Canada Small Business Financing Program: A Firm-Level Economic Impact Analysis
2024-11-06
The main objective of this study is to determine if the Canada Small Business Financing Program (CSBFP) had any impact at the firm level on business recipients with respect to economic indicators such as revenue, employment, profits, salary, total assets, profit margin and labour productivity. In addition to these economic indicators, survival is also considered.
Biannual Survey of Suppliers of Business Financing — Data analysis, second half 2023
2024-10-09
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.
2024-08-28
Based on survey findings from the first five years of Small Business Branch's Business Accelerator and Incubator Performance Measurement Framework (BAI PMF), this report provides a profile of companies receiving support from BAIs and estimates the impact of support on their economic performance.
2024-07-05
This research report investigates the effects of HASCAP use on business closure and growth, while controlling for business characteristics, pre-pandemic attributes, and the concurrent use of other government intervention programs, such as the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS), the Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA), and the Canada Emergency Commercial Rental Assistance (CECRA) initiatives. To isolate the effect of HASCAP support, a statistical technique widely used in empirical research was used to compare the performance of HASCAP-backed companies to otherwise similar companies that did not receive HASCAP support.
SME Profile: Innovative enterprises in Canada
2024-06-05
This profile provides a comparison between innovative and non-innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) using data from the 2020 Survey on Financing and Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (SFGSME).
Incrementality study of the Canada Small Business Financing Program
2024-05-17
The purpose of this study is to empirically estimate the level of full incrementality of the CSBFP by analyzing data from Statistics Canada's Survey on Financing and Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises, 2020 and the Linkable File Environment that comprises various business administrative data.
Canada Small Business Financing Program: Cost-benefit analysis
2024-03-08
This study uses a cost-benefit analysis framework to estimate the net social benefit of the Canada Small Business Financing Program (CSBFP) for the fiscal years 2013–14 to 2021–22. The results suggest the CSBFP continues to provide significant net social benefits, estimated at nearly $5 billion over the nine-year evaluation period, with a positive net benefit of $403 million or more in each year.
Key Small Business Statistics 2023
2024-02-02
Key Small Business Statistics 2023 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-sized enterprises and the contribution by business size to the gross domestic product.
Biannual Survey of Suppliers of Business Financing — Data analysis, first half 2023
2024-01-17
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.