Statistics Canada provides trade in goods data by exporter characteristics. The dataset likely contains the value of exports and the number of exporting establishments for all Census metropolitan areas in Canada. It is available in XML, CSV, and HTML formats and was last updated on April 24, 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze export market concentration based on the number of exporting establishments per metropolitan area.
- Compare export values across different Census metropolitan areas.
- Study exporter characteristics, such as size or sector distribution, across partner countries.
Strengths
- Data is provided for all Census metropolitan areas in Canada.
- Includes both export value and establishment count metrics.
- Available under the OGL-CA-2.0 open license.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Statistics Canada
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-24 12:46:45.763384; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Census metropolitan areas in Canada