Statistics Canada issued data on gross domestic product, income and expenditure, second quarter 2018. Real gross domestic product growth accelerated to 0.7 per cent in the second quarter, following a 0.4 per cent gain in the first quarter. Meanwhile, final domestic demand rose 0.5 per cent. The full release is available online. Statistics Canada released data … Read more
Statistics Canada released Canada’s balance of international payments, second quarter 2018. Canada’s current account deficit (on a seasonally adjusted basis) narrowed by $1.6 billion in the second quarter to $15.9 billion. In the financial account (unadjusted for seasonal variation), strong foreign investment in Canadian private corporate bonds led the inflow of funds in the quarter. The full … Read more
Statistics Canada issued data on industrial research and development characteristics, 2016 (actual), 2017 (preliminary) and 2018 (intentions). In-house industrial research and development spending was relatively unchanged in 2016 at $18.1 billion, compared with expenditures of $17.9 billion in 2015. The full release is available online. Statistics Canada posted data on the research and development in Canadian … Read more
Statistics Canada published results from the National Travel Survey, first quarter 2018. Residents of Canada made 65.8 million trips in Canada and abroad in the first quarter, spending $19.1 billion. While 85.6 per cent of these trips took place within Canada, Canadians actually spent the majority of their travel dollars on trips abroad (56.9 per … Read more
Statistics Canada published the results from Canada’s Core Public Infrastructure Survey: Roads, bridges and tunnels, 2016. Statistics Canada, in partnership with Infrastructure Canada, has launched its first-ever catalogue of the state of the nation’s infrastructure to provide statistical information on the stock, condition, performance and asset management strategies of Canada’s core public infrastructure assets. This first … Read more
Statistics Canada posted data on Employment Insurance, June 2018. In June, 460,000 people received regular Employment Insurance benefits, up slightly (+3,800 or +0.8 per cent) from May. The full release is available online. Statistics Canada released the quarterly financial statistics for enterprises, second quarter 2018. Canadian corporations earned $100.3 billion in operating profits in the … Read more
Statistics Canada issued data on retail trade, June 2018. Following a 2.2 per cent increase in May, retail sales edged down 0.2 per cent in June to $50.7 billion. Sales were down in 6 of 11 subsectors, representing 52 per cent of total retail trade. The full release is available online. Statistics Canada posted data on food … Read more
Statistics Canada published a new edition of the publication Health Indicators. It includes updated health region level estimates for life expectancy, health-adjusted life expectancy, premature and potentially avoidable mortality and potential years of life lost, as well as unemployment rates. The full release is available online.
Statistics Canada issued data on wholesale trade, June 2018. Wholesale sales declined for the second time in three months, down 0.8 per cent to $63.1 billion in June. Sales were down in five of seven subsectors, accounting for 71 per cent of total wholesale sales. The full release is available online. Statistics Canada posted data on investment in … Read more
Statistics Canada posted data on pipeline transportation of oil and other liquid petroleum products, June 2018. Pipelines in Canada received 20.8 million cubic metres of crude oil and equivalent products from fields and plants in June, up 4.5 per cent compared with the same month in 2017. The vast majority originated in Alberta (86.4 per … Read more
