INTRODUCTION

Data for the IMPLAN Canada Provincial Product come exclusively from Statistics Canada, with data originating from several different data tables and national survey and statistical programs. This article describes the raw data sources and methods used in the production of IMPLAN’s Canada Provincial Product.

Specific details regarding changes in data sources and/or methods can be found in each release’s unique data release notes.

DATA SOURCES AND METHODS

NATIONAL & PROVINCIAL SYMMETRIC INPUT-OUTPUT TABLES

The IMPLAN input-output tables (IOTs) come from Statistics Canada’s symmetric IOTs. Statistics Canada provides distinct symmetric IOTs for each of Canada’s 10 provinces, 3 territories, a region called Canadian Territorial Enclaves Abroad (CE) (which consists of Canada’s embassies and military bases abroad), as well as a national symmetric IOT. The IOTs contain Output and Value Added by Industry, Final Demand for each Industry by each Institution, as well as information about inter-provincial trade.

The IMPLAN national Canada data contains data elements that have been geographically balanced, such that the national Canada values equal the sum of all provinces and territories, including the CE region (which is not reported separately in the application).

EMPLOYMENT DATA

IMPLAN uses two different data tables from Statistics Canada for estimating Employment. The first table, Labour productivity and related measures by business sector industry and by non-commercial activity consistent with the industry accounts, reports total employment by Industry. The Industry classification scheme used for this dataset is the Input-Output Industry Classification (IOIC), which is consistent with the IOTs and reports Industries via 3 broad sectors of the economy: Business Sector (BS), Non-Profit Institution Serving Households Sector (NP), and Government Sector (GS). The dataset, however, does not distinguish between wage and salary employment and proprietors.

To split the by-Industry Employment totals into Wage and Salary Employment and Proprietors, we use data from the Labour statistics consistent with the System of National Accounts (SNA), by job category and industry table, which report paid worker jobs and self-employed jobs by industry. The industry classification scheme used for this dataset is the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), which groups establishments into Industries on the basis of their production process. This NAICS-based employment data table does not distinguish between Industry types. In other words, there are some Industries such as Educational Services, that will be produced across all three Industry types. For example, a public school controlled by a public school board would fall under a Government Sector (GS), while a private non-profit school would fall under a Non-Profit Institution-Serving Sector (NP), and a private technical and trade school would fall under a Business Sector (BS).

By definition, GS and NP Industries do not have Proprietors. Therefore, all Proprietors from the NAICS-based employment dataset are allocated to the corresponding Business Sector Industry. Wage and Salary Employment for that NAICS-based Industry is then re-estimated by subtraction. These first estimates are then controlled to the Total Industry Employment from the IOIC-based table.

There are some instances where the raw IOTs are inconsistent with the employment data tables. This occurs when the IOTs report labor income for a given Industry, but the raw Statistics Canada employment data tables do not report employment in that Industry (or vice versa). In these cases, IMPLAN defers to the IOTs and estimates employment based on labor income values.

The Statistics Canada table Labour statistics consistent with the System of Provincial and Territorial Economic Accounts, by industry, job category and work schedule (full-time or part-time) is used to construct IMPLAN’s Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) per Total Employment conversion spreadsheet.

TAX AND TRANSFERS DATA

Government-related tax and transfers data come from the Statistics Canada table Revenue, expenditure, and budgetary balance- General governments, provincial and territorial economic accounts. These data elements are available by level of government, including Federal general, Provincial and territorial general, Local general, and Indigenous general governments, as well as the Canada Pension Plan and the Quebec Pension Plan, which are the government-sponsored social security schemes in Canada.

Data on other transfers between Households other Institutions come from the Statistics Canada table Household sector, current accounts, provincial and territorial, annual table and Property income of households, provincial and territorial.

OTHER DATA

Population estimates are updated annually, using Statistics Canada’s most recent Annual Demographic Estimates.

Land area and average household size are updated in accordance with Statistics Canada’s Census of Population, which is conducted every five years. Average household size is used in conjunction with current population estimates to calculate household counts.

Commodity margin data come from the National Symmetric IOT as well as data from Statistics Canada’s Annual Retail Survey, Annual Non-Store Retail Survey, and the Annual Wholesale Trade Survey.

Deflator data are based on weighted averages from the core U.S. IMPLAN data bridged to the Canada commodities.

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Written January 8, 2025