National Symmetric Input-Output Tables for Industry Transactions, 2023

Statistics Canada's National Symmetric Input-Output Tables for 2023 detail inter-industry transactions, imports, and value-added components like wages. The tables are analytically derived from supply and use tables and are available at Detail, Summary, and historical Link aggregations. The dataset was last updated on October 14, 2025.

Use Cases

• Analyze economic interdependencies between industries based on inter-industry transaction data.
• Model the impact of final demand changes on industrial output based on symmetric final demand tables.
• Calculate value-added contributions such as wages and operating surplus across industries.
• Compare economic structures over time using the Link 1997 and Link 1961 historical aggregations.

Strengths

• Produced by Statistics Canada, a national statistical office, ensuring authoritative methodology.
• Provides multiple aggregation levels including Detail, Summary, and historical Link series for comparative analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

Statistics Canada

Collection Method

Analytically derived from industry by product supply and use tables.

Time Range

2023

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-14 22:45:20; freshness should be verified.

Geography

National coverage for Canada.