*This definition only applies to the Canadian Data Set*
All transactors producing goods and services for sale at a price intended to cover costs of production, namely corporations, government business enterprises, unincorporated businesses, and independent professional practitioners. It also includes owners occupying their own dwelling, treated as businesses renting to themselves, and associations of individuals, treated as businesses with respect to their capital outlays and their intermediation activities. (Source: Statistics Canada Glossary).
In the IMPLAN Canada Provincial Product, Business Sectors account for the majority of Industries and, therefore, do not have a special industry designation in the Industry description. Learn more in Canada Provincial Industry Scheme.