The Daily Thursday, March 16, 2018
Press Release
Monthly Survey of Manufacturing, January 2018
Manufacturing sales decreased 1.0% to $54.9 billion in January. Declines in the motor vehicles, the aerospace product and parts, as well as the primary metal industries were responsible for the overall drop.
Canada’s international transactions in securities, January 2018
Foreign investors resumed their investment in Canadian securities by adding $5.7 billion to their holdings in January. Meanwhile, Canadian investment in foreign securities totalled $13.3 billion, a second consecutive month of strong acquisitions.
One Hundred Years and Counting
To look back on our journey with Canada, today Statistics Canada is launching the video “One Hundred Years and Counting.”
Accommodation services, 2016
Operating revenue for the accommodation services subsector increased to $19.7 billion in 2016, up 4.5% from 2015. Operating expenses rose to $17.4 billion in 2016, a 4.2% increase over the previous year. This resulted in a slightly higher operating profit margin of 11.5%.
Ecosystem accounting: Thematic accounts, 1971 to 2014
The average annual water yield for Canada from 1971 to 2014 was 3,497 km3 or 0.35 m3/m2, equivalent to a depth of 350 mm—or just over a foot—right across the country. The Pacific Coastal drainage region in British Columbia had the highest water yield per unit area in the country, at 1.5 m3/m2. The lowest yields were found in the Missouri, Assiniboine–Red, South Saskatchewan and North Saskatchewan drainage regions in the Prairies, which had an average annual water yield per unit area of 0.05 m3/m2.
New products
Videos – Statistics Canada: “One Hundred Years and Counting”
Catalogue number 11-629-X2018002, (HTML)
Latest Developments in the Canadian Economic Accounts
Catalogue number 13-605-X, (PDF)
New studies and articles
The 2010 to 2014 revisions of the Provincial and Territorial Culture Indicators
Latest Developments in the Canadian Economic Accounts
Using municipal wastewater to measure Canadians’ consumption of cannabis and opioids
Latest Developments in the Canadian Economic Accounts
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