This paper traces the path of television in Canada, from its introduction in 1952 to the present, exemines its ecoonomics, discusses aspects of its contents and takes a look at its future.

Both personal and business travel have seasonal patterns that lead to variations in the demand for hotels, motels and other accomodation services. This article examines seasonal fluctuations experiences by Canada's traveller accomodation industry in 1996. It then focuses on monthly variations in...

Cet article part des donnees sur les lancements et les fermetures d'entreprises pour examiner les changements et l'instabilite dans le secteur des services

Cette etude revele que le marche en regle generale concurrentiel et que l'on trouve de nombreuses petites entreprises qui coexistent avec d'autres qui sont tres grandes.

This article focuses on characteristics of primary Internet service providers (ISPs), that is, firms reporting that 50% or more of their revenues come from ISP activities. It looks at challenges facing ISPs including barriers to growth, competing in the Internet sector, complaints and practices...

Canada's consumer market for entertainment services grew almost 50% in real terms from 1986 to 1996. Canadians are sepnding more on renting cablevision, video games videotapes and satellite services, and they still attend live sports events, movies and theatre. As a result, spending on...

Dans ce rapport, on examine la sante des residents dans les regions metropolitaines de recensement (RMR) au Canada en utilisant des mesures comme l'esperance de vie, l'autoevaluation de la sante, l'usage du tabac, la consommation abusive d'alcool, l'obesite, l'inactivite physique,...

This paper compares the productivity growth of a set of Canadian and U.S. regulated industries. Using data from Statistics Canada's KLEMS database and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the paper examines productivity growth in transportation services (which includes air and rail),...

Official data from statistical agencies are not always ideal for cross-country comparisons because of differences in data sources and methodology. Analysts who engage in cross-country comparisons need to carefully choose among alternatives and sometimes adapt data especially for their purposes....

This study is the third in a series related to the project launched in fall 2003 by the Canadian Productivity Accounts of Statistics Canada in order to compare productivity levels between Canada and the United States. The study's purpose is to examine the comparability of the components of the...