Canadian Business Counts, with employees, Hamilton CMA and CSD, June 2021

Symbol legend: .. not available for a specific reference period Footnotes: 1 Businesses are counted according to the number of statistical locations" they have. For example a retail business with 10 stores and a head office is counted 11 times in the Canadian business counts. Please consult our <a href="https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/statistical-programs/document/1105_D16_T9_V1">guide</a> for more information." 2 The data includes active Canadian locations with employees. 3 Fluctuations in these figures from one reference period to another can come from methodological changes (for example, changes to the method for identifying inactive units or in business industrial classification strategies). As a result, these data do not only represent changes in the business population over time. Statistics Canada advises users not to use these data as a time series. 4 The employment size ranges provided should not be used to calculate total number of employees. 5 The 2017 version of the <a href=https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/subjects/standard/naics/2017v2/index">North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)</a> is used for this table."