The Daily Friday, August 25, 2023
Press Release
The socioeconomic snapshot of Canada’s evolving farm population, 2021
In 2021, the farm population (590,710 people) represented 1.6% of the total population in Canada. The face of Canada’s farm population is changing. Farm households are becoming more diverse and becoming smaller. Additionally, greater percentages of farm households are living in urban areas, while their income continues to outpace that of the total population.
Dairy statistics, June 2023
Dairy statistics for June are now available for Canada and the provinces.
National Travel Survey, first quarter 2023
During the first quarter, Canadian residents took 66.5 million trips, 20.0 million more than in the same quarter of 2022. While most of the trips (87.6%) in the first quarter of 2023 were domestic, travel expenditures for those trips ($13.7 billion) represented just over half (52.5%) of all travel expenditures. Meanwhile, travel expenditures made by Canadian residents in the United States and overseas during the first quarter reached $12.3 billion.
Visitor Travel Survey, first quarter 2023
Spending in Canada by international travellers totalled $2.7 billion in the first quarter, more than double the amount from the same quarter of 2022 ($1.2 billion), when the Government of Canada and the provinces and territories still had some travel restrictions in place due to the Omicron variant. Total spending from visitors reached 83.2% of the $3.2 billion spent in the same quarter in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wholesale trade: Early indicator, July 2023
Given the rapidly evolving economic situation, Statistics Canada is providing an advance estimate of sales in the wholesale trade sector for July. The advance results for July indicate that wholesale sales (excluding petroleum, petroleum products, other hydrocarbons and oilseed and grain) rose 1.4%. The increase reflects higher sales in the motor vehicle and motor vehicle parts and accessories subsector and the building material and supplies subsector.
Real-time local business conditions, August 14 to 20, 2023
Weekly data on real-time local business conditions are now available for August 14 to 20, 2023.
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