Business Counts by Municipality, Industry, and Employee Size

Business counts with employees on record, segmented by year, municipality, employee size, and industry. Statistics Canada compiled this data, but advises caution for time-series analysis due to methodological changes over time. The Government of Alberta publishes the dataset.

Use Cases

• Analyze regional business density based on municipality-level counts
• Study industry employment distribution based on industry classification
• Track business size demographics based on employee size categories
• Compare economic activity across municipalities based on business counts

Strengths

• Data includes segmentation by municipality, industry, and employee size
• Available in multiple file formats including JSON, HTML, XML, CSV, and XLSX
• Published under the open OGL-CA-2.0 license

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Statistics Canada advises against using the data for time-series analysis due to methodological changes
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Statistics Canada

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 14:51:47.273946; freshness should be verified

Geography

Municipalities in Canada