Canadian Business Patterns, June 2014 [B2020]

The Canadian Business Patterns contains data that reflects counts of business locations (as of December 2008) and business establishments (prior to December 2009) by: 9 employment size ranges, including \"indeterminate\" (as of December 1997); geography groupings: province/territory, census division, census subdivision (before December 2008), census metropolitan area and census agglomeration; and industry using the North American Industry Classification System (tables at the 2, 3, 4 and 6-digit level) as of December 1998. Before December 2004, these data were also presented using the Standard Industrial Classification (tables at the 1, 2, 3 and 4-digit level). The data published in the Canadian Business Patterns represents the current number of locations or establishments for a specific reference period which is taken from the Business Register Central Frame Data Base. It is not intended for use as a time series because changes that affect the continuity of the data might resu lt from changes in methodology. Some examples are: the change to another version of the Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) or the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), the addition of the new territory of Nunavut and new rules to better identify inactive units.

《加拿大商业格局》（Canadian Business Patterns）数据集涵盖反映截至2008年12月的商业场所数量，以及2009年12月之前的商业机构数量的数据，其分类维度包括：9类就业规模区间（其中包含1997年12月统计的"不确定"（indeterminate）类别）；地理分组：省/地区、普查分区、2008年12月之前的普查细分区、普查都会区及普查集聚区域；以及基于1998年12月版北美行业分类体系（North American Industry Classification System，NAICS）的行业分类数据，涵盖2、3、4、6位码层级的表格。

2004年12月之前，该类数据还曾采用标准行业分类体系（Standard Industrial Classification）编制，涵盖1、2、3、4位码层级的表格数据。

《加拿大商业格局》发布的数据为特定参考周期内的当期商业场所或机构数量，数据来源于商业登记中央框架数据库（Business Register Central Frame Data Base）。该数据集不适合用作时间序列分析，因为方法变更可能引发影响数据连续性的调整，例如改用新版标准地理分类体系（Standard Geographical Classification，SGC）或北美行业分类体系、新增努纳武特地区、增设更完善的非活跃单位识别规则等。