Canadian Business Patterns (CBP) – December 2018

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Canadian Business Patterns (CBP) – December 2018

EFT: /MAD_DLI_IDD_DAM/Root/other_autres/1105_CBP_SIC/2018/cbp2018-december

County Business Patterns

Question

Is there an American equivalent to the Canadian Business Patterns.

Answer

County Business Patterns for the US--see http://www.census.gov/econ/cbp/-- Is a comparable product. You can even get down to zip code levels.

Updated Products - Canadian Business Patterns

We are pleased to inform you that the following product is now available on the DLI FTP and website:

Canadian Business Patterns - December 2010

"The Canadian Business Patterns contains data that reflects counts of business locations (as of December 2008) and business establishments (prior to December 2009) by: 9 employment size ranges, including "indeterminate" (as of December 1997); geography groupings: province/territory, census division, census subdivision (before December 2008), census metropolitan area and census agglomeration; and industry using the North American Industry Classification System (tables at the 2, 3, 4 and 6-digit level) as of December 1998. Before December 2004, these data were also presented using the Standard Industrial Classification (tables at the 1, 2, 3 and 4-digit level). A concordance table showing the relationships between both classification systems is included with the product.

The data published in the Canadian Business Patterns represents the current number of locations or establishments for a specific reference period which is taken from the Business Register Central Frame Data Base. It is not intended for use as a time series because changes that affect the continuity of the data might result from changes in methodology. Some examples are: the change to another version of the Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) or the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), the addition of the new territory of Nunavut and new rules to better identify inactive units."
(http://www.statcan.gc.ca/bsolc/olc-cel/olc-cel?lang=eng&catno=61F0040X)


FTP: /DissFTP/dli/DLI Coll._Other prod/Canadian Business Patterns - cbp/2010
WEB: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/dli-ild/data-donnees/ftp/cbp-sic/cbp-sic2010-eng.htm

Thank you.

Shopping Mall Data

Question

A researcher here at the U of S is looking for the number of shopping centres/malls in each province, preferably at the level of CSD or CMA. I know the Annual Retail Store Survey lets users extract the number of stores by individual category at the provincial level, but I haven't found a product focused on malls. I'm sure that retail/trade associations keep such data, but I thought I'd see if StatsCan does too.

Answer

I consulted the division that manages our retail store surveys and they unfortunately do not have data on the number of shopping malls by province.

I also consulted the division that manages our Business Register and they provided the following information: "Unfortunately, we are unable to provide the number of shopping centres or malls as we only maintain counts of business locations, establishments or enterprises, and we do not keep track of whether a particular retail store or service belongs to a mall. The Business Register is able to provide counts of business locations for NAICS 531120 at either the CSD or CMA level. (...) However, I would like to point out that this NAICS is not exclusive to malls or shopping centres and also includes other commercial and industrial buildings (ex. office buildings, meeting halls, reception hall, etc). Therefore, the counts would also reflect these types of businesses."

For your reference, a description of NAICS 531120, Lessors of Non-Residential Buildings (except Mini-Warehouses), is available at: http://stds.statcan.gc.ca/naics-scian/2007/cs-rc-eng.asp?criteria=531120&keyword=shopping&table=2&code_level=

Canadian Business Patterns (available through the DLI - http://www.statcan.gc.ca/dli-ild/data-donnees/ftp/cbp-sic-eng.htm) contains Business Register data and could provide counts of business locations for NAICS code 531120 (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/concepts/industry-industrie-eng.htm) at the CMA level if your researcher decides that this would be of interest. Similar Business Register data at the CSD level would be available as a custom extraction (approximate cost of $760). I would be happy to refer you to an Account-Executive who can provide an official quote if your researcher wishes to look into this type of product.

I hope that this information is helpful. Should you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to let me know.

Manufacturers and Distributors in Calgary

Question

I am looking for the number of manufacturers and distributors within the city of Calgary who ship cargo, where they ship the cargo, and the dollar value of the cargo they ship... Is this available anywhere please?

Answer

You could approach this from a few different angles using StatCan products and surveys.

Canadian Business Patterns (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/bsolc/olc-cel/olc-cel?catno=61F0040X&lang=eng - available through DLI) provides counts of business locations by NAICS at various levels of geography including CMAs. This product wouldn't give you information on destination of shipments and dollar value of cargo being shipped however, only counts of budiness locations in manufacturing/distribution/shipment industries. The first step would be to locate NAICS codes ((http://www.statcan.gc.ca/concepts/industry-industrie-eng.htm) for the industries that interest your client. If you have any questions while doing this, please let me know and I will consult our contacts in the Business Register Division.

Some of StatCan's transportation surveys cover cargo shipments from a transportation perspective (air, rail, water - see general overview of transportation surveys in http://www.statcan.gc.ca/bsolc/olc-cel/olc-cel?lang=eng&catno=50F0001G). These transportation surveys wouldn't provide data on the number of manufacturers and distributors however. Please let me know if this is of interest and I will recommend specific sources.

Provincial-level data on products shipped by manufacturers would be available as a custom tables from our manufacturing surveys as would counts of business engaged in manufacturing at a sub-provincial level. I would be happy to refer you to an Account-Executive who could work with you on table specifications and provide a cost estimate if these or custom tables from the Business Register are of interest to your client.

Directories of manufacturers and distributors and/or industry associations may be sources of helpful information for your user as well.

I hope that these suggestions are helpful.

Waste Water Treatment Plants and Sludge

Question

A student working for a faculty member in Engineering was in touch with the Statistics Canada information number (1-800-263-1136). He is looking for data on the number of municipal waste water treatment plants in Canada. He is also interested in obtaining data on the amount of primary and secondary sludge produced by the plants, or, if such a level of detail is not available, for the total amount of sludge produced. He was informed by the telephone contact at Statistics Canada that they would charge him for these data, but if he went through the DLI, these data would be available for free.

I’m not sure to what resources I should be referring him – help, please!

Answer

The person who was assisting your student thought that counts of municipal waster water treatment plants might be available through Canadian Business Patterns (CBP) and therefore referred him to the DLI. The division that produces CBP confirmed that the product can provide counts of establishments and locations for a NAICS code that includes municipal waterworks (NAICS 221310 (water supply and irrigation systems) but indicated that this code would however also include private sector companies and that some of the plants may also be in NAICS 912910. They indicated that, overall, CBP may not give an accurate and exhaustive count of municipal waste water treatment plants.

A tabulation of the number of sewage treatment plants in Canada will be provided in the publication "Human Activity and the Environment", to be released in the fall of 2010. The division that produces this publication indicated that "The data source for the inventories of sewage plants was from a number of sources such as provincial administrative files, provincial web sites and reports, municipal/local government web sites and reports and calls to owner/operators."

We unfortunately do not have an active survey to collect sludge production data from municipal waste water treatment plants. The student may therefore wish to look into provincial and other federal sources (Environment Canada, perhaps) as well as relevant industry associations (if these exist) to see if they collect sludge production figures.

I hope that these suggestions are helpful.

Updated Product- Canadian Business Patterns (CBP)

Please note the updated products listed below and the path to access them via the DLI FTP and web sites.

Canadian Business Patterns - December 2009

"The Canadian Business Patterns contains data that reflect counts of business establishments and locations (as of December 2008) by: 9 employment size ranges, including "indeterminate" (as of December 1997); geography groupings: province/territory, census division, census subdivision (before December 2008), census metropolitan area and census agglomeration; and industry using the North American Industry Classification System (tables at the 2, 3, 4 and 6-digit level) as of December 1998. Before December 2004, these data were also presented using the Standard Industrial Classification (tables at the 1, 2, 3 and 4-digit level). A concordance table showing the relationships between both classification systems is included with the product." (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/bsolc/olc-cel/olc-cel?catno=61F0040X?=eng)

FTP: /DissFTP/dli/DLI Collection- **except Census; Geography and Trade**/Canadian Business Patterns - cbp/2009/cbp2009-dec.zip

WEB: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/dli-ild/data-donnees/ftp/cbp-sic/cbp-sic2009-eng.htm

Canadian Business Patterns, 1994-1996

Question

For more recent years, we have CBP data at the CA/CMA, but a researcher wants to go back further where the counts are available only at the provincial level (at least according to what I downloaded from the DLI site).

Might there be the possibility of getting counts at CA/CMA for the years 1994-1996? Total establishment counts are fine – she doesn’t need an industry breakdown.

Answer



I just confirmed with Subject-Matter Division that these data at CA/CMA levels are only available through custom tabs for these previous years. If you decide to go this direction, let me know and I will provide you the contact person for that service.

Canadian Business Patterns Question

Question
A researcher is interested in the following information:
1. Number of retail food outlets in British Columbia, by the smallest area unit possible (e.g. by Census Division, Census Consolidated Subdivision, whatever is available).

2. The above data broken into types of food outlets (e.g. grocery stores, at the same area unit.
The researcher sent her request directly to infostat@statcan.gc.ca and they redirected the researcher to me, with the following accompanying information:

To obtain the information you have requested, it is available from the

Canadian Business Patterns (Catalogue No.: 61F0040XCB).

The Canadian Business Patterns (CBP) contains data that reflect counts of

business establishments for nine (9) employment size ranges, including

"indeterminate", for Canada, the provinces/territories, census divisions,

census subdivisions, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations.

The establishment counts are divided by industry based on the North

American Industry Classification System (NAICS 2, 3, 4 and 6-digit level)

and the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC 1, 2, 3 and 4-digit

level).

A second product called "Canadian business patterns - revenue ranges"

(catalogue no.: 61F0102XCB) expands the basis of CBP. This product

provides a count of businesses based on revenue ranges. Users can thus

analyze businesses on the basis of industry, revenue and geographic area.

Data are provided at the three-digit level of the North American Industry

Classification System, encompassing about 99 industries, or sub-sectors,

and by six revenue ranges.

These products are available for free to Canadian educational institutions

participating in the Data Liberation Initiative. Please note, however,

that the DLI is limited to students, faculty and administration for

academic research and teaching purposes.

Problem #1: I had already downloaded the Canadian Business Patterns (CBP) data from the FTP site but I have never tried to use this product. I have now installed it on my PC, using the install instructions at http://www.statcan.ca/english/Dli/Data/Ftp/cbp/cbp2008.htm but I am getting an error. (The error message tells me to install the CDROM in the appropriate drive. Both the NAICS and CBP folders are on my C drive, in their respective folders, as installed.) I phoned the folks at infostat@statcan.gc.ca and apparently someone will help me troubleshoot this on Monday. Unless, you can help troubleshoot?

Problem #2: I am not sure where to find the second product "Canadian business patterns - revenue ranges" on the DLI FTP site. Is this product part of the DLI Collection?

Answer

As far as the Canadian business patterns - revenue ranges is concerned, this product was last released in 2002 as the Canadian Business Pattern is released frequently. I am not sure of the relevance of using this one while using the last CBP.
I did check with Subject-matter and the latest version released was the 2000 issue released in 2002. That copy is on the FTP site at the following link:

http://www.statcan.ca/english/Dli/Data/Ftp/cbp/cbp2000.htm

As mentioned, it may not be relevant to the latest copy of the CBP that you will be using.

Updated Products - CBP

Canadian Business Patterns - June 2006

The Canadian Business Patterns contains data that reflect counts of business establishments by: 9 employment size ranges, including "indeterminate" (as of December 1997); geography groupings: province/territory, census division, census subdivision, census metropolitan area and census agglomeration; and Standard Industrial Classification which classifies each establishment in Canada into a specific industry (tables at the 1, 2, 3 and 4-digit level). Since the

December 1998 reference period, these data are also presented using the North American Industry Classification System (tables at the 2, 3, 4 and 6-digit level). A concordance table showing the relationships between both classification systems is included with the product.

WEB: http://www.statcan.ca/english/Dli/Data/Ftp/cbp.htm
FTP: dli/cbp/2006

Question & Answer

Q: Why on the web version is there just a small file stating that it has to be downloaded by DLI contacts? This really doesn't allow us to download it from the web using a password. There is no way of downloading it from there, you have to go to the DLI FTP site to actually get it. I went to the FTP site and got the file, but it seems that the web link is actually misleading.

A: When you click on a file with a little lock next to it (data files), it brings you to another web page explaining the restricted access. There is a link at the bottom of the explanation page to access the collection. When you click on the link, a pop-up screen appears and requests your user name and password - just enter your contact info - same as the FTP site.

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.