Canadian Business Debt Capacity by Industry and Size, Q3 2025

Statistics Canada surveyed businesses in the third quarter of 2025 to measure their perceived ability to take on more debt. The data is disaggregated by industry classification, business size, type of business, activity, and majority ownership. It is available in multiple formats under the OGL-CA-2.0 license and was last updated on the platform in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Model sector-specific financial vulnerability based on reported debt capacity.
• Analyze the relationship between business size and perceived financial flexibility.
• Compare debt capacity trends across different types of business ownership structures.
• Assess regional economic health indicators derived from business survey data.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from Statistics Canada, a national statistical office.
• Breakdowns are provided by multiple dimensions including NAICS, employment size, and ownership type.
• Available in three common formats: XML, CSV, and HTML.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to a single-country, single-quarter survey.

Provenance

Source

Statistics Canada | Statistique Canada

Collection Method

Likely contains survey data from businesses.

Time Range

Third quarter of 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 12:58:45.211134; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Canada