Canadian Business Patterns

Question

In Canadian Business Patterns 2005 the Alberta CSD's of Bassano (pop. 1,320); Champion (pop. 355); and Lomond (pop. 171) are listed but the NAICS data lists zero industries in all categories. There may not be many industries in these communities but we know for sure there are a few, such as eateries, gas stations and other service industries. Any explanation why they don't appear? Could it be random rounding downwards - although we have found cells with N's of 1, 4 etc. for other small Alberta CSD's. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer

There could be many factors that would contribute to the businesses not being on the CBP. The population of the CBP has only establishments that report over 30,000 in GST or are federally/provincially incorporated or they have a payroll account registered with CRA. Please also inform the user of the definition of establishments. It could be that these business are locations and do report their financial reporting to an other establishment in a different area, therefore would not be counted. Finally it depends on
the address that we have on base for these business, we define the geo in which they belong to by postal code, could the postal codes of some of these areas cross over into neighbouring towns? If this is the case I believe the PCCF File codes the CSD to the area with the most dwellings. Definitions and Concepts for the CBP would address some of these points. As well to answer the clients question in regards to rounding, we do any rounding on the CBP.