2018

The report profiles Canadian start-ups by examining owner characteristics, access to financing, exporting, innovation and sales growth. It also compares the distinguishing features between start-ups and non-start-ups. The quantitative analysis is based upon the Statistics Canada's 2014 Survey on Financing and Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises.

This document presents data on business lending activities gathered from the Statistics Canada Biannual Survey of Suppliers of Business Financing, the Bank of Canada Senior Loan Officer Survey and Business Outlook Survey, and the PayNet Canadian Business Lending Index.

This report studies the characteristics and performance of newly established Canadian firms – including new firms birth rates, survival rates and employment levels – at their year of entry into the Canadian economy and for up to ten subsequent years. The study was based on 13 cohorts of new firms – one cohort for each year between 2002 and 2014.

This report is an annual publication that provides baseline data on the co-operative sector in Canada. The Government of Canada has been collecting and publishing this data since the 1930s. The 2013 publication is the 80^th edition and has been prepared by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada's Co-operatives Policy Unit. You can find the prior years' reports at https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/693.nsf/eng/h_00037.html

The purpose of this report is to present the estimated level of incrementality of the Canada Small Business Financing Program using data from the Survey on Financing and Growth of Small and Medium enterprises, 2014.