Revenue, Expenditure, Assets, and Liabilities (REAL) user files

The Revenue, Expenditures, Assets, and Liabilities (REAL) data reports the fiscal statistics of all orders of government by province, for the years 1966 to the present. These datasets are the Finances of the Nation user files, and are designed for use by everyone. The data are offered in a "wide" format by revenue/expenditure item, making them easy to read and interpret. Four normalizations are offered of the data to enhance usability: Nominal dollars Percent of GDP Percent of total revenue Real per capita dollars Data sources The data sources are: 1965/66-1987/88: Public Finance Historical Data, Statistics Canada Catalogue 68-512 (1992) 1988/89-2007/08: Federal, provincial and territorial general government revenue and expenditures, Tables 10-10-0039 and -0040 2008/09-2018/19: Canadian government finance statistics, 2009-2019 (Tables 10-10-0016 and -0017) Methods Certain data from government public accounts, population and GDP, have also been used to render categories consistent through time. Future releases Future releases of the REAL data will include consolidated revenues for general and provincial-local governments, as well as assets and liabilities of governments. For more information, please refer to www.financesofthenation.ca