Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP)

Reporting Guide

This guide is designed to assist you as you complete the 2018 Annual Greenhouse, Sod and Nursey Survey. If you need more information, please call the Statistics Canada Help Line at the number below.

Help Line:

1-877-949-9492

TTY 1-855-382-7745

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.

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• Reporting Instructions
• Definitions
• Type of production
• Greenhouse products
• Greenhouse products - Fruits and vegetables
• Greenhouse products - Indoor and outdoor potted plants
• Greenhouse products - Cuttings and tree seedlings
• Greenhouse products - Bedding plants/transplants - Vegetable and/or ornamental
• Greenhouse products - Cut flowers
• Greenhouse products - Flowers and plants
• Christmas trees
• Nursery products - Nursery stocks
• Gross sales of stock grown
• Gross sales for immediate resale
• Sales distribution of nursery stocks (total gross sales)
• Operating expenses
• Sod operations - Area and sales

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Reporting instructions

• Please print in ink.
• Report dollar amounts in Canadian dollars.
• Exclude sales tax.
• Percentages should be rounded to whole numbers.
• When precise figures are not available, please provide your best estimates.
• Consult the reporting guide at www.statcan.gc.ca/guides-e for further information.

Definitions

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.

Current main activity of the business or organization

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 unit(s) targeted by this questionnaire only, 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.

Type of production

Q1. Greenhouse products: Seedlings, potted plants, bedding plants, cuttings and other propagating material, vegetables and fruit grown for sale in a permanent, artificially heated enclosed structure made of plastic, plexiglass, poly-film or glass.

Any plants that you start cultivating in a greenhouse but are finished before sales in a nursery should be considered a nursery product.

Q1. Nursery products: A diverse range of non-edible, living plant material grown 'in field' or in containers outdoors and sold with their root system intact.

Include annual and perennial plants ranging from woody plants to bedding plants (transplants) and outdoor flowers. Plants range from seedlings to full-grown trees.

Exclude field-grown cut flowers from this category.

Q1. Field-grown cut flowers: should be reported in its own category only, not in the 'nursery products' category. Cut flowers produced in, and sold from, a greenhouse should be reported in the 'greenhouse products' category.

Q1. Christmas trees:

Include only the Christmas trees that were cut during the year.

Exclude Christmas trees that were grown in a container with their root systems intact.

Q1. Sod: Grass or turf, which has its roots intact. Sod is grown 'in field' and sold as a single product.

Q5. Greenhouse products

For this survey, we are only interested in flowers, plants, vegetables, fruit and seedlings grown in, and sold from, the greenhouse. Production of vegetables and fruits covered by cold frames or covering tunnels should not be included in the greenhouse section of the survey.

Q5. Cut flowers: Include only cut flowers produced in, and sold from, a greenhouse. Exclude field-grown cut flowers and dried cut flowers.

Q5. Fruit and Vegetables: Include products grown to completion in a greenhouse and sold from the greenhouse. Exclude greenhouse vegetables and/or fruit that are transplanted for field crops. Bedding plants (transplants) grown in a greenhouse that will be planted in your own fields so that they can be sold as fully grown harvested vegetables at a later date should be excluded; they are reported in Statistics Canada's annual Fruit and Vegetable Survey.

Q5. Potted Plants – indoor or outdoor: Any plants grown and sold in a pot from the greenhouse. Exclude Christmas trees sold in pots. Pots take many forms and sizes, such as baskets (wicker), peat pots, moss pots and plastic pots or ceramic pots.

Q5. Cuttings, tree seedlings and other propagating material: Plants (or sections of a plant) capable of developing into a greater number of plants or spreading out and affecting a greater area. Examples include Chrysanthemums, Poinsettias, Begonias, Petunias and shrubs.

Exclude: tree seedlings for reforestation

Q5. Bedding plants, transplants or plugs – ornamental or vegetable: Young plants that are bought and then transplanted into a garden, field, container or basket by the purchaser. These include ornamental bedding plants and vegetable bedding plants. For this survey, the term "ornamental" refers to flowers or plants cultivated for their beauty rather than use.

Q6. Greenhouse products - Fruits and vegetables

Greenhouse vegetables and fruit are edible and ready to eat at the time of sale. They were grown into sellable products in a greenhouse, not in a field; and sold from the greenhouse by the producer. Field vegetable and fruit farmers should report their production in the Fruit and Vegetable Survey.

Exclude tobacco, ginseng, asparagus, mushrooms, ornamental and vegetable bedding plants (young plants that are bought and transplanted into a garden, field, container or basket by the purchaser; also known as transplants).

A number of greenhouses are expanding to the United States. For this survey, report Canadian production only.

If you produced multiple crop of the same greenhouse vegetable or fruit in the same greenhouse space, report the area only once. For example, if 1,000 square feet were used for the first tomato crop planting and then the same space was later used for the second tomato crop planting, you would report 1,000 square feet (not 2,000 square feet).

If you produced two or more different types of vegetables or fruit in the same greenhouse space, you would count that area for each type of crop produced.

For example, if you used 2,000 square feet to grow tomatoes for your first crop planting, and then switched to growing cucumbers in that same space half-way through the summer, you would report a total area of 4,000 square feet (2,000 square feet for growing tomatoes, plus 2,000 square feet for growing cucumbers).

Q8. Sales distribution of greenhouse vegetables and fruit (total gross sales)

The sales of greenhouse vegetables and fruit that the operation produced and sold.

Please report the value of greenhouse fruit and vegetable sales in a percentage (%). The sum of different markets should be equal to 100%.

Wholesaler:

The organisation primarily engaged as the intermediary in the distribution of merchandise. Meaning that a wholesaler is a reseller of manufactured goods in whole (without transformation, and rendering services incidental to the sale of merchandise).

A wholesaler provides the warehousing and trade abilities the manufacturer does not want to provide. It also prefers to sell batches, truckloads, pallets, etc. of goods. Often offers discounts as quantity increases. As a result, many wholesalers are therefore organized to sell merchandise in large quantities to retailers, and business and institutional clients.

In addition, wholesalers may frequently perform one of the following related functions; breaking bulk, providing delivery services to customers, or operating warehouse facilities for storage of goods they sell, or marketing and support services such as packaging and labelling, inventory management, shipping, handling of warranty claims, in-store or co-op promotions and training.

Value of sales to other channels could include sales to co-ops in this category.

Q9. Greenhouse products - Indoor and outdoor potted plants

Any plant grown in a pot from the greenhouse with the intention of selling to the final consumer can be classified as a finished potted plant (including hanging potted plants, such as baskets (wicker), peat pots, moss pots and plastic pots or ceramic pots). Any plant sold in a pot before it has fully matured or is intended to be grown to maturity at another facility can be classified as a prefinished potted plant.

Include all ornamental potted plants (annuals, biennials and perennials) and all potted vegetable, fruit and herb plants that were produced and sold from your greenhouse in Canada.

Plants grown in containers outdoors should be reported in the 'nursery products' category.

Exclude anything produced outside Canada.

Exclude Christmas trees sold in pots; bedding plants or plugs sold in cell packs, flats or trays; and other nursery stock (non-edible, living plant material grown outdoors 'in field' or in containers outdoors and sold with their root system intact).

Q11. Greenhouse products - Cuttings and tree seedlings

Cuttings are sections of a plant stem capable of developing into a whole plant. Examples of species that may be sold as cuttings include murrayas, grevilleas, fuchsias, and gardenias.

Exclude ornamental and vegetable bedding plants, also known as transplants, which are young plants that are bought and then transplanted into a garden, field, container or basket by the purchaser.

Tree seedlings

A tree seedling is a young tree grown from a seed in a nursery for transplanting typically at one or two years of age.

Include tree seedlings produced only inside a greenhouse. Do not report tree seedlings produced in cold frames or covering tunnels. Only ornamental tree seedlings should be reported.

Exclude tree seedlings for reforestation.

Q15. Greenhouse products - Bedding plants/transplants - Vegetable and/or ornamental

Bedding plants, also known as transplants, are young plants that are bought and then transplanted into a garden, field, container or basket by the purchaser. Ornamental bedding plants are cultivated for their flowers and beauty, rather than their use. Vegetable bedding plants are not yet edible at the time of sale from your greenhouse.

Bedding plants may be sold in various containers, including plugs, cell packs, flats or trays. Report the number of individual plants. If this number is unknown, please estimate it by multiplying the number of trays by the average number of plants per tray.

Exclude vegetable and herb plants not sold directly from the greenhouse (for example, plants being transplanted from the greenhouse to the field by the producer).

Q16. Greenhouse products - Cut flowers

Include only cut flowers that were produced in, and sold from, a greenhouse in Canada.

Exclude cut flowers that were initially cultivated in a greenhouse but then grown into sellable products in a field; these should be reported in the 'field-grown cut flowers' section, which is its own category in this survey. Some operators may start seeds in their greenhouse but transplant the flowers in the field in May or June and cut and dry them in August.

Exclude cut flower purchases for immediate resale from other producers.

Q18. Greenhouse products - Flowers and plants

Sales distribution of greenhouse flowers and plants (total gross sales)

The sales of greenhouse flowers and plants that the operation produced and purchased for immediate resales.

Please report the value of greenhouse flowers and plants sales in a percentage (%). The sum of different markets should be equal to 100%.

Wholesaler: the organisation primarily engaged as the intermediary in the distribution of merchandise. Meaning that a wholesaler is a reseller of manufactured goods in whole (without transformation, and rendering services incidental to the sale of merchandise).

A wholesaler provides the warehousing and trade abilities the manufacturer does not want to provide. It also prefers to sell batches, truckloads, pallets, etc. of goods. Often offers discounts as quantity increases. As a result, many wholesalers are therefore organized to sell merchandise in large quantities to retailers, and business and institutional clients.

In addition, wholesalers may frequently perform one of the following related functions; breaking bulk, providing delivery services to customers, or operating warehouse facilities for storage of goods they sell, or marketing and support services such as packaging and labelling, inventory management, shipping, handling of warranty claims, in-store or co-op promotions and training.

Q21. Christmas trees

When reporting the area, include the total area used to grow Christmas trees, regardless of whether the trees were cut or not. Include naturally established or planted areas, regardless of stage of growth that are pruned or managed with the use of fertilizer or pesticides.

When reporting the number of cut trees, exclude any Christmas trees that were grown in a container with their root systems intact.

Conversions

1 arpent = 0.9986 acres

1 acre = 1.0014 arpent

1 acre = 0.41 hectares

1 hectare = 2.47 acres

Q24. Nursery products - Nursery stock

A tree seedling is a young tree grown from a seed in a nursery for transplanting typically at one or two years of age.

Include only tree seedlings produced in a nursery. Only ornamental tree seedlings should be included.

Exclude tree seedlings produced in and sold from a greenhouse. Note: that tree seedlings may be reported as a nursery products if they were conditioned outside for part of the production cycle, after having been cared for inside the greenhouse first.

Exclude tree seedlings for reforestation.

Q25. Gross sales of stock grown

Exclude any nursery stock that was purchased for immediate resale; Christmas trees without the root system intact; any greenhouse production; unsold inventory; and value received for landscaping services.

Field-grown includes all bailed and burlapped, bare root field potted stock.

Container-grown includes all containers sizes of less than one gallon; one gallon; two gallons; and greater than two gallons.

Balled and burlapped is a method of transplanting that minimizes root disturbance. The tree is dug with a ball of soil around it and wrapped in burlap (method generally used for evergreens and deciduous plants in leaf).

Bare root describes plants dug up, with the soil shaken off (method generally used for deciduous plants in a dormant condition).

Field-potted describes stock which is grown in the field and placed into a pot when dug up for sale. Please report stock that was potted up from the field for a maximum of one full growing season; if potted up for greater more than one growing season, report under container.

Container-grown is nursery stock grown in a container for a minimum of one growing season before time of sale.

Q26. Gross sales for immediate resale

Nursery stock for immediate resale is any nursery stock you purchased from other growers to re-sell from your own operation within a short period of time with minimal maintenance e.g., watering. Please enter your total sales of the nursery stock you purchased from other operations.

Examples of stock that may be ready for immediate resale:

Plants, flowers, bulbs, trees, shrubs, etc.

Q28. Sales distribution of nursery stocks (total gross sales)

The sales of nursery stocks that the operation produced and purchased for immediate resales. Please report the value of nursery stocks sales in a percentage (%). The sum of different markets should be equal to 100%.

Q31. Operating expenses

Growing on is a term used by operators when stock is cultivated in the greenhouse or the nursery for the purpose of growing it to greater proportions. The operators will plant a seed or seedling in their greenhouse and care for it, by maintaining it (transplanting, fertilizing, etc.) until it becomes a sellable product.

Exclude any plant materials you may have purchased from other growers for immediate resale from your own operation (please report these purchases in row c).

Q32-36. Sod operations - Area and sales

Conversions

1 arpent = 0.9986 acres

1 acre = 1.0014 arpent

1 acre = 0.41 hectares

1 hectare = 2.47 acres

Sod is grass or turf, which has its roots intact at the time of sale. Sod is grown in field and sold as a single product.

Report all the area of land used for growing and maintaining sod.

Include any sod grown that was not intended for sale within the survey year (the past calendar year).

Report the area of sod intended to be sold within the survey year (the past calendar year).

The area of sod grown for sale may be less than or equal to the total area of sod reported in the previous question.

Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP)

Reporting Guide

This guide is designed to assist you as you complete the 2018 Annual Mushroom Grower's Survey. If you need more information, please call the Statistics Canada Help Line at the number below.

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.

Help Line: 1-877-949-9492 or TTY 1-855-382-7745

Table of contents

Definitions
Species of mushrooms
Total growing area and number of production cycles
Production systems

Definitions

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.

Current main activity of the business or organization

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 unit(s) targeted by this questionnaire only, 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.

Species of mushrooms

Same species of mushrooms are known under different names. For this survey, we sometimes combine several varieties into a single category:

White Agaricus (Agaricus bisporus): white button mushroom, cultivated mushroom, table mushroom.

Brown Agaricus (Agaricus bisporus): brown button mushroom, cremini, crimini, portobello, portabella.

Shiitake (Lentinula edodes): oak mushroom.

Oyster (Pleurotus sp.): oyster, yellow oyster, pink oyster, king oyster, hiratake.

Other species of mushrooms: enoki, lion's mane, pom pom, Stropharia, Volvariella, reishi, etc.

Total growing area and number of production cycles

The total growing area is the standing area used for your mushroom production, e.g., the total area of producing beds.

The number of production cycles is the number of times the substrate in your production facilities is renewed. If you normally use the duration of a cycle: 365 divided by the number of days in a production cycle = number of production cycles.
e.g., 365 / 46 days per cycle = 7.9 production cycles

The total harvested area is the combined area of all harvests for the year.
e.g., 10,000 square feet of total growing area x 3 production cycles = 30,000 square feet of total harvested area

Production systems

Bags: plastic or paper bags of all sizes. The bags can be filled with different types of substrate, such as sawdust, mulch, compost, etc.

Natural wood logs: natural, whole wood logs. If you produce on sawdust or wood mulch in bags, check "bags" and not "natural wood logs".

Forest floor: production of mushrooms on direct soil on the forest floor. If your facilities are in the forest but not on direct soil, please select another more appropriate category. Exclude wild mushroom picking.

Other: any other production system, such as beds, shelves, trays, jars, bottles, etc.

Thank you for your participation.

Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP)

This guide is designed to assist you as you complete the 2019 Monthly Inventory Statement of Butter and Cheese. If you need more information, please call the Statistics Canada Help Line at the number below.

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.

Help Line: 1-800-565-1685

Table of Contents

• Reporting Instructions
• Definitions
• Dairy Products
• Inventory owned by dairy processors

Reporting Instructions

Report inventory values at the opening of business on the first Business day of the month.

Include:

• inventory for all dairy products held in your establishment(s), whether owned by you or by others
• inventory stored in specially rented rooms to which only you have access (except in emergency)
• stocks held on government accounts.

Exclude products held in common or cold public storage (these will be reported by operators of those establishments).

Definitions

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.

Current main activity

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 unit(s) 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.

Dairy Products

• Creamery butter
  • Include:
    • salted and unsalted butter
    • whipped butter
    • light or 'lite' butter
    • cultured butter
    • sweet butter
    • calorie-reduced butter
    • dairy spread
  • Exclude reworked butter and manufacturing cream.
• Total inventory of cheese
  • Cheddar
    • Include all sizes of cheddar cheese: block, stirred curd, curd and cheddar cheese used to make processed cheese.
  • Mozzarella
    • Include:
      • American full fat mozzarella (27% to 28 % B.F.)
      • American low fat mozzarella (17% to 20 % B.F.)
      • Italian full fat mozzarella (22% to 24 % B.F.)
      • Italian low fat mozzarella (15 % B.F.)
      • other mozzarella cheese products.
  • Other factory cheese
    • Include: brick, casata, feta, gouda, marble, swiss, curd cheese, etc.
  • Processed cheese
    • Include: processed cheese, processed cheese food, processed cheese spread made from cheddar cheese or other cheeses.

Inventory owned by dairy processors

Please indicate whether or not any of the dairy products held in inventory were owned by dairy processors.

Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP)

This guide is designed to assist you as you complete the 2019 Monthly Dairy Factory Production and Stocks Survey. If you need more information, please call the Statistics Canada Help Line at the number below.

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.

Help Line: 1-800-565-1685

Table of Contents

• Reporting Instructions
• Definitions
• Butter and butter oil
• Cheddar cheese
• Other varieties of cheeses other than cheddar and mozzarella
• Milk or Cream Sales

Reporting Instructions

• Report production values for the entire month.
• Report stock values at the end of business on the last day of the month.

Include all manufacturer's stocks owned whether they are stored in your storage room, a public warehouse, a cheese grading station or ready for shipment.

Exclude stocks held on Canadian Dairy Commission accounts.

Definitions

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.

Current main activity

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 unit(s) 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.

Butter and butter oil

Butter oil and ghee

Butter oil and ghee are the pure butterfats left after milk solids and water are removed from the butter.

Cheddar cheese

Include:

• 'light' or 'lite' varieties of cheddar cheeses

Other varieties of cheeses other than cheddar and mozzarella

Report varieties of 'light' or 'lite' cheeses with the respective category of cheese, for example: report 'light' feta cheese at question m. Feta.

Exclude:

• cheddar and mozzarella

Milk or Cream Sales

This question covers all fluid milk and cream processed and packaged in your plant and sold in your province.

Exclude:

• bulk cream sent to other processing plants for packaging into fluid creams

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"Custom Requests and Workshops" means a custom-designed product which requires manipulation of existing data and all value added activities related to the product such as access to information agreements and technical support. This also includes various workshops, symposiums, conferences, language trainings, seminars, etc. provided by Statistics Canada.

"Statistical Surveys and Related Services" means a statistical survey which is custom-designed in order to answer specific information needs of one or multiple clients, and the related services. This includes all essential activities to produce a statistical survey such as: the collection of survey data, data processing, compilation, analysis, writing and dissemination. The related services include all services related to statistical survey methods and development such as feasibility studies, questionnaire design, exchange of information with other international organisations, etc.

"Survey Sponsor" means an organization external to Statistics Canada contributing 50% or more of total survey costs for a survey being conducted in the framework of a project.

"Survey Contributor" means an organization external to Statistics Canada contributing less than 50% of total survey costs for a survey being conducted in the framework of a project in order to increase sample sizes in specific domains or add questions to a survey instrument.

"Sponsored Survey" means any survey being conducted in the framework of a project where either a Survey Sponsor or a Survey Contributor, has contributed financially to defraying its cost.

"Information" means any data files, databases, tables, graphs, maps and text for which Statistics Canada is the owner or a licensee of all intellectual property rights and made available to the client in accordance with this Agreement, at cost or no cost, either on the Statistics Canada website or by other means as a result of a contract for goods or services.

2. Interest on Overdue Accounts (non-federal clients)

1. For the purpose of this section
   1. "Average Rate" means the simple arithmetic mean of the Bank Rates in effect at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time each day during the calendar month immediately before the calendar month in which payment is made;
   2. "Bank Rate" means the rate of interest established from time to time by the Bank of Canada as the minimum rate at which the Bank of Canada makes short term advances to members of the Canadian payments Association;
   3. "Date of payment" means the date of the negotiable instrument drawn by the Receiver General for Canada to pay any amount under the Agreement;
   4. "Due date" means, (i) the defined date to be made in accordance with the Agreement or (ii) where no date has been specified in the terms and conditions under the Agreement, the day that is 30 days after the day on which a date of date for payment is issued.
   5. An amount becomes "overdue" when it is unpaid on the first day following the day on which it is due and payable according to the Agreement.
2. The client shall pay to Statistics Canada simple interest at the Average Rate plus 3 percent per year on any amount that is overdue, from the date that amount becomes overdue until the day before the date of payment, inclusive. Statistics Canada is not required to provide notice to the client for interest to be payable.
3. The client shall pay interest in accordance with this section only if the client is responsible for the delay in paying Statistics Canada. The client will not pay interest on overdue advance payments.

3. Pre-payment

1. Individuals: pre-payment is required for all purchases
2. Registered legal entities: Statistics Canada reserves the right to apply a pre-payment requirement to all purchases

4. Methods of payment

The following methods of payment are accepted:

1. Wire transfer and direct deposit (non-federal clients);
2. BPS (Bill Payment Service – through financial institution) (non-federal clients);
3. Credit Card (MasterCard, Visa or American Express) (non-federal clients);
4. Federal Government of Canada Interdepartmental Settlement (federal clients) - Please code the costs for services provided by Statistics Canada related to the collection, dissemination, provision, analysis and access to data in support of policy research and other departmental activities to object code 0362 – Data and database access services, as per the government-wide Chart of Accounts. This also includes the costs of database searches and subscriptions to database services.

5. Currency

All payments shall be made in Canadian dollars. Clients outside Canada pay in Canadian dollars drawn on a Canadian bank or pay in equivalent US dollars, converted at the prevailing daily exchange rate, drawn on a US bank.

6. Credit Verification

All orders that are not prepaid are subject to Statistics Canada's credit verification (non-federal clients).

7. Delivery timeline

Delivery timeline may differ from original agreement and will be confirmed upon receipt of the client's acceptance of this Agreement.

8. Shipping charges

Shipping charges

Shipping Destination	Standard Rate
Canada	$6.00
USA	$6.00
International	$15.00

9. Frequency:

Annual = 1, Quarterly = 4, Monthly = 12.

10. Taxes (non-governmental clients)

Canadian clients add either 5% GST and applicable PST or HST (GST Registration No. R121491807).

11. Use of Information

The client's use of the Information shall be governed by the Statistics Canada Open Licence.

12. Privacy Statement

Statistics Canada will only use the client's information to complete the transaction governed by this Agreement, deliver the client's product(s), provide the service(s) ordered, announce product updates and administer the client's account. From time to time, we may also offer the client other Statistics Canada products and services.

If the client does not wish to be contacted again for promotional purposes, the client shall advise his/her Statistics Canada representative.

13. Rights ceded to the Survey Sponsor and the Survey Contributors

The Survey Sponsors and Survey Contributors have the unlimited right to re-disseminate any Information produced in the development, execution and dissemination of a Sponsored Survey, except as otherwise noted in these Terms and Conditions. Use of Information is governed by the Statistics Canada Open Licence.

14. Rights reserved to Statistics Canada

Statistics Canada reserves the right to disseminate, in any form, results of any Sponsored Surveys it conducts. This reservation extends to analysis based on results of Sponsored Surveys.

Statistics Canada retains its intellectual property rights to all Information produced in the development, execution and dissemination of a Sponsored Survey, survey feasibility study or survey planning report. Statistics Canada may make any use of such Information as it sees fit.

15. Reciprocal recognition

Statistics Canada and the Survey Sponsor and Survey Contributors undertake to recognize, in significant public communications, each other's contribution to any Sponsored Survey.

16. Data confidential under the Statistics Act

Unless otherwise stipulated in a separate Agreement under data-sharing provisions of the Statistics Act, filled questionnaires, unscreened microdata files and all other information identifying or potentially identifying respondents and their individual information remain the property of Statistics Canada and will not be divulged to the Survey Sponsor or Survey Contributors. In general, no information that is confidential under the provisions of the Statistics Act will be divulged.

17. Public use microdata files

As provided in this Agreement or at its discretion, Statistics Canada may produce a screened microdata file for public distribution from any survey undertaken. Defining and applying the criteria and procedures for screening, approving and disseminating microdata files for public release is the exclusive right of Statistics Canada.

18. Record linkages

Linkages between Sponsored Survey records and other data sources at the level of individual personal records may only be conducted in conformity with Statistics Canada's policies and procedures.

19. Employment of Survey Sponsor's staff

At the discretion of Statistics Canada and subject to its regulations and procedures, employees of the Survey Sponsor and other persons designated by the Survey Sponsor may be employed, as "Deemed Employees" by Statistics Canada, to perform elements of the work described in this Agreement as agreed to with the Survey Sponsor. Employees of the Survey Sponsor requiring access to confidential data will undergo a security clearance and take the oath of office pursuant to section 6 of the Statistics Act, subject to the respondents not having objected to share their information.

20. Public dissemination of survey results

Results of Sponsored Surveys remain protected and may not be disseminated to third parties or the public at large, by either Statistics Canada or the Survey Sponsor, until officially released by Statistics Canada in accordance with the Statistics Canada's policies. The official release date will be established jointly with the Survey Sponsor, but must not unreasonably delay release of finalized results. If agreed to by the Statistics Canada's project manager, Survey Sponsors may involve third parties in quality assurance of survey results or in peer review of analytical text. When the Survey Sponsor or a third party has access to the information prior to official release, an Advance Release Submission has to be established between Statistics Canada and the Survey Sponsor or the third party, as per the Policy on Official Release. Persons under contract to the Survey Sponsor are deemed equivalent to the Survey Sponsor and have the same rights and obligations.

Statistics Canada will consult with the Survey Sponsor in the development of communication materials to be used at the time of official release. If requested by the Survey Sponsor, Statistics Canada will identify the Survey Sponsor as a contact in any public communication at the time of release. Any sharing of survey results with external organizations or individuals prior to official release by Statistics Canada will be done in compliance with the agency’s Policy on Official Release.

21. Data-sharing agreement

Under certain conditions, the Statistics Act allows Statistics Canada to share unscreened survey microdata with any department or municipal or other corporation. This will include the Survey Sponsor and Survey Contributor. Data sharing requires the consent of the individual respondents and a separate agreement between Statistics Canada and the Survey Sponsor or Survey Contributor.

22. Retention of records

Statistics Canada will retain information, files and records in keeping with our official policies and directives.

23. Terminations

Either party may terminate this Agreement at any time by giving 60 days written notice to the other party (in this section, "Termination Period"). Unless otherwise agreed, the terminating party shall compensate the other for any work put in place up to receipt of the notice of termination.

On the final day of the Termination Period, Statistics Canada will calculate and present to the client a report of all costs incurred. The client shall reimburse Statistics Canada for all costs incurred inclusive of the Termination Period.

24. Dispute Resolution

If a dispute arises out of, or in connection with this Agreement, the parties agree to meet to pursue resolution through negotiation or other appropriate dispute resolution process before resorting to litigation.

All information exchanged during this meeting or any subsequent dispute resolution process, shall be regarded as "without prejudice" communication for the purpose of settlement negotiations and shall be treated as confidential by the parties and their representatives, unless otherwise required by law. However, evidence that is independently admissible or discoverable shall not be rendered inadmissible or non-discoverable by virtue of its use during the dispute resolution process.

25. Amendments

No amendment to this Agreement or waiver of any of the terms and provisions shall be valid unless effected in writing and confirmed by email in the case of a Purchase Confirmation, and unless effected in writing and signed in the case of a Letter of Agreement, by the parties hereto.

26. Entire Agreement

This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter of the within agreement and supersedes all previous negotiations, communications and other arrangements whether verbal or in writing relating to it unless they are incorporated by reference in this Agreement.

GST: R121491807
Dept.: 054