Canadian Business Counts - User Guide

Canadian Business Counts (formerly Canadian Business Patterns) is compiled from the Business Register, a repository of information on the Canadian business population. It provides counts of active business establishments by:

- employment size ranges, including indeterminate (i.e., businesses such as sole proprietorships and partnerships, usually without a payroll)

- geography groupings by province/territory, metropolitan areas, census agglomerations, census divisions and/or census subdivisions

- various levels of industry classification, Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) and NAICS (North American Industry Classification System