The Daily Thursday, March 27, 2025
Press Release
Payroll employment, earnings and hours, and job vacancies, January 2025
The number of employees receiving pay and benefits from their employer—measured as “payroll employment” in the Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours—rose by 26,800 (+0.1%) in January, following an increase of 66,400 (+0.4%) in December 2024. On a year-over-year basis, payroll employment was up 198,900 (+1.1%) in January 2025.
National tourism indicators, fourth quarter 2024
Tourism spending in Canada increased 1.5% in the fourth quarter of 2024, following a 0.4% decline in the third quarter. Annually, tourism spending rose 3.6% in 2024, following a 15.3% increase in 2023. Tourism gross domestic product rose 1.6% in the fourth quarter of 2024 and was up 3.8% annually.
Government finance statistics, fourth quarter 2024
In the fourth quarter, the Canadian general government posted a deficit of $17.2 billion, an increase of $8.8 billion compared to the fourth quarter of 2023. Excluding social security funds, the deficit stood at $20.1 billion, up $10.4 billion from the fourth quarter of 2023.
Census of Environment: Land cover, 2020
Canada is a vast country supporting a diversity of landscapes. Treed areas, including those that had been disturbed by fire or harvest, were the main land cover type in 2020, covering 36.9% of the inland area of Canada. This was followed by grassland and shrubland (19.1%), non-treed wetlands (12.7%) and inland water bodies (12.6%).
Model-based estimation of industrial water intake and drinking water production, 2005 to 2021
In 2020, Statistics Canada started developing experimental model-based estimation methods for drinking water production and population served for the Biennial Drinking Water Plants Survey. The same procedure was done for the Industrial Water Survey, which includes thermal electric power generation, manufacturing and mining, including the coal mining, metal ore mining and non-metallic mineral mining industries. The primary objective of this project was to estimate the variables during the COVID-19 pandemic, as surveys did not collect data during that period, and to model the data gaps for non-survey years, given the biennial nature of the surveys.
Canadian Transportation Economic Account, 2017 to 2020, 2021 (revised)
The output of all transportation activities, as defined by the Canadian Transportation Economic Account (CTEA), was $429.5 billion in 2021. The total contribution to gross domestic product (GDP) was $203.0 billion, representing 8.3% of Canada’s GDP.
Survey of Maintenance Enforcement Programs: Child and spousal support, 2023/2024
Data from the Survey of Maintenance Enforcement Programs on child and spousal support are now available for 2023/2024.
Machinery and Equipment Price Index, January 2025
The Machinery and Equipment Price Index (2016=100) is now available for January.
Consulting Services Price Index, fourth quarter 2024
The Consulting Services Price Index (2018=100) is now available for the fourth quarter.
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