Statistics Canada Programmes Addressing

Globalization

Art Ridgeway

Balance of Payments DivisionJuly 2007

Organization

• A highly centralized statistical system– Full range of social and economic statistics

• Economic statistics divided into two part:– Business and trade statistics

• Structural surveys, merchandise trade and prices

– National accounts and analytical studies• National accounts, which includes

– Balance of payments– Government financial statistics

• Analytical studies and current analysis

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Corporations Returns Act

• Separate law (not Statistics Act)– directory of inter-corporate ownership

showing “who owns who" in Canada

• Annual report to Parliament on the foreign ownership and control of Canadian businesses

• Country of ultimate control

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Foreign Direct Investment

• Limited detail for quarterly– Balance of Payments, and– International Investment Position

• Detailed position data - annually

• the net stock of FDI assets has been positive since 1997 – outward FDI in around 150 countries – FDI in Canada from about 100 countries

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Foreign Affiliate Trade Statistics

• Limited progress in this area– Annual program linked to FDI survey– Outward data on the sales of goods and

services and employment only

• Limited data on inward to date– See globalization project below

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Trade in Services

• Publish international trade in services data for – 32 service commodities – 60 countries and regions

• Three-year project to improve the data for international trade in services – Coverage improvement, particularly with respect to

small and medium sized businesses– Aim to have annual provincial breakdown of Canada’s

imports and exports of services by commodity

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Trade in Goods: Exporter/Importer Registers

• Links customs data with the Business Register to provide demographics on trading enterprise

• Exporter Register database – value of merchandise exports for 1993 to 2005 period

• Importer Register database – currently available for 2000– data for 2003-2005 will be available this year

• Union of the Exporter and Importer databases– Insights into import content in exports

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Trade in Intellectual Property:

Licenses for Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights • Technological balance of payments

– includes payments and receipts for the acquisition and use of patents, licenses, trademarks, designs, know-how and closely associated technical services, as well as for research and development services

• Reconciled with balance of payments – to identify firms that purchase R&D services

but perform no R&D themselves

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Analytical Studies

• In-house personnel and external researchers – economic performance of multi-national enterprises – innovation related to multi-national enterprises – offshoring and outsourcing

• A survey paper covering research on multi-national enterprises is being prepared – It will review Statistics Canada’s work in this area over

the past quarter century

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Globalization Project

• Statistics Canada has initiated a globalization indicators project in response to the OECD Handbook – Canadian multinational enterprises

• Global Value Chains Data Development – Feasibility Study– currently drafting questions for testing in

autumn 2007

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Commercialization

• A pilot survey of commercialization in Canada for reference year 2006

• How are new developments brought to market?– for projects undertaken in Canada and

commercialized there and– for projects developed by Canadian firms

outside the country to exploit new markets

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Business Register

• presently under redevelopment – additional emphasis is being put on recording

the international links between Canadian businesses and their foreign parents or subsidiaries

• Multi-national enterprises clearly identified– foreign MNE, Canadian MNE, and non-MNE – importers, exporters, both, or neither

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International Labour Supply and Remittances

• These are challenges for Canada– Relatively weak data sources– Rely on a number of households surveys– Questions added over the past year

• Increasing use of temporary workers– Primarily from Mexico and Caribbean– Recently more from eastern Europe

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General Business Survey

• A pilot survey in 2008-2009 with expectation of a full survey in 2009-2010

• Use, implementation and impact of business strategies in large firms

• In due course, expected to support longitudinal analysis

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Conclusion

• Art.Ridgeway@statcan.ca

• http://www.statcan.ca/– http://cansim2.statcan.ca/studies/perser.shtml

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