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The number of businesses with employees on record, by year, size (number of employees) and industry. Excludes businesses that cannot be classified into an industry. Statistics Canada does not recommend expressing this in a time series, as major methodological changes occur over time - please keep...

Lists number of incorporations by year and municipality and municipal district. An incorporation refers to a body incorporated under the Business Incorporations Act.

This indicator represents the percentage of Canadian businesses registered for Goods and Services Tax (GST)/Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) (including Québec).

Business Expenditures in Research and Development (BERD) – expenditures by private firms on research and development. It includes creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, and the use of this knowledge to devise new applications. R&D covers...

The total dollar value increase in sales of firms supported by WD.

High-Growth Firm – Based on list of all businesses in Canada included in Statistics Canada’s Business Register, a “high-growth firm” is an enterprise with average annualized growth greater than 20% per annum over a three-year period. That is, the total growth over a three-year period must be...