Annual percentage changes for British Columbia manufacturing shipments, retail sales, housing starts, non-residential building permits, tourism GDP, high-tech GDP, and BC product exports from 1982 to 2012. The dataset is a tabular presentation published by the Government of British Columbia. It was last updated on the platform in April 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze manufacturing sector growth based on manufacturing shipments data.
- Study retail market trends based on retail sales figures.
- Model housing market cycles based on housing starts data.
- Assess investment in commercial construction based on non-residential building permits.
- Evaluate export economy performance based on BC product exports.
Strengths
- Provides a 30-year time series from 1982 to 2012.
- Includes annual percentage changes for seven key economic indicators.
- Published by the authoritative Government of British Columbia.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Freshness should be verified as the underlying data ends in 2012.
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia
- Time Range
- 1982 to 2012
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:38:21.289212
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada