Annual Survey of Manufacturing and Logging Industries (ASML)

Value added of establishment, 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.

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:

• Canadian dollar at current prices