Herfindahl Indexes, Canada and Provinces, 2004-2009 [Excel]

The Annual Survey of Manufactures and Logging collects information on over 250 different industries. Beginning in 2004, the Annual Survey of Manufactures and Logging (ASML) replaces the Annual Survey of Manufactures and the Annual Survey of Forestry. While the ASML covers the same target population as its predecessors, this new survey ushers in a number of conceptual and methodological changes intended to reduce response burden, enhance data quality and streamline survey operations.

Two changes have the greatest impact on the comparability of the principal statistics series for manufacturing (published in CANSIM tables 301-0003 and 301-0006) used to compile this product: some redefinition of the survey content and a change in the coverage for published statistics. Beginning with reference year 2004, the principal statistics published for manufacturing cover the activities of all businesses classified as manufacturers in Canada.

These data series are not strictly comparable with manufacturing principal statistics previously published which covered the activities of businesses with annual sales greater than or equal to $30,000. This dataset contains 6 separate tables , one for each year.