2019

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 report summarizes findings from the 2017 Survey on Financing and Growth of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises to offer a snapshot of the financing and growth activities of co-operatives corporations in Canada.

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 analysis quantifies the economic impact of the Canada Small Business Financing Program (CSBFP) on Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Results indicate that the program continued to positively affect the economic growth of Canadian SMEs from 2014 to 2016.

This analysis highlights the changes and developments in small business credit conditions between 2009 and 2018, and aims to facilitate understanding of credit-market trends for small businesses.

The Credit Conditions Survey was conducted in 2018. The questions were fact-based and focused on financing sought by small enterprises (1 to 99 employees) during the 2018 calendar year.

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 2008–09 to 2016–17. The results suggest the CSBFP continues to provide significant net social benefits, estimated at $3.9 billion over the nine-year evaluation period, with a positive net benefit of $350 million or more in each year.

This research uses a unique set of survey data on Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), linked with administrative tax data, to explore 1) whether the R&D propensity of SMEs increases with exporting and high-growth, and 2) whether the export propensity of SMEs increases with R&D and high-growth.

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.