
o. Insurance  
p. Advertising, marketing, promotion, meals and entertainment  
q. Travel, meetings and conventions  
r. Financial services
e.g., bank charges, transaction fees
 
s. Interest expense  
t. Other non-production-related costs and expenses
Include bad debts, loan losses, donations, political contributions and inventory write-down.
 
u. All other costs and expenses
Include intracompany expenses.
Specify all other costs and expenses:
 
Total expenses   

Industry characteristics

1. What were this business's sales for each of the following goods and services?

Please report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Engineering services

a. Residential building engineering projects

All engineering services related to new and existing homes, row housing, apartments, etc. , and mixed-use buildings that are predominantly used for residential housing.

Include:

  • The provision of designs, plans and studies related to residential building projects
  • Engineering advisory services that are related to a specific residential building project
  • Engineering design services for residential building design-build projects that are provided on a subcontract basis.

Exclude:

  • Engineering advisory services that are not related to a specific project (report at question 1l)
  • Design-build contracts, in which the contracts cover both the engineering design and construction elements (report at question 1o).

b. Commercial, public and institutional building engineering projects

All engineering services related to new and existing commercial, public, and institutional buildings, including mixed-use buildings that are predominantly used for commercial, public, or institutional purposes.

Include:

  • Office buildings, shopping centers, hotels, restaurants, service stations, warehouses, bus and truck terminals, hospitals, schools, churches, prisons, stadiums and arenas, libraries and museums
  • The provision of designs, plans and studies related to commercial, public and institutional building projects
  • Engineering advisory services that are related to a specific commercial, public or institutional building project
  • Engineering design services for commercial, public or institutional building design-build projects that are provided on a subcontract basis.

Exclude:

  • Engineering advisory services that are not related to a specific project (report at question 1l)
  • Design-build contracts, in which the contracts cover both the engineering design and construction elements (report at question 1o).

Industrial and manufacturing engineering projects

c. Mining and metallurgical plant and process engineering projects

All engineering services related to mining and metallurgical facilities and processes.

Include:

  • Integrated facility and process engineering projects
  • All engineering services related to mining and metallurgical processes, such as mineral extraction, smelting, refining and metal forming.

d. Petroleum and petrochemical plant and process engineering projects

All engineering services related to petroleum and petrochemical facilities and processes, such as oil and gas platforms, refineries, pipelines and petrochemical plants

Include:

  • Integrated facility and process engineering projects
  • All engineering services related to processes for the production of petroleum and petrochemicals, such as extraction, refining, formulation and mixing.

e. Industrial machinery engineering design projects

All engineering services related to the design of industrial machinery.

Include machinery design for industries such as:

  • agriculture
  • construction
  • mining
  • metalworking
  • commercial and service industries
  • heating, ventilating and air-conditioning
  • power transmission machinery.

f. Other industrial and manufacturing engineering projects

All engineering services related to the design of industrial and manufactured products not elsewhere classified.

Other engineering services

g. Transportation engineering projects ( e.g., road, rail, air, marine)

All engineering services related to highways, roads, streets, bridges, tunnels, railways, subways, airports, harbours, canals and locks and other transportation infrastructure.

Include:

  • The provision of designs, plans and studies related to transportation projects
  • Engineering advisory services that are related to a specific transportation project
  • Engineering design services for a transportation design-build project that are provided on a subcontract basis.

Exclude:

  • Engineering advisory services not related to a specific project (report at question 1l)
  • Design-build contracts in which the contracts cover both the engineering design and construction elements (report at question 1o).

h. Municipal utility engineering projects

All engineering services related to municipal utilities.

Include:

  • The provision of designs, plans and studies related to municipal utility projects
  • Engineering advisory services that are related to a specific municipal utility project
  • Engineering design services for a municipal utility design-build project that are provided on a subcontract basis.

Exclude:

  • Engineering advisory services that are not related to a specific project (report at question 1l)
  • Design-build contracts, in which the contracts cover both the engineering design and construction elements (report at question 1o).

i. Power generation, transmission and distribution engineering projects

All engineering services related to power generating units, power transmission, distribution lines and related infrastructure.

Include:

  • The provision of designs, plans and studies related to power projects
  • Engineering advisory services that are related to a specific power project
  • Engineering design services for a power design-build project that are provided on a subcontract basis.

Exclude:

  • Engineering advisory services that are not related to a specific project (report at question 1l)
  • Design-build contracts, in which the contracts cover both the engineering design and construction elements (report at question 1o)

j. Telecommunications and broadcasting engineering projects

All engineering services related to systems for the transmission or distribution of voice, data and programming.

Include:

  • The provision of designs, plans and studies related to telecommunications and broadcasting projects
  • Engineering advisory services that are related to a specific telecommunications or broadcasting project
  • Engineering design services for a telecommunications or broadcasting design-build project that are provided on a subcontract basis.

Exclude:

  • Engineering advisory services that are not related to a specific project (report at question 1l)
  • Design-build contracts, in which the contracts cover both the engineering design and construction elements (report at question 1o).

k. Hazardous and industrial waste engineering projects

All engineering services related to systems for the collection, treatment and disposal of hazardous and industrial waste and the control of pollution.

Include:

  • The provision of designs, plans and studies related to hazardous and industrial waste projects
  • Engineering advisory services that are related to a specific hazardous or industrial waste project
  • Engineering design services for a hazardous or industrial waste design-build project that are provided on a subcontract basis.

Exclude:

  • Engineering advisory services that are not related to a specific project (report at question 1l)
  • Design-build contracts, in which the contracts cover both the engineering design and construction elements (report at question 1o).

l. Engineering advisory services ( e.g., expert witness, forensic investigation, etc. )

The provision of advice, studies and reports on engineering matters, except when the advice relates to a specific project. Advice, studies and reports provided in conjunction with a project are classified based on the project type.

Include:

  • policy analysis
  • regulatory studies
  • audits
  • forensic investigations
  • expert witness services.

m. Other engineering projects or services

Other projects or services provided by engineering firms that are not classified elsewhere.

Secondary activities

n. Project management services

Planning, supervising and co-ordinating the activities involved in carrying out a project, with regard to time, cost, performance requirements and other constraints. May also include the arrangement of finances for a project, procurement of equipment and subcontractors. Project management services refer only to situations in which project management is offered as a stand-alone service.

o. Construction services (include design-build contracts)

Constructing, repairing, renovating buildings and engineering works, as well as subdividing and developing land, through prime contracts or sub contracts.

Include:

  • construction of buildings
  • heavy and civil engineering construction
  • specialty trade contractors.

Exclude:

  • manufacturing and installing building equipment such as power boilers and manufacturing pre-fabricated buildings
  • operating highways, streets and bridges
  • house moving (transportation only)
  • project management services, when it is a primary activity
  • maintenance of rights of way for power, communication and pipe lines
  • cleaning building exteriors after construction.

p. Environmental consulting services

The provision of objective information, advice and guidance to clients concerning the preservation of air, water and soil quality, natural resource development, waste management, pollution control and other environmental issues.

Include the sale or transfer of technology to a client, which often extends to assisting the client with the organization and monitoring of solution implementation.

Exclude services that involve stand-alone implementation.

q. Other sales of goods and services

All other engineering services not defined above.

Total sales of goods and services

The sum of questions 1a. to 1q. above.

What were this business's sales for each of the following goods and services?
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  CAN$ '000
Engineering services  
a. Residential building engineering projects  
b. Commercial, public and institutional building engineering projects  
Industrial and manufacturing engineering projects  
c. Mining and metallurgical plant and process engineering projects  
d. Petroleum and petrochemical plant and process engineering projects  
e. Industrial machinery engineering design projects  
f. Other industrial and manufacturing engineering projects  
Other engineering services  
g. Transportation engineering projects
e.g., road, rail, air, marine
 
h. Municipal utility engineering projects  
i. Power generation, transmission and distribution engineering projects  
j. Telecommunications and broadcasting engineering projects  
k. Hazardous and industrial waste engineering projects  
l. Engineering advisory services
e.g., expert witness, forensic investigation
 
m. Other engineering projects or services  
Secondary activities  
n. Project management services  
o. Construction services
Include design-build contracts.
 
p. Environmental consulting services  
q. Other
Specify all other sales of goods and services:
 
Total sales of goods and services  

Industry characteristics

2. What were this business's sales by each of the following types of revenue?

Sales by type of revenue

a. Fee income

Revenues collected by the company for professional service fees rendered.

Exclude:

  • reimbursable expenses
  • subcontract fees awarded to other companies.

b. Subcontracts

Please report the value of subcontracts awarded by you to other firms or consultants.

c. Reimbursables

Include the cost of all contract-related materials used in a project that are billed to the client.

Exclude subcontract fees.

d. Other income

Revenues not elsewhere classified.

Total sales

The sum of questions a. to d. above.

What were this business's sales by each of the following types of revenue?
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  CAN$ '000
a. Fee income
Exclude reimbursable expenses, subcontract fees awarded to other companies.
 
b. Subcontracts
Report the value of jobs you subcontracted out to other companies.
 
b1. Engineering consulting  
b2. Other consulting
e.g., architects and contractors
 
c. Reimbursables
i.e., revenue received from clients to cover the cost of contract related materials
 
d. Other
Specify other income:
 
Total sales  

3. Please report sales of engineering services related to:

Environment-related projects

This section collects data on sales of selected environmental engineering services.

Include sales of related machinery, equipment and products sold as part of a service delivered.

a. Facilities that generate electrical power from the following renewable energy sources: sun, wind, water, biomass or the earth's heat

All engineering services related to facilities that generate electrical power from the following sources of renewable energy: sun, wind, water, biomass or earth's heat.

b. Municipal waste water treatment

All engineering services related to systems for the treatment of municipal waste water.

c. Municipal garbage collection and disposal

All engineering services related to municipal garbage collection and disposal systems, including recycling facilities, composting facilities, transfer stations, resource recovery facilities and landfill sites.

d. Site remediation

All engineering services related to remediation of contaminated site, including remediation of the air, soil, ground and/or surface water (fresh or salt).

e. Industrial air, water and solid waste collection, treatment and disposal projects

All engineering services related to programs for the collection, treatment, recycling and disposal of industrial air, water and solid wastes, generally to a level such that the remaining waste stream can be safely released to the natural environment or ordinary municipal systems.

Please report sales of engineering services related to:
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a. Facilities that generate electrical power from the following renewable energy sources: sun, wind, water, biomass or the earth's heat  
b. Municipal waste water treatment  
c. Municipal garbage collection and disposal  
d. Site remediation  
e. Industrial air, water and solid waste collection, treatment and disposal projects  

Industry characteristics

4. During the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, how many non-salaried partners and proprietors did this business have?

For unincorporated businesses, please report the number of partners and proprietors for whom earnings will be the net income of the partnership or proprietorship.

Number

Details on Purchased Services

1. For the reporting period YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, this business reported expenses for the following items.

Please provide the requested details related to these expenses.

Please report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

For the reporting period YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, this business reported expenses for the following items.
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  CAN$ '000
Professional and business fees  
Legal services  
Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services  
Management, scientific and technical consulting services  
Office administrative services  
Freight transportation arrangements and customs brokering services  
Brokerage and other insurance related services  
Security brokerage and securities dealing services  
Other purchased professional services  
Total expenses for professional and business fees  
Office and computer related expenses  
Data processing, hosting, and related services  
Business support services  
Other office and computer related purchased services  
Total expenses for office and computer related expenses  
Royalties, franchise fees and memberships  
Rights to non-financial intangible assets  
Membership fees or services  
Other royalties, franchise fees and memberships  
Total expenses for royalties, franchise fees and memberships  
Rental and leasing  
Non-residential real estate rental  
Motor vehicle rental and leasing  
Computer equipment rental and leasing  
Office machinery and equipment rental and leasing services  
Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment renting and leasing services, without operator  
Other rental services  
Total expenses for rental and leasing  
Repair and maintenance  
Security services and investigation  
Waste management and remediation services  
Motor vehicle repair and maintenance services  
Other repair and maintenance services  
Total expenses for repair and maintenance  

Sales by type of client

1. What was this business's breakdown of sales by the following types of client?

Sales by type of client

This section is designed to measure which sector of the economy purchases your services.

Please provide a percentage breakdown of your sales by type of client.

Please ensure that the sum of percentages reported in this section equals 100%.

a. to c. Clients in Canada

a. Individuals and households

Please report the percentage of sales to individuals and households who do not represent the business or government sector.

b. Businesses

Percentage of sales sold to the business sector should be reported here.

Include sales to Crown corporations.

c. Governments, not-for-profit organizations and public institutions ( e.g., hospitals, schools)

Percentage of sales to federal, provincial, territorial and municipal governments should be reported here.

Include: sales to hospitals, schools, universities and public utilities.

d. Clients outside Canada

Please report the percentage of total sales to customers or clients located outside Canada including foreign businesses, foreign individuals, foreign institutions and/or governments.

Include sales to foreign subsidiaries and affiliates.

What was this business's breakdown of sales by the following types of client?
Table summary
This table contains no data. It is an example of an empty data table used by respondents to provide data to Statistics Canada.
  Percentage
a. Clients in Canada - individuals and households  
b. Clients in Canada - businesses  
c. Clients in Canada - governments, not-for-profit organizations and public institutions
e.g., hospitals and schools
 
d. Clients outside Canada  
Total percentage  

Sales by consumer location

1. What was the percentage breakdown of this business's sales by consumer location?

Consumer location is the location where the goods or services will ultimately be used.

If ultimate consumer location is not known, the following are acceptable substitutes:

  • shipping destination
  • client's billing address
  • location of this business's retail customers
  • location of this business's warehouses/distribution centres.
What was the percentage breakdown of this business's sales by consumer location?
Table summary
This table contains no data. It is an example of an empty data table used by respondents to provide data to Statistics Canada.
  Percentage
Newfoundland and Labrador  
Prince Edward Island  
Nova Scotia  
New Brunswick  
Quebec  
Ontario  
Manitoba  
Saskatchewan  
Alberta  
British Columbia  
Yukon  
Northwest Territories  
Nunavut  
United States  
All other countries  
Total percentage  

Sales by consumer location

International transactions - revenue received from exports

1. During the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, did this business receive revenue from clients outside Canada for the sale of products, services, royalties, rights, licensing or franchise fees?

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licenses fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

  • Yes
  • No

International transactions - revenue received from exports

2. What was the revenue received from clients outside Canada?

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licenses fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

Revenue received ( CAN$ '000 )

3. What was the percentage breakdown of revenue received from clients outside Canada by goods, services and royalties?

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licenses fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

What was the percentage breakdown of revenue received from clients outside Canada by goods, services and royalties?
Table summary
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  Percentage
Goods  
Services  
Royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees  
Total percentage  

4. What was the percentage breakdown of revenue received from clients outside Canada by country?

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licenses fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

What was the percentage breakdown of revenue received from clients outside Canada by country?
Table summary
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  Percentage
a. United States  
b. Mexico  
c. Provide the percentage of revenue received from any other countries - top 4 clients only  
c1. Other country 1
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the choices or enter your own answer
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c2. Other country 2
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the choices or enter your own answer
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c3. Other country 3
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the choices or enter your own answer
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c4. Other country 4
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the choices or enter your own answer
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Total percentage  
List of countries
  • Aruba
  • Afghanistan
  • Angola
  • Anguilla
  • Åland Islands
  • Albania
  • Andorra
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • American Samoa
  • Antarctica
  • French Southern Territories
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Burundi
  • Belgium
  • Benin
  • Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba
  • Burkina Faso
  • Bangladesh
  • Bulgaria
  • Bahrain
  • Bahamas
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Saint Barthélemy
  • Belarus
  • Belize
  • Bermuda
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Barbados
  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Bhutan
  • Bouvet Island
  • Botswana
  • Central African Republic
  • Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  • Switzerland
  • Chile
  • China
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Cameroon
  • Congo, The Democratic Republic of the
  • Congo, Republic of the
  • Cook Islands
  • Colombia
  • Comoros
  • Cape Verde
  • Costa Rica
  • Cuba
  • Curaçao
  • Christmas Island
  • Cayman Islands
  • Cyprus
  • Czech Republic
  • Germany
  • Djibouti
  • Dominica
  • Denmark
  • Dominican Republic
  • Algeria
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • Eritrea
  • Western Sahara
  • Spain
  • Estonia
  • Ethiopia
  • Finland
  • Fiji
  • Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
  • France
  • Faroe Islands
  • Micronesia, Federated States of
  • Gabon
  • United Kingdom
  • Georgia
  • Guernsey
  • Ghana
  • Gibraltar
  • Guinea
  • Guadeloupe
  • Gambia
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Greece
  • Grenada
  • Greenland
  • Guatemala
  • French Guiana
  • Guam
  • Guyana
  • Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
  • Heard Island and McDonald Islands
  • Honduras
  • Croatia
  • Haiti
  • Hungary
  • Indonesia
  • Isle of Man
  • India
  • British Indian Ocean Territory
  • Ireland, Republic of
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Iceland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Jersey
  • Jordan
  • Japan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Cambodia
  • Kiribati
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Korea, South
  • Kuwait
  • Laos
  • Lebanon
  • Liberia
  • Libya
  • Saint Lucia
  • Liechtenstein
  • Sri Lanka
  • Lesotho
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Latvia
  • Macao Special Administrative Region
  • Saint Martin (French part)
  • Morocco
  • Monaco
  • Moldova
  • Madagascar
  • Maldives
  • Marshall Islands
  • Macedonia, Republic of
  • Mali
  • Malta
  • Burma (Myanmar)
  • Montenegro
  • Mongolia
  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • Mozambique
  • Mauritania
  • Montserrat
  • Martinique
  • Mauritius
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Mayotte
  • Namibia
  • New Caledonia
  • Niger
  • Norfolk Island
  • Nigeria
  • Nicaragua
  • Niue
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Nepal
  • Nauru
  • New Zealand
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Panama
  • Pitcairn
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Palau
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Poland
  • Puerto Rico
  • Korea, North
  • Portugal
  • Paraguay
  • West Bank and Gaza Strip (Palestine)
  • French Polynesia
  • Qatar
  • Réunion
  • Romania
  • Russian Federation
  • Rwanda
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Sudan
  • Senegal
  • Singapore
  • South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
  • Saint Helena
  • Svalbard and Jan Mayen
  • Solomon Islands
  • Sierra Leone
  • El Salvador
  • San Marino
  • Somalia
  • Saint Pierre and Miquelon
  • Serbia
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Suriname
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Sweden
  • Swaziland
  • Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
  • Seychelles
  • Syria
  • Turks and Caicos Islands
  • Chad
  • Togo
  • Thailand
  • Tajikistan
  • Tokelau
  • Turkmenistan
  • Timor-Leste
  • Tonga
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Tuvalu
  • Taiwan
  • Tanzania
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • United States Minor Outlying Islands
  • Uruguay
  • Uzbekistan
  • Holy See (Vatican City State)
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Venezuela
  • Virgin Islands, British
  • Virgin Islands, United States
  • Viet Nam
  • Vanuatu
  • Wallis and Futuna
  • Samoa
  • Kosovo
  • Yemen
  • South Africa, Republic of
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

International transactions - purchases from outside Canada (imports)

5. During the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, did this business make payments to suppliers outside Canada for the purchase of products, services, royalties, rights, licensing or franchise fees?

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licenses fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

  • Yes
  • No

6. What were the payments made to suppliers outside Canada?

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licenses fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

Payments made ( CAN$ '000 )

7. What was the percentage breakdown of payments made to suppliers outside Canada by goods, services and royalties?

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licenses fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

What was the percentage breakdown of payments made to suppliers outside Canada by goods, services and royalties?
Table summary
This table contains no data. It is an example of an empty data table used by respondents to provide data to Statistics Canada.
  Percentage
Goods  
Services  
Royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees  
Total percentage  

8. What was the percentage breakdown of payments made to suppliers outside Canada by country?

This section is intended to measure the value of international transactions on goods, services, royalties and licenses fees. It covers imported services and goods purchased outside Canada as well as the value of exported services and goods to clients/customers outside Canada. Please report also royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees paid to and/or received from outside Canada. Services cover a variety of industrial, professional, trade and business services.

What was the percentage breakdown of revenue received from clients outside Canada by country?
Table summary
This table contains no data. It is an example of an empty data table used by respondents to provide data to Statistics Canada.
  Percentage
a. United States  
b. Mexico  
c. Provide the percentage of revenue received from any other countries - top 4 clients only  
c1. Other country 1
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the choices or enter your own answer
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c2. Other country 2
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the choices or enter your own answer
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c3. Other country 3
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c4. Other country 4
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Total percentage  
List of countries
  • Aruba
  • Afghanistan
  • Angola
  • Anguilla
  • Åland Islands
  • Albania
  • Andorra
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • American Samoa
  • Antarctica
  • French Southern Territories
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Burundi
  • Belgium
  • Benin
  • Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba
  • Burkina Faso
  • Bangladesh
  • Bulgaria
  • Bahrain
  • Bahamas
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Saint Barthélemy
  • Belarus
  • Belize
  • Bermuda
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Barbados
  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Bhutan
  • Bouvet Island
  • Botswana
  • Central African Republic
  • Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  • Switzerland
  • Chile
  • China
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Cameroon
  • Congo, The Democratic Republic of the
  • Congo, Republic of the
  • Cook Islands
  • Colombia
  • Comoros
  • Cape Verde
  • Costa Rica
  • Cuba
  • Curaçao
  • Christmas Island
  • Cayman Islands
  • Cyprus
  • Czech Republic
  • Germany
  • Djibouti
  • Dominica
  • Denmark
  • Dominican Republic
  • Algeria
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • Eritrea
  • Western Sahara
  • Spain
  • Estonia
  • Ethiopia
  • Finland
  • Fiji
  • Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
  • France
  • Faroe Islands
  • Micronesia, Federated States of
  • Gabon
  • United Kingdom
  • Georgia
  • Guernsey
  • Ghana
  • Gibraltar
  • Guinea
  • Guadeloupe
  • Gambia
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Greece
  • Grenada
  • Greenland
  • Guatemala
  • French Guiana
  • Guam
  • Guyana
  • Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
  • Heard Island and McDonald Islands
  • Honduras
  • Croatia
  • Haiti
  • Hungary
  • Indonesia
  • Isle of Man
  • India
  • British Indian Ocean Territory
  • Ireland, Republic of
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Iceland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Jersey
  • Jordan
  • Japan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Cambodia
  • Kiribati
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Korea, South
  • Kuwait
  • Laos
  • Lebanon
  • Liberia
  • Libya
  • Saint Lucia
  • Liechtenstein
  • Sri Lanka
  • Lesotho
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Latvia
  • Macao Special Administrative Region
  • Saint Martin (French part)
  • Morocco
  • Monaco
  • Moldova
  • Madagascar
  • Maldives
  • Marshall Islands
  • Macedonia, Republic of
  • Mali
  • Malta
  • Burma (Myanmar)
  • Montenegro
  • Mongolia
  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • Mozambique
  • Mauritania
  • Montserrat
  • Martinique
  • Mauritius
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Mayotte
  • Namibia
  • New Caledonia
  • Niger
  • Norfolk Island
  • Nigeria
  • Nicaragua
  • Niue
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Nepal
  • Nauru
  • New Zealand
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Panama
  • Pitcairn
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Palau
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Poland
  • Puerto Rico
  • Korea, North
  • Portugal
  • Paraguay
  • West Bank and Gaza Strip (Palestine)
  • French Polynesia
  • Qatar
  • Réunion
  • Romania
  • Russian Federation
  • Rwanda
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Sudan
  • Senegal
  • Singapore
  • South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
  • Saint Helena
  • Svalbard and Jan Mayen
  • Solomon Islands
  • Sierra Leone
  • El Salvador
  • San Marino
  • Somalia
  • Saint Pierre and Miquelon
  • Serbia
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Suriname
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Sweden
  • Swaziland
  • Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
  • Seychelles
  • Syria
  • Turks and Caicos Islands
  • Chad
  • Togo
  • Thailand
  • Tajikistan
  • Tokelau
  • Turkmenistan
  • Timor-Leste
  • Tonga
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Tuvalu
  • Taiwan
  • Tanzania
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • United States Minor Outlying Islands
  • Uruguay
  • Uzbekistan
  • Holy See (Vatican City State)
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Venezuela
  • Virgin Islands, British
  • Virgin Islands, United States
  • Viet Nam
  • Vanuatu
  • Wallis and Futuna
  • Samoa
  • Kosovo
  • Yemen
  • South Africa, Republic of
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Changes or events

1. Indicate any changes or events that affected the reported values for this business or organization, compared with the last reporting period.

Select all that apply.

  • Strike or lock-out
  • Exchange rate impact
  • Price changes in goods or services sold
  • Contracting out
  • Organizational change
  • Price changes in labour or raw materials
  • Natural disaster
  • Recession
  • Change in product line
  • Sold business or business units
  • Expansion
  • New or lost contract
  • Plant closures
  • Acquisition of business or business units
  • Other
    Specify the other changes or events:
  • No changes or events

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Data Collection: 2014/2015 to 2018/2019

History and background

The Elementary–Secondary Education Survey (ESES) began in 2003 as a Statistics Canada pilot project known as the Elementary–Secondary Education Statistics Project (ESESP). The ESESP survey content originated from three tables that were originally part of a survey sent out each year to all provinces and territories by the British Columbia Ministry of Education. Following formal consultation with all provinces, territories and data users, Statistics Canada introduced seven new tables to collect additional data. The project's goals were to collect expenditures data for elementary and secondary public schools, and to replace several surveys that were collecting data on enrolments, graduates, and educators: the Elementary/Secondary School Enrolment Survey; the Secondary School Graduate Survey; and the Elementary–Secondary Education Staff Survey. Although the ESESP collected expenditure data, the Survey of Uniform Financial System – School Boards survey (SUFSB, record number 3119) remained active.

In January 2010, the ESESP was renamed the Elementary–Secondary Education Survey to symbolize the change from a pilot project to a Statistics Canada ongoing core survey. The main objectives of the collection tool remained: to produce relevant, comparable and timely statistics, and to reduce the respondent burden on educational organizations and school principals.

Statistics Canada maintains a close relationship with the Canadian Education Statistics Council (CESC), particularly its Strategic Management Committee (SMC), and seeks its ongoing advice and guidance on the survey. The CESC is a partnership between the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) and Statistics Canada. It was established in 1989 to improve the quality and comparability of Canadian education data and to provide information that can inform policy development in education. The CESC also produces two sets of education indicators, Education Indicators in Canada: Report of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (Statistics Canada catalogue number 81-582-X) and Education Indicators in Canada: An International Perspective (catalogue number 81-604-X), for policy makers, practitioners, and the general public to monitor the performance of education systems, across jurisdictions and over time.

Changes in data collection

The ESES is an annual survey of administrative data that focuses primarily on public schools. It collects aggregate data from the provincial/territorial ministries or departments of education. Information on enrolments and graduates is reported by type of program and by age and sex, and enrolments are also reported by grade and sex. In addition, the ESES collects information pertaining to full- and part-time educators.

Private school data collection: In the summer of 2010, Statistics Canada conducted a jurisdictional review and was able to ascertain that data for enrolments by grade and by age, enrolments in official languages programs, and counts of graduates and educators could also be provided for private schools. Therefore, in January 2011, Statistics Canada began collecting private school data (2009/2010 reference period).

Home-schooling data collection: In the summer of 2011, Statistics Canada conducted another jurisdictional review and was able to ascertain that data for enrolments by grade and by age could also be provided for home-schooling. Therefore, in January 2012, Statistics Canada began collecting home-schooling data (2010/2011 reference period).

General definitions

In order to obtain consistent counts of students, graduates, educators, and expenditures across provinces and territories, it is important that respondents use common definitions.

Ministry/Department of Education: There is no federal department of education and no integrated national system of education in Canada. Ministries or departments of education in Canada's 10 provinces and 3 territories are responsible for the organization, delivery and assessment of education at the elementary and secondary levels.

School boards/districts: Local governance of education is usually entrusted to school boards, school districts, school divisions or district education councils/authorities (the terminology used varies by province/territory). The power delegated to these local authorities, whose members are typically appointed or elected by public ballot, is at the discretion of the provincial and territorial governments and generally consists of the operation and administration (including financial) of the group of schools within their board, district or division, curriculum implementation, responsibility for personnel, enrolment of students, and initiation of proposals for new construction or other major capital expenditures.

The tables explained: ESES financial data

Table 1, Expenditures: The information in the expenditures table (tab 1PubExpenditures) is collected primarily for use by the finance section at the Centre for Education Statistics, where the data form an input into the consolidated revenue and expenditure figures for public elementary–secondary education. The ESES financial data are compared with and validated against other sources of financial data such as provincial/territorial public accounts and school board financial statements.

School board/district expenditures: Include all expenditures (operating and capital) paid directly by district school boards.

Ministry/Department of Education expenditures: Include all expenditures (operating and capital) paid on behalf of district school boards by Ministries/Departments of Education or any other entities responsible for education.

Other provincial/territorial government or agency expenditures: Include all expenditures (operating and capital) incurred by other provincial/territorial departments or agencies such as Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Transport, etc. Do not include expenses paid on behalf of school districts by Ministries of Education.

Expenditures should be reported by fiscal year.

Include expenditures for programs in elementary and secondary public schools.

Do not include the following expenditure:

  • federal expenditures (e.g., schools operated by Indigenous Services Canada or National Defence, or federal programs such as Canadian Heritage official languages programs, Employment and Social Development Canada programs, Global Affairs Canada programs, and social [health and welfare] programs);
  • those for private schools;
  • those related to programs at the postsecondary level;
  • intra-sectoral transactions;
  • principal portion of debt repayments or bank loans;
  • recoveries of expenditures from specified purpose;
  • provision for vacation pay and similar employee benefit;
  • provision for bad debts and any other provisions;
  • reserves and other suspense accounts;
  • deficits and write-off to losses;
  • depreciation on capital expenditures (amortization charges);
  • debenture discount;
  • taxes remitted to other government sub-sectors (e.g., municipal taxes).

1.1 School boards and districts

Educator remuneration:

Row 1: Salaries, wages and allowances
Salaries and wages are the remuneration to educators for services rendered. Include teachers, school administrators, such as principals and vice-principals; and other professional non-teaching staff, such as guidance counselors and librarians as well as pedagogical support personnel.

Allowances are payments made in addition to salaries/wages to compensate for isolation, additional administrative duties or other responsibilities and other similar costs. Include sick leave payments, maternity leave, and other approved leave. Do not include ad hoc allowances for travel and accommodation (include in "Row 6: Other operating expenditures") and payments of superannuation or pension premiums on behalf of the educator.

Row 2: Fringe benefits – except employer contributions to the Canada and Quebec pension plans
Includes payment on behalf of the educator for Employment Insurance premiums, life insurance plans, health, dental and drug plans, vision care plans, workers' compensation plans, disability insurance plans, termination and early retirement gratuities, private use of institution's goods and services, employee discounts, professional fees related to professional development, payments to government work safety agencies, purchase and maintenance of clothing, moving fees, employee counseling services, union duties leave, annuity funds, paid recognition for years of service, paid holidays, trips, jury duty pay, employee parking lot fees, and board-sponsored recreation or paid memberships.

Educator pension plans:

Row 3: Employer contributions to Canada and Quebec pension plans
Includes all employer contributions to the Canada and Quebec pension plans.

Row 4: Contributions to other pension plans
Includes contributions to any other types of pension plans.

Row 5: Periodic contributions to rectify actuarial deficiencies
Adjustments made during the current year to ensure that the funds required are available, which are actuarial liability adjustments made to current service payments to reduce or eliminate the debt.

Other operating expenditures:

Row 6: Other operating expenditures
Include salary and non-salary costs related to business administration, instruction, educational services, food services, school facilities services, school transportation and any other expenditure related to the provision of services in the public school system. Do not include interest on debt services.

Row 7: Total operating expenditures
The sum of rows 1 to 6.

Capital expenditures:

Row 8: Capital expenditures
Include acquisitions of physical assets of a fixed or permanent nature with a useful life of more than one operating year. Include expenditures of an annual or cyclical nature for capital-lease and leasehold improvement (e.g., major repairs and upgrades to school and board buildings, new school and board furniture equipment and vehicles). Do not include expenditures for non-major repairs and maintenance designated as "plant operation" under "Row 6: Other operating expenditures".

Note that all capital expenditures must be reported with the historical cost in the year of the initial expenditure. If the capital expenditures are "amortized" during their useful life, they should be converted to the historical cost and reported to the year of the initial cost in order to insure the comparability of data between provinces and territories.

Row 9: Interest on debt services
Include the interest on loans and advances, bonds, debentures and mortgages, other debt charges such as bank service charges and other charges pertaining to the servicing of the public debt.

Row 10: Total capital expenditures
The sum of rows 8 and 9.

Row 11: Total expenditures - School boards and districts
The sum of rows 7 and 10.

1.2 Ministry of Education

Educator remuneration:

Row 12: Salaries/Wages and allowances
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 1).

Row 13: Fringe benefits – except employer contributions to pension plans
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 2).

Educator pension plans:

Row 14: Employer contributions to pension plans
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 3).

Row 15: Contributions to other pension plans
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 4).

Row 16: Periodic contributions to rectify actuarial deficiencies
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 5).

Other operating expenditures:

Row 17: Other operating expenditures
Include only Ministry/Department of Education expenses relating to direct financial support of school boards; e.g., milk programs or textbooks, or library, guidance and audio–visual expenses. Do not include any grants or contributions to schools boards or districts.

Row 18: General administration
Include only administration expenses directly incurred by the Ministry/Department of Education; e.g., expenses for the Minister's office, including his/her salary, human resources, administrative support and financial services. If any of these administration expenses are grouped together with those for postsecondary education, please indicate only those applicable to elementary and secondary education.

Row 19: Total operating expenditures
The sum of rows 12 to 18.

Capital expenditures:

Row 20: Capital expenditures
Include only Ministry/Department of Education capital expenditures relating to direct financial support of school boards. Do not include any grants or contributions to schools boards or schools districts.

Row 21: Interest on debt services
Include the interest on loans and advances, bonds, debentures and mortgages. Also include other debt charges such as bank service charges and other charges pertaining to the servicing of the public debt.

Row 22: Total capital expenditures
The sum of rows 20 and 21.

Row 23: Total expenditures – Ministry/Department of Education
The sum of rows 19 and 22.

1.3 Other provincial/territorial departments or agencies

Educator remuneration:

Row 24: Salaries, wages and allowances
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 1).

Row 25: Fringe benefits – except employer contributions to pension plans
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 2).

Educator pension plans:

Row 26: Employer contributions to pension plans
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 3).

Row 27: Contributions to other pension plans
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 4).

Row 28: Periodic contributions to rectify actuarial deficiencies
As defined under school district expenditures (see row 5).

Other operating expenditures:

Row 29: Other operating expenditures
Include only Other provincial/territorial government or agencies expenses relating to direct financial support of school boards. For example, provision of textbooks/school book bureaus, milk programs, guidance and audio-visual expenses. Do not include any grants or contributions to schools boards or schools districts, administration expenses (see row 17). Do not include any expenses from Ministry/Department of Education.

Row 30: Total operating expenditures
The sum of rows 24 to 29.

Capital expenditures:

Row 31: Capital expenditures
Include only "Other provincial/territorial governments or agencies" capital expenditures related to direct financial support of school boards. Do not include any grants or contributions to schools boards or schools districts. Do not include any expenses from Ministry/Department of Education.

Row 32: Interest on debt services
Include the interest on loans and advances, bonds, debentures and mortgages. Also include other debt charges such as bank service charges and other charges pertaining to the servicing of the public debt.

Row 33: Total capital expenditures
The sum of rows 31 and 32.

Row 34: Total expenditures - Other provincial/territorial departments or agencies
The sum of rows 30 and 33.

Total education expenditures:

Row 35: Total education expenditures
The sum of rows 11, 23 and 34.

The tables explained: ESES public, private and home-schooling data

The ESES is an annual survey of administrative data that focuses primarily on public schools. It also collects some information pertaining to private/independent schools, as well as home-schooling.

Public schools: Public schools are publicly funded elementary and secondary schools that are operated by school boards or the province or territory. They include all regular public schools as well as provincial reformatory or custodial schools, and other schools that are recognized and funded by the province or territory.

Private/Independent schools: Parents can choose to send their children to private/independent schools, which typically offer a curriculum similar to that provided by public schools, in a similarly structured way. Private/Independent schools encompass elementary and secondary schools that are operated, managed and administered by private individuals and/or groups (e.g., a church, a trade union or a business enterprise, or a foreign or international agency) or that have a governing board that exercises powers similar to those of a board of education and consists mostly of members not selected by a public agency.

The extent to which an institution receives funding from public or private sources does not determine its classification as a public or private school. Privately managed schools may be subject to some regulation or control by public authorities, but these institutions are nevertheless classified as private, provided that they are ultimately subject to private control. Public regulation may extend to areas such as curriculum, staffing appointments, admissions policies, and other matters.

The ESES does not distinguish between government-dependent private and independent private institutions.

Home-schooling: Home-schooling is an alternative method of learning that takes place outside the public or private school environment. Parents choosing home-schooling have the primary responsibility of managing, delivering and supervising their children's courses and programs of learning. Although home-schooling students may be associated with a public or private/independent school, the enrolment counts for home-schooling should be reported separately.

Public school enrolment

Table 2A and Table 2B, Number of students, by type of program, grade and sex / age and sex
(tab 2APubEnrolGradeSex and tab 2BPubEnrolAgeSex)

Public school enrolment is the number of students (headcount) enrolled in publicly funded schools operated by school boards or the province/territory in September (or as close as possible thereafter) of the school year.

Include all students (graded and ungraded) in regular publicly funded schools, provincial reformatory or custodial schools, and other students recognized and funded by a province or territory. Students in a specific elementary/secondary grade (graded) should be reported in the appropriate grade. If a student is not considered to be in a specific elementary/secondary grade because he/she is taking different subjects at a number of levels, report the student as ungraded.

Include other, non-standard, enrolments such as those for students receiving educational services (if recognized by the province/territory) and for schools and/or school boards that receive funding in a unique manner. They may be non-graduates who are taking only a few courses required to complete graduation; for example, a student who is enrolled in only 25% of a "regular" course load and for whom the school or school district receives only 25% of the usual funding. Note: This category may not apply to some provinces or territories.

Do not include students enrolled in: programs or schools outside the regular system; home-schooling programs; private/independent schools; or schools that are financed by federal departments (e.g., Indigenous Services Canada or the Department of National Defence).

Table 2.1, Regular programs for youth

Report the number of students enrolled in general training programs geared toward and offered primarily to similarly aged young people. Although the majority of enrolments in this category will likely be for school-aged children and youth, some adults may be enrolled.

Table 2.2, Full-time equivalent (FTE) rate – Regular programs for youth

The full-time equivalent (FTE) rate represents the fraction of time spent in a classroom and for which the students are funded. If the fraction is unknown, an estimate should be provided; for example, for junior kindergarten and kindergarten students taking a half-time program that is funded, the FTE enrolment would be the headcount enrolment divided by 2, which is 0.5. If a student is only taking a quarter of the usual course load and is funded on that basis, the FTE enrolment would be the headcount enrolment divided by 4, which is 0.25.

Note: For most jurisdictions, Grades 1 through 12 have an FTE of 1.0 as these grades are generally considered full time. FTEs of less than 1.0 are common for Junior kindergarten and Kindergarten.

Table 2.3, General programs for adults

Report the number of students enrolled in general programs geared toward and offered primarily to adults within the elementary–secondary system. Some students in the youth sector may be enrolled in order to follow programs of study labelled as "adult education".

Do not include students enrolled in programs offered at the postsecondary level, or by any institution other than a school board.

Table 2.4, Vocational programs for youth and adults

Vocational education is designed for students to acquire the practical skills, know-how and understanding necessary for employment in a particular occupation or trade or class of occupations or trades. Successful completion of these programs usually leads students to a relevant labour market vocational qualification recognized by the authorities in the province/territory in which it is obtained.

Vocational students must have at least 25% of their instructional time in a vocational or technical program.

Report the number of students enrolled in professional and technical training programs offered in public schools operated by school boards or the province/territory.

Do not include students enrolled in vocational programs offered at the postsecondary level, or by any institution other than a school board.

Private school enrolment

Table 2A and Table 2B, Number of students, by type of program, grade and sex / age and sex
(tab 2APrivEnrolGradeSex and tab 2BPrivEnrolAgeSex)

Private school enrolment is the number of students enrolled in private/independent schools in September (or as close as possible thereafter) of the school year.

Students in a specific elementary/secondary grade (graded) should be reported in the appropriate grade. If a student is not considered to be in a specific elementary/secondary grade because he/she is taking different subjects at a number of levels, report the student as ungraded.

Do not include students enrolled in home-schooling programs, or in schools that are financed by federal departments (e.g., Indigenous Services Canada or the Department of National Defence).

Table 2.1, Regular programs for youth

Report the number of students enrolled in general training programs geared toward and offered primarily to similarly-aged young people. Although the majority of enrolments in this category will likely be for school-aged children and youth, some adults may be enrolled.

Table 2.2, Full-time equivalent (FTE) rate – Regular programs for youth

The full-time equivalent (FTE) rate represents the fraction of time spent in a classroom and for which the students are funded. If the fraction is unknown, an estimate should be provided; for example, for junior kindergarten and kindergarten students taking a half-time program that is funded, the FTE enrolment would be the headcount enrolment divided by 2, which is 0.5. If a student is only taking a quarter of the usual course load and is funded on that basis, the FTE enrolment would be the headcount enrolment divided by 4, which is 0.25.

Note: For most jurisdictions, Grades 1 through 12 have an FTE of 1.0 as these grades are generally considered full time. FTEs of less than 1.0 are common for Junior kindergarten and Kindergarten.

Table 2.3, General programs for adults

Report the number of students enrolled in general programs geared toward and offered primarily to adults within the elementary-secondary system. Some students in the youth sector may be enrolled in order to follow programs of study labelled as "adult education".

Do not include students enrolled in programs offered at the postsecondary level.

Table 2.4, Vocational programs for youth and adults

Vocational education is designed for students to acquire the practical skills, know-how and understanding necessary for employment in a particular occupation or trade or class of occupations or trades. Successful completion of these programs usually leads students to a relevant labour market vocational qualification recognized by the authorities in the province/territory in which it is obtained.

Vocational students must have at least 25% of their instructional time in a vocational or technical program.

Report the number of students enrolled in professional and technical training programs.

Do not include students enrolled in vocational programs offered at the postsecondary level.

Home-schooling enrolment

Table 2A and Table 2B, Number of students, by type of program, grade and sex / age and sex
(tab 2AHSEnrolGradeSex and tab 2BHSEnrolAgeSex)

Home-schooling enrolment is the number of students enrolled in home-schooling in September (or as close as possible thereafter) of the school year. These counts should be reported separately to capture this alternative method of learning that takes place outside the public or private school environment.

Table 2.1, Regular programs for youth

Report the number of students enrolled in general training programs geared toward and offered primarily to similarly-aged young people. Although the majority of enrolments in this category will likely be for school-aged children and youth, some adults may be enrolled.

Public and private schools, enrolments in official languages programs

Table 3, Number of students enrolled in official languages programs, by type of program, grade and sex
(tab 3PubEnrolOffLangGradeSex and tab 3PrivEnrolOffLangGradeSex)

Table 3.1, Regular second language programs (or core language programs)

Canada outside Quebec: Enrolments in programs where French is taught to students attending English schools, as a subject in the regular course offerings. Quebec: Enrolments in programs where English is taught to students attending French schools, as a subject in the regular course offerings.

Include students enrolled in core French (programme de base de français) - A second language program offered at various grade levels, in which French is studied as a subject. This also includes the extended core program where one or more additional subjects can also be taught in the student's second official language (French outside Quebec, English in Quebec).

Also include students enrolled in intensive/extended French (programme intensif de français) - An enrichment of the core French program that involves periods of intensive study and use of French, while the regular curriculum is "compressed" into the remainder of that school year. It is important to note that the French instruction is focused only on language acquisition.

Table 3.2, French immersion programs

Enrolments in programs where French is the language of instruction for students attending English schools.

Include students enrolled in French immersion (programme d'immersion en français) - A program in which French is the language of instruction for a significant part of the school day; that is, several or all subjects are taught in French, except for English language arts. Immersion is designed for students who want to develop a proficiency in French as a second language.

Do not include enrolments in intensive/extended French programs in Table 3.2; they should be reported in Table 3.1.

Table 3.3, Education programs in the official minority language

Enrolments in programs for students from the official language minority of each province or territory (French outside Quebec, English in Quebec). These programs allow children in the official language minority to pursue their education in their language.

Public schools, enrolments in Indigenous language programs

Table 4, Number of students enrolled in Indigenous language programs, by type of program and grade
(tab 4PubEnrolAborLangGrade)

Table 4.1, Indigenous language as a subject (Indigenous second language program or core Indigenous)

Enrolments in programs or courses where an Indigenous language is taught as a subject (as a part of the regular course offerings) to Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. One or more additional subjects can also be taught in an Indigenous language but may not exceed 25% of all instruction time. Include enrolments in elective courses where an Indigenous language is taught as a subject.

Table 4.2, Indigenous language immersion programs (Indigenous first language programs)

Enrolments in programs where all classroom instruction is taught in an Indigenous language to Indigenous and non-Indigenous students.

Public schools, enrolments in programs for students with special needs

Table 5, Enrolments in programs for students with special needs - Due to data quality concerns, data on special needs are no longer published.

Public and private schools, number of secondary school graduates

Table 6, Number of graduates, by type of program, age and sex
(tab 6PubGradAgeSex and tab 6PrivGradAgeSex)

Graduates represent first-time graduates only. Count late graduates but do not count the same graduate twice.

Table 6.1, Regular programs for youth

Include first-time graduates from general programs geared toward and offered primarily to similarly-aged young people. Although the majority of these graduates will likely be typically school-aged youth, some adults may graduate from these programs.

Table 6.2, General programs for adults

Include first-time graduates from general programs geared toward and offered primarily to adult learners within the elementary–secondary school system. This may include some graduates from the youth sector who have pursued programs of study labelled as "adult education", as well as older graduates.

Do not include any graduates of programs offered at the postsecondary level or by any institution other than a school board.

Tables 6.3a & 6.3b, Vocational programs for youth and adults

Include first-time graduates from professional and technical training programs.

Do not include any graduates of vocational programs offered at the postsecondary level or by any institution other than a school board.

Public and private schools, number of educators

Table 7, Number of educators
(tab 7PubEducAgeSex and tab 7PrivEducAgeSex)

Two different counts are captured for educators:

  • the number of full-time and part-time educators (headcounts), by age group and sex (Table 7.1); and
  • the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) educators, by category and sex (Table 7.2).

In both cases, report the number of educators on September 30 (or as close as possible thereafter) of the school year. Educators is a broad category that comprises teachers, school administrators, and pedagogical support.

  • Teachers are personnel who provide direct instruction to students, either in a group or on a one-on-one basis. Include:
    • classroom teachers, special education teachers, and other specialists such as music or physical education teachers;
    • other teachers who work with a group, or groups, of students in a classroom, in small groups in a resource room, or one-on-one inside or outside a regular classroom;
    • chairpersons of departments or other administrators/managers who spend the majority of their time teaching; and
    • personnel temporarily not at work (e.g., for reasons of illness or injury, maternity or parental leave, holiday or vacation)

Do not include substitute or supply teachers and unpaid instructional personnel such as student teachers.

  • School administrators are personnel who are responsible for the organization, administration and management of the school. Include principals, vice-principals, and other management staff with similar responsibilities who do not spend the majority of their time teaching. Do not include those who are in higher level management or receptionists, secretaries, clerks and other staff who support the administrative activities of the school.
  • Pedagogical support includes professional non-teaching personnel who provide services to students to support their educational programs. Include, for example, educational assistants, paid teacher's aides, guidance counselors and librarians. Do not include those in health and social support roles who are not educators (e.g., school nurses, school psychologists).

Table 7.1, Number of full-time and part-time educators (headcounts), by age group and sex

An educator headcount is defined as the number of educators on September 30 (or as close as possible thereafter) of the school year who are responsible for providing services to the students reported in the enrolment tables (tab 2APubEnrolGradeSex and tab 2BPubEnrolAgeSex). The numbers of full- and part-time educators reported in Table 7.1 will be summed to obtain the total number of educators.

Table 7.2, Number of full-time equivalent (FTE) educators, by category and sex

Full-time equivalent (FTE) educator is defined as the number of full-time educators on September 30 (or as close as possible thereafter) of the school year, plus the sum of part-time educators according to their percentage of a full-time employment allocation (determined by the province or territory). For example, if a normal full-time work allocation is 10 months per year, an educator who works for 6 months of the year would be counted as 0.6 of a full-time equivalent (FTE) or an employee who works part time for 10 months at 60% of full time would be 0.6 of an FTE. Report FTEs by category of educator if possible; i.e., in teachers, school administrators, or pedagogical support.

Public and private school data as well as home-schooling data were collected on separate templates, spanning years 2014/2015 to 2018/2019.

Reporting period:

  • From: 2020-05-25
  • To: 2020-07-17

1. Expenditures (Public)

1.1 School boards and districts

Educator remuneration:

  • row 1 Salaries/wages and allowances
  • row 2 Fringe benefits (except employer contributions to pension plans)

Educator pension plans:

  • row 3 Employer contributions to Canada and Quebec pension plans
  • row 4 Contributions to other pension plans
  • row 5 Periodic contributions to rectify actuarial deficiencies

Other operating expenditures:

  • row 6 Other operating expenditures
  • row 7 Total: operating expenses (rows 1 to 6)

Capital expenditures:

  • row 8 Capital expenditures
  • row 9 Interest on debt services
  • row 10 Total: capital expenditures (rows 8 and 9)
  • row 11 Total expenditures: school boards and districts (rows 7 and 10)

1.2 Ministry of Education

Educator remuneration:

  • row 12 Salaries/wages and allowances
  • row 13 Fringe benefits (except employer contributions to pension plan)

Educator pension plans:

  • row 14 Employer contributions to Canada and Quebec pension plans
  • row 15 Contributions to other pension plans
  • row 16 Periodic contributions to rectify actuarial deficiencies

Other operating expenditures:

  • row 17 Other operating expenditures
  • row 18 General administration
  • row 19 Total: operating expenses (rows 12 to 18)

Capital expenditures

  • row 20 Capital annual expenditures
  • row 21 Interest on debt services
  • row 22 Total: capital expenditures (rows 20 and 21)
  • row 23 Total expenditures: Ministry of Education (rows 19 and 22)

1.3 Other provincial/territorial departments or agencies

Educator remuneration:

  • row 24 Salaries/wages and allowances
  • row 25 Fringe benefits (except employer contributions to pension plans)

Educator pension plans:

  • row 26 Employer contributions to Canada and Quebec pension plans
  • row 27 Contributions to other pension plans
  • row 28 Periodic contributions to rectify actuarial deficiencies

Other operating expenditures:

  • row 29 Other operating expenditures
  • row 30 Total: operating expenses (rows 24 to 29)

Capital expenditures:

  • row 31 Capital expenditures
  • row 32 Interest on debt services
  • row 33 Total: capital expenditures (rows 31 and 32)
  • row 34 Total expenditures: other provincial/territorial departments and agencies (rows 30 and 33)
  • row 35 Total Education Expenditures (rows 11, 23 and 34)

2A. Number of students, by type of program, grade and sex

2A.1 Regular programs for youth, Male, Female, Sex not reported and Total (Public, Private and Home-schooling)

Grade

  • Junior kindergarten
  • Kindergarten
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • Ungraded
  • Total

2A.2 Full-time equivalent (FTE) rate - Regular programs for youth (Public and Private)

  • Junior kindergarten
  • Kindergarten

2A.3 General programs for adultsNote 1, Male, Female, Sex not reported and Total (Public, Private and Homeschooling)

Grade

  • Less than Grade 8
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • Ungraded
  • Total

2A.4 Vocational programsNote 2 for youth and adults, Male, Female, Sex not reported and Total (Public and Private)

  • Youth
  • Adults
  • Total

2B. Number of students, by type of program, age and sex

2B.1 Regular programs for youth, Male, Female, Sex not reported and Total (Public, Private and Home-schooling)

Age

  • Under 3
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30 to 34
  • 35 to 39
  • 40 and over
  • Not reported
  • Total

2B.3 General programs for adultsNote 1, Male, Female, Sex not reported and Total (Public, Private and Home-Schooling)

Age

  • Under 10
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30 to 34
  • 35 to 39
  • 40 and over
  • Not reported
  • Total

2B.4 Vocational programsNote 2 for youth and adults, Male, Female, Sex not reported and Total (Public and Private)

Age

  • Under 10
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30 to 34
  • 35 to 39
  • 40 and over
  • Not reported
  • Total

3. Number of students enrolled in official languages programs, by type of program, grade and sex (Public and Private)

3.1 Regular second language programs (or core language programs)Note 3, Male, Female, Sex not reported and Total

Grade

  • Junior kindergarten
  • Kindergarten
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • Ungraded
  • Total

3.2 French immersion programsNote 4, Male, Female, Sex not reported and Total

Grade

  • Junior kindergarten
  • Kindergarten
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • Ungraded
  • Total

3.3 Education programs in the official minority languageNote 5, Male, Female, Sex not reported and Total

Grade

  • Junior kindergarten
  • Kindergarten
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • Ungraded
  • Total

4. Number of students enrolled in Indigenous language programs, by type of program and grade (Public)

4.1 Indigenous language as a subject (Indigenous second language program or core Indigenous)Note 6

Grade

  • Junior kindergarten
  • Kindergarten
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • Ungraded
  • Total

4.2 Indigenous language immersion programs (Indigenous first language programs)Note 7

Grade

  • Junior kindergarten
  • Kindergarten
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • Ungraded
  • Total

5. Enrolments in programs for students with special needs

Note: Due to data quality concerns, data on special needs are no longer published.

6. Number of graduatesNote 8, by type of program, age and sex (Public and Private)

6.1 Regular programs for youth, Male, Female, Sex not reported and Total

Age

  • Under 10
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30 to 34
  • 35 to 39
  • 40 and over
  • Not reported
  • Total

6.2 General programs for adultsNote 9, Male, Female, Sex not reported and Total

Age

  • Under 10
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30 to 34
  • 35 to 39
  • 40 and over
  • Not reported
  • Total

6.3a Vocational programsNote 10 for youth, Male, Female, Sex not reported and Total

Age

  • Under 10
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30 to 34
  • 35 to 39
  • 40 and over
  • Not reported
  • Total

6.3b Vocational programsNote 10 for adults, Male, Female, Sex not reported and Total

Age

  • Under 10
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30 to 34
  • 35 to 39
  • 40 and over
  • Not reported
  • Total

7. Number of educators (Public and Private)

7.1 Number of full-time and part-time educatorsNote 11 (headcounts), Male, Female, Sex not reported and Total

Age group, Full-time educators

  • Less than 25
  • 25 to 29
  • 30 to 34
  • 35 to 39
  • 40 to 44
  • 45 to 49
  • 50 to 54
  • 55 to 59
  • 60 to 64
  • 65 and over
  • Not reported
  • Sub-Total

Age group, Part-time educators

  • Less than 25
  • 25 to 29
  • 30 to 34
  • 35 to 39
  • 40 to 44
  • 45 to 49
  • 50 to 54
  • 55 to 59
  • 60 to 64
  • 65 and over
  • Not reported
  • Sub-Total
  • Total

7.2 Number of full-time equivalent (FTE) educatorsNote 11, Male, Female, Sex not reported and Total

Category

  • Teachers
  • School administrators
  • Pedagogical support
  • Total

Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP)

This guide is designed to assist you as you complete the Annual Capital and Repairs Expenditures Survey: Expenditures for 2019 (Long form by function).

Your answers are confidential.

Statistics Canada is prohibited by law from releasing any information it collects which could identify any person, business, or organization, unless consent has been given by the respondent or as permitted by the Statistics Act.

Statistics Canada will use information from this survey for statistical purposes.

Table of contents

Reporting period information

For the purpose of this survey, please report information for your 12 month fiscal period for which the final day occurs on or between April 1, 2019 - March 31, 2020.

Here are twelve common fiscal periods that fall within the targeted dates:

  • May 1, 2018 to April 30, 2020
  • June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019
  • July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019
  • August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2019
  • September 1, 2018 to August 31, 2019
  • October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019
  • November 1, 2018 to October 31, 2019
  • December 1, 2018 to November 30, 2019
  • January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019
  • February 1, 2019 to January 31, 2020
  • March 1, 2019 to February 28, 2020
  • April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020

Here are other examples of fiscal periods that fall within the required dates:

  • September 18, 2018 to September 15, 2019 (e.g., floating year-end)
  • June 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019 (e.g., a newly opened business)

Reporting dollar amounts

  • all reported amounts must be rounded to the nearest thousand Canadian dollars (eg $ 6,555,444.00 rounded to $ 6,555);
  • exclude sales tax;
  • the best estimate is acceptable if you do not have specific numbers;
  • If you have no capital expenditures, please write "0".

Definitions

What are Capital Expenditures?

Capital Expenditures are the gross expenditures on fixed assets for use in the operations of your organization or for lease or rent to others. Gross expenditures are expenditures before deducting proceeds from disposals, and credits (capital grants, donations, government assistance and investment tax credits).

Fixed assets are also known as capital assets or property, plant and equipment. They are items with a useful life of more than one year and are not purchased for resale but rather for use in the entity's production of goods and services.

Examples are buildings, vehicles, leasehold improvements, furniture and fixtures, machinery, and computer software.

Include:

  • Cost of all buildings, engineering structures, machinery and equipment which normally have a life of more than one year and are charged to fixed asset accounts
  • Modifications and major renovations
  • Capital costs such as feasibility studies, architectural, legal, installation and engineering fees
  • Subsidies used to fund capital expenditures
  • Capitalized interest charges on loans with which capital projects are financed
  • Work done by own labour force
  • Additions to capital work in progress

Exclude:

  • business acquisitions
  • transfers and write offs

How to Treat Leases

Include:

  • Fixed assets acquired as a lessee through either a capital or financial lease;
  • Fixed assets acquired for lease to others as an operating lease.

Exclude:

  • assets acquired for lease to others, either as a capital or financial lease.

Operating lease: The lessor bears the risk of ownership and retains a significant "residual" economic interest in the leased property. The lessee has the right to temporary use of the property, for a term shorter than the economic life of the property, in exchange for regular payments. At the end of the lease, the lessee has the option of purchasing the property at fair market value.

Capital or financial lease: These leases are similar in that the lessor in effect finances the "purchase" of the leased property by the lessee and retains a security interest in the leased property. The lessee retains the leased property for substantially all of its economic life. Usually, at the end of the rental period, he has the option to buy the property at a reduced price.

Land: Capital expenditures for land must include all costs associated with the purchase of land that is not amortized. Improvements to land are to be reported under "Non-residential construction".

Work in Progress: Work in progress represents the costs accumulated since the start of capital projects and which are intended to be capitalized upon completion.

If a major project has been launched or an existing project has been expanded, please indicate the nature, location and, if applicable, the name (s) of the project in the comment section of the questionnaire.

Type of activity (function): The type of activity refers to the function (the economic or social goal or purpose) of capital and repair expenditures incurred during the year. It is the service for others that it serves to support and not its internal

Examples:

A capital expense for the acquisition of office furniture for a hospital.

The function of this acquisition is hospital services.

A capital expense for the construction of a waste disposal facility at a school for its own use.

The function of this expense is teaching.

Residential Construction:

A building or residential building refers to a building used or intended for residential purposes on a permanent or non-permanent basis. Residential buildings normally provide self-contained bathroom and kitchen units to the occupants of each dwelling.

A building for which the majority of housing units have a shared bathroom and kitchen is classified as non-residential.

Include capital expenditures incurred during the reporting period for residential construction (contract or by your own employees).

Include the residential portion of multipurpose complexes and townsites.

Exclude buildings that have dwellings without bathrooms or self-contained or exclusive-use kitchens (e.g, some student or senior residences, short-term shelters), or service-related expenses.

Affordable Housing: Include government-subsidized rental housing. Exclude short-term shelters and single-use, non-bathroom, self-contained dwellings and service-related expenses (these are reported under non-residential construction).

Non-Residential Construction:

This group includes non-residential buildings (buildings). A non-residential building or building refers to a construction that is used or intended for non-residential purposes, namely for industrial, commercial or institutional purposes, including the provision of services. Include capital expenditures incurred during the reporting period for non-residential buildings and engineering works (on a contract basis and / or by your own employees) whether for your own use or lease.

A building for which housing units have a shared bathroom and kitchen is classified under this group. Building structures should be classified as an asset according to their main use, unless it is a multipurpose structure in which we would like you to separate the components. The cost of any machinery or equipment that is an integral or integrated part of the structure (elevators, heating equipment, sprinkler systems, environmental control systems, intercom systems, etc.) must be declared as part of the structure this structure and the landscaping and associated parking lots.

Include:

  • Manufacturing plants, warehouses, office buildings, shopping centres, etc.;
  • Roads, bridges, sewers, electric power lines, underground cables, etc.;
  • The cost of demolition of buildings, land servicing and site preparation;
  • Leasehold and land improvements.
  • Additions to work in progress;
  • Town site facilities such as streets, sewers, stores and schools;
  • Buildings that have accommodation units without self-contained or exclusive use of bathroom and kitchen facilities (e.g., some student and senior citizen residences) and associated expenditures on services;
  • All preconstruction planning and design costs such as engineer and consulting fees and any materials supplied to construction contractors for installation, etc.

Machinery and Equipment

Capital expenditures incurred during the reporting period for machinery and equipment, whether for your own use or for lease or rent to others. Machinery and equipment are generally housed in structures and can be removed or replaced without significantly altering the structure.

Include:

  • Automobiles, trucks, professional and scientific equipment, office and store furniture and appliances;
  • Computers (hardware only), broadcasting, telecommunications and other information and communication technologies equipment;
  • Motors, generators, transformers;
  • Any capitalized tooling expenses;
  • Acquisitions to work in progress;
  • Progress payments paid out before delivery in the year in which such payments are made;
  • Any balance owing or holdbacks should be reported in the year the cost is incurred.

New Capital Assets: Enter new capital expenditures, including the portion of work in progress for the current year. Include imports of used capital assets as they represent newly acquired assets for the Canadian economy.

Canadian Used Capital Assets: Our survey is designed to measure separately the acquisitions of new and used capital assets across the Canadian economy. The acquisition of used capital does not increase the total capital stock, but simply transfers it to the Canadian economy. Indicate the acquisition of used assets separately in this column.

Renovation, Refurbishment, Refurbishment or Refurbishment, Restoration: Indicate capital expenditures for improvements, renovations, repairs, refurbishments, overhauls, or restoration. Exclude routine repair or maintenance expenses.

Non-Capitalized Repair and Maintenance expenses

This refers to the repair and maintenance of property as opposed to the acquisition or renovation of capital assets.

Non-capitalized repair and maintenance expenditures are that portion of current or operating expenditures charged against revenue in the year incurred and made for the purpose of keeping the stock of fixed assets in good working condition during the life originally intended.

Repair and maintenance allow such fixed assets to operate at output producing capacity during the asset life without undue amounts of down time (preventive function). A second purpose is the returning of any portion of the stock of fixed assets into a state of good working condition after any malfunctioning or reduced efficiency for whatever reason (curative function) short of replacement of such fixed assets or adding significantly to their life or productive efficiency.

Maintenance expenditures on buildings and other structures may include the routine care of assets such as janitorial services, snow removal and/or salting and sanding by the firm's own employees or persons outside the firm's employ.

Maintenance expenditures on machinery and equipment may include oil change and lubrication of vehicles and machinery.

Include:

  • the gross value of non-capitalized repairs and maintenance expenditures on non-residential buildings, other construction or machinery and equipment;
  • the value of repairs made by your own workforce, as well as payments to outside repairers;
  • building maintenance services: janitorial services, snow removal, abrasive application, etc. ;
  • maintenance of equipment: oil changes and lubrication of vehicles or other machinery, etc.

Source of funding breakdown - Internal costs

Sources of funding for capital expenditures include grants, donations, credit and venture capital from external sources, as well as internal funding.

Value of the work performed by the business on its own account: These expenses include the value of all materials and equipment provided without charge to contractors, all architectural, engineering and consulting fees and those paid for other similar services.

Internal costs of construction or development (such as equipment and labor): which are capitalized in the cost of assets (such as installation by own employees or assembly of fixed assets, personnel systems and software development). Include all materials and supplies provided free of charge to contractors and all fees for architects, engineers and consultants and services.

Include all materials and supplies provided free to contractors and all architects, engineering and consultants fees and similar services.

Salaries and wages: Indicate the total value of salaries and wages paid to your employees. Wages and salaries are gross earnings before deductions, such as income taxes; they include incentive and vacation pay, but exclude benefits.

Materials and Supplies: Report the total cost of materials and supplies used by your employees and those provided free of charge to contractors for reported expenses.

Other Expenses: Other expenses include, for example, insurance premiums, electricity and telephone costs, and applicable architects, lawyers and engineers fees, if applicable the declared expenditure.

Disposal and sale of fixed assets

Selling price: Indicate the total value of the sale of the fixed assets that you sold or sold, even if you gave them in exchange for a credit for the acquisition or purchase of new fixed assets. When land and buildings are sold together, report separately the sale price of the land, along with other land sales.

Gross book value: This value must represent the total capital expenditures for a property at the time of construction or initial purchase or since that time, including all subsequent capital expenditures for retrofit, expansion, etc. Subsidies should not be subtracted.

Age: Indicate the age of the assets at the time of their disposition.

If you have sold or sold similar fixed assets with different working ages, report these separately or combine the data and provide a weighted average age of these assets.

Environmental protection and resource management expenditures

These questions cover the capital and repair expenditures made by this organization in order to prevent, reduce or eliminate pollution and other forms of degradation of the environment while performing your production activity, i.e., within your organization. Expenditures made to restore the environment from a degraded state are included. It can also be expenditures made for resource management activities which result in the more efficient use of natural resources, thus safeguarding against their depletion or the use of goods that have been adapted to be significantly less energy or resource intensive than the industry standard. This includes expenditures that this specific operation incurred for pollution prevention and abatement and control. Exclude expenditures made to improve employee health, workplace safety, and site beautification. Please report all environmental protection or resource management expenditures whether or not they are in response to current or anticipated Canadian or international regulations, conventions or voluntary agreements.

Enter capital expenditures for each of the following environment protection or resources management activities.

a. Solid waste management: Capital expenditures related to non-hazardous and hazardous solid waste collection, transport, treatment, storage, disposal, recycling, and composting, and activities related to measurement, control, and laboratories. Exclude capital expenditures on sewage or wastewater management, and treatment of high-level radioactive waste.

b. Wastewater management: Capital expenditures related to prevention of wastewater through in-process modifications, wastewater treatment (including pollution abatement and control (end-of-pipe) processes), management of substances released to surface waters, municipal sewer systems, soil, or underground. Include capital expenditures related to treatment of cooling water for disposal, installation of sewage infrastructure, expenditures related to the use, collection, treatment and disposal of sewage (including septic tanks), and activities related to measurement, control, and laboratories. Exclude expenditures on the protection of groundwater from pollutant infiltration and the cleaning up of soil and water bodies after pollution.

c. Air pollution management: Capital expenditures related to air pollution prevention (i.e., the elimination of pollution at the source) and air pollution abatement and control (i.e., end-of-pipe processes), including monitoring. For example, scrubbers, air and off-gas treatments, low emitting burners, leak detection technologies. Exclude heat or energy savings and management, the purchase or lease of fuel efficient vehicles and equipment, the production of renewable or clean energy, the purchase of biofuels, biochemicals or biomaterials, and the purchase of carbon offset credits and carbon taxes.

d. Protection and remediation of soil, groundwater and surface water: Capital expenditures for the prevention of pollution infiltration, cleaning up of soil and water bodies, protection of soil from erosion, salinization and physical degradation, monitoring, and site reclamation and decommissioning. Include decommissioning expenditures incurred in the 2019 fiscal year even if the site closed before this period. Exclude capital expenditures on wastewater management.

e. Protection of biodiversity and habitat: Capital expenditures related to protecting wildlife and habitat from the effects of economic activity and to restoring wildlife or habitat that has been adversely affected by such activity, including monitoring.

f. Noise and vibration abatement: Capital expenditures related to the control, reduction and abatement of industrial and transport noise and vibration related to the activities of this organization. Exclude the abatement of noise and vibration for the purpose of workplace protection.

g. Protection against radiation: Capital expenditures for the reduction or elimination of the negative consequences of high-level radiation, including the handling, transportation and treatment of high-level radioactive waste – that is, waste that requires shielding during normal handling and transportation because of its high radionuclide content. Exclude the management of low-level radioactive waste, and the protection against radiation for the purpose of workplace protection.

h. Other environmental protection activities: Capital expenditures related to other initiatives not listed above. Report imputed interest on funds held in trust against future environmental liabilities. Exclude capital expenditures related to research and development, to heat or energy savings and management, the purchase or lease of fuel efficient vehicles and transportation goods, the production of renewable or clean energy, and the purchase of biofuels, biochemicals or biomaterials.

i. Heat or energy savings and management: Capital expenditures related to minimizing the intake of energy through in-process modifications as well as the minimisation of heat and energy losses. This includes in-process modifications, insulation activities, energy recovery, monitoring related to energy saving, and lighting upgrades.

j. Fuel efficient vehicles and transportation goods or technologies: Capital expenditures related to the purchase or the lease of electric and hybrid vehicles, vehicles using alternative fuels, alternative fuel retrofits on existing vehicles, and low-rolling resistance tires.

k. Production of nuclear energy: Capital expenditures related to the production of nuclear power.

l. Production of energy from renewable sources: Capital expenditures related to the production of electricity or heat from renewable sources. For example, wind, geothermal, hydro, solar, and waste to energy.

Drivers and obstacles: Drivers or obstacles to the adoption of new or significantly improved clean technologies, systems or equipment for the establishment.

Required Information

This questionnaire is broken up into 6 sections. Below you will find information on the data required to complete each section of the electronic questionnaire. This guide is meant as a resource so that you may gather the necessary information prior to completing the electronic questionnaire.

1) For the fiscal year, you will need to provide the organizations total capital and repair expenditures in (CAN$ '000) for the following:

  • Gross capital expenditures, excluding land
  • Non-capitalized repair and maintenance expenditures
  • Land

As well as providethe total cost of capitalized work in progress (building, other construction, equipment and tools, software) at the end of the reporting period. Note: These capital costs must also be reported as capital expenditures in the year in which they occurred (addition to work in progress for the reporting period).

2) The identification of the functions (the economic or social purpose or purpose) of capital and reparations expenditures incurred during the year and the identification of the assets that were acquired during the year for each function. For each asset shown, expenses are collected as follows:

  1. New Acquisitions and additions (including usedcapital assets imported)
  2. Acquisitions of used assets (excluding imports)
  3. Refurbishment and renovations
  4. Expected useful life (years).

Note : The list of functions and the associated assets is available below under Functions and associated assets.

3) Source of funding for the total capital expenditures by function. The sources of funding requested are the subsidies, grants and contributions received from each level of government, as well as all other sources combined.

  1. Grants, subsidies and contributions from municipal, local or regional governments
  2. Grants, subsidies and contributions from provincial or territorial governments
  3. Grants, subsidies and contributions from the federal government
  4. Private, internal and other sources of funding - Include internal funds and funds from sales of goods and services (including user fees), private donations, and developers’ contributions

4) Non-capitalized repair and maintenance expenditures by function. Report the part of operating costs that are incurred to maintain the intended use of non-residential tangible assets (buildings, machinery, computers, etc.). Capital expenditures are excluded.

5) Identification of internal costs capitalized (work performed by the organization’s own labour force). Breakdown of expenditures on own account work (internal work) by salaries and wages, material and supplies and other charges for:

  1. New non-residential construction including renovation and retrofit
  2. Non-capitalized construction repair and maintenance expenses
  3. New machinery and equipment including renovation and retrofit
  4. Software development capital expenditures

For the categories above, report internal costs for each:

  • Salaries and Wages
  • Materials and Supplies
  • Other charges

6) Identification of assets that were disposed of or sold during the year. For each asset, include the selling price if applicable, gross book value (total accumulated cost) and age.

Note: the list of assets for the reporting of disposals and sales is available under List of assets for disposals and sales. 

Functions and associated assets

Road transport

The administration of affairs and services concerning operation, use, construction and maintenance of road transport systems and facilities (roads, bridges, tunnels, parking facilities, etc.).

Includes:

  • highways, urban roads, streets, bicycle paths and footpaths
  • vehicle and driver licensing
  • vehicle safety inspection, size and load specifications for passenger and freight road transport
  • regulation of hours of work of bus, coach and lorry drivers, etc.

Excludes:

  • road traffic control (see Defense, public order and safety)
  • support for road vehicle manufacturers (see Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting, mining, manufacturing, and construction)
  • construction of noise embankments, hedges and other anti-noise facilities including the resurfacing of sections of urban highways with noise reducing surfaces (see Other community amenities and environmental protection)
  • street lighting (see Other health and social protection).

Assets for Road transport

Industrial service buildings and depots
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage areas

Office and administrative buildings

Other buildings, specify:

Highway and road structures and networks
- Include signs, guardrails, lighting, landscaping, sidewalks, bicycle paths, pedastrian lanes, traffic control infrastructure

Bridges
- Include overpasses

Tunnels

Parking lots and parking garages
- Include associated electric car charging stations

Flood protection infrastructure
- e.g., storm sewers, drains, pipes, dams, reservoirs

Other transportation infrastructure
- e.g., motor vehicle inspection stations, weigh stations

Other infrastructure, specify:

Medium and heavy-duty trucks
- Include road vehicles designed primarily for transportation of good with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 5 tonnes.

Materials handling trucks and tractors
- Include transfer cars for material handling, wheelbarrows, forklifts.
- Exclude bulldozers, front-end loaders, earth moving machinery (see Construction machinery and equipment).

Public transit

The administration of affairs and services concerning operating, use, construction and maintenance of local and suburban mass passenger transit systems. Such systems may involve the use of one or more modes of transport including ferry services, light rail, subways and streetcars, as well as buses and bus terminals. These establishments operate over fixed routes and schedules, and allow passengers to pay on a per-trip basis.

Excludes:

  • passenger transportation associated with scenic or sightseeing activities (see Tourism)
  • transportation services without fixed routes and schedules.

Assets for Public transit

Industrial service buildings and depots
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage areas

Passenger terminal buildings and airports
- e.g., heliports

Service stations
- e.g., gas stations, automotive repair shops

Office and administrative buildings

Other buildings, specify:

Parking lots and parking garages
- Include associated electric car charging stations

Transit shelters

Highway and road structures and networks
- Include signs, guardrails, lighting, landscaping, sidewalks, bicycle paths, pedestrian lanes, traffic control infrastructure

Bridges
- Include overpasses

Tunnels

Railway lines and tracks, including light-rail
- Include signs, lighting, security and traffic control infrastructure

Other transportation infrastructure
- e.g., motor vehicle inspection stations, weigh stations

Waste disposal facilities

Other infrastructure, specify:

Buses
- e.g., vans of a seating capacity of 10 persons or more, electric trackless trolley coaches

Special-purpose vehicles
- e.g., trucks fitted with elevator platforms, tow trucks

Locomotives, railway rolling stock, and rapid transit equipment

Ferries and boats

Medium and heavy-duty trucks
- e.g., road vehicles designed primarily for transportation of good with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 5 tonnes

Materials handling trucks and tractors
- e.g., lifting machinery, forklift trucks

Other materials handling equipment
- e.g., winches, aerial work platforms, hoists, conveyors

Other transportation equipment
- e.g., all-terrain vehicles

Navigational and guidance instruments
- e.g., ultrasonic detecting equipment, radio navigational aid, radio direction finders

Broadcast, studio, alarm, and signalling equipment
- e.g., traffic control equipment, surveillance cameras

Telephone and data communications equipment
- e.g., fax machines, telephone switching, local area routers, smartphones

Measuring, control and scientific instruments
- e.g., counting devices

Powered hand tools

Computers and peripherals

Office furniture

Furniture and fixtures
- Exclude office furniture

Passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs

Other machinery and equipment, specify:

Pre-packaged software

Custom-designed software
- e.g., on contract and in-house development

Other transport not elsewhere classified (n.e.c)

The administration of affairs and services concerning operation, use, construction and maintenance of inland, coastal and ocean water, railway, air and other transport systems and facilities.

Includes:

  • harbours, docks, canals, bridges, tunnels, channels, breakwaters, piers, wharves, etc.
  • water, rail or air transport navigation aids and equipment (radio, satellite, etc.)
  • emergency rescue and towing services
  • registration, licensing and inspection of vessels and crews
  • regulations concerning passenger safety and freight security.

Excludes:

  • shipbuilders and rolling stock manufacturers (see Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting, mining, manufacturing, and construction)
  • construction of noise embankments, hedges and other anti-noise facilities including the resurfacing of sections of urban highways with noise reducing surfaces (see Other community amenities and environmental protection)
  • ferry service with fixed routes and schedules that charge a per-trip fee (see Public transit).

Assets for Other transport n.e.c

Passenger terminal buildings and airports
- e.g., heliports, railway stations, boat passenger terminals

Industrial service buildings and depots
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage areas

Office and administrative buildings

Other buildings, specify:

Highway and road structures and networks
- Include signs, guardrails, lighting, landscaping, sidewalks, bicycle paths, pedestrian lanes, traffic control infrastructure

Parking lots and parking garages
- Include associated electric car charging stations

Railway lines

Runways
- e.g., airfields, heliport terminal, tarmac, runway lighting

Bridges
- Include overpasses

Tunnels

Marinas

Seaports and harbours

Canals and waterways

Other marine infrastructure

Other transportation infrastructure
- e.g., motor vehicle inspection stations, weigh stations

Other infrastructure, specify:

Aircraft

Locomotives, railway rolling stock, and rapid transit equipment

Non-militrary ships, barges and platforms
- e.g., ferry boats, tug boats

Other boats and personal watercraft

Buses
- e.g., vans of a seating capacity of 10 persons or more, electric trackless trolley coaches

Passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs

Special-purpose vehicles
- e.g., street flushers, tow trucks, vehicle mounted snow plows

Materials handling trucks and tractors

Other materials handling equipment
- e.g., winches, aerial work platforms, hoists, conveyors

Navigational and guidance instruments
- e.g., ultrasonic detecting equipment, radio navigational aid, radio direction finders

Broadcast, studio, alarm, and signalling equipment
- e.g., traffic control equipment, surveillance cameras

Measuring, control and scientific instruments
- e.g., counting devices, parking meters

Televisions and other audio and video equipment

Computers and peripherals

Water supply

The administration of water supply affairs.

Includes:

  • assessment of future needs and determination of availability
  • supervision and regulation of all facets of potable water supply including water purity, price and quantity controls
  • construction or operation of water supply systems
  • production and dissemination of general information, technical documentation and statistics on water supply affairs and services
  • activities to support the operation, construction, maintenance or upgrading of water supply systems.

Excludes:

  • irrigation systems (see Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting, mining, manufacturing, and construction)
  • collection and treatment of waste water (see Waste water management).

Assets for Water supply

Industrial service buildings and depots
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage areas

Office and administrative buildings

Other buildings, specify:

Water filtration plants

Water supply infrastructure
- e.g., aqua ducts mains, trunk and distribution mains, water reservoirs, water wells, fill stations

Other infrastructure, specify:

Water treatment equipment

Filters and strainers for fluids and fluid power systems

Pumps and compressors

Boilers, metal tanks, industrial valves and seals

Measuring, control, and scientific instruments

Broadcast, studio, alarm, and signalling equipment

Televisions and other audio and video equipment

Computers and peripherals

Office furniture

Other machinery and equipment, specify:

Pre-packaged software

Custom-designed software
- e.g., on contract and in-house development

Industrial service buildings and depots
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage areas

Office and administrative buildings

Other buildings, specify:

Community amenities not elsewhere classified (n.e.c)

The administration of housing development affairs and services, promotion, monitoring and evaluation of housing development activities whether or not the activities are under the auspices of public authorities. Also included are activities such as formulation, administration, coordination and monitoring of overall policies, plans, programmes and budgets relating to housing and community amenities, preparation and enforcement of legislation and standards relating to housing and community amenities, production and dissemination of general information, technical documentation and statistics relating to housing and community amenities.

Includes:

  • slum clearance related to provision of housing
  • acquisition of land needed for construction of dwellings
  • administration of zoning laws and land-use and building regulations
  • construction or purchase and remodelling of dwelling units for the general public or for people with special needs
  • planning of new communities or of rehabilitated communities
  • planning the improvement and development of facilities such as housing, industry, public utilities, health, education, culture, recreation, etc. for communities
  • preparation of schemes for financing planned developments
  • production and dissemination of general information, technical documentation and statistics on community development affairs and services
  • development and regulation of housing standards
  • production and dissemination of public information, technical documentation and statistics on housing development affairs and services
  • activities to support the expansion, improvement or maintenance of the housing stock.

Excludes:

  • administration, development and regulation of construction standards (see Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting, mining, manufacturing, and construction)
  • activities to help households meet the cost of housing, such as the provision of affordable housing (see Social protection).
  • plan implementation, that is, the actual construction of housing, industrial buildings, streets, public utilities, cultural facilities, etc. (classified according to function).

Assets for Community amenities n.e.c

Other residential buildings
- e.g., buildings that provide accommodation units with self-contained and exclusive use of bathroom and kitchen facilities to the occupants of each unit

Office and administrative buildings

Industrial laboratories, research and development centres

Industrial service buildings and depots
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage areas

Other buildings, specify:

Parking lots and parking garages
- Include associated electric car charging stations

Highway and road structures and networks
- Include signs, guardrails, lighting, landscaping, sidewalks, bicycle paths, pedestrian lanes, traffic control infrastructure

Other infrastructure, specify:

Passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs

Special-purpose vehicles
- e.g., fire trucks, tow trucks, vehicle mounted snow plows

Powered hand tools

Pumps and compressors

Other transportation equipment
- e.g., all-terrain vehicles

Medical, dental and personal safety supplies

Playground, gymnasium, exercise, and other athletic equipment

Telephone and data communications equipment
- e.g., fax machines, telephone switching, local area routers, smartphones

Televisions and other audio and video equipment

Computers and peripherals

Optical and projection equipment, photocopiers, and office machines

Office furniture

Other machinery and equipment, specify:

Pre-packaged software

Custom-designed software
- e.g., on contract and in-house development

Storm water management

The administration, supervision, inspection, operation or support of rain or storm water management systems, including activities to support the operation, construction, maintenance or upgrading of such systems.

Includes:

  • system of collectors, pipelines, conduits and pumps to evacuate any rainwater from the points of generation to either a sewage system or to a point where rain water is discharged to surface water

Assets for Storm water management

Office and administrative buildings

Industrial service buildings and depots
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage areas

Other buildings, specify:

Flood protection infrastructure
- e.g., storm sewers, drains, pipes, dams, reservoirs

Pollution abatement and control

Highway and road structures and networks
- Include signs, guardrails, lighting, landscaping, sidewalks, bicycle paths, pedestrian lanes, traffic control infrastructure

Other infrastructure, specify:

Filters and strainers for fluids and fluid power systems

Water treatment equipment

Pumps and compressors

Special-purpose vehicles
- e.g., trucks for refuse collection

Medium and heavy-duty trucks

Boilers, metal tanks, industrial valves and seals

Measuring, control, and scientific instruments

Broadcast, studio, alarm, and signalling equipment

Televisions and other audio and video equipment

Computers and peripherals

Office furniture

Other machinery and equipment, specify:

Pre-packaged software

Custom-designed software
- e.g., on contract and in-house development

Waste water management

The administration, supervision, inspection, operation or support of sewage systems and waste water treatment, including activities to support the operation, construction, maintenance or upgrading of such systems.

Includes:

  • system of collectors, pipelines, conduits and pumps to evacuate any waste water (domestic and other available waste water) from the points of generation to either a sewage treatment plant or to a point where waste water is discharged to surface water
  • mechanical, biological or advanced process to render waste water fit to meet applicable environment standards or other quality norms.

Excludes:

  • rain water or storm water systems (see Storm water management).

Assets for Waste water management

Industrial service buildings and depot
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage areas

Office and administrative buildings

Other buildings, specify:

Sewage treatment plants

Sewage collection and disposal infrastructure

Flood protection infrastructure
- e.g., storm sewers, drains, pipes, dams, reservoirs

Pollution abatement and control

Other infrastructure, specify:

Water treatment equipment

Filters and strainers for fluids and fluid power systems

Boilers, metal tanks, industrial valves and seals

Pumps and compressors

Measuring, control, and scientific instruments

Medium and heavy-duty trucks

Special-purpose vehicles
- e.g., trucks for refuse collection

Broadcast, studio, alarm, and signalling equipment

Televisions and other audio and video equipment

Computers and peripherals

Office furniture

Other machinery and equipment, specify:

Pre-packaged software

Custom-designed software
- e.g., on contract and in-house development

Waste management

The administration, supervision, inspection, operation or support of waste collection, treatment and disposal systems, including activities to support the operation, construction, maintenance or upgrading of such systems.

Includes:

  • collection, treatment and disposal of nuclear waste
  • collection of all types of waste, whether selective by type of product or undifferentiated covering all waste
  • transport to place of treatment or discharge
  • treatment by any method or process designed to change the physical, chemical or biological character or composition of any waste so as to neutralize it, to render it non-hazardous, to make it safer for transport, to make it amenable for recovery or storage or to reduce it in volume
  • disposal to final placement of waste for which no further use is foreseen by landfill, containment, underground disposal, dumping at sea or any other relevant disposal method.

Assets for Waste management

Industrial service buildings and depots
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage areas

Office and administrative buildings

Other buildings, specify:

Waste disposal facilities

Sewage treatment plants

Other sewage infrastructure

Other infrastructure, specify:

Materials handling trucks and tractors

Special-purpose vehicles
- e.g., trucks for refuse collection

Medium and heavy-duty trucks

Freight and utility trailers

Other materials handling equipment

Metalworking machinery

Other processing equipment

Heavy-gauge metal containers
- e.g., intermodal

Measuring, control, and scientific instruments

Boilers, metal tanks, industrial valves and seals

Televisions and other audio and video equipment

Computers and peripherals

Office furniture

Other machinery and equipment, specify:

Pre-packaged software

Custom-designed software
- e.g., on contract and in-house development

Other community amenities and environmental protection

The administration, management, regulation, supervision, operation and support of activities such as formulation, administration, coordination and monitoring of overall policies, plans, programmes and budgets for the promotion of environmental protection; the preparation and enforcement of legislation and standards for the provision of environmental protection services, and the production and dissemination of general information, technical documentation and statistics on environmental protection.

This group covers activities relating to ambient air and climate protection, soil and groundwater protection, noise and vibration abatement, protection against radiation, protection of fauna and flora species and habitats, and the protection of landscapes for their aesthetic values.

Includes:

  • rehabilitation of abandoned mines and quarry sites
  • protection of habitats including the management of natural parks and reserves
  • protection of flora and fauna species
  • construction, maintenance and operation of monitoring systems and stations (other than weather stations)
  • construction of noise embankments, hedges and other anti-noise facilities including the resurfacing of sections of urban highways or railways with noise reducing surfaces
  • measures to clean pollution in water bodies
  • measures to control or prevent the emissions of greenhouse gases and pollutants that adversely affect the quality of the air
  • construction, maintenance and operation of installations for the decontamination of polluted soils and for the storage of pollutant products
  • reshaping of damaged landscapes for the purpose of strengthening their aesthetic value
  • transportation of pollutant products.

Assets for Other community amenities and environmental protection

Office and administrative buildings

Industrial service buildings and depots
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage areas

Other buildings, specify:

Water filtration plants

Parking lots and parking garages
- Include associated electric car charging stations

Waste disposal facilities

Highway and road structures and networks
- Include signs, guardrails, lighting, landscaping, sidewalks, bicycle paths, pedestrian lanes, traffic control infrastructure

Site remediation services
- e.g., land improvements

Pollution abatement and control infrastructure

Other infrastructure, specify:

Passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs

Medium and heavy-duty trucks

Special-purpose vehicles

Non-military ships, barges and platform
- e.g., ferry boats, tug boats

Boats and personal watercraft

Freight and utility trailers

Filters and strainers for fluids and fluid power systems

Measuring, control and scientific instruments

Computers and peripherals

Office furniture

Other machinery and equipment, specify:

Pre-packaged software

Custom-designed software
- e.g., on contract and in-house development

Defense, public order and safety

The administration, operation and support of fire prevention and fire-fighting services; of law courts, prisons and other places for the detention or rehabilitation of criminals; military or civil defence affairs and services, and of foreign military aid (monitoring of policies as well as preparation and enforcement of legislation relating to defense). Activities such as formulation, administration, coordination and monitoring of overall policies, plans, programmes and budgets relating to public order and safety are included.

Includes:

  • workhouses, reformatories, borstals, asylums for the criminally insane, etc.
  • operation of parole and probation systems;
  • fire-prevention and fire-fighting training programmes;
  • mountain rescue, beach surveillance, evacuation of flooded areas, etc.
  • land, sea, air and space defence forces
  • border and coast guards
  • engineering, transport, communication, intelligence, personnel and other non-combat defence forces
  • applied research and experimental development related to defence, public order and safety
  • legal representation and advice on behalf of government or on behalf of others provided by government

Excludes:

  • forces especially trained and equipped for fighting or preventing forest fires (see Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting, mining, manufacturing, and construction)
  • military schools and colleges where curricula resemble those of civilian institutions even though attendance may be limited to military personnel and their families (see Education)
  • administration of war veterans' affairs (see Other health and social protection)
  • equipment and facilities for emergency use in the case of peacetime disasters (see Other health and social protection)
  • pension schemes for military personnel (see Other health and social protection).

Assets for Defense, public order and safety

Public security facilities
- e.g., prisons, police stations, fire stations, detention centres, court houses

Industrial service buildings and depots
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage facilities, aircraft hangars, aircraft maintenance buildings

Shelters and other collective dwellings

Office and administrative buildings

Schools, colleges, universities and other educational buildings

Industrial laboratories, research and development centres

Warehouses
- e.g., refrigerated storage, freight terminal buildings

Clinics and other medical buildings

Other buildings, specify:

Parking lots and parking garages
- Include associated electric car charging stations

Runways
- e.g., airfields, heliport terminal, tarmac, runway lighting

Highway and road structures and networks
- Include signs, guardrails, lighting, landscaping, sidewalks, bicycle paths, pedestrian lanes, traffic control infrastructure

Flood protection infrastructure
- e.g., pipes, dams, reservoirs

Other sewage infrastructure

Water supply infrastructure

Electric power infrastructure

Other infrastructure, specify:

Furniture and fixtures
- Exclude office furniture

Passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs

Special-purpose vehicles
- e.g., fire trucks, prison vans

Freight and utility trailers

Non-military Aircraft

Non-military ships, barges and platforms

Unmanned aerial vehicles
- e.g., drones

Boats and personal watercraft

Military aircraft

Military ships

Military armoured vehicles

Broadcast, studio, alarm, and signalling equipment

Telephone and data communications equipment
- e.g., fax machines, telephone switching, local area routers, smartphones

Medical, dental and personal safety supplies

Automatic weapons, machine guns, rocket launchers, howitzers, mortars, and other weapons
Include parts

Computers and peripherals

Optical and projection equipment, photocopiers, and office machines

Office furniture

Other machinery and equipment, specify:

Pre-packaged software

Custom-designed software
- e.g., on contract and in-house development

Hospital services

This group covers the services of general and specialist hospitals, the services of medical centres, maternity centres, nursing homes and convalescent homes which chiefly provide in-patient services, the services of military base hospitals, the services of institutions serving old people in which medical monitoring is an essential component and the services of rehabilitation centres providing in-patient health care and rehabilitative therapy where the objective is to treat the patient rather than to provide long-term support.

Includes:

  • Hospital day-care and home-based hospital treatment
  • hospices for terminally ill persons
  • specialized hospitals that provide treatment of a particular condition, disease or class of patient (i.e., tuberculosis, cancer etc.).

Excludes:

  • military field hospitals (see Defense, public order and safety)
  • surgeries, clinics and dispensaries devoted exclusively to outpatient care (see Health services)
  • institutions for disabled persons and rehabilitation centres providing primarily long-term support (see Other health and social protection)
  • retirement homes for elderly persons (see Other health and social protection)
  • activities related to payments to patients for loss of income due to hospitalization (see Other health and social protection).

Assets for Hospital services

Hospitals

Clinics and other medical buildings

Nursing home units without exclusive kitchen and bath

Industrial service buildings and depots
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage areas

Restaurants and bars

Stores and retail outlets

Office and administrative buildings

Other buildings, specify:

Parking lots and parking garages
- Include associated electric car charging stations

Outdoor recreational facilities

Other infrastructure, specify:

Medical and laboratory equipment
- e.g., medical furnishings and laboratory apparatus

Other medical, dental and personal safety supplies
- e.g., wheelchairs

Other scientific and technical instruments

Furniture and fixtures, except office furniture

Commercial cooking and food-warming equipment

Commercial and service industry machinery and equipment (n.e.c.)
- e.g., commercial laundry machines

Passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs

Special-purpose vehicles
- e.g., ambulances

Broadcast, studio, alarm, and signalling equipment

Boilers, metal tanks, industrial valves and seals

Heating and cooling equipment
- Exclude household appliances

Telephone and data communications
- e.g., fax machines, telephone switching, local area routers, smartphones

Televisions and other audio and video equipment

Computers and peripherals

Optical and projection equipment, photocopiers, and office machines

Office furniture

Sporting and athletic goods
- e.g., exercise equipment, playground equipment

Other machinery and equipment, specify:

Pre-packaged software

Custom-designed software
- e.g., on contract and in-house development

Health except hospital services

This group covers medical, dental and paramedical services delivered to outpatients by practitioners and auxiliaries. The services may be delivered at home, in individual or group consulting facilities, dispensaries or the outpatient clinics of hospitals and the like. Outpatient services include the medicaments, prostheses, medical appliances and equipment and other health-related products supplied directly to outpatients by medical, dental and paramedical practitioners and auxiliaries.

The administration, inspection, operation or support of public health services such as blood bank operation (collecting, processing, storing, shipping), disease detection (cancer, tuberculosis, venereal disease), prevention (immunization, inoculation), monitoring (infant nutrition, child health), epidemiological data collection, family planning services, etc. are also included.

Includes:

  • licensing of medical establishments and medical and paramedical personnel
  • general and specialized medical clinics
  • offices of general and specialist medical practitioners
  • dental clinics and dentists
  • services of orthodontic specialists
  • acupuncturists, chiropodists, chiropractors, optometrists, practitioners of traditional medicine, etc.
  • medical analysis laboratories and x-ray centres
  • preparation and dissemination of information on public health matters
  • outpatient thermal bath or sea-water treatments
  • ambulance services (other than ambulance services operated by hospitals)
  • formulation, administration, coordination and monitoring of overall health policies, plans, programs and budgets
  • provision of vaccines, oral contraceptives, and other pharmaceutical products
  • provision of first-aid kits and other medical products
  • provision of corrective eyeglasses, hearing aids, orthopaedic footwear, wheelchairs, etc.
  • formulation and administration of government policy
  • setting and enforcement of standards for medical and paramedical personnel and for hospitals, clinics, surgeries, etc.
  • regulation and licensing of providers of health services
  • applied research and experimental development into medical and health-related matters
  • production and dissemination of general information, technical documentation and statistics on health.

Exclusions:

  • medical, dental and paramedical services provided to in-patients by hospitals and the like (see Hospital services)
  • overhead expenses connected with administration or functioning of a group of hospitals (see Hospital services)
  • medical products and equipment supplied directly to in-patients by hospitals and the like (see Hospital services).

Assets for Health except hospital services

Nursing home units with exclusive kitchen and bathroom

Clinics and other medical buildings

Nursing home units without exclusive kitchen and bath

Shelters and other collective dwellings

Daycare centres

Industrial laboratories, research and development centres

Stores and retail outlets

Passenger terminal buildings and airports
- e.g., heliports

Office and administrative buildings

Other buildings, specify:

Parking lots and parking garages
- Include associated electric car charging stations

Other infrastructure, specify:

Medical and laboratory equipment
- Exclude scientific instruments

Other medical, dental and personal safety supplies

Other scientific and technical instruments

Furniture and fixtures, except office furniture

Commercial cooking and food-warming equipment

Passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs

Special-purpose vehicles
- e.g., ambulances

Broadcast, studio, alarm, and signalling equipment

Commercial and service industry machinery and equipment (n.e.c.)
- e.g., commercial laundry machines

Telephone and data communications
- e.g., fax machines, telephone switching, local area routers, smartphones

Computers and peripherals

Optical and projection equipment, photocopiers, and office machines

Office furniture

Other machinery and equipment, specify:

Pre-packaged software

Custom-designed software
- e.g., on contract and in-house development

Housing

The provision of social protection in the form of benefits in kind to help households meet the cost of housing (recipients of these benefits are means-tested).

Includes:

  • the administration, operation or support of such social protection schemes
  • activities to help tenants with rent costs or to alleviate the current housing costs of owner occupiers (that is to help with paying mortgages or interest)
  • provision of low-cost or social housing.

Assets for Housing

Affordable housing

Senior housing

Other residential buildings, specify:

Office and administrative buildings

Industrial service buildings and depots
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage areas

Other buildings, specify:

Parking lots and parking garages

Highway and road structures and networks
- Include signs, guardrails, lighting, landscaping, sidewalks, bicycle paths, pedestrian lanes, traffic control infrastructure

Bridges
- Include overpasses

Tunnels

Other infrastructure, specify:

Passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs

Special-purpose vehicles
- e.g., fire trucks, tow trucks, vehicle mounted snow plows

Powered hand tools

Pumps and compressors

Other transportation equipment
- e.g., all-terrain vehicles

Medical, dental and personal safety supplies

Telephone and data communications equipment-
e.g., fax machines, telephone switching, local area routers, smartphone

Televisions and other audio and video equipment

Construction machinery and equipment

Playground, gymnasium, exercise, and other athletic equipment

Computers and peripherals

Optical and projection equipment, photocopiers, and office machines

Office furniture

Other machinery and equipment, specify:

Pre-packaged software

Custom-designed software
- e.g., on contract and in-house development

Other health and social protection

The provision of social protection in the form of cash benefits or benefits in kind to persons who are unable to find suitable employment or who are unable to engage in economic activity or lead a normal life due to a physical or mental impairment (permanent or likely to persist beyond a minimum prescribed period); to protect against the risks linked to old age (loss of income, inadequate income, lack of independence in carrying out daily tasks, reduced participation in social and community life, etc.); to support persons who are survivors of a deceased person spouse or relative or who are victims of crime; and to support households with dependent children.

Includes:

  • the administration, operation or support of such social protection schemes
  • provision of benefits to replace in whole or in part loss of earnings during a temporary inability to work due to sickness or injury
  • unemployment benefits and early retirement benefits due to unemployment or job reduction caused by economic measures
  • support to targeted groups in the labour force who take part in training schemes intended to develop their potential for employment
  • disability pensions paid to persons below the standard retirement age who encounter a disability which impairs their ability to work
  • support to disabled persons undertaking work adapted to their condition or undergoing vocational training
  • old-age pensions
  • survivors' pensions, death grants, and other support to survivors
  • maternity allowances, birth grants, parental leave benefits, family or child allowances, and other support to households to help them meet the costs of specific needs (e.g., those of the lone parent families or families with handicapped children)
  • mobility and resettlement payments
  • vocational training provided to persons without a job or retraining provided to persons at risk of losing their job
  • accommodation, food or clothes provided to unemployed persons and their families
  • lodging and possibly board provided to elderly persons or to disabled persons in appropriate establishments
  • assistance provided to disabled persons to help them with daily tasks (home help, transport facilities etc.)
  • vocational and other training provided to further the occupational and social rehabilitation of disabled persons
  • support provided to elderly persons, to disabled persons, or to survivors to enable them to participate in leisure and cultural activities or to travel or to participate in community life
  • support to elderly persons or persons temporarily unable to work due to sickness or injury (home help, transport facilities, etc.).
  • pension schemes for military personnel and for government employees.

Excludes:

  • family planning services (see Health services)
  • general programmes or schemes directed towards increasing labour mobility, reducing the rate of unemployment or promoting the employment of disadvantaged or other groups characterized by high unemployment (see General economic, commercial, and labour affairs).

Assets for Other health and social protection

Other residential buildings

Office and administrative buildings

Daycare centres

Shelters and other collective dwellings

Industrial service buildings and depots
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage areas

Other buildings, specify:

Parking lots and parking garages

Other infrastructure, specify:

Passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs

Furniture and fixtures
- Exclude office furniture

Computers and peripherals

Office furniture

Other machinery and equipment, specify:

Pre-packaged software

Custom-designed software
- e.g., on contract and in-house development

Education

The provision of education and the administration, inspection, operation or support of schools and other institutions providing educational services. The provision of subsidiary services to education and the administration, inspection, operation or support of transportation, food, lodging, medical and dental care and related subsidiary services chiefly for students regardless of level.

Includes:

  • military schools and colleges where curricula resemble those of civilian institutions
  • police colleges offering general education in addition to police training
  • provision of education by radio or television broadcasting
  • literacy programmes for students too old for elementary/primary school
  • out-of-school education for adults and young people
  • vocational training and cultural development
  • activities related to providing scholarships, grants, loans and allowances to support students.

Excludes:

  • school health monitoring and prevention services (see Health services).

Assets for Education

Student residence units with exclusive kitchen and bathroom

Schools, colleges, universities and other educational buildings

Student residence units without exclusive kitchen and bathroom

Industrial laboratories, research and development centres

Libraries

Sports facilities with spectator capacity

Other indoor recreational facilities

Restaurants and bars

Daycare centres

Industrial service buildings and depots
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage areas

Office and administrative buildings

Other buildings, specify:

Parking lots and parking garages

Outdoor recreational facilities

Highway and road structures and networks
- Include signs, guardrails, lighting, landscaping, sidewalks, bicycle paths, pedestrian lanes, traffic control infrastructure

Other infrastructure, specify:

Medical and medical laboratory equipment
- Exclude scientific instruments

Measuring, control and scientific equipment

Other scientific and technical instruments

Furniture and fixtures
- Exclude office furniture

Buses

Passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs

Medium and heavy-duty trucks

Special-purpose vehicles

Boats and personal watercraft

Aircraft

Other transportation equipment
- e.g., all-terrain vehicles

Navigational and guidance instruments
- e.g., ultrasonic detecting equipment, radio navigational aid, radio direction finders

Agricultural, lawn and garden machinery and equipment

Construction machinery and equipment

Metalworking machinery

Powered hand tools

Broadcast, studio, alarm, and signalling equipment

Commercial cooking and food-warming equipment

Commercial and service industry machinery (n.e.c.)

Televisions and other audio and video equipment

Telephone and data communications equipment

Playground, gymnasium, exercise, and other athletic equipment

Heating and cooling equipment
- Exclude household appliances

Boilers, metal tanks, industrial valves and seals

Pumps and compressors

Computers and peripherals

Optical and projection equipment, photocopiers, and office machines

Office furniture

Other machinery and equipment, specify:

Pre-packaged software

Custom-designed software
- e.g., on contract and in-house development

Recreation, culture and religion

The provision of sporting, recreational, and cultural services and the operation or support of broadcasting and publishing services; administration of sporting, recreational, cultural, religious, broadcasting and publishing affairs; supervision and regulation of sporting, recreation and cultural facilities, and of broadcasting and publishing services; activities to support teams or individual competitors or players, individual artists, writers, designers, composers and others working in the arts, or to organizations engaged in promoting cultural activities.

Includes:

  • formulation, administration, coordination and monitoring of overall policies, plans, programmes and budgets for the promotion of sport, recreation, culture and religion
  • preparation and enforcement of legislation and standards for the provision of recreational and cultural services
  • provision of facilities for religious and other community services, including support for their operation, maintenance and repair
  • production and dissemination of general information, technical documentation and statistics on recreation, cultural and religion
  • operation or support of facilities for recreational pursuits (parks, beaches, camping grounds and associated lodging places furnished on a non-commercial basis, swimming pools, public baths for washing, etc.)
  • facilities for active sporting pursuits or events (playing fields, tennis courts, squash courts, running tracks, golf courses, boxing rings, skating rinks, gymnasia, etc.)
  • operation or support of operation or support of facilities for passive sporting pursuits or events (chiefly specially equipped venues for playing cards, board games, etc.)
  • operation or support of facilities for cultural pursuits (libraries, museums, art galleries, theatres, exhibition halls, monuments, historic houses and sites, zoological and botanical gardens, aquaria, arboreta, etc.)
  • production, operation or support of cultural events (concerts, stage and film productions, art shows, etc.)
  • national, regional or local team representation in sporting events
  • construction or acquisition of facilities for television or radio broadcasting
  • construction or acquisition of plant, equipment or materials for newspaper, magazine or book publishing
  • the production of material for, and its presentation by, broadcasting
  • the gathering of news or other information
  • the distribution of published works
  • national, regional or local celebrations provided they are not intended chiefly to attract tourists.

Excludes:

  • sporting and recreational facilities associated with educational institutions (see Education)
  • cultural events intended for presentation beyond national boundaries (see General public services)
  • national, regional or local celebrations intended chiefly to attract tourists (see Tourism)
  • government printing offices and plants (see General public services)
  • provision of education by radio or television broadcasting (see Education).

Assets for Recreation, culture and religion

Sports facilities with spectator capacity

Other Indoor recreational facilities

Libraries

Religious centres and memorial sites

Museums

Theatres and halls
- e.g., concert halls, exhibition halls, movie theatres

Historical sites

Restaurants and bars

Marinas

Industrial service buildings and depots

Office and administrative buildings

Other institutional buildings
- e.g., park buildings

Other buildings, specify:

Outdoor recreational facilities

Parking lots and parking garages

Other infrastructure, specify:

Furniture and fixtures
- Exclude office furniture

Passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs

Broadcast, studio, alarm, and signalling equipment

Telephone and data communications equipment

Commercial cooking and food-warming equipment

Commercial and service industry machinery (n.e.c.)

Playground, gymnasium, exercise, and other athletic equipment

Computers and peripherals

Optical and projection equipment, photocopiers, and office machines

Office furniture

Other machinery and equipment, specify:

Pre-packaged software

Custom-designed software
- e.g., on contract and in-house development

Electricity

The administration, conservation, development, supervision and regulation of the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity. This class covers both traditional sources of electricity (such as thermal or hydro supplies) and newer sources (such as wind or solar heat).

Assets for Electricity

Office and administrative buildings

Industrial service buildings and depots
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage areas

Industrial laboratories, research and development centres

Other buildings, specify:

Power transmission networks

Power distribution networks

Hydro-power plants

Wind and solar power plants

Fossil fuel/steam power plants

Nuclear power plants

Other electric power infrastructure

Highway and road structures and networks
- Include signs, guardrails, lighting, landscaping, sidewalks, bicycle paths, pedestrian lanes, traffic control infrastructure

Pollution abatement and control infrastructure

Other infrastructure, specify:

Power and distribution transformers

Turbines, turbine generators, and turbine generator sets

Instruments for measuring electricity

Nuclear reactor steam supply system equipment

Switchgear, switchboards, relays, and industrial control apparatus

Boilers, metal tanks, industrial valves and seals

Other scientific and technical instruments

Engines and mechanical power transmission equipment

Electric motors and generators

Telephone and data communications equipment

Broadcast, studio, alarm, and signalling equipment

Construction machinery and equipment

Medium and heavy-duty trucks

Freight and utility trailers

Passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs

Computers and peripherals

Office furniture

Other machinery and equipment, specify:

Pre-packaged software

Custom-designed software
- e.g., on contract and in-house development

Fuel and energy

The administration of fuel and energy affairs and services, except electricity, including supervision, regulation, conservation, discovery, development and rationalized exploitation of the resources (extraction, processing, distribution and use).

Includes:

  • coal of all grades, lignite and peat irrespective of the method used in their extraction or beneficiation and the conversion of these fuels to other forms such as coke or gas
  • natural gas, liquefied petroleum gases and refinery gases, oil from wells or other sources (such as shale or tar sands), and the distribution of town gas regardless of its composition
  • nuclear and other fuels such as alcohol, wood and wood wastes
  • heat in the form of steam (such as hot water or hot air)
  • geothermal resources and non-electric energy produced by wind or solar heat.

Assets for Fuel and energy

Office and administrative buildings

Warehouses
- e.g., refrigerated storage, freight terminal buildings

Industrial service buildings and depots
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage areas

Other buildings, specify:

Production facilities in oil and gas extraction

Natural gas processing plants

Pipelines

Other oil and gas infrastructure
- e.g., gas mains, bulk storage, pumping sites, oil or gas storage tanks, injection wells, seismograph stations

Development drilling

Waste disposal facilities
- e.g., underground caverns

Electric power infrastructure

Highway and road structures and networks
- Include signs, guardrails, lighting, landscaping, sidewalks, bicycle paths, pedestrian lanes, traffic control infrastructure

Other transportation infrastructure
- e.g., loading facilities, freight terminal structures

Parking lots and parking garages

Other infrastructure, specify:

Measuring, control and scientific instruments
- e.g., laboratory equipment

Pumps and compressors

Electric motors and generators

Heating and cooling equipment
- Exclude household appliances

Oil and gas field production machinery and equipment

Computers and peripherals

Office furniture

Broadcast, studio, alarm, and signalling equipment

Passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs

Medium and heavy-duty trucks

Other machinery and equipment, specify:

Pre-packaged software

Custom-designed software
- e.g., on contract and in-house development

Tourism

The administration of tourism affairs and services.

Includes:

  • promotion and development of tourism
  • liaison with the transport, hotel and restaurant industries and other industries benefiting from the presence of tourists
  • operation of tourist offices
  • organization of advertising campaigns, including the production and dissemination of promotional literature and the like
  • compilation and publication of statistics on tourism.

Assets for Tourism

Office and administrative buildings

Historical sites

Museums

Industrial service buildings and depots
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage areas

Other buildings, specify:

Parking lots and parking garages

Highway and road structures and networks
- Include signs, guardrails, lighting, landscaping, sidewalks, bicycle paths, pedestrian lanes, traffic control infrastructure

Other infrastructure, specify:

Passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs

Buses
- e.g., vans of a seating capacity of 10 persons or more, electric trackless trolley coaches

Other boats and personal watercraft

Computers and peripherals

Office furniture

Furniture and fixtures
- Exclude office furniture

Other machinery and equipment, specify:

Pre-packaged software

Custom-designed software
- e.g., on contract and in-house development

General economic, commercial, and labour affairs

The administration of general economic, commercial and labour affairs and services, including general foreign commercial affairs; formulation and implementation of general economic, commercial and labour policies; liaison among different branches of government and between government and overall industrial, business and labour organizations.

Includes:

  • regulation or support of export and import trade and of commodity and equity markets
  • supervision and regulation of labour conditions (hours of work, wages, safety, etc.)
  • trade promotion activities
  • programmes or schemes to facilitate labour mobility, to reduce discrimination, to reduce unemployment in distressed or underdeveloped regions, to promote the employment of disadvantaged or other groups, etc.
  • operation or support of arbitration and mediation services
  • regulation of monopolies and other restraints on trade and market entry
  • supervision of the banking industry
  • consumer education and protection
  • institutions dealing with patents, trademarks, copyrights and company registration
  • weather forecasting, hydrologic surveys, geodesic surveys, etc.
  • promotion of general economic and commercial policies and programmes.

Assets for General economic, commercial, and labour affairs

Office and administrative buildings
- e.g., bank buildings

Industrial service buildings and depots
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage areas

Other institutional buildings
- e.g., meteorological stations

Other buildings, specify:

Parking lots and parking garages

Other infrastructure, specify:

Passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs

Aircraft

Other transportation equipment

Measuring, control, and scientific instruments

Computers and peripherals

Office furniture

Other machinery and equipment, specify:

Pre-packaged software

Custom-designed software
- e.g., on contract and in-house development

Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting, mining, manufacturing, and construction

The administration, operation, supervision and regulation of agricultural, forestry, fishing, hunting, mining, manufacturing, and construction industry affairs and services.

Includes:

  • issuance of certificates permitting occupancy
  • development, expansion or improvement of manufacturing
  • construction, operation or support of flood control, irrigation and drainage systems
  • liaison with manufacturers' associations and other organizations interested in manufacturing affairs and services
  • forest crops in addition to timber
  • forest fire fighting and prevention
  • restricting or encouraging output of a particular crop or for allowing land to remain uncultivated
  • regulation of production rates
  • inspections of sites for conformity with safety regulations, protection of consumers against dangerous products, etc.
  • conservation, extension and rationalized exploitation of resources and reserves
  • protection, propagation and rationalized exploitation of fish and wildlife stocks
  • operation or support of reforestation work, pest and disease control
  • fish hatcheries, extension services, stocking or culling activities, etc.
  • issuance of licences and leases
  • issuance of fishing and hunting licences
  • veterinary services to farmers, pest control services, crop inspection services and crop grading services.

Excludes:

  • support for the construction of housing, industrial buildings, streets, public utilities (e.g., water, gas, electricity, heating), cultural facilities, etc. (classified according to function)
  • development and regulation of housing standards (see Housing)
  • control of offshore and ocean fishing (see Defense, public order and safety)
  • fishing and hunting affairs and services that take place in natural parks and reserves (see Recreation, culture, and religion)
  • affairs and services concerning the coal processing industry (see Fuel and energy)
  • petroleum refineries (see Fuel and energy).

Assets for Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting, mining, manufacturing, and construction

Office and administrative buildings

Farm buildings

Manufacturing plants

Industrial service buildings and depots
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage areas

Industrial laboratories, research and development centres

Warehouses

Other buildings, specify:

Parking lots and parking garages

Highway and road structures and networks
- Include signs, guardrails, lighting, landscaping, sidewalks, bicycle paths, pedestrian lanes, traffic control infrastructure

Irrigation networks

Other infrastructure, specify:

Passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs

Special-purpose vehicles
- e.g., fire trucks, prison vans

Aircraft

Medium and heavy-duty trucks

Agricultural, lawn and garden machinery and equipment

Heating and cooling equipment
- Exclude household appliances

Industry-specific manufacturing equipment

Materials handling equipment

Measuring, control and scientific instruments

Other scientific and technical instruments

Computers and peripherals

Office furniture

Other machinery and equipment, specify:

Pre-packaged software

Custom-designed software
- e.g., on contract and in-house development

Other economic affairs not elsewhere classified (n.e.c.)

General economic and commercial affairs and services concerning the regulation, construction, extension, improvement, operation and maintenance of communication systems (postal, telephone, telegraph, wireless and satellite communication systems); construction, extension, improvement, operation and maintenance of hotels and restaurants; the distributive trade and the storage and warehousing industry; supervision and regulation of wholesale and retail trade (permits, sales practices, labeling of packaged food and other household goods, inspection of scales and other weighing devices, etc.), as well as warehouses and stores (permits, control of bonded warehouses, etc.); production and dissemination of general information, technical documentation and statistics on communications affairs and services; on prices, on the availability of goods and on other aspects of the distributive trade; on the storage and warehousing industry; on hotel and restaurant affairs and services; activities to support the construction, operation, maintenance or upgrading of communication systems, of hotels and restaurant, or to support the distributive trade and the storage and warehousing industry; price control and rationing schemes operating through retailers or wholesalers regardless of the type of goods involved or intended consumer.

Includes:

  • granting of franchises;
  • assignment of communications frequencies, specification of markets to be served and tariffs to be charged, etc.
  • distributive trade licensing, sales practices, labelling of packaged food and other goods intended for household consumption, inspection of scales and other weighing machines, etc.
  • licensing and control of government-bonded warehouses
  • multi-purpose development projects.

Excludes:

  • radio and satellite navigation aids for water transport and air transport (see Other transport not elsewhere classified)
  • radio and television broadcasting systems (see Recreation, culture, and religion)
  • administration of price and other controls applied to the producer (classified according to function)
  • food and other such subsidies applicable to particular population groups or individuals (see Other health and social protection)
  • projects with one main function and other functions that are secondary (classified according to main function).

Assets for Other economic affairs not elsewhere classified (n.e.c.)

Office and administrative buildings

Industrial service buildings and depots
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage areas

Communication buildings

Hotels and convention centres

Stores and retail outlets

Restaurants and bars

Warehouses

Other commercial properties
- e.g., business parks, post offices, mail sortation facilities

Other buildings, specify:

Parking lots and parking garages

Telecommunications transmission support structures

Telecommunications transmission cables and lines
- Exclude optical fibre

Telecommunications transmission optical fibre cables

Other infrastructure, specify:

Passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs

Special-purpose vehicles
- e.g., armoured trucks for money and securities transportation

Medium and heavy-duty trucks

Freight and utility trailers

Buses
- e.g., vans of a seating capacity of 10 persons or more, electric trackless trolley coaches

Telephone and data communications equipment
- e.g., fax machines, telephone switching, local area routers, smartphones

Broadcast, studio, alarm, and signalling equipment

Computers and peripherals

Office furniture

Optical and projection equipment, photocopiers, and office machines

Furniture and fixtures
- Exclude office furniture

Commercial cooking and food-warming equipment

Commercial and service industry machinery and equipment (n.e.c.)
- e.g., banking and vending machines, coin-operated amusement machines

Measuring, control, and scientific instruments

Space satellites
- e.g., meteorological satellites, telecommunication satellites, global positioning system (GPS) receivers

Other machinery and equipment, specify:

Pre-packaged software

Custom-designed software- e.g., on contract and in-house development

General public services

The administration, operation or support of executive and legislative organs, of financial and fiscal affairs and services, and of external affairs and services, and basic research undertaken without any particular application or use in view.

Includes:

  • office of the chief executive at all levels of government
  • legislative bodies at all levels of government (parliaments, chambers of deputies, senates, assemblies, town councils, etc.)
  • advisory, administrative and political staffs attached to chief executive offices and legislatures
  • elections and referendums
  • treasury or ministry of finance
  • budget office
  • customs authorities
  • accounting and auditing service
  • diplomatic and consular missions
  • libraries and other reference services serving mainly executive and legislative organs
  • operation or support of information and cultural services for distribution beyond national boundaries
  • government agencies engaged in basic research or in applied research and experimental development related to general public services
  • research undertaken by non-government bodies (e.g., research institutes and universities).

Assets for General public services

Office and administrative buildings
- e.g., parliament and senate buildings, town halls

Industrial service buildings and depots
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage areas

Other institutional buildings
- e.g., customs houses

Other buildings, specify:

Parking lots and parking garages

Other infrastructure, specify:

Passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs

Freight and utility trailers

Other transportation equipment

Materials handling trucks and tractors

Agricultural, lawn and garden machinery and equipment

Computers and peripherals

Optical and projection equipment, photocopiers, and office machines

Telephone and data communications equipment
- e.g., fax machines, telephone switching, local area routers, smartphones

Televisions and other audio and video equipment

Office furniture

Furniture and fixtures
- Exclude office furniture

Other machinery and equipment, specify:

Pre-packaged software

Custom-designed software
- e.g., on contract and in-house development

Other function – please specify

Assets for Other function

Office and administrative buildings

Industrial service buildings and depots
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage areas

Other buildings, specify:

Highway and road structures and networks
- Include signs, guardrails, lighting, landscaping, sidewalks, bicycle paths, pedastrian lanes, traffic control infrastructure

Parking lots and parking garages

Other infrastructure, specify:

Passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs

Freight and utility trailers

Other transporation equipment

Materials handling trucks and tractors

Agricultural, lawn and garden machinery and equipment

Computers and peripherals

Optical and projection equipment, photocopiers, and office machines

Telephone and data communications equipment
- e.g., fax machines, telephone switching, local area routers, smartphones

Televisions and other audio and video equipment

Office furniture

Furniture and fixtures
- Exclude office furniture

Other machinery and equipment, specify:

Pre-packaged software

Custom-designed software - e.g., on contract and in-house development

List of assets for disposals and sales

Residential Construction

Affordable housing

Senior housing

Nursing home units with exclusive kitchen and bathroom

Student residence units with exclusive kitchen and bathroom

Other residential buildings, specify:

Non-Residential Construction

Industrial service buildings and depots
- e.g., maintenance garages, storage areas, aircraft hangars, aircraft maintenance buildings

Manufacturing plants

Farm buildings

Industrial laboratories, research and development centres

Office and administrative buildings
- e.g., parliament and senate buildings, town halls, bank buildings

Warehouses
- e.g., refrigerated storage, freight terminals

Hotels and convention centres

Stores and retail outlets

Service stations
- e.g., gas stations, automotive repair shops

Restaurants and bars

Passenger terminal buildings and airports

Sports facilities with spectator capacity

Other indoor recreational facilities

Theatres and halls
- e.g., concert halls, exhibition halls, movie theatres

Museums

Libraries

Religious centres and memorial sites

Historical sites

Daycare centres

Student residence units without exclusive kitchen and bathroom

Shelters and other collective dwellings

Schools, colleges, universities and other educational buildings

Hospitals

Clinics and other medical buildings

Nursing home units without exclusive kitchen and bath

Public security facilities
- e.g., prisons, police stations, fire stations, detention centres, court houses

Communication buildings

Other institutional buildings
- e.g., park buildings, customs houses, meteorological stations

Other commercial properties
- e.g., business parks, post offices, mail sortation facilities

Other buildings, specify:

Other infrastructure

Highway and road structures and networks
- e.g., signs, guardrails, lighting, landscaping, sidewalks, bicycle paths, pedestrian lanes, traffic control infrastructure

Bridges
- e.g., overpasses

Tunnels

Parking lots and parking garages

Railway lines and tracks, including light-rail
- e.g., signs, lighting, security and traffic control infrastructure

Runways
- e.g., airfields, heliport terminal, tarmac, runway lighting

Other transportation infrastructure
- e.g., motor vehicle inspection stations, weigh stations

Flood protection infrastructure
- e.g., storm sewers, drains, pipes, dams, reservoirs

Water filtration plants

Water supply infrastructure
- e.g., aqua ducts mains, trunk and distribution mains, water reservoirs, water wells, fill stations

Sewage treatment plants

Other sewage infrastructure
- e.g., collection and disposal infrastructure

Waste disposal facilities

Outdoor recreational facilities

Marinas

Seaports and harbours

Canals and waterways

Other marine infrastructure

Hydro-power plants

Fossil fuel/steam power plants

Wind and solar power plants

Nuclear power plants

Power transmission networks

Power distribution networks

Other electric power infrastructure

Irrigation networks

Pollution abatement and control infrastructure

Production facilities in oil and gas extraction

Natural gas processing plants

Pipelines

Other oil and gas infrastructure
- e.g., gas mains, bulk storage, pumping sites, oil or gas storage tanks, injection wells, seismograph stations

Telecommunications transmission support structures

Telecommunications transmission cables and lines
- Exclude optical fibre

Telecommunications transmission optical fibre cables

Machinery and equipment

Passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs

Medium and heavy-duty trucks

Buses
- e.g., vans of a seating capacity of 10 persons or more, electric trackless trolley coaches

Freight and utility trailers

Special-purpose vehicles
- e.g., ambulances, fire trucks, prison vans, trucks fitted with elevator platforms, tow trucks, armoured trucks for money and securities transportation

Materials handling trucks and tractors

Other materials handling equipment
- e.g., winches, aerial work platforms, hoists, conveyors

Locomotives, railway rolling stock, and rapid transit equipment

Non-military Aircraft

Unmanned aerial vehicles
- e.g., drones

Non-military ships, barges and platforms
- e.g., ferry boats, tug boats

Boats and personal watercraft

Other transportation equipment
- e.g., all-terrain vehicles

Computers and peripherals

Optical and projection equipment, photocopiers, and office machines

Office furniture

Furniture and fixtures
- Exclude office furniture

Playground, gymnasium, exercise, and other athletic equipment

Telephone and data communications equipment
- e.g., fax machines, telephone switching, local area routers, smartphones

Televisions and other audio and video equipment

Broadcast, studio, alarm, and signalling equipment
- e.g., traffic control equipment, surveillance cameras

Navigational and guidance instruments
- e.g., ultrasonic detecting equipment, radio navigational aid, radio direction finders

Water treatment equipment

Filters and strainers for fluids and fluid power systems

Pumps and compressors

Commercial cooking and food-warming equipment

Commercial and service industry machinery and equipment, (n.e.c.)
- e.g., banking and vending machines, coin-operated amusement machines, commercial laundry machines

Powered hand tools

Construction machinery and equipment

Nuclear reactor steam supply system equipment

Engines and mechanical power transmission equipment

Oil and gas field production machinery and equipment

Industry-specific manufacturing equipment

Heavy-gauge metal containers
- e.g., intermodal

Metalworking machinery

Other miscellaneous industrial machinery and non-motorized equipment, n.e.c.

Electric motors and generators

Switchgear, switchboards, relays, and industrial control apparatus

Turbines, turbine generators, and turbine generator sets

Boilers, metal tanks, industrial valves and seals

Heating and cooling equipment
- Exclude household appliances

Power and distribution transformers

Instruments for measuring electricity

Agricultural, lawn and garden machinery and equipment

Space satellites
- e.g., meteorological satellites, telecommunication satellites, global positioning system (GPS) receivers

Medical and laboratory equipment
- e.g., medical furnishings and laboratory apparatus
- Exclude scientific instruments

Medical, dental and personal safety supplies

Industrial and commercial fans, blowers and air purification equipment

Measuring, control and scientific instruments
- e.g., counting devices, parking meters, water metres, laboratory equipment

Other scientific and technical instruments

Military aircraft

Military ships

Military armoured vehicles

Automatic weapons, machine guns, rocket launchers, howitzers, mortars, and other weapons
- Include parts

Waste and scrap of iron and steel

Waste and scrap of aluminum and aluminum alloys

Waste and scrap of other non-ferrous metals

Other machinery and equipment, specify:

Software

Pre-packaged software

Custom-designed software
- e.g., on contract and in-house development

Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP)

Reporting Guide

This guide is designed to assist you as you complete the Annual Capital and Repairs Expenditures Survey: Actual for 2019.

Your answers are confidential.

Statistics Canada is prohibited by law from releasing any information it collects which could identify any person, business, or organization, unless consent has been given by the respondent or as permitted by the Statistics Act.

Statistics Canada will use information from this survey for statistical purposes.

Table of contents

Reporting period information
Definitions
Industry characteristics

Reporting period information

For the purpose of this survey, please report information for your 12 month fiscal period for which the final day occurs on or between April 1, 2019 — March 31, 2020.

Here are twelve common fiscal periods that fall within the targeted dates:

  • May 1, 2018 to April 30, 2019
  • June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019
  • July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019
  • August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2019
  • September 1, 2018 to August 31, 2019
  • October 1, 2018 to September 30, 201
  • November 1, 2018 to October 31, 2019
  • December 1, 2018 to November 30, 2019
  • January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019
  • February 1, 2019 to January 31, 2020
  • March 1, 2019 to February 28, 2020
  • April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020

Here are other examples of fiscal periods that fall within the required dates:

  • September 18, 2018 to September 15, 2019 (e.g., floating year-end)
  • June 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019 (e.g., a newly opened business)

Dollar amounts

  • all dollar amounts reported should be rounded to thousands of Canadian dollars (e.g., $6,555,444.00 should be rounded to $6,555);
  • exclude sales tax
  • your best estimates are acceptable when precise figures are not available;
  • if there are no capital expenditures, please enter '0'.

Definitions

What are Capital Expenditures?

Capital Expenditures are the gross expenditures on fixed assets for use in the operations of your organization or for lease or rent to others. Gross expenditures are expenditures before deducting proceeds from disposals, and credits (capital grants, donations, government assistance and investment tax credits).

Fixed assets are also known as capital assets or property, plant and equipment. They are items with a useful life of more than one year and are not purchased for resale but rather for use in the entity's production of goods and services.

Examples are buildings, vehicles, leasehold improvements, furniture and fixtures, machinery, and computer software.

Include:

  • Cost of all buildings, engineering structures, machinery and equipment which normally have a life of more than one year and are charged to fixed asset accounts
  • Modifications and major renovations
  • Capital costs such as feasibility studies, architectural, legal, installation and engineering fees
  • Subsidies used to fund capital expenditures
  • Capitalized interest charges on loans with which capital projects are financed
  • Work done by own labour force
  • Additions to capital work in progress

How to Treat Leases

Include:

  • assets acquired as a lessee through either a capital or financial lease;
  • assets acquired for lease to others as an operating lease.

Exclude:

  • business acquisitions
  • transfers and write-offs
  • assets acquired for lease to others, either as a capital or financial lease.

Operating lease

The lessor bears the risk of ownership and retains a significant "residual" economic interest in the leased property. The lessee has the right to temporary use of the property, for a term shorter than the economic life of the property, in exchange for regular payments. At the end of the lease, the lessee has the option of purchasing the property at fair market value.

Capital or financial lease

These leases are similar in that the lessor in effect finances the "purchase" of the leased property by the lessee and retains a security interest in the leased property. The lessee retains the leased property for substantially all of its economic life.

Industry characteristics

New Assets: Report capital expenditures for acquisitions of new assets including the portion of work in progress for the current year. Include imports of used assets since they represent newly acquired assets for the Canadian economy.

Purchase of Used Canadian Assets: The object of our survey is to measure the acquisitions of new fixed assets separately from used fixed assets in the Canadian economy as a whole. This is because the acquisition of used assets does not increase the total inventory of fixed assets, it only transfers them within the Canadian economy.

Renovation, Retrofit, Refurbishing, Overhauling and Restoration: Report capital expenditures for existing assets being upgraded, renovated, retrofitted, refurbished, overhauled or restored.

Expected Useful Life of Assets: Report the expected life of the asset in years. If you have purchased similar assets with varying expected useful lives, please combine the data and provide a weighted average for the number of years, or the expected useful life of the asset with the largest value.

Land: Capital expenditures for land should include all costs associated with the purchase of the land that are not amortized or depreciated. Improvements of land should be reported in Non-Residential Construction.

Residential Construction: Capital expenditures incurred during the reporting period for residential structures (on a contracted basis and/or by your own employees).

  • Include the housing portion of multi-purpose projects and of townsites.
  • Exclude buildings that have accommodation units without self contained or exclusive use of bathroom and kitchen facilities (e.g., some student and senior citizens residences) and associated expenditures on services.

Non-Residential Construction: Capital expenditures incurred during the reporting period for non-residential building and engineering construction (on a contracted basis and/or by your own employees) whether for your own use or rent to others. Construction structures should be classified to an asset according to its principal use unless it is a multi-purpose structure where we would like you to separate the components. The cost of any machinery and equipment which is an integral or built-in feature of the structure (i.e. elevators, heating equipment, sprinkler systems, environmental controls, intercom systems, etc.) should be reported as part of that structure as well as landscaping, associated parking lots, etc.

Include:

  • Manufacturing plants, warehouses, office buildings, shopping centres, etc.;
  • Roads, bridges, sewers, electric power lines, underground cables, etc.;
  • The cost of demolition of buildings, land servicing and site preparation;
  • Leasehold and land improvements.
  • Additions to work in progress;
  • Townsite facilities such as streets, sewers, stores and schools;
  • Buildings that have accommodation units without self contained or exclusive use of bathroom and kitchen facilities (e.g., some student and senior citizen residences) and associated expenditures on services;
  • All preconstruction planning and design costs such as engineer and consulting fees and any materials supplied to construction contractors for installation, etc.

Machinery and Equipment

Capital expenditures incurred during the reporting period for machinery and equipment, whether for your own use or for lease or rent to others. Machinery and equipment are generally housed in structures and can be removed or replaced without significantly altering the structure.

Include:

  • Automobiles, trucks, professional and scientific equipment, office and store furniture and appliances;
  • Computers (hardware only), broadcasting, telecommunications and other information and communication technologies equipment;
  • Motors, generators, transformers;
  • Any capitalized tooling expenses;
  • Acquisitions to work in progress;
  • Progress payments paid out before delivery in the year in which such payments are made;
  • Any balance owing or holdbacks should be reported in the year the cost is incurred.

Non-Capital Repair and Maintenance Expenditures

This question represents the repair and maintenance of assets in contrast to the acquisition of assets or the renovation of assets.

Non-capitalized repair and maintenance expenditures are that portion of current or operating expenditures charged against revenue in the year incurred and made for the purpose of keeping the stock of fixed assets in good working condition during the life originally intended.

Repair and maintenance allow such fixed assets to operate at output producing capacity during the asset life without undue amounts of down time (preventive function). A second purpose is the returning of any portion of the stock of fixed assets into a state of good working condition after any malfunctioning or reduced efficiency for whatever reason (curative function) short of replacement of such fixed assets or adding significantly to their life or productive efficiency.

Maintenance expenditures on buildings and other structures may include the routine care of assets such as janitorial services, snow removal and/or salting and sanding by the firm's own employees or persons outside the firm's employ.

Maintenance expenditures on machinery and equipment may include oil change and lubrication of vehicles and machinery.

Include:

  • Gross non-capital repair and maintenance expenditures on non-residential buildings, other structures and on machinery and equipment;
  • Value of repair work done by your own employees as well as payments to persons outside your employ;
  • Building maintenance such as janitorial services, snow removal and sanding;
  • Equipment maintenance such as oil changes and lubrication of vehicles and other machinery.

Oil and Gas and Mineral Exploration: These expenditures include mineral rights fees and retention costs, geological, geophysical and seismic expenses, exploration drilling, and other costs incurred during the reporting period in order to determine whether mineral, oil or gas reserves exist and can be exploited commercially. Report gross expenditures, before deducting any incentive grants. Exclude the cost of land and business acquisitions.

Work in Progress: Work in progress represents accumulated costs since the start of capital projects which are intended to be capitalized upon completion.

Cost component of expenditures – internal costs

Internal construction or development costs: (such as material and labour) that are capitalized as part of the asset costs (such as own employee installation or erection of fixed assets, systems and software development staff).

Include all materials and supplies provided free to contractors and all architects, engineering and consultants fees and similar services.

Salaries and Wages: Show the total value of salaries and wages paid to your employees. Salaries and wages are gross earnings before deductions such as income tax and include incentive bonuses and vacation pay but exclude fringe benefits.

Materials and Supplies: Report total cost of materials and supplies used by your own employees and those provided free to contractors relating to the expenditures reported.

Other Charges: Examples of other charges are insurance, power, telephone and also architectural, legal, and engineering fees considered to be applicable to the expenditures reported.

Source of Funding Breakdown

Sources of funding of capital expenditures include grants, subsidies, donations, credit and venture capital from external sources, as well as internal fundi

Environmental protection and resource management expenditures

These questions cover the capital and repair expenditures made by this organization in order to prevent, reduce or eliminate pollution and other forms of degradation of the environment while performing your production activity, i.e., within your organization. Expenditures made to restore the environment from a degraded state are included. It can also be expenditures made for resource management activities which result in the more efficient use of natural resources, thus safeguarding against their depletion or the use of goods that have been adapted to be significantly less energy or resource intensive than the industry standard. This includes expenditures that this specific operation incurred for pollution prevention and abatement and control. Exclude expenditures made to improve employee health, workplace safety, and site beautification. Please report all environmental protection or resource management expenditures whether or not they are in response to current or anticipated Canadian or international regulations, conventions or voluntary agreements.
Specific activities are: Solid waste management; Wastewater management; Air pollution management; Protection and remediation of soil, groundwater and surface water; Protection of biodiversity and habitat; Noise and vibration abatement; Protection against radiation; Heat or energy savings and management; Fuel efficient vehicles and transportation goods or technologies; Production of energy from renewable sources; Renewable energy; Production of nuclear energy; and any other environmental protection or resource management activities.

Drivers and obstacles: Drivers or obstacles to the adoption of new or significantly improved clean technologies, systems or equipment for the establishment. ng.

Disposal and sales of fixed assets

Selling price

The total value, or the sales of fixed assets which were disposed of or sold, even if traded in for credit in the acquisition or purchase of new fixed assets. When land and buildings are sold together, please report the selling price of the land separately, along with other land sales.

Gross book value

This value should represent total capital expenditures for an asset, at and since the time of original construction or purchase, including all subsequent capital expenditures for the purpose of modernization, expansion, etc. Any subsidies received should not be subtracted.

Age

Report the age of the fixed asset at the time of disposal.
If you have disposed of or sold similar assets of varying ages, report them separately or combine the data and provide a weighted average for the ages.

Annual Capital and Repair Expenditures Survey: Actual for 2019
Category Asset Code
Non-residential construction  
Asset description and codes
The asset items and categories listed below are groupings of fixed assets generally having a similar function which can apply to various industries.
 
Construction structures should be classified to an asset according to its principal use unless it is a multi-purpose structure where we would like you to separate the components. The cost of any machinery and equipment which is an integral or built-in feature of the structure (i.e. elevators, heating equipment, sprinkler systems, environmental controls, intercom systems, etc.) should be reported as part of that structure as well as landscaping, associated parking lots, etc.  
Industrial Building  
Manufacturing plants 6221121
Industrial depots and service buildings 6221131
Farm buildings and structures 6221111
Other industrial sites and structures - specify: 6221141
Commercial Building  
Industrial laboratories, research and development centres 6222311
Warehouses 6222321
Service stations 6222331
Office buildings 6222111
Hotels and Motels 6222351
Restaurants 6222341
Shopping centres, plazas, malls and stores 6222211
Theatres and halls 6222361
Indoor recreational facilities 6222363
Other collective dwellings 6222372
Student residences 6222371
Airports and other passenger terminals 6222380
Communications buildings 6222391
Sports facilities with spectator capacity 6222362
Other commercial properties, not elsewhere classified - specify: 6222392
Institutional Building  
Schools, colleges, universities and other educational buildings 6223111
Religious centres and memorial sites 6223311
Hospitals 6223211
Nursing homes and senior citizens homes 6223222
Health centres, clinics and other health care buildings 6223221
Daycare centres 6223341
Libraries 6223351
Historical sites 6223331
Public safety facilities 6223361
Museums 6223321
Other institutional buildings, not elsewhere classified- specify 6223371
Marine Engineering  
Seaports and harbours 6231311
Canals and waterways 6231331
Marinas 6231321
Other marine infrastructure - specify: 6231341
Transportation Engineering Infrastructure  
Parking lots and garages 6231211
Highways, roads and streets 6231111
Runways (include lighting) 6231231
Railway Tracks 6231221
Bridges 6231121
Tunnels 6231131
Other land transportation infrastructure, not elsewhere classified - specify: 6231241
Waterworks Engineering Infrastructure  
Water filtration plants 6235111
Water supply infrastructure 6235121
Sewage Engineering infrastructure  
Sewage treatment plants 6235211
Sewage collection and disposal infrastructure 6235221
Electric power engineering infrastructure  
Natural gas, coal and oil power plants 6233111
Nuclear power plants 6233112
Hydro-electric power plants 6233113
Other Power generating plants (wind, solar, biomass) 6233114
Power transmission networks 6233121
Power distribution networks 6233131
Communication Networks  
Telecommunications transmission cables and lines (except optical fibre) 6234111
Telecommunications transmission optical fibre cables 6234112
Telecommunications transmission support structures - towers, poles, conduit 6234113
Other communications networks - specify: 6234114
Oil and Gas Engineering Construction  
Oil refineries 6232121
Natural gas processing plants 6232122
Pipelines (except water supply conduits) 6232211
Development drilling for oil and gas 6711111
Production facilities in oil and gas extraction 6232111
Enhanced recovery techniques for oil and gas 6711113
Site development and maintenance services for oil and gas fields 6711112
Gas Distribution systems (main and services) and other oil and gas infrastructure 6232311
Mining Engineering Construction  
Mine surface buildings (except for beneficiation) 6236112
Mine buildings for ore beneficiation 6236111
Mine structures (except buildings) 6236113
Tailing disposal systems and settling ponds 6236114
Site development for mining 6711211
Other Engineering Construction  
Pollution abatement and control infrastructure 6236261
Outdoor recreational facilities 6236251
Waste disposal facilities 6236231
Irrigation networks 6236241
Reclaimed land 6236211
Flood protection infrastructure 6236221
Site remediation 7823131
Other engineering works, not elsewhere classified - specify: 6236262
Machinery and equipment  
Asset description and codes
The asset items and categories listed below are groupings of fixed assets generally having a similar function that can apply to various industries.
 
Machinery and equipment are generally housed in structures and can be removed or replaced without significantly altering the structure.  
Medium and Heavy Trucks, Buses and Other Motor Vehicles  
Medium and heavy-duty trucks 4121100
Buses 4121211
Freight and utility trailers 4121300
Special-purpose vehicles 4121221
Materials handling trucks and tractors 3454211
Other motor vehicles 4123100
Passenger Cars and Light Trucks  
Passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs 4110000
Other Transportation Equipment  
Locomotives, railway rolling stock, and rapid transit equipment 4411200
Civilian aircraft 4211112
Non-military ships, barges and platforms 4411112
Boats and personal watercraft 4421100
Other transportation equipment - specify: 4421259
Processing Equipment  
Water treatment equipment 3453311
Filters and strainers for fluids and fluid power systems 3454342
Packing, packaging, and bottling machinery 3454331
Mineral crushing, screening, processing and beneficiation machinery and equipment 3321151
Metalworking machinery 3411100
Industrial moulds, special dies, and patterns 3455110
Other industry-specific manufacturing machinery, not elsewhere classified - specify: 3431100
Computers and Office Equipment  
Computers and computer peripheral equipment 3611100
Optical and projection equipment, photocopiers, and office machines (except computers and peripherals) 3421110
Office furniture 3911400
Telecommunications, Cable and Broadcasting Equipment  
Broadcast, studio, alarm, and signalling equipment 3621200
Navigational and guidance instruments 3621300
Telephone and data communications equipment 3621100
Televisions and other audio and video equipment 3622100
Other communication equipment - specify: 3621419
Commercial and Service Industry Machinery and Equipment  
Commercial cooking and food-warming equipment 3421121
Commercial and service industry machinery and equipment, not elsewhere classified 3421130
Other Industrial Machinery and Equipment  
Heavy-gauge metal containers (including intermodal) 3454100
Hand tools and power hand tools (except welding and soldering equipment) 3454320
Logging machinery and equipment 3321111
Rock drilling machinery and equipment 3321141
Other mining and quarrying machinery and equipment, not elsewhere classified 3321142
Oil and gas field production machinery and equipment 3321160
Construction machinery and equipment 3321170
Nuclear reactor steam supply systems 3453113
Welding and soldering equipment 3454311
Industrial furnaces and ovens, and electric industrial heating equipment 3454341
Other materials handling equipment, conveyors, and elevators 3454249
Medical, Scientific and Technical Instruments and equipment  
Medical and laboratory equipment (except scientific instruments) 3631300
Scientific and technical instruments (except electromedical and irradiation equipment) 3631260
Other measuring, control, and scientific instruments (except electromedical and irradiation equipment) 3631269
Medical, dental and personal safety supplies 4751100
Other Machinery and Equipment  
Institutional and other furniture, not elsewhere classified (including furniture frames) 3911600
Engines (except gasoline and diesel engines for motor vehicles, and aircraft engines) and mechanical power transmission equipment 3451000
Pumps and compressors 3453200
Heating and cooling equipment (except household refrigerators and freezers) 3441100
Power and distribution transformers 3812211
Other transformers 3812220
Military aircraft 4211111
Military ships 4411111
Military armoured vehicles 4421231
Billboards 4751211
Non-residential mobile buildings 4711321
Waste and scrap of iron and steel (Disposal of fixed assets only) 1561111
Waste and scrap of aluminum and aluminum alloy (Disposal of fixed assets only) 1561211
Waste and scrap of other non-ferrous metals (Disposal of fixed assets only) 1561220
Electric motors and generators 3631100
Switchgear, switchboards, relays, and industrial control apparatus 3812300
Turbines, turbine generators, and turbine generator sets 3452111
Boilers, metal tanks, industrial valves and seals 3453159
Agricultural, lawn and garden machinery and equipment 3311100
Instruments for measuring electricity 3631230
Industrial and commercial fans, blowers and air purification equipment 3441200
Appliances 3820000
Unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) 4211113
Partitions, shelving, lockers and other fixtures 3911500
Batteries 4752300
Sporting and athletic goods 4753100
Other machinery and equipment - specify: 9999999

Why are we conducting this survey?

This survey is conducted by Statistics Canada in order to collect the necessary information to support the Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP). This program combines various survey and administrative data to develop comprehensive measures of the Canadian economy.

The statistical information from the IBSP serves many purposes, including:

  • calculating each province and territory's fair share of federal-provincial transfer payments for health, education and social programs
  • establishing government programs to assist businesses
  • assisting the business community in negotiating contracts and collective agreements
  • supporting the government in making informed decisions about fiscal, monetary and foreign exchange policies
  • indexing social benefit programs and determining tax brackets
  • enabling academics and economists to analyze the economic performance of Canadian industries and to better understand rapidly evolving business environments.

Your information may also be used by Statistics Canada for other statistical and research purposes.

Your participation in this survey is required under the authority of the Statistics Act.

Other important information

Authorization to collect this information

Data are collected under the authority of the Statistics Act, Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, Chapter S-19.

Confidentiality

By law, Statistics Canada is prohibited from releasing any information it collects that could identify any person, business, or organization, unless consent has been given by the respondent, or as permitted by the Statistics Act. Statistics Canada will use the information from this survey for statistical purposes only.

Record linkages

To enhance the data from this survey and to reduce the reporting burden, Statistics Canada may combine the acquired data with information from other surveys or from administrative sources.

Data-sharing agreements

To reduce respondent burden, Statistics Canada has entered into data-sharing agreements with provincial and territorial statistical agencies and other government organizations, which have agreed to keep the data confidential and use them only for statistical purposes. Statistics Canada will only share data from this survey with those organizations that have demonstrated a requirement to use the data.

Section 11 of the Statistics Act provides for the sharing of information with provincial and territorial statistical agencies that meet certain conditions. These agencies must have the legislative authority to collect the same information, on a mandatory basis, and the legislation must provide substantially the same provisions for confidentiality and penalties for disclosure of confidential information as the Statistics Act. Because these agencies have the legal authority to compel businesses to provide the same information, consent is not requested and businesses may not object to the sharing of the data.

For this survey, there are Section 11 agreements with the provincial and territorial statistical agencies of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Québec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and the Yukon. The shared data will be limited to information pertaining to business establishments located within the jurisdiction of the respective province or territory.

Section 12 of the Statistics Act provides for the sharing of information with federal, provincial or territorial government organizations. Under Section 12, you may refuse to share your information with any of these organizations by writing a letter of objection to the Chief Statistician, specifying the organizations with which you do not want Statistics Canada to share your data and mailing it to the following address:

Chief Statistician of Canada Statistics Canada
Attention of Director, Enterprise Statistics Division
150 Tunney's Pasture Driveway
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0T6

You may also contact us by email at statcan.esdhelpdesk-dsebureaudedepannage.statcan@statcan.gc.ca or by fax at 613-951-6583.

For this survey, there are Section 12 agreements with the statistical agencies of Prince Edward Island, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

For agreements with provincial and territorial government organizations, the shared data will be limited to information pertaining to business establishments located within the jurisdiction of the respective province or territory.

Business or organization and contact information

1. Verify or provide the business or organization's legal and operating name and correct where needed.

Note: Legal name modifications should only be done to correct a spelling error or typo.

Legal Name

The legal name is one recognized by law, thus it is the name liable for pursuit or for debts incurred by the business or organization. In the case of a corporation, it is the legal name as fixed by its charter or the statute by which the corporation was created.

Modifications to the legal name should only be done to correct a spelling error or typo.

To indicate a legal name of another legal entity you should instead indicate it in question 3 by selecting 'Not currently operational' and then choosing the applicable reason and providing the legal name of this other entity along with any other requested information.

Operating Name

The operating name is a name the business or organization is commonly known as if different from its legal name. The operating name is synonymous with trade name.

  • Legal name
  • Operating name (if applicable)

2. Verify or provide the contact information of the designated business or organization contact person for this questionnaire and correct where needed.

Note: The designated contact person is the person who should receive this questionnaire. The designated contact person may not always be the one who actually completes the questionnaire.

  • First name
  • Last name
  • Title
  • Preferred language of communication
    • English
    • French
  • Mailing address (number and street)
  • City
  • Province, territory or state
  • Postal code or ZIP code
  • Country
    • Canada
    • United States
  • Email address
  • Telephone number (including area code)
  • Extension number (if applicable)
    The maximum number of characters is 10.
  • Fax number (including area code)

3. Verify or provide the current operational status of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name above.

  • Operational
  • Not currently operational
    • Why is this business or organization not currently operational?
      • Seasonal operations
      • Ceased operations
      • Sold operations
      • Amalgamated with other businesses or organizations
      • Temporarily inactive but will re-open
      • No longer operating due to other reasons
    • When did this business or organization close for the season?
      • Date
    • When does this business or organization expect to resume operations?
      • Date
    • When did this business or organization cease operations?
      • Date
    • Why did this business or organization cease operations?
      • Bankruptcy
      • Liquidation
      • Dissolution
      • Other
    • Specify the other reasons why the operations ceased
      • When was this business or organization sold?
        • Date
      • What is the legal name of the buyer?
      • When did this business or organization amalgamate?
        • Date
      • What is the legal name of the resulting or continuing business or organization?
      • What are the legal names of the other amalgamated businesses or organizations?
      • When did this business or organization become temporarily inactive?
        • Date
      • When does this business or organization expect to resume operations?
        • Date
      • Why is this business or organization temporarily inactive?
      • When did this business or organization cease operations?
        • Date
      • Why did this business or organization cease operations?

4. Verify or provide the current main activity of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name above.

Note: The described activity was assigned using the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

This question verifies the business or organization's current main activity as classified by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is an industry classification system developed by the statistical agencies of Canada, Mexico and the United States. Created against the background of the North American Free Trade Agreement, it is designed to provide common definitions of the industrial structure of the three countries and a common statistical framework to facilitate the analysis of the three economies. NAICS is based on supply-side or production-oriented principles, to ensure that industrial data, classified to NAICS, are suitable for the analysis of production-related issues such as industrial performance.

The target entity for which NAICS is designed are businesses and other organizations engaged in the production of goods and services. They include farms, incorporated and unincorporated businesses and government business enterprises. They also include government institutions and agencies engaged in the production of marketed and non-marketed services, as well as organizations such as professional associations and unions and charitable or non-profit organizations and the employees of households.

The associated NAICS should reflect those activities conducted by the business or organizational units targeted by this questionnaire only, as identified in the 'Answering this questionnaire' section and which can be identified by the specified legal and operating name. The main activity is the activity which most defines the targeted business or organization's main purpose or reason for existence. For a business or organization that is for-profit, it is normally the activity that generates the majority of the revenue for the entity.

The NAICS classification contains a limited number of activity classifications; the associated classification might be applicable for this business or organization even if it is not exactly how you would describe this business or organization's main activity.

Please note that any modifications to the main activity through your response to this question might not necessarily be reflected prior to the transmitting of subsequent questionnaires and as a result they may not contain this updated information.

The following is the detailed description including any applicable examples or exclusions for the classification currently associated with this business or organization.

Description and examples

  • This is the current main activity
    • Provide a brief but precise description of this business or organization's main activity
    • e.g., breakfast cereal manufacturing, shoe store, software development
  • This is not the current main activity

Main activity

5. You indicated that is not the current main activity.

Was this business or organization's main activity ever classified as: ?

  • Yes
    • When did the main activity change?
    • Date
  • No

6. Search and select the industry classification code that best corresponds to this business or organization's main activity.

Select this business or organization's activity sector (optional)

  • Farming or logging operation
  • Construction company or general contractor
  • Manufacturer
  • Wholesaler
  • Retailer
  • Provider of passenger or freight transportation
  • Provider of investment, savings or insurance products
  • Real estate agency, real estate brokerage or leasing company
  • Provider of professional, scientific or technical services
  • Provider of health care or social services
  • Restaurant, bar, hotel, motel or other lodging establishment
  • Other sector

7. You have indicated that the current main activity of this business or organization is:

Main activity

Are there any other activities that contribute significantly (at least 10%) to this business or organization's revenue?

  • Yes, there are other activities
    • Provide a brief but precise description of this business or organization's secondary activity
    • e.g., breakfast cereal manufacturing, shoe store, software development
  • No, that is the only significant activity

8. Approximately what percentage of this business or organization's revenue is generated by each of the following activities?

When precise figures are not available, provide your best estimates.

CAPTION
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  Percentage of revenue
Main activity  
Secondary activity  
All other activities  
Total percentage  

Reporting period information

1. What are the start and end dates of this business's or organization's most recently completed fiscal year?

For this survey, the end date should fall between April 1, 2019 and March 31, 2020

Here are twelve common fiscal periods that fall within the targeted dates:

  • May 1, 2018 to April 30, 2019
  • June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019
  • July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019
  • August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2019
  • September 1, 2018 to August 31, 2019
  • October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019
  • November 1, 2018 to October 31, 2019
  • December 1, 2018 to November 30, 2019
  • January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019
  • February 1, 2019 to January 31, 2020
  • March 1, 2019 to February 28, 2020
  • April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020

Here are other examples of fiscal periods that fall within the required dates:

  • September 18, 2018 to September 15, 2019 (e.g., floating year-end)
  • June 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019 (e.g., a newly opened business).
  • Fiscal year start date
  • Fiscal year-end date

2. What is the reason the reporting period does not cover a full year?

Select all that apply.

  • Seasonal operations
  • New business
  • Change of ownership
  • Temporarily inactive
  • Change of fiscal year
  • Ceased operations
  • Other
    • Specify reason the reporting period does not cover a full year

Additional reporting instructions

1. Throughout this questionnaire, please report financial information in thousands of Canadian dollars.

For example, an amount of $763,880.25 should be reported as:

CAN$ '000

I will report in the format above

Revenue

1. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what was this business's revenue from each of the following sources?

Notes:

  • a detailed breakdown may be requested in other sections
  • these questions are asked of many different industries. Some questions may not apply to this business

Report dollar amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Revenue

a. Sales of goods and services (e.g., fees, admissions, services revenue)

Sales of goods and services are defined as amounts derived from the sale of products and services (cash or credit), falling within a business's ordinary activities. Sales should be reported net of trade discount, value added tax and other taxes based on sales.

Include:

  • sales from Canadian locations (domestic and export sales)
  • transfers to other business units or the head office of this firm.

Exclude:

  • transfers into inventory and consignment sales
  • federal, provincial and territorial sales taxes and excise duties and taxes
  • intercompany sales in consolidated financial statements.

b. Rental and leasing

Include rental or leasing of apartments, commercial buildings, land, office space, residential housing, investments in co-tenancies and co-ownerships, hotel or motel rooms, long and short term vehicle leasing, machinery or equipment, storage lockers, etc.

c. Commissions

Include commissions earned on the sale of products or services by businesses such as advertising agencies, brokers, insurance agents, lottery ticket sales, sales representatives, and travel agencies - compensation could also be reported under this item (e.g., compensation for collecting sales tax).

d. Subsidies (including grants, donations and fundraising)

Include:

  • non-repayable grants, contributions and subsidies from all levels of government
  • revenue from private sector (corporate and individual) sponsorships, donations and fundraising.

e. Royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees

A royalty is defined as a payment received by the holder of a copyright, trademark or patent.

Include revenue received from the sale or use of all intellectual property rights of copyrighted materials such as musical, literary, artistic or dramatic works, sound recordings or the broadcasting of communication signals.

f. Dividends

Include:

  • dividend income
  • dividends from Canadian sources
  • dividends from foreign sources
  • patronage dividends.

Exclude equity income from investments in subsidiaries or affiliates.

g. Interest

Include:

  • investment revenue
  • interest from foreign sources
  • interest from Canadian bonds and debentures
  • interest from Canadian mortgage loans
  • interest from other Canadian sources.

Exclude equity income from investments in subsidiaries or affiliates.

h. Other revenue - specify

Include amounts not included in questions a. to g.

Total revenue

The sum of questions a. to h.

For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what was this business's revenue from each of the following sources?
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  CAN$ '000
a. Sales of goods and services  
b. Rental and leasing  
c. Commissions  
d. Subsidies  
e. Royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees  
f. Dividends  
g. Interest  
h. All other revenue  
Total revenue  

Expenses

1. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what were this business's expenses for the following items?

Notes:

  • a detailed breakdown may be requested in other sections
  • these questions are asked of many different industries. Some questions may not apply to this business

Please report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Expenses

a. Cost of goods sold

Many business units distinguish their costs of materials from their other business expenses (selling, general and administrative). This item is included to allow you to easily record your costs/expenses according to your normal accounting practices.

Include:

  • cost of raw materials and/or goods purchased for re-sale - net of discounts earned on purchases
  • freight in and duty.

Exclude all costs associated with salaries, wages, benefits, commissions and subcontracts (report at Employment costs and expenses, and Subcontracts).

b. Employment costs and expenses

b1. Salaries, wages and commissions

Please report all salaries and wages (including taxable allowances and employment commissions as defined on the T4 - Statement of Remuneration Paid) before deductions for this reporting period.

Include:

  • vacation pay
  • bonuses (including profit sharing)
  • employee commissions
  • taxable allowances (e.g., room and board, vehicle allowances, gifts such as airline tickets for holidays)
  • severance pay.

Exclude all payments and expenses associated with casual labour and outside contract workers (report at Subcontracts).

b2. Employee benefits

Include contributions to:

  • health plans
  • insurance plans
  • employment insurance
  • pension plans
  • workers' compensation
  • association dues
  • contributions to any other employee benefits such as child care and supplementary unemployment benefit (SUB) plans
  • contributions to provincial and territorial health and education payroll taxes.

c. Subcontracts

Subcontract expense refers to the purchasing of services from outside of the company rather than providing them in-house.

Include:

  • hired casual labour and outside contract workers
  • custom work and contract work
  • subcontract and outside labour
  • hired labour.

d. Research and development fees

Expenses from activities conducted with the intention of making a discovery that could either lead to the development of new products or procedures, or to the improvement of existing products or procedures.

e. Professional and business fees

Include:

  • legal services
  • accounting and auditing fees
  • consulting fees
  • education and training fees
  • appraisal fees
  • management and administration fees
  • property management fees
  • information technology (IT) consulting and service fees (purchased)
  • architectural fees
  • engineering fees
  • scientific and technical service fees
  • other consulting fees (management, technical and scientific)
  • veterinary fees
  • fees for human health services
  • payroll preparation fees
  • all other professional and business service fees.

Exclude service fees paid to Head Office (report at All other costs and expenses).

f. Utilities

Utility expenses related to operating your business unit such as water, electricity, gas, heating and hydro.

Include:

  • diesel, fuel wood, natural gas, oil and propane
  • sewage.

Exclude:

  • energy expenses covered in your rental and leasing contracts
  • telephone, Internet and other telecommunications (report at question h.)
  • vehicle fuel (report at All other costs and expenses).

g. Office and computer related expenses

Include:

  • office stationery and supplies, paper and other supplies for photocopiers, printers and fax machines
  • postage and courier (used in the day to day office business activity)
  • diskettes and computer and peripherals upgrade expenses
  • data processing.

Exclude telephone, Internet and other telecommunication expenses (report at Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication).

h. Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication

Include:

  • Internet
  • telephone and telecommunications
  • cellular telephone
  • fax machine
  • pager.

i. Business taxes, licenses and permits

Include:

  • property taxes paid directly and property transfer taxes
  • vehicle license fees
  • beverage taxes and business taxes
  • trade license fees
  • membership fees and professional license fees
  • provincial capital tax.

j. Royalties, franchise fees and memberships

Include:

  • amounts paid to holders of patents, copyrights, performing rights and trademarks
  • gross overriding royalty expenses and direct royalty costs
  • resident and non-resident royalty expenses
  • franchise fees.

Exclude Crown royalties

k. Crown charges

Federal or Provincial royalty, tax, lease or rental payments made in relation to the acquisition, development or ownership of Canadian resource properties.

Include:

  • Crown royalties
  • Crown leases and rentals
  • oil sand leases
  • stumpage fees.

l. Rental and leasing

Include:

  • lease rental expenses, real estate rental expenses, condominium fees and equipment rental expenses
  • motor vehicle rental and leasing expenses
  • studio lighting and scaffolding
  • machinery and equipment rental expenses
  • storage expenses
  • road and construction equipment rental
  • fuel and other utility costs covered in your rental and leasing contracts.

m. Repair and maintenance

Include:

  • buildings and structures
  • machinery and equipment
  • security equipment
  • vehicles
  • costs related to materials, parts and external labour associated with these expenses
  • janitorial and cleaning services and garbage removal.

n. Amortization and depreciation

Include:

  • direct cost depreciation of tangible assets and amortization of leasehold improvements
  • amortization of intangible assets (e.g., amortization of goodwill, patents, franchises, copyrights, trademarks, deferred charges, organizational costs).

o. Insurance

Insurance recovery income should be deducted from insurance expenses.

Include:

  • professional and other liability insurance
  • motor vehicle and property insurance
  • executive life insurance
  • bonding, business interruption insurance and fire insurance.

p. Advertising, marketing, promotion, meals and entertainment

Include:

  • newspaper advertising and media expenses
  • catalogues, presentations and displays
  • tickets for theatre, concerts and sporting events for business promotion
  • fundraising expenses
  • meals, entertainment and hospitality purchases for clients.

q. Travel, meetings and conventions

Include:

  • travel expenses
  • meeting and convention expenses, seminars
  • passenger transportation (e.g., airfare, bus, train, etc.)
  • accommodations
  • travel allowance and meals while travelling
  • other travel expenses.

r. Financial services

Include:

  • explicit service charges for financial services
  • credit and debit card commissions and charges
  • collection expenses and transfer fees
  • registrar and transfer agent fees
  • security and exchange commission fees
  • other financial service fees.

Exclude interest expenses (report at Interest expense).

s. Interest expense

Report the cost of servicing your company's debt.

Include:

  • interest
  • bank charges
  • finance charges
  • interest payments on capital leases
  • amortization of bond discounts
  • interest on short-term and long-term debt, mortgages, bonds and debentures.

t. Other non-production-related costs and expenses

Include:

  • charitable donations and political contributions
  • bad debt expense
  • loan losses
  • provisions for loan losses (minus bad debt recoveries)
  • inventory adjustments.

u. All other costs and expenses (including intracompany expenses)

Include:

  • production costs
  • pipeline operations, drilling, site restoration
  • gross overriding royalty
  • other producing property rentals
  • well operating, fuel and equipment
  • other lease rentals
  • other direct costs
  • equipment hire and operation
  • log yard expense, forestry costs, logging road costs
  • freight in and duty
  • overhead expenses allocated to cost of sales
  • other expenses
  • cash over/short (negative expense)
  • reimbursement of parent company expense
  • warranty expense
  • recruiting expenses
  • general and administrative expenses
  • interdivisional expenses
  • interfund transfer (minus expense recoveries)
  • exploration and development (including prospect/geological, well abandonment & dry holes, exploration expenses, development expenses)
  • amounts not included in sub-questions a. to t. above.

Total expenses

The sum of sub-questions a. to u.

For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what were this business's expenses for the following items?
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  CAN$ '000
a. Cost of goods sold  
Opening inventories  
Purchases  
Closing inventories  
Cost of goods sold  
b. Employment costs and expenses  
Salaries, wages and commissions  
Employee benefits  
c. Subcontracts  
d. Research and development fees  
e. Professional and business fees  
f. Utilities  
g. Office and computer related expenses  
h. Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication  
i. Business taxes, licenses and permits  
j. Royalties, franchise fees and memberships  
k. Crown charges  
l. Rental and leasing  
m. Repair and maintenance  
n. Amortization and depreciation  
o. Insurance  
p. Advertising, marketing, promotion, meals and entertainment  
q. Travel, meetings and conventions  
r. Financial services  
s. Interest expense  
t. Other non-production-related costs and expenses  
u. All other costs and expenses  
Total expenses  

Industry characteristics

1. What were this business's sales for each of the following goods and services?

Please report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

All revenue reported should exclude sales taxes (GST/HST, PST and QST) and be net of returns, discounts, sales allowances, and charges for outward transportation by common or contract carriers. Do not deduct the value of trade-ins.

a. Sales of all goods purchased for resale, net of returns and discounts

Include:

  • excise taxes (such as those on gasoline, liquor, and tobacco) and other taxes that are levied on the manufacturer/importer and included in the cost of products purchased by this business unit
  • sales of all goods purchased for resale; please report gross sales of new and used goods less returns and discounts
  • parts used in generating repair and maintenance revenue (report the labour portion of repair and maintenance at question c.).

Do not deduct the value of trade-ins.

Exclude:

  • taxes collected directly from customers and paid directly by this operating unit to provincial and federal tax agencies
  • sales and revenue from concessions.

b. Sales of goods manufactured as a secondary activity by this retailing business unit

Report revenue from sales of goods of own manufacture.

c. Labour revenue from repair and maintenance

Include:

  • labour revenue from installations, warranty and repair work
  • parts used in generating installation, repair and maintenance revenue are to be included at question a.

d. Revenue from rental and leasing of goods and equipment

Include:

  • video/computer game rental
  • rug shampoo equipment rental
  • tool rental.

e. Revenue from rental of real estate

Include revenue received from renting out or leasing property owned by this business unit.

What were this business's sales for each of the following goods and services?
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  CAN$ '000
a. Sales of all goods purchased for resale, net of returns and discounts  
b. Sales of goods manufactured as a secondary activity by this retailing business unit  
c. Labour revenue from repair and maintenance  
d. Revenue from rental and leasing of goods and equipment  
e. Revenue from rental of real estate  

Details on Purchased Services

1. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, this business reported expenses for the following items.

Please provide the requested details related to these expenses.

Please report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, this business reported expenses for the following items.
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  CAN$ '000
Professional and business fees  
Legal services  
Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services  
Management, scientific and technical consulting services  
Office administrative services  
Freight transportation arrangements and customs brokering services  
Brokerage and other insurance related services  
Security brokerage and securities dealing services  
Other purchased professional services  
Total expenses for professional and business fees  
Office and computer related expenses  
Data processing, hosting, and related services  
Business support services  
Other office and computer related purchased services  
Total expenses for office and computer related expenses  
Royalties, franchise fees and memberships  
Rights to non-financial intangible assets  
Membership fees or services  
Other royalties, franchise fees and memberships  
Total expenses for royalties, franchise fees and memberships  
Rental and leasing  
Non-residential real estate rental  
Motor vehicle rental and leasing  
Computer equipment rental and leasing  
Office machinery and equipment rental and leasing services  
Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment renting and leasing services, without operator  
Other rental services  
Total expenses for rental and leasing  
Repair and maintenance  
Security services and investigation  
Waste management and remediation services  
Motor vehicle repair and maintenance services  
Other repair and maintenance services  
Total expenses for repair and maintenance  

Sales by type of client

1. What was this business's breakdown of sales by the following types of client?

Sales by type of client

This section is designed to measure which sector of the economy purchases your services.

Please provide a percentage breakdown of your sales by type of client.

Please ensure that the sum of percentages reported in this section equals 100%.

a. to c. Clients in Canada

a. Individuals and households

Please report the percentage of sales to individuals and households who do not represent the business or government sector.

b. Businesses

Percentage of sales sold to the business sector should be reported here.

Include sales to Crown corporations.

c. Governments, not-for-profit organizations and public institutions (e.g., hospitals, schools)

Percentage of sales to federal, provincial, territorial and municipal governments should be reported here.

Include: sales to hospitals, schools, universities and public utilities.

d. Clients outside Canada

Please report the percentage of total sales to customers or clients located outside Canada including foreign businesses, foreign individuals, foreign institutions and/or governments.

Include sales to foreign subsidiaries and affiliates.

What was this business's breakdown of sales by the following types of client?
Table summary
This table contains no data. It is an example of an empty data table used by respondents to provide data to Statistics Canada.
  Percentage
Clients in Canada - individuals and households  
Clients in Canada - businesses  
Clients in Canada - governments, not-for-profit organizations and public institutions  
Clients outside Canada  
Total percentage  

Distribution of operating revenue by method of sale

1. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what was the breakdown of the operating revenue by method of sale?

a. In-store sales

Please report total operating revenue of goods and services which are purchased in a fixed point-of-sale location accessible to the public.

Include sales at pumps for gasoline stations.

b. E-commerce revenue: sale of goods and services conducted over the Internet with or without online payment.

Include all revenue where the order is received and the commitment to purchase is made via the Internet, although payment can be made by other means, orders made in web pages, extranet, mobile devices or Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

Exclude orders made by telephone calls, facsimile or e-mail.

c. Catalogue and mail-order or telephone

Please report total operating revenue of goods and services generated from customers ordering their goods from catalogues and mail order flyers.

Include sales purchased via telephone and fax.

d. All other methods

Please report total operating revenue of goods and services generated from all other methods.

Include sales at trade shows, special events, in-home sales and card lock.

For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what was the breakdown of the operating revenue by method of sale?
Table summary
This table contains no data. It is an example of an empty data table used by respondents to provide data to Statistics Canada.
  Percentage
a. In-store sales  
b. E-commerce  
c. Catalogue and mail-order or telephone  
d. Other  
Total percentage  

E-Commerce

1. Please indicate the methods of sales used over the Internet:

Select all that apply

Mobile app

Include sales through any app, or application, that is downloaded and designed to run on a handheld device such as a smartphone or tablet (for example, places where a user may download these apps including Apple's App Store, Google Play or Blackberry App World).

Company website

Include sales through a browser-based website where your organization maintains control of the content.

Third-party website

Include sales through a browser-based website where a third-party maintains the structure of the website and control of the look and feel while your company only provides the product to be sold (for example, Amazon, Expedia or Etsy).

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

A standard format for exchanging business data. EDI is based on the use of message standards, ensuring that all participants use a common language.

  • Via a mobile app
  • Via your company website
  • Via a third-party website
  • Via Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
  • Other
    • Specify other methods

2. Does this business have any full-time staff dedicated solely to activities related to e-commerce?

  • Yes
  • No

3. Please identify the reasons why this business did not make sales over the Internet:

Select all that apply

  • Goods and services do not lend themselves to online sales
  • Prefer to maintain current business model
  • Lack of skilled workers to implement and maintain e-commerce infrastructure
  • Cost of development is too high
  • Security concerns
  • Other
    • Specify other reasons

Details on this business's locations

The following questions ask for details on this business's location that was operational during the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD. For this location, please verify and update the address and provide the requested details.

1. Please verify the location address and correct where needed.

  • Store ID or outlet number:
  • Operating name:
  • Address (number and street):
  • City:
  • Province, territory:
    • Alberta
    • British Columbia
    • Manitoba
    • New Brunswick
    • Newfoundland and Labrador
    • Nova Scotia
    • Northwest Territories
    • Nunavut
    • Ontario
    • Prince Edward Island
    • Quebec
    • Saskatchewan
    • Yukon Territory
  • Postal code:
  • Total operating revenue:

2. Was this business location operational for the full year?

  • Yes, full-year operation
  • No, part-year operation OR non-operational

3. Statistics Canada reviews all feedback. We invite your comments pertaining to this business location.

Comments

4. What were this location's part year start and end dates?

  • Part Year Operation Start Date:
  • Part Year Operation End Date:

5. What was the reason(s) for part-year operation?

Select all that apply.

  • Seasonal operation
  • Ceased operations
  • New store
  • Temporarily closed
  • Change of fiscal year
  • Moved
  • Change of ownership
  • Other
    • Specify other reasons

Details on this business's locations

6. Were there any other business locations not listed that were operating during the reporting period?

  • Yes
  • No

How many locations?

Details on this business's additional location # reported

7. Please verify the location address and correct where needed.

  • Store ID or outlet number:
  • Operating name:
  • Address (number and street):
  • City:
  • Province, territory:
    • Alberta
    • British Columbia
    • Manitoba
    • New Brunswick
    • Newfoundland and Labrador
    • Nova Scotia
    • Northwest Territories
    • Nunavut
    • Ontario
    • Prince Edward Island
    • Quebec
    • Saskatchewan
    • Yukon Territory
  • Postal code:
  • Total operating revenue:

8. Was this business location operational for the full year?

  • Yes, full-year operation
  • No, part-year operation OR non-operational

9. Statistics Canada reviews all feedback. We invite your comments pertaining to this business location.

Comments

10. What were this location's part year start and end dates?

  • Part Year Operation Start Date:
  • Part Year Operation End Date:

11. What was the reason(s) for part-year operation?

Select all that apply.

  • Seasonal operation
  • Ceased operations
  • New store
  • Temporarily closed
  • Change of fiscal year
  • Moved
  • Change of ownership
  • Other
    • Specify other reasons

Notification of intent to web scrape

1. Does this business have a website?

Changes or events

1. Indicate any changes or events that affected the reported values for this business or organization, compared with the last reporting period.

Select all that apply.

  • Strike or lock-out
  • Exchange rate impact
  • Price changes in goods or services sold
  • Contracting out
  • Organizational change
  • Price changes in labour or raw materials
  • Natural disaster
  • Recession
  • Change in product line
  • Sold business or business units
  • Expansion
  • New or lost contract
  • Plant closures
  • Acquisition of business or business units
  • Other
    • Specify the other changes or events:
  • No changes or events

Contact person

1. Statistics Canada may need to contact the person who completed this questionnaire for further information.

Is the provided given names and the provided family name the best person to contact?

  • Yes
  • No

Who is the best person to contact about this questionnaire?

  • First name:
  • Last name:
  • Title:
  • Email address:
  • Telephone number (including area code):
  • Extension number (if applicable):
  • The maximum number of characters is 5.
  • Fax number (including area code):

Feedback

1. How long did it take to complete this questionnaire?

Include the time spent gathering the necessary information.

  • Hours:
  • Minutes:

2. Do you have any comments about this questionnaire?

Why do we conduct this survey?

This survey is conducted by Statistics Canada in order to collect the necessary information to support the Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP). This program combines various survey and administrative data to develop comprehensive measures of the Canadian economy.

The statistical information from the IBSP serves many purposes, including:

  • calculating each province and territory's fair share of federal-provincial transfer payments for health, education and social programs
  • establishing government programs to assist businesses
  • assisting the business community in negotiating contracts and collective agreements
  • supporting the government in making informed decisions about fiscal, monetary and foreign exchange policies
  • indexing social benefit programs and determining tax brackets
  • enabling academics and economists to analyze the economic performance of Canadian industries and to better understand rapidly evolving business environments.

Your information may also be used by Statistics Canada for other statistical and research purposes.

Your participation in this survey is required under the authority of the Statistics Act.

Other important information

Authorization to collect this information

Data are collected under the authority of the Statistics Act, Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, Chapter S-19.

Confidentiality

By law, Statistics Canada is prohibited from releasing any information it collects that could identify any person, business, or organization, unless consent has been given by the respondent, or as permitted by the Statistics Act. Statistics Canada will use the information from this survey for statistical purposes only.

Record linkages

To enhance the data from this survey and to reduce the reporting burden, Statistics Canada may combine the acquired data with information from other surveys or from administrative sources.

Data-sharing agreements

To reduce respondent burden, Statistics Canada has entered into data-sharing agreements with provincial and territorial statistical agencies and other government organizations, which have agreed to keep the data confidential and use them only for statistical purposes. Statistics Canada will only share data from this survey with those organizations that have demonstrated a requirement to use the data.

Section 11 of the Statistics Act provides for the sharing of information with provincial and territorial statistical agencies that meet certain conditions. These agencies must have the legislative authority to collect the same information, on a mandatory basis, and the legislation must provide substantially the same provisions for confidentiality and penalties for disclosure of confidential information as the Statistics Act. Because these agencies have the legal authority to compel businesses to provide the same information, consent is not requested and businesses may not object to the sharing of the data.

For this survey, there are Section 11 agreements with the provincial and territorial statistical agencies of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Québec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and the Yukon. The shared data will be limited to information pertaining to business establishments located within the jurisdiction of the respective province or territory.

Section 12 of the Statistics Act provides for the sharing of information with federal, provincial or territorial government organizations. Under Section 12, you may refuse to share your information with any of these organizations by writing a letter of objection to the Chief Statistician, specifying the organizations with which you do not want Statistics Canada to share your data and mailing it to the following address:

Chief Statistician of Canada
Statistics Canada
Attention of Director, Enterprise Statistics Division
150 Tunney's Pasture Driveway
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0T6

You may also contact us by email at statcan.esdhelpdesk-dsebureaudedepannage.statcan@statcan.gc.ca or by fax at 613-951-6583.

For this survey, there are Section 12 agreements with the statistical agencies of Prince Edward Island, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

For agreements with provincial and territorial government organizations, the shared data will be limited to information pertaining to business establishments located within the jurisdiction of the respective province or territory.

Business or organization and contact information

1. Verify or provide the business or organization's legal and operating name and correct where needed.

Note: Legal name modifications should only be done to correct a spelling error or typo.

Legal Name

The legal name is one recognized by law, thus it is the name liable for pursuit or for debts incurred by the business or organization. In the case of a corporation, it is the legal name as fixed by its charter or the statute by which the corporation was created.

Modifications to the legal name should only be done to correct a spelling error or typo.

To indicate a legal name of another legal entity you should instead indicate it in question 3 by selecting 'Not currently operational' and then choosing the applicable reason and providing the legal name of this other entity along with any other requested information.

Operating Name

The operating name is a name the business or organization is commonly known as if different from its legal name. The operating name is synonymous with trade name.

  • Legal name
  • Operating name (if applicable)

2. Verify or provide the contact information of the designated business or organization contact person for this questionnaire and correct where needed.

Note: The designated contact person is the person who should receive this questionnaire. The designated contact person may not always be the one who actually completes the questionnaire.

  • First name
  • Last name
  • Title
  • Preferred language of communication
    • English
    • French
  • Mailing address (number and street)
  • City
  • Province, territory or state
  • Postal code or ZIP code
  • Country
    • Canada
    • United States
  • Email address
  • Telephone number (including area code)
  • Extension number (if applicable)
    The maximum number of characters is 10.
  • Fax number (including area code)

3. Verify or provide the current operational status of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name above.

  • Operational
  • Not currently operational
    Why is this business or organization not currently operational?
    • Seasonal operations
      • When did this business or organization close for the season?
        • Date
      • When does this business or organization expect to resume operations?
        • Date
    • Ceased operations
      • When did this business or organization cease operations?
        • Date
      • Why did this business or organization cease operations?
        • Bankruptcy
        • Liquidation
        • Dissolution
        • Other - Specify the other reasons for ceased operations
    • Sold operations
      • When was this business or organization sold?
        • Date
      • What is the legal name of the buyer?
    • Amalgamated with other businesses or organizations
      • When did this business or organization amalgamate?
        • Date
      • What is the legal name of the resulting or continuing business or organization?
      • What are the legal names of the other amalgamated businesses or organizations?
    • Temporarily inactive but will re-open
      • When did this business or organization become temporarily inactive?
        • Date
      • When does this business or organization expect to resume operations?
        • Date
      • Why is this business or organization temporarily inactive?
      • No longer operating due to other reasons
      • When did this business or organization cease operations?
        • Date
      • Why did this business or organization cease operations?

4. Verify or provide the current main activity of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name above.

Note: The described activity was assigned using the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

This question verifies the business or organization's current main activity as classified by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is an industry classification system developed by the statistical agencies of Canada, Mexico and the United States. Created against the background of the North American Free Trade Agreement, it is designed to provide common definitions of the industrial structure of the three countries and a common statistical framework to facilitate the analysis of the three economies. NAICS is based on supply-side or production-oriented principles, to ensure that industrial data, classified to NAICS, are suitable for the analysis of production-related issues such as industrial performance.

The target entity for which NAICS is designed are businesses and other organizations engaged in the production of goods and services. They include farms, incorporated and unincorporated businesses and government business enterprises. They also include government institutions and agencies engaged in the production of marketed and non-marketed services, as well as organizations such as professional associations and unions and charitable or non-profit organizations and the employees of households.

The associated NAICS should reflect those activities conducted by the business or organizational units targeted by this questionnaire only, as identified in the 'Answering this questionnaire' section and which can be identified by the specified legal and operating name. The main activity is the activity which most defines the targeted business or organization's main purpose or reason for existence. For a business or organization that is for-profit, it is normally the activity that generates the majority of the revenue for the entity.

The NAICS classification contains a limited number of activity classifications; the associated classification might be applicable for this business or organization even if it is not exactly how you would describe this business or organization's main activity.

Please note that any modifications to the main activity through your response to this question might not necessarily be reflected prior to the transmitting of subsequent questionnaires and as a result they may not contain this updated information.

The following is the detailed description including any applicable examples or exclusions for the classification currently associated with this business or organization.

Description and examples

  • This is the current main activity
    Provide a brief but precise description of this business or organization's main activity
    • e.g., breakfast cereal manufacturing, shoe store, software development
  • This is not the current main activity

Main activity

5. You indicated that is not the current main activity.
Was this business or organization's main activity ever classified as: ?

  • Yes
    When did the main activity change?
    • Date
  • No

6. Search and select the industry classification code that best corresponds to this business or organization's main activity.

Select this business or organization's activity sector (optional)

  • Farming or logging operation
  • Construction company or general contractor
  • Manufacturer
  • Wholesaler
  • Retailer
  • Provider of passenger or freight transportation
  • Provider of investment, savings or insurance products
  • Real estate agency, real estate brokerage or leasing company
  • Provider of professional, scientific or technical services
  • Provider of health care or social services
  • Restaurant, bar, hotel, motel or other lodging establishment
  • Other sector

7. You have indicated that the current main activity of this business or organization is:

Main activity

Are there any other activities that contribute significantly (at least 10%) to this business or organization's revenue?

  • Yes, there are other activities
    Provide a brief but precise description of this business or organization's secondary activity
    • e.g., breakfast cereal manufacturing, shoe store, software development
  • No, that is the only significant activity

8. Approximately what percentage of this business or organization's revenue is generated by each of the following activities?

When precise figures are not available, provide your best estimates.

Approximately what percentage of this business or organization's revenue is generated by each of the following activities?
  Percentage of revenue
Main activity  
Secondary activity  
All other activities  
Total percentage  

Reporting period information

1. What are the start and end dates of this business's or organization's most recently completed fiscal year?

For this survey, the end date should fall between April 1, 2019 and March 31, 2020.

Here are twelve common fiscal periods that fall within the targeted dates:

  • May 1, 2018 to April 30, 2019
  • June 1, 2018 to May 31, 2019
  • July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019
  • August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2019
  • September 1, 2018 to August 31, 2019
  • October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019
  • November 1, 2018 to October 31, 2019
  • December 1, 2018 to November 30, 2019
  • January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019
  • February 1, 2019 to January 31, 2020
  • March 1, 2019 to February 28, 2020
  • April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020.

Here are other examples of fiscal periods that fall within the required dates:

  • September 18, 2018 to September 15, 2019 (e.g., floating year-end)
  • June 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019 (e.g., a newly opened business).
  • Fiscal year start date
  • Fiscal year-end date

2. What is the reason the reporting period does not cover a full year?

Select all that apply.

  • Seasonal operations
  • New business
  • Change of ownership
  • Temporarily inactive
  • Change of fiscal year
  • Ceased operations
  • Other
    Specify reason the reporting period does not cover a full year

Additional reporting instructions

1. Throughout this questionnaire, please report financial information in thousands of Canadian dollars.

For example, an amount of $763,880.25 should be reported as:

CAN$ '000: $ 764,000

I will report in the format above

Revenue

1. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what was this business's revenue from each of the following sources?

Notes:

  • a detailed breakdown may be requested in other sections
  • these questions are asked of many different industries. Some questions may not apply to this business

Report dollar amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Revenue

a. Sales of goods and services (e.g., fees, admissions, services revenue)

Sales of goods and services are defined as amounts derived from the sale of products and services (cash or credit), falling within a business's ordinary activities. Sales should be reported net of trade discount, value added tax and other taxes based on sales.

Include:

  • sales from Canadian locations (domestic and export sales)
  • transfers to other business units or the head office of this firm.

Exclude:

  • transfers into inventory and consignment sales
  • federal, provincial and territorial sales taxes and excise duties and taxes
  • intercompany sales in consolidated financial statements.

b. Rental and leasing

Include rental or leasing of apartments, commercial buildings, land, office space, residential housing, investments in co-tenancies and co-ownerships, hotel or motel rooms, long and short term vehicle leasing, machinery or equipment, storage lockers, etc.

c. Commissions

Include commissions earned on the sale of products or services by businesses such as advertising agencies, brokers, insurance agents, lottery ticket sales, sales representatives, and travel agencies - compensation could also be reported under this item (e.g., compensation for collecting sales tax).

d. Subsidies (including grants, donations and fundraising)

Include:

  • non-repayable grants, contributions and subsidies from all levels of government
  • revenue from private sector (corporate and individual) sponsorships, donations and fundraising.

e. Royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees

A royalty is defined as a payment received by the holder of a copyright, trademark or patent.

Include revenue received from the sale or use of all intellectual property rights of copyrighted materials such as musical, literary, artistic or dramatic works, sound recordings or the broadcasting of communication signals.

f. Dividends

Include:

  • dividend income
  • dividends from Canadian sources
  • dividends from foreign sources
  • patronage dividends.

Exclude equity income from investments in subsidiaries or affiliates.

g. Interest

Include:

  • investment revenue
  • interest from foreign sources
  • interest from Canadian bonds and debentures
  • interest from Canadian mortgage loans
  • interest from other Canadian sources.

Exclude equity income from investments in subsidiaries or affiliates.

h. Other revenue - specify

Include amounts not included in questions a. to g.

Total revenue

The sum of questions a. to h.

The sum of questions a. to h.
  CAN$ '000
a. Sales of goods and services  
b. Rental and leasing  
c. Commissions  
d. Subsidies  
e. Royalties, rights, licensing and franchise fees  
f. Dividends  
g. Interest  
h. All other revenue  
Total revenue  

Expenses

1. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what were this business's expenses for the following items?

Notes:

  • a detailed breakdown may be requested in other sections
  • these questions are asked of many different industries. Some questions may not apply to this business

Please report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

Expenses

a. Cost of goods sold

Many business units distinguish their costs of materials from their other business expenses (selling, general and administrative). This item is included to allow you to easily record your costs/expenses according to your normal accounting practices.

Include:

  • cost of raw materials and/or goods purchased for re-sale - net of discounts earned on purchases
  • freight in and duty.

Exclude all costs associated with salaries, wages, benefits, commissions and subcontracts (report at Employment costs and expenses, and Subcontracts).

b. Employment costs and expenses

b1. Salaries, wages and commissions

Please report all salaries and wages (including taxable allowances and employment commissions as defined on the T4 - Statement of Remuneration Paid) before deductions for this reporting period.

Include:

  • vacation pay
  • bonuses (including profit sharing)
  • employee commissions
  • taxable allowances (e.g., room and board, vehicle allowances, gifts such as airline tickets for holidays)
  • severance pay.

Exclude all payments and expenses associated with casual labour and outside contract workers (report at Subcontracts).

b2. Employee benefits

Include contributions to:

  • health plans
  • insurance plans
  • employment insurance
  • pension plans
  • workers' compensation
  • association dues
  • contributions to any other employee benefits such as child care and supplementary unemployment benefit (SUB) plans
  • contributions to provincial and territorial health and education payroll taxes.

c. Subcontracts

Subcontract expense refers to the purchasing of services from outside of the company rather than providing them in-house.

Include:

  • hired casual labour and outside contract workers
  • custom work and contract work
  • subcontract and outside labour
  • hired labour.

d. Research and development fees

Expenses from activities conducted with the intention of making a discovery that could either lead to the development of new products or procedures, or to the improvement of existing products or procedures.

e. Professional and business fees

Include:

  • legal services
  • accounting and auditing fees
  • consulting fees
  • education and training fees
  • appraisal fees
  • management and administration fees
  • property management fees
  • information technology (IT) consulting and service fees (purchased)
  • architectural fees
  • engineering fees
  • scientific and technical service fees
  • other consulting fees (management, technical and scientific)
  • veterinary fees
  • fees for human health services
  • payroll preparation fees
  • all other professional and business service fees.

Exclude service fees paid to Head Office (report at All other costs and expenses).

f. Utilities

Utility expenses related to operating your business unit such as water, electricity, gas, heating and hydro.

Include:

  • diesel, fuel wood, natural gas, oil and propane
  • sewage.

Exclude:

  • energy expenses covered in your rental and leasing contracts
  • telephone, Internet and other telecommunications (report at question h.)
  • vehicle fuel (report at All other costs and expenses).

g. Office and computer related expenses

Include:

  • office stationery and supplies, paper and other supplies for photocopiers, printers and fax machines
  • postage and courier (used in the day to day office business activity)
  • diskettes and computer and peripherals upgrade expenses
  • data processing.

Exclude telephone, Internet and other telecommunication expenses (report at Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication).

h. Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication

Include:

  • Internet
  • telephone and telecommunications
  • cellular telephone
  • fax machine
  • pager.

i. Business taxes, licenses and permits

Include:

  • property taxes paid directly and property transfer taxes
  • vehicle license fees
  • beverage taxes and business taxes
  • trade license fees
  • membership fees and professional license fees
  • provincial capital tax.

j. Royalties, franchise fees and memberships

Include:

  • amounts paid to holders of patents, copyrights, performing rights and trademarks
  • gross overriding royalty expenses and direct royalty costs
  • resident and non-resident royalty expenses
  • franchise fees.

Exclude Crown royalties

k. Crown charges

Federal or Provincial royalty, tax, lease or rental payments made in relation to the acquisition, development or ownership of Canadian resource properties.

Include:

  • Crown royalties
  • Crown leases and rentals
  • oil sand leases
  • stumpage fees.

l. Rental and leasing

Include:

  • lease rental expenses, real estate rental expenses, condominium fees and equipment rental expenses
  • motor vehicle rental and leasing expenses
  • studio lighting and scaffolding
  • machinery and equipment rental expenses
  • storage expenses
  • road and construction equipment rental
  • fuel and other utility costs covered in your rental and leasing contracts.

m. Repair and maintenance

Include:

  • buildings and structures
  • machinery and equipment
  • security equipment
  • vehicles
  • costs related to materials, parts and external labour associated with these expenses
  • janitorial and cleaning services and garbage removal.

n. Amortization and depreciation

Include:

  • direct cost depreciation of tangible assets and amortization of leasehold improvements
  • amortization of intangible assets (e.g., amortization of goodwill, patents, franchises, copyrights, trademarks, deferred charges, organizational costs).

o. Insurance

Insurance recovery income should be deducted from insurance expenses.

Include:

  • professional and other liability insurance
  • motor vehicle and property insurance
  • executive life insurance
  • bonding, business interruption insurance and fire insurance.

p. Advertising, marketing, promotion, meals and entertainment

Include:

  • newspaper advertising and media expenses
  • catalogues, presentations and displays
  • tickets for theatre, concerts and sporting events for business promotion
  • fundraising expenses
  • meals, entertainment and hospitality purchases for clients.

q. Travel, meetings and conventions

Include:

  • travel expenses
  • meeting and convention expenses, seminars
  • passenger transportation (e.g., airfare, bus, train, etc.)
  • accommodations
  • travel allowance and meals while travelling
  • other travel expenses.

r. Financial services

Include:

  • explicit service charges for financial services
  • credit and debit card commissions and charges
  • collection expenses and transfer fees
  • registrar and transfer agent fees
  • security and exchange commission fees
  • other financial service fees.

Exclude interest expenses (report at Interest expense).

s. Interest expense

Report the cost of servicing your company's debt.

Include:

  • interest
  • bank charges
  • finance charges
  • interest payments on capital leases
  • amortization of bond discounts
  • interest on short-term and long-term debt, mortgages, bonds and debentures.

t. Other non-production-related costs and expenses

Include:

  • charitable donations and political contributions
  • bad debt expense
  • loan losses
  • provisions for loan losses (minus bad debt recoveries)
  • inventory adjustments.

u. All other costs and expenses (including intracompany expenses)

Include:

  • production costs
  • pipeline operations, drilling, site restoration
  • gross overriding royalty
  • other producing property rentals
  • well operating, fuel and equipment
  • other lease rentals
  • other direct costs
  • equipment hire and operation
  • log yard expense, forestry costs, logging road costs
  • freight in and duty
  • overhead expenses allocated to cost of sales
  • other expenses
  • cash over/short (negative expense)
  • reimbursement of parent company expense
  • warranty expense
  • recruiting expenses
  • general and administrative expenses
  • interdivisional expenses
  • interfund transfer (minus expense recoveries)
  • exploration and development (including prospect/geological, well abandonment & dry holes, exploration expenses, development expenses)
  • amounts not included in sub-questions a. to t. above.

Total expenses

The sum of sub-questions a. to u.

The sum of sub-questions a. to u.
  CAN$ '000
a. Cost of goods sold  
a1. Opening inventories  
a2. Purchases  
a3. Closing inventories  
a4. Cost of goods sold  
b. Employment costs and expenses  
b1. Salaries, wages and commissions  
b2. Employee benefits  
c. Subcontracts  
d. Research and development fees  
e. Professional and business fees  
f. Utilities  
g. Office and computer related expenses  
h. Telephone, Internet and other telecommunication  
i. Business taxes, licenses and permits  
j. Royalties, franchise fees and memberships  
k. Crown charges  
l. Rental and leasing  
m. Repair and maintenance  
n. Amortization and depreciation  
o. Insurance  
p. Advertising, marketing, promotion, meals and entertainment  
q. Travel, meetings and conventions  
r. Financial services  
s. Interest expense  
t. Other non-production-related costs and expenses  
u. All other costs and expenses  
Total expenses  

Industry characteristics

1. What were this business's sales for each of the following goods and services?

Please report all amounts in thousands of Canadian dollars.

All revenue reported should exclude sales taxes (GST/HST, PST and QST) and be net of returns, discounts, sales allowances, and charges for outward transportation by common or contract carriers. Do not deduct the value of trade-ins.

Include:

  • excise taxes (such as those on gasoline, liquor, and tobacco) and other taxes that are levied on the manufacturer/importer and included in the cost of products purchased by this business unit
  • sales of all goods purchased for resale; please report gross sales of new and used goods less returns and discounts
  • parts used in generating repair and maintenance revenue (exclude the labour portion of repair and maintenance).

Do not deduct the value of trade-ins.

Exclude:

  • taxes collected directly from customers and paid directly by this operating unit to provincial and federal tax agencies
  • labour portion of repair and maintenance.

Please report shipping and handling charges that are not embedded in the price of the merchandise, and which are therefore not reflected in the amount reported in the previous question a.

 
  CAN$ '000
a. Revenue from sales and goods purchased for resale or manufactured, net of returns, rebates and discounts  
b. Revenue from shipping and handling charges that is not embedded in the price of the merchandise  

Sales by type of client

1. What was this business's breakdown of sales by the following types of client?

Sales by type of client

This section is designed to measure which sector of the economy purchases your services.

Please provide a percentage breakdown of your sales by type of client.

Please ensure that the sum of percentages reported in this section equals 100%.

a. to c. Clients in Canada

a. Individuals and households

Please report the percentage of sales to individuals and households who do not represent the business or government sector.

b. Businesses

Percentage of sales sold to the business sector should be reported here.

Include sales to Crown corporations.

c. Governments, not-for-profit organizations and public institutions (e.g., hospitals, schools)

Percentage of sales to federal, provincial, territorial and municipal governments should be reported here.

Include: sales to hospitals, schools, universities and public utilities.

d. Clients outside Canada

Please report the percentage of total sales to customers or clients located outside Canada including foreign businesses, foreign individuals, foreign institutions and/or governments.

Include sales to foreign subsidiaries and affiliates.

What was this business's breakdown of sales by the following types of client?
  Percentage
a. Clients in Canada — individuals and households  
b. Clients in Canada — businesses  
c. Clients in Canada — governments, not-for-profit organizations and public institutions  
d. Clients outside Canada  
Total percentage  

Sales by consumer location

1. What was the percentage breakdown of this business's sales by consumer location?

Consumer location is the location where the goods or services will ultimately be used.

If ultimate consumer location is not known, the following are acceptable substitutes:

  • shipping destination
  • client's billing address
  • location of this business's retail customers
  • location of this business's warehouses/distribution centres.
What was the percentage breakdown of this business's sales by consumer location?
  Percentage
Newfoundland and Labrador  
Prince Edward Island  
Nova Scotia  
New Brunswick  
Quebec  
Ontario  
Manitoba  
Saskatchewan  
Alberta  
British Columbia  
Yukon  
Northwest Territories  
Nunavut  
United States  
All other countries  
Total percentage  

Sales by consumer location

Distribution of operating revenue by method of sale

1. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what was the breakdown of the operating revenue by method of sale?

a. In-store sales

Please report total operating revenue of goods and services which are purchased in a fixed point-of-sale location accessible to the public.

Include sales at pumps for gasoline stations.

b. E-commerce revenue: sale of goods and services conducted over the Internet with or without online payment.

Include all revenue where the order is received and the commitment to purchase is made via the Internet, although payment can be made by other means, orders made in web pages, extranet, mobile devices or Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

Exclude orders made by telephone calls, facsimile or e-mail.

c. Catalogue and mail-order or telephone

Please report total operating revenue of goods and services generated from customers ordering their goods from catalogues and mail order flyers.

Include sales purchased via telephone and fax.

d. All other methods

Please report total operating revenue of goods and services generated from all other methods.

Include sales at trade shows, special events, in-home sales and card lock.

For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, what was the breakdown of the operating revenue by method of sale?
  Percentage
a. In-store sales  
b. E-commerce  
c. Catalogue and mail-order or telephone  
d. Other  
Total percentage  

E-Commerce

1. Please indicate the methods of sales used over the Internet:

Select all that apply

Mobile app

Include sales through any app, or application, that is downloaded and designed to run on a handheld device such as a smartphone or tablet (for example, places where a user may download these apps including Apple's App Store, Google Play or Blackberry App World).

Company website

Include sales through a browser-based website where your organization maintains control of the content.

Third-party website

Include sales through a browser-based website where a third-party maintains the structure of the website and control of the look and feel while your company only provides the product to be sold (for example, Amazon, Expedia or Etsy).

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

A standard format for exchanging business data. EDI is based on the use of message standards, ensuring that all participants use a common language.

  • Via a mobile app
  • Via your company website
  • Via a third-party website
  • Via Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
  • Other
    Specify other methods

2. Does this business have any full-time staff dedicated solely to activities related to e-commerce?

  • Yes
  • No

3. Please identify the reasons why this business did not make sales over the Internet:

Select all that apply

  • Goods and services do not lend themselves to online sales
  • Prefer to maintain current business model
  • Lack of skilled workers to implement and maintain e-commerce infrastructure
  • Cost of development is too high
  • Security concerns
  • Other
    Specify other reasons

Sales of commodities

2. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, please select the commodity categories and sub-categories sold by this business unit within or outside Canada from the list below.

Select all that apply.

Food and beverages

  • Fresh meat and poultry
    Include beef, pork, fowl and game, poultry, turkey, cooked meats, cured and smoked meats (prepackaged meats such as bacon, sausages, wieners, bologna, cooked ham, etc.).
    Exclude frozen or canned meats, ''deli'' meat products.
  • Fresh fish and other fresh seafood
    Include fresh, smoked and cured fish and other seafood.
    Exclude frozen or canned fish and other seafood, ''deli'' fish and other seafood.
  • Fresh fruit and vegetables
    Include fresh fruits and vegetables.
    Exclude frozen, canned or dried fruits and vegetables.
  • Eggs and dairy products (exclude frozen desserts)
    Include fresh milk (include chocolate milk and soya milk), fresh eggs in shell, butter, fresh or processed cheese, fresh cream and fresh yogurt.
    Exclude ice cream, frozen yogurt, powdered, canned, condensed or evaporated dairy products.
  • Baked goods (exclude frozen products, cookies and crackers)
    Include in-house fresh bakery goods or baked foods, commercial fresh bakery goods or baked foods and products of fresh bakery products.
    Exclude frozen bakery products.
  • Perishable prepared foods (include fresh sliced deli meats, prepared entrées and fresh pasta)
    Include deli luncheon meats, deli poultry, deli food (except cheese), deli fish, deli seafood, deli party platters, prepared pizza, prepared foods for take-out, prepared pizza for take-out, deli salads, perishable prepared foods (except cheese), deli foods and salad bars and prepared foods for take-out (except cheese).
    Exclude cheese, meals and lunches.
  • Frozen food
    Include frozen meats, frozen game food, frozen cooked, cured and smoked meats, frozen poultry, frozen fish, frozen smoked and cured fish, frozen smoked and cured seafood, frozen smoked and cured shellfish, frozen fruits, frozen vegetables, ice cream, frozen yogurt, sherberts, popsicles, frozen juice concentrates, frozen bakery products, frozen TV dinners and frozen entrées.
  • Cookies, confectionery and snack foods
    Include candy, chewing gum, fruit pastilles, chips, chocolate preparations (except baking chocolate), cocoa paste, unsweetened cocoa powder, confectionary, confectionary nuts, granola bars, package sugar confectionary goods, sugar confectionary specialties, sesame bars, snack foods, popped popcorn, mixed nuts, prepackaged cookies, prepackaged biscuits or crackers, prepackaged cakes, prepackaged doughnuts, prepackaged buns and prepackaged muffins.
    Exclude candy and chocolate baking items, un-popped popcorn, products primarily sold as breakfast cereals.
  • Packaged food dry goods, not elsewhere classified
    Include canned or dried foods (except pet foods), baking supplies, baking chocolate, baking flour, baking powder, baking chopped nuts, breakfast cereals, dry coffee, powdered, canned, evaporated or condensed dairy products, dietetic foods, drink crystals, flour, food mixes, cake, biscuit and pancake mixes (except prepackaged), cooking oils, un-popped popcorn, rice, salad dressings, salt, herbs and spices, sugar, syrups and dry tea leaves.
    Exclude meals and lunches, pet food.
  • Soft drinks (exclude bottled water)
    Include canned soft drinks and bottled soft drinks (except bottled water).
  • Non-alcoholic beverages (exclude soft drinks, milk, hot beverages and frozen drinks)
    Include non-alcoholic beer (except root beer pops), non-alcoholic wine or cider, fruit drinks (except soft drinks and frozen concentrates), juices (except soft drinks and frozen concentrates), non-alcoholic cocktails or punch, vegetable juices (except frozen concentrates), water, sparkling beverages (except water and sodas) and ice tea.
    Exclude milk and cream, frozen juice concentrates, drink crystals.
  • Prepared hot beverages (include coffee)
    Include hot coffee, hot tea and hot chocolate.
    Exclude packaged coffee, tea, hot chocolate and other packaged hot beverage products.
  • Alcoholic beverages (exclude served on premises)
    Include beer (except non-alcoholic), wine (except non-alcoholic), spirits, liquor, liqueur and coolers.
    Exclude alcoholic beverages served on premises.
  • Alcoholic beverages for immediate consumption
    Include sales of alcoholic beverages served on premise.
  • Ice Include ice cubes and ice blocks.
  • Prepared meals
    Include lunches and meals services, sales of pizza served on premises, sales in restaurant, sales in sandwich bars, sales in diners, sales in delicatessens and sales of ice cream served on premise.

Clothing, footwear and accessories

  • Men's outerwear coats and jackets
    Include winter coats, fur coats, jackets (except sport jackets), rainwear, ski clothing, snowmobile clothing and windbreakers.
    Exclude suits, sport jackets and blazers.
  • Men's suits, sport jackets and blazers
    Include sport jackets and blazers and made-to-measure and ready-to wear suits.
    Exclude occupational uniforms.
  • Men's pants, shirts, sweaters and other bottoms and tops
    Include pants (dress and casual), shorts, dress or casual shirts (except evening dress shirts), vests (except as occupational uniforms), school uniforms, gym uniforms, indoor jackets and sweaters.
  • Men's sleepwear, underwear and hosiery
    Include socks, underwear, pyjamas, bathrobes and nightwear.
  • Men's hats, gloves, belts and other accessories
    Include caps or hats, belts, gloves (except for work), mitts, scarves, suspenders, ties, umbrellas and wallets.
    Exclude wigs, toupees.
  • Men's clothing, not elsewhere classified
    Include bathing suits, exercise and fitness clothing, work gloves, occupational clothing or uniforms, work jackets or vests, priest clothing, running and jogging wear and safety clothing.
  • Women's outerwear coats and jackets
    Include winter coats, jackets, parkas, rainwear, ski jackets or suits, snowmobile suits, snowsuits, windbreakers and anoraks.
    Exclude suit jackets and blazers.
  • Women's dresses and suits
    Include one-piece and two-piece dresses, evening gowns, evening dress shirts, suits (except ski suits, snowmobile suits, snowsuits and maternity suits) and maternity dresses.
    Exclude wedding gowns and occupational uniforms.
  • Women's skirts, pants, blouses, sweaters and other bottoms and tops
    Include skirts, blouses, pants (dress and casual), jeans, blazers, jackets (except for outdoors), shorts, maternity tops or bottoms, casual shirts (except evening dress shirts), sweat tops and bottoms, sweaters, T-shirts and other tops, school uniforms and gym uniforms.
  • Women's lingerie, sleepwear and underwear
    Include pyjamas, dressing gowns, bathrobes, foundation garments, lingerie, nightgowns, bras, nightshirts, slips and underwear.
    Exclude hosiery.
  • Women's hosiery
    Include pantyhose, stockings, nylons, socks, tights, leggings and leotards.
  • Women's handbags, purses and accessories
    Include hats or caps (sport and fashion), gloves (except for work), mitts, scarves, purses, wallets, backpacks, belts, hair accessories, headbands, handbags and umbrellas.
    Exclude wigs.
  • Women's clothing, not elsewhere classified
    Include bathing and swim suits, exercise and fitness clothing, wedding gowns, occupational clothing or uniforms, priest clothing, running and jogging wear, safety clothing and track suits.
  • Boys' clothing and accessories
    Include boys' clothing (sizes 2 to 20) and accessories.
    Exclude very specialized sports clothing, used clothing.
  • Girls' clothing and accessories
    Include girls' clothing (sizes 2 to 16) and accessories.
    Exclude very specialized sports clothing, used clothing.
  • Infant clothing, fabric and accessories
    Include baby clothing and accessories (infant sizes 0 to 24 months), baby bottles, nursery bedding, crib mobiles, diaper bags, baby blankets, baby linens, baby plastic pants, baby bibs, cloth diapers, breast pumps, nursery wall hangings, nursing pads, baby rattles, baby teething rings and baby soothers.
    Exclude very specialized sports clothing, used clothing, disposable / paper diapers, children's books.
  • Unisex clothing, costumes and vestments
    Include unisex clothing, unisex kilts (except as sport equipment), Halloween costumes, Christmas costumes, carnival costumes and dance costumes.
  • Men's athletic footwear
    Include aerobic shoes, athletic footwear or shoes (except ski boots, skates and cleats), running shoes, basketball shoes, tennis shoes (except table tennis) and cross-trainers footwear.
  • Men's footwear and accessories (exclude athletic)
    Include men's or boys' (except children) non-athletic footwear or shoes, fashion footwear or shoes, winter boots, rain boots, slippers, orthopedic shoes and men's work boots.
    Exclude sport specific cleated footwear, golf shoes, bowling shoes, broomball shoes, curling shoes, ski boots, skates.
  • Women's athletic footwear
    Include court shoes, athletic footwear or shoes (except ski boots, skates and cleats), cross-trainers footwear, running shoes, walking shoes and hiking boots.
  • Women's footwear and accessories (exclude athletic)
    Include women's or girls' (except children) non-athletic footwear or shoes, winter boots, rain boots, orthopedic shoes and shoe accessories or clip-on.
    Exclude sport specific cleated footwear, golf shoes, bowling shoes, broomball shoes, curling shoes, ski boots, skates.
  • Infant footwear
    Include infant or babies' (except children) footwear, all types of infant non-athletic footwear or shoes and infant orthopedic shoes.
  • Children's athletic footwear
    Include athletic footwear or shoes (except ski boots, skates and cleats) and all types of athletic footwear (except table tennis).
  • Children's footwear, not elsewhere classified
    Include non-athletic footwear or shoes, winter boots, rain boots, fashion footwear or shoes, orthopedic, safety footwear, sandals, shoe accessories or clip-on and slippers.
  • Fine jewellery (include precious metal, diamonds, gemstones, and pearls)
    Include fine jewellery.
    Exclude watches.
  • Costume jewellery (include base metal, glass, plastic, and synthetic stones)
    Include costume jewellery (except watches), all types of jewellery (except watches) and trinkets.
  • Watches
    Include pocket watches, wrist watches and pendant watches.
    Exclude antique watches.
  • Luggage, briefcases, knapsacks, and duffel bags
    Include attaché cases, backpacks, knapsacks, leather or leather-like briefcases, luggage, leather and leather-like school bags, sport bags, suitcases and leather and leather-like travel accessories.
    Exclude purses, wallets, billfolds, camera and instrument cases and fashion knapsacks.

Home furniture, furnishings, housewares, appliances and electronics

  • Mattresses and foundations
    Include bed frames, spring, foam and water mattresses (except crib and air mattresses), box springs and bedding foundations (except sofa beds and futons).
    Exclude headboards, crib mattresses, air mattresses.
  • Infant furniture
    Include new infant furniture, junior or toddler beds, infant changing tables, baby highchairs, baby crib and mattress sets, new nursery furniture or equipment and new nursery furniture parts.
    Exclude car seats (see Health, personal and household products).
  • Indoor home furniture, not elsewhere classified
    Include new bed headboards or footboards and parts, new indoor home furniture (except nursery) and parts, new indoor home office furniture and parts, new home futons and parts, new home office and office furniture and equipment and parts, all other new indoor furniture parts, home security safes and new home sofa beds and parts.
    Exclude nursery furniture, lamps, mattresses and foundations, counters and cupboards.
  • Outdoor home furniture
    Include patio furniture cushions, patio and garden furniture and cottage outdoor furniture.
  • Window treatments
    Include indoor window treatments (except furniture coverings), blinds or shades, curtains (except shower), drapes, valances and indoor window shutters.
  • Household textile products, not elsewhere classified
    Include furniture covers or throws, furniture coverings, bedding (except nursery), cushions and cushion covers, afghans, bathroom accessories, dishcloths or dish towels, cloth napkins, oven mitts, aprons, pot holders, doilies, non disposable table linens, tea towels and placemats or tablecloths.
    Exclude disposable paper tablecloths and napkins.
  • Decorative home furnishings (exclude textile products)
    Include household seasonal decorations or ornaments, candles, clocks (except with radio), figurines, fireplace screens and accessories, artificial and dried flowers or plants, picture or photograph frames, incense, jewellery boxes, music boxes, thermometers, barometers, room dividers, giftware, gift baskets and trophies.
    Exclude outdoor specialty lighting (security, landscape, patio, etc.), real Christmas trees, Christmas gift wrap, woodstoves and clock radios.
  • Tableware, kitchenware, cookware and bakeware
    Include bakeware, speciality bakeware, kitchenware, barbecue tools, cheese tools, egg tools, garlic or herbs tools, ice cream tools, kitchen utensils sets, speciality kitchenware, tableware, cookware, cookware sets, lunch boxes or bags, picnic baskets or accessories.
    Exclude household barbecue starter fuel (see Miscellaneous household supplies, not elsewhere classified), household disposable plastic tableware (see Miscellaneous household supplies, not elsewhere classified).
  • Household cleaning supplies
    Include air fresheners, toilet fresheners, fabric dyes, floor polish or wax, laundry detergent, furniture polish or wax, shoe polish, scouring powders or creams, baking soda, upholstery or rug spot removers.
    Exclude personal care products (toilet paper, facial tissues, shampoos, beauty soaps, etc.) and automotive waxes and cleaners.
  • Miscellaneous household supplies, not elsewhere classified
    Include barbecue starter fuel, glues or adhesives, garment bags, garbage or trash cans, recycling bins, clothes or laundry hampers, clothes or laundry drying racks, ironing boards, laces, matches, stools, outlet covers, cabinet locks, steps, multi-platform use non-rechargeable batteries, multi-platform use rechargeable batteries, light bulbs, fire extinguishers, smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors, toilet paper, household paper bags, household paper napkins, household paper towels, was paper, foil food wraps, gift-wrap paper.
    Exclude automotive batteries (see Section 5 Motor vehicle parts and accessories (except tires), new and used), computer batteries (see Section 3 Computers, peripherals, and networking equipment), household disposable paper or plastic tableware (utensils) (see Section 3 Tableware, kitchenware, cookware and bakeware), personal care supplies (see Section 7 Personal care supplies and equipment, not elsewhere classified), phone batteries (see Section 3 Telephones and related products), power tool batteries (see Section 8 Power tools), specialized batteries for cameras (see Section 3 Still cameras and other photographic equipment and supplies).
  • Small home appliances
    Include electric knives, central vacuum cleaners, coffee makers or grinders, waste compactors, dehumidifiers, electric fans, floor polishers, food processors, deep fryers, food steamers, garbage disposals, portable space heaters, portable humidifiers, electric kettles, electric food mixers or processors, electric personal care appliances, heating pads, rug cleaning equipment, sewing machines, toasters, new small electrical home appliances and parts or accessories and water purifiers.
    Exclude room air conditioners and microwave ovens.
  • Major home appliances
    Include room air conditioners, major appliances, microwave ovens, convection ovens, ranges, kitchen range hoods or fans, dishwashers and washing machines and clothes dryers.
  • Computers, peripherals and networking equipment
    Include blank audio disc, computer batteries, CD computer drives, blank computer CDs, DVD computer drives, blank computer DVDs, computer hard drives, computer integrated circuits, personal digital assistants (PDAs), printers (except toners), computer scanners, new computers and pre-loaded software, anti-glare screens, monitor stands, external numeric keypads, computer mice or mouse, computer mouse pads, CD, DVD and diskette storage boxes, cases or racks and new computers components or parts and accessories (except toners and cartridges).
  • Computer software (exclude games)
    Include computer software (except games), computer multimedia items (except electronic games), books packaged and sold together with software (except electronic games), cassettes packaged and sold together with software (except electronic games) and disks packaged and sold together with software (except electronic games).
  • Telephones and related products
    Include fax machines, phone answering machines, pagers (except messaging services), telephones (except phone services), new telephone or cellphone parts, telephone batteries and cellphone batteries.
  • Televisions and home audiovisual equipment
    Include non-automotive amplifiers, audio and video equipment or supplies (except mixers), clock radios, non-automotive mini disc players (except mixers), non-automotive DVD players (except mixers), films for movie and video cameras, ghetto blasters, boom boxes or sound boards, head cleaners for audio and video tape players, headphones, microphones (except for computer), movie cameras and accessories, MP3 players (except mixers), iPod, non-automotive audio receivers and tuners, reel-to-reel tape players (except mixers), satellite dishes, non-automotive sound systems (except mixers), non-automotive stereos (except mixers), non-automotive tape recorders and players or decks (except mixers), blank audio and video tapes, televisions, television audio and new video parts, videocassette recorders or VCRs and blank video tapes or videocassettes.
  • Still cameras and other photographic equipment and supplies (exclude video cameras)
    Include photo albums, still and digital cameras and accessories, photographic enlarging equipment, film for still cameras, still and digital cameras new parts, photographic equipment and supplies, slide projectors and accessories, photographic slides, camera lenses, photographic tripods, flash attachments, projector screens, still or digital camera cases and specialized batteries for digital video camera (except AA and AAA batteries).
    Exclude video cameras and related equipment and supplies, picture frames and binoculars.
  • Rental services of movies and games on DVDs , tapes and cassettes
    Include rental services of movies and games on DVDs , tapes and cassettes, subscription rental of movies and games.
  • Rental and operating leasing services of computer equipment
    Include rental and operating leases of desktop computers, rental and operating leases of laptop computers, rental and operating leases of office plasma (liquid crystal display (LCD) or light emitting diode (LED)) walls and screens, rental and operating leases of office wall projectors, rental and operating leases of printers, rental and operating leases of scanners, licensing of software as part of computer equipment rental agreements, rental and operating leases of computers and related peripheral equipment, rental and operating leases of related peripheral equipment, rental of office wall projectors, licensing of software as part of computer equipment rental agreements.
    Exclude financial leases for computers and related peripheral equipment.

Sporting and leisure products

  • Bicycles and biking equipment and accessories
    Include bicycles (except children's tricycles), specialized bike clothing, biking equipment and accessories, bicycle helmets, bicycle locks and new bicycle parts (except children's tricycles).
  • Exercise equipment
    Include exercise equipment (except clothing and videos), fitness equipment (except clothing and videos), exercise or fitness treadmills, exercise or fitness ellipticals, exercise or fitness, weighted vests, fully-assembled workout stations and home gyms.
  • Golf equipment
    Include golf equipment (except clothing), golf fairway woods, motorized golf pull carts, non-motorized golf pull carts, golf bags, golf towels, golf accessories (except clothing), golf club head covers and golfing kilts.
    Exclude motorized golf carts.
  • Skiing and snowboarding equipment
    Include ski equipment, ski boots, aerodynamic racing ski suits, insulators for ski, boots or gloves, snowboarding equipment, snowboards, snowboard accessories, snowboard cleaning brushes and snowboard carriers.
    Exclude ski jackets and apparel and water ski equipment.
  • Hunting, fishing and camping equipment
    Include camping air mattresses (except water air mattresses), hunting ammunition, target shooting ammunition, bait, camouflage and hunting clothing, camping equipment and supplies, firearm collections, fishing equipment and accessories, hunting equipment and accessories, lanterns, fishing lures or scents, hunting lures or scents, sleeping bags, camping stoves, fishing tackle boxes, tents and bows or arrows.
    Exclude tent trailers.
  • Team sporting equipment
    Include balls (except golf and exercise balls), baseball, football and soccer cleats or shoes, baseball, soft ball, football, basketball, soccer, volleyball, ringette, rugby and hockey uniforms (except as street wear) and equipment.
    Exclude baseball caps and other sports clothing for street wear.
  • Sporting equipment, not elsewhere classified
    Include water air mattresses, badminton equipment, bowling equipment or accessories, boxing equipment or accessories, broomball equipment or accessories, curling equipment or accessories, curling sliders or grippers (except discs), fencing sport equipment, harness goods, halters or leads, in-line skates, figure skates, billiard (include pool equipment and accessories and snooker equipment and accessories), racquet sports equipment, tennis equipment or accessories (except footwear and clothing), rock climbing equipment or accessories, snowshoes, squash equipment or supplies (except footwear and clothing), sailboards, scuba gear, snorkels, skateboards, roller skates, surfboards, trampolines and fireworks.
    Exclude used sporting goods.
  • Electronic game consoles (except game software)
    Include video game consoles, electronic game consoles.
    Exclude downloadable game software (see Game software), game software on physical media (see Game software on physical media).
  • Game software on physical media
    Include 3D game software, on physical media, action game software, on physical media, electronic games for game consoles, on physical media, electronic tablet games, on physical media, game applications for tablets, on physical media, game software for computer, on physical media, game software on physical media, ordered online and delivered to the client, role-paying game software, on physical media, simulation game software, on physical media, sports video game, on physical media, strategy and tactics game software, on physical media, trivia quiz game software, on physical media, video game software, on physical media, printed books, packaged and sold together with game software on physical media.
    Exclude game consoles (see Section 4 Electronic game consoles), used or second-hand sales of physical media containing video games or game software (see Section 9 Antiques, and used or second-hand merchandise.
  • Game software, downloadable
    Include downloadable 3D game software, downloadable action game software, downloadable role-paying game software, downloadable simulation game software, downloadable sports video game, downloadable strategy and tactics game software, downloadable trivia quiz game software, electronic games for game consoles, downloadable electronic tablet games, downloadable game applications for smart phones, downloadable game applications for tablets, downloadable game software for computer.
    Exclude game consoles (see Electronic game consoles), game software on physical media, bought online (see Game software on physical media), games on demand streamed over the Internet to fixed and mobile devices.
  • Toys and games (exclude game consoles and game software)
    Include ball toys, non-electronic games, microscope toy models, telescope toy models, puzzle games, toy and hobby racing sets, sleds, sleighs, toboggans, soccer table games, soccer table balls, video games, wagon toys, air tennis table games, board games, specialized replacement toy batteries (except AA, AAA, D, C, 9V, Common Button Cells), playground structures and playground equipment.
    Exclude computer software games, three-wheeled bikes for adults, used toys and games.
  • Artists' equipment and supplies
    Include brushes, charcoal supplies, paint supplies, paintbrushes supplies, canvases supplies and easel supplies.
  • Musical instruments and print music
  • Include new musical instruments, accessories and supplies, musical whistles, drums, turntables, samplers, musical synthesizers and organs.
    Exclude amplifiers, sound boards, mixers, speakers and microphones.
  • Sewing and knitting supplies
    Include yarns or threads, knitting yarns, sewing threads, ribbons, fabrics, measuring tapes, notions, buttons, crochet hooks and dressmakers or sewing patterns.
    Exclude sewing machines.
  • Craft and hobby kits and leisure supplies, not elsewhere classified
    Include air hockey game equipment, hobby supplies, table hockey games, make-up, hobby model kits, craft supplies, bows craft supplies, glue guns and other glues craft supplies, handicraft kits and stained glass making supplies.
    Exclude household and industrial glues and adhesives.
  • Printed books
    Include printed atlases, printed bibles, printed books ordered online and delivered to the client, printed hardcover children's books, printed hardcover non-fiction books, printed new soft cover books, printed paperback literary fiction books, printed reference books, printed talking books, printed technical books, printed textbooks, printed trade hardcover books, electronic books stored on a physical media.
    Exclude coloring books (see Craft and hobby kits, and leisure supplies), printed books packaged and sold together with game software on physical media (see Game software on physical media), printed books packaged and sold together with software (except game software) (see Computer software (except game)), printed comic books (see Newspapers, magazines and other periodicals, printed).
  • E-books
    Include children's e-books, e-Atlases, e-Bibles, e-Textbooks, literary fiction e-books, professional e-books, scholarly e-books, technical e-books, trade e-books, comic e-books.
    Exclude books stored and sold in CDs and DVDs, but not sold as downloads (see Printed books).
  • Newspapers, magazines and other periodicals, printed
    Include printed community newspapers, printed daily newspapers, printed ethnic newspapers, printed magazines, printed newspapers ordered online and delivered to the client, printed periodicals, printed comic books.
  • Newspapers, magazines and other periodicals, online
    Include online community newspapers, online daily newspapers, online ethnic newspapers, online magazines, online periodicals.
    Exclude newspapers, magazines and other printed periodicals bought online (see Newspapers, magazines and other periodicals, printed).
  • Other publications not elsewhere classified, printed
    Include anniversary cards, printed, art prints, greeting cards printed, love cards printed, posters, printed maps, wedding cards printed.
    Exclude printed postcards, invitations, calendars, diaries and planners (see Home office supplies not elsewhere classified).
  • Other publications not elsewhere classified, online
    Include digital maps, online anniversary cards, online birthday cards, online Christmas cards, online greeting cards, online love cards, online wedding cards.
  • Audio recordings, on physical media
    Include audio recordings on physical media ordered online and delivered to the client, digital recorded natural sounds, on physical media, digital recordings on physical media, musical songs on physical media, new pre-recorded audio CDs, new pre-recorded audio discs, new vinyl records, ocean or sea sound recordings, on physical media, spoken voices or words recordings on physical media, wildlife sound recordings, on physical media.
    Exclude used or second-hand sales of physical media containing audio recordings (see Section 9 Antiques, and used or second-hand merchandise).
  • Audio recordings, downloadable
    Include digital recorded natural sound downloads, downloadable music albums, downloadable musical songs, downloadable ocean or sea sound recordings, downloadable spoken voices or words recordings, downloadable wildlife sound recordings, MP3 music downloads.
    Exclude audio on demand streamed over the Internet on fixed and mobile devices; audio recordings on physical media bought online (see Audio recordings, on physical media).
  • Movies, on physical media
    Include action or adventure movies on physical media, documentary movies on physical media, drama movies on physical media, movies on physical media ordered online and delivered to the client, new pre-recorded movie DVDs , new pre-recorded movie laser discs, romance movies on physical media, science fiction movies on physical media.
    Exclude used or second-hand sales of physical media containing movie recordings (see Section 9 Antiques, and used or second-hand merchandise).
  • Movies, downloadable
    Include action or adventure movies downloads, documentary movies downloads, drama movies downloads, romance movies downloads, science fiction movies downloads.
    Exclude movies on demand streamed over the Internet to fixed and mobile devices, movies on physical media bought online (see Movies, on physical media).
  • Television programs and other video recordings, on physical media
    Include reality television program recordings, on physical media, television drama and comedy program recordings, on physical media, television formal education and pre-school program recordings, on physical media, television long-form documentary program recordings, on physical media, television music and dance program recordings, on physical media, television music video clips program recordings, on physical media, television programs and other video recordings, on physical media, ordered online and delivered to the client, television sports program recordings, on physical media, television talk or panel show program recordings, on physical media.
    Exclude used or second-hand sales of physical media containing television programs and other video recordings (see Section 9 Antiques, and used or second-hand merchandise).
  • Television programs and other video recordings, downloadable
    Include reality television program recordings downloads, television drama and comedy program recordings downloads, television formal education and pre-school program recordings downloads, television long-form documentary program recordings downloads, television music and dance program recordings downloads, television music video clips program recordings downloads, television talk or panel show program recordings downloads.
    Exclude television programs and other video recordings, on physical media, bought online (see Television programs and other video recordings, on physical media); television programs and other videos on demand streamed over the Internet to fixed and mobile devices.

Motor vehicles, recreational vehicles, motor vehicles parts and accessories

  • New passenger automobiles
    Include new automobiles (except jeeps, vans, light trucks, SUVs, pickup trucks, medium and heavy trucks).
    Exclude parts and accessories.
  • New minivans, sport utility vehicles and light trucks
    Include new jeeps, minivans, pickup trucks, sport utility vehicles, light trucks and vans (except converted vans).
    Exclude parts and accessories.
  • New medium and heavy trucks
    Include new buses and class 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 trucks.
    Exclude parts and accessories.
  • Used passenger automobiles
    Include antique cars and used cars.
    Exclude parts and accessories.
  • Used minivans, sport utility vehicles and light trucks
    Include used and antique light truck, used and antique vans (except converted vans), used and antique jeeps, used minivans, used pickup trucks, used sport utility vehicles, used street legal army light trucks and used street legal army jeeps.
    Exclude parts and accessories
  • Used medium and heavy trucks
    Include used buses and used class 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 trucks.
    Exclude parts and accessories.
  • New motorcycles and scooters
    Include motorcycle clothing, motorcycles (except all-terrain vehicles), motorcycle parts and accessories, scooters, scooter parts and accessories, motorized scooters, motorized scooter parts and accessories, motorcycle trailers, non-automotive motorcycles parts and accessories, non-automotive scooter parts and accessories and non-automotive moped parts and accessories.
  • New motor homes, travel trailers and truck campers
    Include truck camper appliances, motor home appliances, travel trailer appliances, truck mounted campers, recreational converted vans, motor homes, motor home parts and accessories, non-automotive motor home parts, non-automotive travel trailer parts, non-automotive truck camper parts, non-automotive converted van parts, tent trailers, tent trailer parts and accessories, travel trailers, travel trailer parts and accessories, truck camper parts and accessories, truck campers and folding camping trailers.
  • New snowmobiles and other personal off-road vehicles
    Include all-terrain vehicles, all-terrain vehicle parts and accessories, non-automotive all-terrain vehicle parts and accessories, snowmobiles, snowmobile parts and accessories, personal watercraft trailers, snowmobile trailers and non-automotive snowmobile parts and accessories.
  • New recreational boats and other recreational vehicles, not elsewhere classified
    Include yacht appliances, cruise appliances, boat parts and accessories, houseboats, boats, boating radar equipment, fishing boats and motors, speeding boats and motors, cabin cruisers, yachts, sails, non-automotive boat parts and accessories, canoes, kayaks and utility trailers, new motorized golf carts.
  • Used motorcycles and scooters
    Include used scooters, motorcycles (except all-terrain vehicles) and mopeds, scooters, motorcycles and mopeds used parts and accessories, non-automotive motorbike and mopeds used parts and accessories.
  • Used motor homes, travel trailers and truck campers
    Include used motor homes, tent trailers, travel trailers, truck campers and converted recreational vans, used motor home, travel trailers, truck camper and converted van parts and accessories, used camper and travel trailer appliances, used non-automotive motor home, travel trailers, truck camper and converted van parts.
  • Used snowmobiles and other personal off-road vehicles
    Include used snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles, snowmobile and all-terrain vehicles used parts and accessories, non-automotive snowmobile and all-terrain vehicles used parts and accessories, used snowmobile trailers.
  • Used recreational boats and other used recreational vehicles, not elsewhere classified
    Include used personal aircraft, parts and accessories, used boats, parts and accessories, used canoes, houseboats, motorized golf carts, yachts, kayaks, boat oars, fishing boats and motors, speeding boats and motors, cabin cruisers, boat paddles, canoe paddles, kayak paddles, sails and used non-automotive boat parts and accessories.
  • New motor vehicle tires
    Include new, used and retreaded tires for buses, medium trucks or class 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 trucks, cars, minivans or vans, farm equipment, recreational vehicles, utility trailers and heavy trucks
  • Motor vehicle parts and accessories, new and used (exclude tires)
    Include automotive air conditioners, automotive new and used parts and accessories (except tires, tubes and baby car seats), trailer hitches, hubcaps, new and used bus parts (except tires and tubes), new and used medium truck parts (except tires and tubes), new and used class 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 truck parts (except tires and tubes), new and used heavy truck parts (except tires and tubes), used car parts (except tires, tubes and baby car seats), new pickup truck parts (except tires and tubes), used pickup truck parts (except tires and tubes), new and used van or minivan parts (except tires, tubes and baby car seats), new and used jeep and other sport utility vehicle parts (except tires, tubes and baby car seats), automotive new or used parts for farm equipment (except tires and tubes), automotive new or used parts for recreational vehicles (except tires and tubes), car radios and remote car starters.
  • Automotive chemicals
    Include antifreeze, automotive oils, carburetor cleaners, fuel injector cleaners, automotive engine oils, gas line cleaners, automotive lubricating greases, windshield washer fluids.
    Exclude automotive fuels.
  • Motor vehicle maintenance and repair services
    Include maintenance and repair services for automobiles and light trucks, motor homes, travel trailers and campers, heavy trucks and buses.
  • Rental and operating leasing services of motor homes, travel trailers and campers
    Include rental and operating leasing services without operator of motor homes, campers, tent trailers and road recreational vehicles containing sleeping space.
    Exclude financial leases for campers, motor homes, travel trailers.
  • Rental and operating leasing services of automobiles and light trucks, without operator
    Include rental and non-financial leasing services of automobiles and light trucks and vans, without operator.
    Exclude rental of passenger automobiles and light trucks or vans with operator or driver.
  • Rental and operating leasing services of heavy trucks, truck trailers and buses, without operator
    Include rental and operating leasing services of heavy trucks, truck trailers and buses, without operator.
    Exclude financial leases of heavy truck, truck trailers and buses, rental or operating leasing of buses or coaches with driver, rental of heavy truck and truck trailers, with operator, for general freight transportation, rental of heavy truck and truck trailers, with operator, for specialized freight transportation.

Automotive and household fuels

  • Automotive fuels
    Include diesel fuel, ethanol fuel blends, gasoline, automotive natural gas and automotive propane fuel.
  • Household fuels
    Include coal fuel, electrical supply, electric power supply, firewood, home heating fuels, natural gas for home appliance and heating, propane for household use, wood pellets fuel, heating oils, kerosene and wood for stoves and fireplaces.

Health, personal and household products

  • Prescription pharmaceuticals
    Include drugs purchased with a prescription.
    Exclude over-the-counter drugs and drugs purchased without a prescription.
  • Non-prescription pharmaceuticals
    Include over-the-counter drugs (except vitamin, mineral, and other health supplements), non-prescription drugs (except vitamin, mineral, and other health supplements) and non-prescription sleeping aids.
    Exclude drugs purchased with a prescription and other toiletries/personal care products.
  • Vitamins, minerals, and other health supplements
    Include herbal health supplement remedies, mineral health supplements, nutritional power bars, vitamins or multivitamins and body enhancing supplements.
  • Prescription eyewear
    Include prescription glasses (eyeglasses) or spectacles, contact lenses (with prescription) and prescription sunglasses.
    Exclude eyewear bought without a prescription (including sunglasses), frames bought separately, eyeglass cases and other accessories and contact lens solutions and cleaners.
  • Non-prescription eyewear
    Include non-prescription sunglasses, non-prescription glasses or eyeglasses, eyewear accessories, eyeglass cases, eyeglass frames bought separately and non-prescription contact lenses.
    Exclude prescription eyewear, including prescription sunglasses and contact lenses and contact lens solutions and cleaners.
    Include home health care equipment and supplies, parts and accessories of home health care equipment and supplies, sick room equipment and supplies, artificial limbs, bedpans, braces, walking canes, crutches, first-aid kits, hearing aids, orthotic devices, health care thermometers, walkers health care equipment, walkers medical equipment and wheelchairs.
    Exclude eyewear, orthopedic shoes, exercise and fitness equipment and drugs/medications.
  • Disposable diapers
    Include disposable baby diapers and disposable adult diapers.
  • Infant and children's car seats
    Include infant or children's car seats.
  • Strollers and infant care products, not elsewhere classified
    Include baby carriers, baby strollers, baby carriages, baby monitors and baby walkers.
  • Cosmetics and fragrances
    Include cosmetics and fragrances (except personal care goods), concealer makeup, face powder makeup, rouge (blush or blusher) makeup, contour powder or cream makeup, highlight (cream, liquid or powder) makeup, bronzer makeup, mascara, nail colour polishes, makeup removers, face creams and lotions, hand lotions or cream and facial masks or peels.
  • Toiletries
    Include personal toiletries, hair shampoos and conditioners, aftershave (cream, liquid or gel), shaving creams or gels, toothpastes, skin lotions, personal liquid soap, personal soaps, bath and shower gels, bath and shower oils, bath and shower salts, personal deodorants, personal anti-perspirants, body or skin toners, mouthwashes, denture cleaners, non-electric toothbrushes, non-electric razors, non-electric depilatories, razor blades, hand mirrors, pumice stones, rubbing alcohol, haircare preparations, foot care sprays, foot care powders and astringents.
  • Feminine hygiene products
    Include sanitary napkins, sanitary towels, pantyliners and menstrual cups.
  • Personal care supplies and equipment, not elsewhere classified
    Include wigs, toupees, hair pieces, baby care products, bandages, personal hair bleaches, condoms, contact lens solutions and cleaners, non-prescription contraceptives, cosmetic bags, cotton balls and batting, emery boards, nail files or clippers, health and beauty aids, hot water bottles, nail polishers and removers, artificial finger nails, non-electric personal care products (except toiletries), pregnancy test kits, prophylactics, optical saline solutions, sunscreens and petroleum jelly.
    Exclude electric personal care appliances (shavers, razors, toothbrushes, hair dryers, curling irons, heating pads, etc.), drugs, cosmetics and fragrances, eyewear, hair accessories and home health care equipment and supplies (crutches, canes, wheelchairs, etc.).

Hardware, tools, renovation and lawn and garden products

  • Hardware
    Include builders' hardware, home hardware, farm hardware, cabinet hardware, furniture hardware, kitchen hardware. (Include locksets, key blanks, fasteners, nuts, bolts, nails, screws, washers, hinges, knobs and pulls, etc.).
  • Hand tools
    Include files and rasps, non-powered glue guns and glue, hammers, hatchets, non-automotive jacks, ladders, measuring tapes, propane torch kits, non-power mechanics' tools, non-powered hand tools (except garden tools), non-powered staple guns, snow shovels (except electric), hand tool belts and toolboxes for non-powered hand tools.
    Exclude garden tools, hoes, rakes, garden shovels, spades.
  • Power tools
    Include power saws (except chain saws), rechargeable batteries for power tools, power tool batteries, power tools belts, power carpenters' tools, power mechanics' tools, electric snow shovels, electric snow scoops, soldering irons, toolboxes for power tools, power tools (except garden tools) and electric picks.
    Exclude chainsaws.
  • Major household air conditioning, heating and water heating equipment
    Include central air conditioners, household air exchangers, household air cleaners, baseboard heaters, furnace belts, household air or heating ducts, air or heating vents, water heating equipment and cooling equipment and supplies.
  • Plumbing and electrical supplies (include fixtures)
    Include bathtubs, cables (electrical), home circuit breakers, electrical equipment and supplies, exhaust fans, faucets, fireplace inserts, home heating furnaces, fuse boxes, heating equipment and supplies, humidifiers attached to furnace, indoor Jacuzzis, light plugs, home plumbing pipes or valves, stove pipes, electrical plates or covers, plumbing equipment and supplies, home power generators, shower heads, sinks, solar panel heating kits, home electrical switches, home electrical plugs, household thermostat, household toilets, indoor whirlpools and woodstoves.
  • Paint, painting supplies and wallpaper
    Include household paint brushes or rollers, paint strippers or thinners, household paint, wood stains, varnishes and household wallpaper.
    Exclude craft and artists' paints and thinners, automotive paints and glass.
  • Flooring, floor coverings and floor and wall tiles
    Include carpets or rugs, household floor mats (except bath and for fitness equipment), floor tiles, ceramic, porcelain, clay or cork tile countertops, fireplace tiles, hardwood or parquet flooring and linoleum flooring.
    Exclude ceiling tiles.
  • Lumber and other renovation materials and supplies
    Include baseboard trim, bathroom cabinets (except medicine), fibreglass insulation batting, structural beams, lumber boards, building or paving bricks, caulking compounds, ceiling tiles, corrugated steel roofing, countertops, doors, drywall, eavestroughing, fencing, door or window frames, garage door, kitchen cabinets, building lumber, medium density fibreboard sheets, moulding, plywood, posts or poles, prefabricated stairs and other structural pieces, shingles, outdoor shutters, siding, non-automotive weatherstripping, windows and pressure-treated wood.
    Exclude hardwood flooring, tiles, marble and granite.
  • Hardware and renovation related products, not elsewhere classified
    Include ceiling fans, household interior or exterior lighting fixtures, decorative mirrors, convex or concave mirrors for security, household alarm systems, asphalt sealing compounds, industrial cleaning compounds, concrete sealing compounds, driveway sealing compounds (oil base or acrylic), duct tape, electrical tape, flagpoles, garage door openers, industrial glues or adhesives, general purpose lubricating greases, house numbers or letters, mailboxes hardware, masking tape, medicine cabinets, lubricating oils (except cooking and automotive), water pressure cleaners, propane torch cylinders, sandpaper, shelving or brackets, vacuum cleaners or shop vacs, non-electrical wire and safety equipment (except safety clothing and footwear for women, men, children and infants).
  • Lawnmowers, snowblowers and gardening tools
    Include chain saws, new garden tractors, lawnmowers, snowblowers, tillers, leaf loaders, trimmers, concrete curbing machines, gardening tools, top soil mixtures lawn dressings, lawn sprinklers, plant and tree pruners, garden shovels, garden spades, garden tools, wheelbarrows, outdoor urns and outdoor planters.
  • Live plants, seeds and other home and garden supplies (exclude agricultural fertilizers and pesticides)
    Include outdoor hot tubs, outdoor spas, outdoor whirlpools, above ground pools, plant bulbs, bushes and shrubs, cut real Christmas trees, lawn and garden flowers, peat moss, lawn and garden plants, nursery stock seedlings, seeds, sod, outdoor soil, nursery stock trees, live plants, picnic tables, barbecues and accessories, composters, lawn ornaments, outdoor specialty lighting, pool chemicals and propane tanks for barbecues.
  • Rental and operating leasing services of commercial and industrial machinery and equipment (exclude office equipment)
    Include rental and operating leasing services of air, rail, and water transportation equipment (without operator) or other commercial or industrial machinery (without operator).
    Exclude rental and leasing services of office equipment.

Miscellaneous retail products

  • Pets
    Include domestic and exotic household pets.
    Exclude pet food, accessories and supplies (see pet foods, supplies and accessories).
  • Pet food, supplies and accessories
    Include pet foods, snacks and treats, wild bird feed, pet toys, leashes, shampoo, clippers, aquariums, cages, beds.
    Exclude pets (see pets), tack and saddlery (see sporting equipment not elsewhere classified).
  • Tobacco products and accessories (exclude e-cigarettes)
    Include tobacco, cigarettes, cigars, pipes, lighters, rolling machines, cigarette holders, snuff, tobacco papers, cigarette lighters, cigarette holders, cigarette filters.
    Exclude household matches (see Section 3 Miscellaneous household supplies not elsewhere classified), e-cigarettes (see Electronic cigarettes, e-liquid refills, vaporizers and other e-liquid delivery systems).
  • Electronic cigarettes, e-liquid refills, vaporizers and other e-liquid delivery systems
    Include atomizers for e-cigarettes, cartomizers for e-cigarettes, cartridges for e-liquids, clearomizers for e-cigarettes, disposable e-cigarettes, e-cigarette drip tips, e-cigarette kits, e-liquids with or without nicotine (refills), e-pipes, rechargeable e-cigarette kits, vape pens, vaporizers for e-cigarettes.
    Exclude battery chargers, sold separately (see Section 3, Miscellaneous household supplies, not elsewhere classified), digital display incorporating light emitting diodes (LED), not assembled or mounted, for small electronic devices, sold separately (see Section 9 Other miscellaneous equipment and supplies, not elsewhere classified), household batteries, sold separately (see Section 3, Miscellaneous household supplies, not elsewhere classified), microchips and other printed and integrated circuits, not assembled or mounted, for electronic devices, (see Section 9, Other miscellaneous equipment and supplies, not elsewhere classified), plastic and glass vial containers, not assembled or mounted in e-cigarettes, (see Section 9, Other miscellaneous equipment and supplies, not elsewhere classified), universal serial bus (USB) connectors, adapters or cables, sold separately (see Section 3, Miscellaneous household supplies, not elsewhere classified).
  • Home office equipment, not elsewhere classified
    Include adding machines, photocopiers, typewriters.
  • Home office supplies, not elsewhere classified
    Include home office computer ink jet cartridges, desk accessories, home office supplies (pens, pencils, markers, scotch tape, etc.), stationery (notepads, notebooks, envelopes, file folders, etc.), party supplies.
    Exclude gift wrapping paper (see Miscellaneous household supplies, not elsewhere classified).
  • Farm equipment
    Include new and used tractors, hay balers, harrows, combines, horse and cattle trailers and other specialized farm equipment (include parts).
  • Farm supplies
    Include animal feed, seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and insecticides, herbicides and livestock.
  • Supplies for beer and wine making
    Include concentrates, malts, beer and wine making chemicals, corks and beer caps, beer and wine making labels and bottles.
    Exclude fees for beer and/or wine making.
  • Cut flowers, indoor potted plants and floral supplies
    Include cut flowers, indoor potted plants, potting soil and floral supplies.
    Exclude fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides, herbicides and outdoor nursery stock and supplies.
  • Monuments and tombstones
    Include coffins, caskets, tombstones and urns.
  • Manufactured mobile homes
    Include new and used mobile homes.
  • Professional and scientific instruments
    Include microscopes, surveyor's equipment, laboratory equipment, telescopes.
  • Equipment and supplies for non-farm activities, not elsewhere classified
    Include audio and video mixers, new personal aircraft and new aircraft parts and accessories.
  • Artwork
    Include sculptures, paintings, original drawings and artwork carvings.
  • Collectors' items
    Include stamps, coins, cards, autographed items, related albums.
  • Antiques, and used or second-hand merchandise (exclude motor vehicles and mobile homes)
    Include used, second-hand or antique goods such as sporting goods, clothing, footwear, furniture, appliances, computers, electronics, books, musical instruments, musical recordings, CD, DVDs and jewellery.
    Exclude used automobiles, used automotive parts and accessories and used mobile homes.
  • Other miscellaneous equipment and supplies not elsewhere classified
    Include crests, digital display incorporating light emitting diodes (LED), for small electronic devices, gift cards, gift certificates, glass vial containers, not assembled or mounted in e-cigarettes, key chains, key rings, key tags, marital aids, microchips and other printed and integrated circuits, for electronic devices, novelties, phone cards, pins, plastic vial containers, not assembled or mounted in e-cigarettes, souvenirs.

Other retail

  • Retail trade commissions
    Include commissions from catalogue sales, commissions from gift cards sales, commissions from gift certificates sales, commissions from leasing of home audiovisual equipment, commissions from leasing of motor homes (except with operator), commissions from rental of computer equipment, commissions from rental of household appliances, commissions from the sales of lottery tickets and other games of chance to gamblers, sales of instant tickets for sports pool games to gamblers, for a fee or commission, sale of instant-win lottery tickets to gamblers for a fee or commission, charity commissions, commissions from repairs and maintenance.
    Exclude lottery tickets issued by the lottery operator, the service of buying and selling merchandise on own account at the final step in the distribution chain.

Miscellaneous services

  • Rental and operating leasing services of office furniture and equipment (exclude computer equipment)
    Include rental and operating leases of cubicle partitions, office chairs, desks, filing cabinets, office safes, cash registers, fax machines, photocopiers, word processors.
    Exclude rental and leasing services of computer and peripheral equipment (see section 3, Rental and operating leasing services of computer equipment), financial leases for office furniture and equipment.
  • Rental and operating leasing services of other goods (exclude movies and games on DVDs, tapes and cassettes)
    Include rental and operating leasing services of audiovisual equipment and appliances, of formal wear, costumes and accessories, of home health care equipment, of equipment for parties and other social events, of recreational goods and equipment, rental and non-financial leasing services of household furniture and furnishings.
    Exclude rental and leasing services of movies and games on DVDs, tapes and cassettes (see section 3, Rental services of movies and games on DVDs, tapes and cassettes).
  • Repair and maintenance services (exclude for buildings and transportation equipment)
    Include maintenance and repair services for commercial and industrial machinery and equipment, electronic and precision equipment and personal and household goods, computer hardware, boats, tent trailers, motorcycles, snowmobiles, sporting equipment.
    Exclude repair and maintenance services for buildings and motor vehicles.

Other goods and services

Sales of commodities

3. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, how many other goods and services were sold by this business?

Number:

Sales of commodities

4. Please describe the other goods and services sold.

  • Other goods and services 1
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  • Other goods and services 9
  • Other goods and services 10

Sales of commodities

5. For the reporting period of YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD, please report sales of all commodities (goods and services) sold by this business unit within or outside Canada.

If precise figures are not available, provide your best estimate.

 
  CAN$ '000
Fresh meat and poultry  
Fresh fish and other seafood  
Fresh fruit and vegetables  
Eggs and dairy products (exclude frozen desserts)  
Baked goods (except frozen products, cookies and crackers)  
Perishable prepared foods (include fresh sliced deli meats, prepared entrées and fresh pasta)  
Frozen food  
Cookies, confectionery, and snack foods  
Packaged food dry goods, not elsewhere classified  
Soft drinks (exclude bottled water)  
Non-alcoholic beverages (exclude soft drinks, milk, hot beverages and frozen drinks)  
Prepared hot beverages (include coffee)  
Alcoholic beverages (exclude served on premises)  
Alcoholic beverages for immediate consumption  
Ice  
Prepared meals  
Men's outerwear coats and jackets  
Men's suits, sport jackets and blazers  
Men's pants, shirts, sweaters and other bottoms and tops  
Men's sleepwear, underwear and hosiery  
Men's hats, gloves, belts, and other accessories  
Men's clothing, not elsewhere classified  
Women's outerwear coats and jackets  
Women's dresses and suits  
Women's skirts, pants, blouses, sweaters and other bottoms and tops  
Women's lingerie, sleepwear and underwear  
Women's hosiery  
Women's handbags, purses and accessories  
Women's clothing, not elsewhere classified  
Boys' clothing and accessories  
Girls' clothing and accessories  
Infant clothing, fabric and accessories  
Unisex clothing, costumes and vestments  
Men's athletic footwear  
Men's footwear and accessories (exclude athletic)  
Women's athletic footwear  
Women's footwear and accessories (exclude athletic)  
Infant footwear  
Children's athletic footwear  
Children's footwear, not elsewhere classified  
Fine jewellery (include precious metal, diamonds, gemstones, and pearls)  
Costume jewellery (include base metal, glass, plastic, and synthetic stones)  
Watches  
Luggage, briefcases, knapsacks, and duffel bags  
Mattresses and foundations  
Infant furniture  
Indoor home furniture, not elsewhere classified  
Outdoor home furniture  
Window treatments  
Household textile products, not elsewhere classified  
Decorative home furnishings (exclude textile products)  
Tableware, kitchenware, cookware and bakeware  
Household cleaning supplies  
Miscellaneous household supplies, not elsewhere classified  
Small home appliances  
Major home appliances  
Computers, peripherals, and networking equipment  
Computer software (exclude games)  
Telephones and related products  
Televisions and home audiovisual equipment  
Still cameras and other photographic equipment and supplies (exclude video cameras)  
Rental services of movies and games on DVD's , tapes and cassettes  
Rental and operating leasing services of computer equipment  
Bicycles and biking equipment and accessories  
Exercise equipment  
Golf equipment  
Skiing and snowboarding equipment  
Hunting, fishing and camping equipment  
Team sporting equipment  
Sporting equipment, not elsewhere classified  
Electronic game consoles (except game software)  
Game software on physical media  
Game software, downloadable  
Toys and games (exclude game consoles and game software)  
Artists' equipment and supplies  
Musical instruments and print music  
Sewing and knitting supplies  
Craft and hobby kits and leisure supplies, not elsewhere classified  
Printed books  
E-books  
Newspapers, magazines and other periodicals, printed  
Newspapers, magazines and other periodicals, online  
Other publications not elsewhere classified, printed  
Other publications not elsewhere classified, online  
Audio recordings, on physical media  
Audio recordings, downloadable  
Movies, on physical media  
Movies, downloadable  
Television programs and other video recordings, on physical media  
Television programs and other video recordings, downloadable  
New passenger automobiles  
New minivans, sport utility vehicles and light trucks  
New medium and heavy trucks  
Used passenger automobiles  
Used minivans, sport utility vehicles and light trucks  
Used medium and heavy trucks  
New motorcycles and scooters  
New motor homes, travel trailers and truck campers  
New snowmobiles and other personal off-road vehicles  
New recreational boats and other recreational vehicles, not elsewhere classified  
Used motorcycles and scooters  
Used motor homes, travel trailers and truck campers  
Used snowmobiles and other personal off-road vehicles  
Used recreational boats and other recreational vehicles, not elsewhere classified  
New motor vehicle tires  
Motor vehicle parts and accessories, new and used (exclude tires)  
Automotive chemicals  
Motor vehicle maintenance and repair services  
Rental and operating leasing services of motor homes, travel trailers and campers  
Rental and operating leasing services of automobiles and light trucks, without operator  
Rental and operating leasing services of heavy trucks, truck trailers and buses, without operator  
Automotive fuels  
Household fuels  
Prescription pharmaceuticals  
Non-prescription pharmaceuticals  
Vitamin, mineral, and other health supplements  
Prescription eyewear  
Non-prescription eyewear  
Home health products, not elsewhere classified  
Disposable diapers  
Infant and children's car seats  
Strollers and infant care products, not elsewhere classified  
Cosmetics and fragrances  
Toiletries  
Feminine hygiene products  
Personal care supplies and equipment, not elsewhere classified  
Hardware  
Hand tools  
Power tools  
Major household air conditioning, heating, and water heating equipment  
Plumbing and electrical supplies (include fixtures)  
Paint, painting supplies and wallpaper  
Flooring, floor coverings and floor and wall tiles  
Lumber and other renovation materials and supplies  
Hardware and renovation related products, not elsewhere classified  
Lawnmowers, snowblowers and gardening tools  
Live plants, seeds and other home and garden supplies (exclude agricultural fertilizers and pesticides)  
Rental and operating leasing services of commercial and industrial machinery and equipment (exclude office equipment)  
Pets  
Pet food, supplies, and accessories  
Tobacco products and accessories (exclude e-cigarettes)  
Electronic cigarettes, e-liquid refills, vaporizers and other e-liquid delivery systems  
Home office equipment, not elsewhere classified  
Home office supplies, not elsewhere classified  
Farm equipment  
Farm supplies  
Supplies for beer and wine making  
Cut flowers, indoor potted plants and floral supplies  
Monuments and tombstones  
Manufactured mobile homes  
Professional and scientific instruments  
Equipment and supplies for non-farm activities, not elsewhere classified  
Artwork  
Collectors' items  
Antiques, and used or second-hand merchandise (exclude motor vehicles and mobile homes)  
Other miscellaneous equipment and supplies not elsewhere classified  
Retail trade commissions  
Rental and operating leasing services of office furniture and equipment (exclude computer equipment)  
Rental and operating leasing services of other goods (exclude movies and games on DVDs, tapes and cassettes)  
Repair and maintenance services (exclude for buildings and transportation equipment)  
Other goods and services 1  
Other goods and services 2  
Other goods and services 3  
Other goods and services 4  
Other goods and services 5  
Other goods and services 6  
Other goods and services 7  
Other goods and services 8  
Other goods and services 9  
Other goods and services 10  
Total sales of goods and services  

Changes or events

1. Indicate any changes or events that affected the reported values for this business or organization, compared with the last reporting period.

Select all that apply.

  • Strike or lock-out
  • Exchange rate impact
  • Price changes in goods or services sold
  • Contracting out
  • Organizational change
  • Price changes in labour or raw materials
  • Natural disaster
  • Recession
  • Change in product line
  • Sold business or business units
  • Expansion
  • New or lost contract
  • Plant closures
  • Acquisition of business or business units
  • Other
    Specify the other changes or events: No changes or events

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