2020

This edition includes data on the number of businesses in Canada, private sector employment by business size, firm birth and survival rate, the share of high-growth firms, exports of goods by small and medium size enterprises and the contribution by business size to the gross domestic product.

This paper analyzes the regulatory compliance costs of small and medium-sized enterprises using data from Statistics Canada’s 2011 Survey of Regulatory Compliance Costs and Canada Revenue Agency’s General Index of Financial Information. It examines the firm characteristics likely associated with higher regulatory compliance costs as well as the impact of regulatory burden on firm productivity and business growth.

The main objective of this paper is to understand the factors that have an impact on firm growth, specifically on Canadian SMEs. The paper complements and enriches the empirical literature on the mechanism underlying firm growth. This research uses Statistics Canada’s Survey on Financing and Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises, 2011 linked to administrative data. For this report, firm employment growth for the period 20112013 was studied.

The main objective of this study is to determine the factors that may have an impact on a firm's probability of becoming a high-growth firm (HGF). This analysis uses a sample over the period 2003–2012 of Canadian firms from a unique dataset, the National Accounts Longitudinal Microdata File, developed by Statistics Canada.

This report presents findings from the 2017 Survey on Financing and Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises to offer the first-ever snapshot of the financing and growth activities of clean technology (clean tech) small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Canada. These findings, which include statistics on the firm characteristics, financing, growth activities and ownership of clean tech SMEs, are compared with those of all SMEs.

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, based on data collected in the 2017 Survey on Financing and Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises, presents demographic statistics for seven SME majority ownership types: SMEs majority owned by men, equally owned by men and women, majority owned by women, majority owned by Aboriginal persons, majority owned by visible minorities, majority owned by person(s) with a disability and majority owned by members of the same family.

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 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.

Small Business Branch monitors small businesses’ access to financing based on the Credit Conditions Survey (CCS) and the Small Business Credit Condition Trends incorporates data from the 2019 CCS.

Small Business Branch monitors small businesses’ access to financing based on the Credit Conditions Survey (CCS) and the Small Business Credit Condition Trends incorporates data from the 2019 CCS.