Business register data for partnerships and sole proprietorships

Question

A professor is looking for information on corporations, such as partnerships and sole proprietorships, including revenue, profit, etc. Some of this seems to be collected by the Business Register, but is not reflected in Canadian Business Patterns, which is the main product generated from this register. I am guessing that he will not get this, at least not for free, as I know business data has always been largely outside the DLI, but thought it wouldn't hurt to confirm this?

Answer

After checking with the Business Register Division, the data your client requires would only be available as a fee based custom request. As you indicated, it is not available in Canadian Business Patterns and I do not know of another Statistics Canada source that would provide this data.

For your reference, the Division's reply to your question follows:
"Total revenue and total employment are available as a custom request, and variables such as business type are also available. Note that these are confidential data and do require suppression. We do not have other information such as profit."