National Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by Income and by Expenditure Accounts

Investment in inventories of economy, value

Investment in inventories refers to the change in the physical volume of business and government inventories, valued at the average market prices of the period.

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 chained (2007) dollars
  Data tables

  • Investment in inventories Table: 380-0069
• Canadian dollar at current prices
  Data tables

  • Business investment in inventories, 1968 System of National Accounts (SNA) Table: 380-0509
  • Investment in inventories Table: 380-0069
  • Investment in inventories, by industry, 1968 System of National Accounts (SNA) Table: 380-0540