Quarterly Stocks of Frozen and Chilled Meats Survey (FRMT)

Stocks in cold storage of establishment, weight

Stock in cold storage refers to the inventory of food products held in cold storage warehouses licensed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. This includes imported as well as domestic products.

Establishment refers to the level at which accounting data required to measure production is available (principal inputs, revenues, salaries and wages). The establishment, as a statistical unit, is defined as the most homogeneous unit of production for which the business maintains accounting records from which it is possible to assemble all the data elements required to compile the full structure of the gross value of production (total sales or shipments, and inventories), the cost of materials and services, and labour and capital used in production.

The data for this variable are reported using the following measurements:

• Tons