Employment Dynamics, 1983-1999 [Canada] [Excel]

They are published annually by Statistics Canada’s Small Business and Special Surveys Division, which derives the Dynamics figures from information supplied by the Business and Labour Market Analysis Division. Primarily, the tables are used to analyze how businesses of different sizes contribute to employment change in the economy.

Net year-over-year changes in total employment are broken down according to the following gross components, which are calculated for individual employment-size groupings of firms: Job gains attributed to newly identified employers; Job losses attributed to firms that ceased to be identified as employers; Job gains attributed to continuing employers that increased their respective employment levels; Job losses attributed to continuing employers that decreased their respective employment levels; The Dynamics are also useful in that they provide estimated counts of entries and exits of businesses from the employer population in Canada.