Provincial and Territorial Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by Income and by Expenditure Accounts

Value added of economy, value

Value added refers to the value that the producers add to their intermediate inputs before generating their own output. It is obtained as the difference between output and intermediate inputs of the producers.

Economy refers to the entire set of resident institutional units. It is divided into sectors that consists of groups of resident institutional units. An institutional unit is resident in a country when it has a centre of economic interest in the economic territory of that country. It is said to have a centre of economic interest when there exists some location - dwelling, place of production or other premises - within the economic territory on, or from, which it engages, and intends to continue to engage, in economic activities and transactions on a significant scale either indefinitely or over a finite period of time.

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

• Canadian dollar at current prices