Canadian Business Debt Capacity by Industry and Size, Q3 2025
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Description
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
License is OGL-CA-2.0; users should review its terms for reuse.