Estimates of Labour Income (ELI)

Summary of changes

Activity on this program started: 1926

Reference period of change - first quarter 2019

Data on GDP for the first quarter of 2019 have been released along with revised data from the first quarter of 2018. These data incorporate new and revised data, as well as updated data on seasonal trends.

Reference period of change - fourth quarter 2018

With this release on labour productivity and related measures, data were revised back to the first quarter of 1997 at the aggregate and industry levels. These revisions are consistent with those incorporated in the annual benchmarks on provincial and territorial labour productivity and related measures, published on February 22, 2019. As well, indexes of all series were subject to historical revision going back to1981, as a result of revisions to the values for the 2012 reference year. However, the resulting growth rate revisions were negligible.

Due to the shutdown for some US federal agencies providing source data, the publication of preliminary data on American productivity and related measures for fourth quarter and annual average 2018 did not occur as scheduled on February 6, 2019. Therefore, for the purpose of comparison, American data for this reference period will not be mentioned in this release.

Reference period of change - third quarter 2018

With this release on labour productivity and related measures, data were revised back to the first quarter of 2013 at the aggregate and industry levels. These revisions are consistent with those incorporated in the quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) by income and expenditure and monthly GDP by industry, published on November 30, 2018.

This release also incorporates the revised annual benchmarks on the provincial and territorial economic accounts and provincial and territorial GDP by industry published on November 8, 2018. In addition, it takes into account the revised annual benchmarks on provincial and territorial labour productivity and related measures, published on February 16 and May 23, 2018.

Finally, the indexes of labour productivity and the related measures have been converted from reference year 2007 to reference year 2012. That change affects the data for the period from the first quarter of 1981 to the present. Adoption of the new 2012 reference year does not alter the growth rates of productivity and the related measures since it represents a scaling of indices based on 2007.

Reference period of change - second quarter 2018

With this release on labour productivity and related measures, data were revised back to the first quarter of 2018 at the aggregate level and to the first quarter of 2017 at the industry level. These revisions are consistent with those incorporated in the quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) by income and expenditure and monthly GDP by industry, published on August 30, 2018.

Reference period of change - first quarter 2018

With this release on labour productivity and related measures, data were revised back to the first quarter of 2017 at the aggregate and industry levels. These revisions are consistent with those incorporated in the quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) by income and expenditure and monthly GDP by industry, published on May 31, 2018.

This release also incorporates the new 2017 benchmark data on provincial and territorial labour productivity and related measures, published on May 23, 2018.

Reference period of change - fourth quarter 2017

With this release on labour productivity and related measures, data were revised back to the first quarter of 2017 at the aggregate and industry levels. These revisions are consistent with those incorporated in the quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) by income and expenditure and monthly GDP by industry, published on March 2.

Reference period of change - third quarter 2017

With this release on labour productivity and related measures, data were revised back to the first quarter of 2013 at the aggregate and industry levels. These revisions are consistent with those incorporated in the quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) by income and expenditure and monthly GDP by industry, published on December 1, 2017.

This release also incorporates revised annual benchmarks on the provincial and territorial economic accounts and GDP by industry published on November 8, 2017.

Reference period of change - second quarter 2017

With this release on labour productivity and related measures, data were revised back to the first quarter of 2017 at the aggregate level and to the first quarter of 2016 at the industry level.

Reference period of change - first quarter 2017

With this release on labour productivity and related measures, data were revised back to the first quarter of 2016 at the aggregate and industry levels. These revisions are consistent with those incorporated in the quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) by income and expenditure and monthly GDP by industry, published on May 31, 2017.

This release also incorporates the new 2016 benchmark data on provincial and territorial labour productivity and related measures, published on May 19, 2017.

Reference period of change - fourth quarter 2016

With this release on labour productivity and related measures, data were revised back to the first quarter of 2013 at the aggregate and industry levels. These revisions are consistent with those incorporated in the annual data on provincial and territorial labour productivity and related measures, published on February 10, 2017.

Reference period of change - third quarter 2016

With this release on labour productivity and related measures, data were revised back to the first quarter of 2013 at the aggregate and industry levels. These revisions are consistent with those incorporated in the quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) by income and expenditure and monthly GDP by industry, published on November 30, 2016.

This release also incorporates revised annual benchmarks on the provincial and territorial economic accounts and GDP by industry published on November 9, 2016. It also takes into account the Labour Force Survey (LFS) data, published on November 25, 2016. These LFS data include measures of the impact of the wildfires in northern Alberta on hours worked over a two-month period (May and June 2016).

Reference period of change - second quarter 2016

With this release on labour productivity and related measures, data were revised back to the first quarter of 2016 at the aggregate level and to the first quarter of 2015 at the industry level.

Reference period of change - first quarter 2016

With this release on labour productivity and related measures, data were revised back to the first quarter of 1981 at the aggregate and industry levels.

As well, labour productivity indexes and related variables underwent a historical revision from the first quarter of 1981 to the fourth quarter of 2015, as a result of revisions to the values for the 2007 reference year. However, the resulting growth rate revisions were negligible.

These revisions are consistent with those incorporated in the quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) based on earnings and expenditures, and in the monthly GDP by industry, published on December 1, 2015, and May 31, 2016.

This release also takes into account the annual benchmarks for labour productivity data and their related variables in the business sector by industry at the provincial and territorial level, published on May 2, 2016.

Reference period of change - fourth quarter 2015

Data on labour productivity and related measures for the fourth quarter were released along with revised data for the first, second, and third quarters of 2015.

These revisions are consistent with those incorporated in the quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) by income and expenditure and monthly GDP by industry, published on March 1, 2016.

Reference period of change - third quarter 2015

With this release on labour productivity and related measures, data were revised back to the first quarter of 2007 at the aggregate and industry levels. These revisions are consistent with those incorporated in the quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) by income and expenditure and monthly GDP by industry, published on December 1, 2015.

This release also incorporates revised annual benchmarks on the provincial and territorial economic accounts and GDP by industry published on November 10, 2015. It also takes into account historical revisions to the Labour Force Survey, published in January 2015 and revisions to the Survey of Employment Payroll and Hours, released in March 2015.

Reference period of change - second quarter 2015

With this release on labour productivity and related measures, data were revised back to the first quarter of 2015 at the aggregate level and to the first quarter of 2014 at the industry level.

Reference period of change - first quarter 2015

With this release on labour productivity and related measures, data were revised back to the first quarter of 2014 at the aggregate and industry levels.

Reference period of change - fourth quarter 2014

With this release on labour productivity and related measures, data were revised back to the first quarter of 2014 at the aggregate and industry levels. The recent revisions from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) were taken into account for 2014. The historical revisions of LFS from 2001 to 2013 will be incorporated next fall with the release of the third quarter 2015 data.

Reference period of change - third quarter 2014

With this release on labour productivity and related measures, data were revised back to the first quarter of 2010 at the aggregate and industry levels. These revisions are consistent with those incorporated in the Canadian economic accounts and gross domestic product by industry published on November 28, 2014.

This release also incorporates revised annual data on the provincial and territorial economic accounts and gross domestic product by industry published on November 5, 2014.

Reference period of change - second quarter 2014

With this release on labour productivity and related measures, data were revised back to the first quarter of 2014 at the aggregate level and to the first quarter of 2013 at the industry level.

Reference period of change - first quarter 2014

With this release on labour productivity and related measures, data were revised back to the first quarter of 2013 at the aggregate and industry levels.

The Canadian System of macroeconomic accounts is implementing a new revision policy. Revisions to annual estimates of productivity, which affect the three most recent calendar years, will take place in December rather than June, as was previously the practice. In addition, comprehensive revisions (for which the time series is open beyond three years) will occur on a more frequent basis. The next annual and comprehensive revisions are planned for December 2014. For more information see Latest Developments in the Canadian Economic Accounts (13-605-X). (https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/pub/13-605-x/chrono-eng.htm)

Reference period of change - fourth quarter 2013

With this release on labour productivity and related measures, data were revised back to the first quarter of 2013 at the aggregate and industry levels.

Reference period of change - third quarter 2013

With this release on labour productivity and related measures, data were revised back to the first quarter of 2007 at the aggregate and industry levels. These revisions are consistent with those incorporated in the revised monthly gross domestic product (GDP) by industry published on October 31, 2013, and in the revised annual benchmarks on labour statistics by industry published on November 20, 2013.

Revisions to the labour productivity and its related measures data from 1997 to 2006 are scheduled for release on March 7, 2014, at the time of the data release for the fourth quarter.

Reference period of change - second quarter 2013

With this release of labour productivity and related variables, data were revised back to the first quarter of 2013 at the aggregate level and to the first quarter of 2012 at the industry level.

Reference period of change - first quarter 2013

This release incorporates the National economic accounts revisions published on May 31, and the revised annual data on provincial and territorial labour productivity by industry published on May 15. These resulted in revisions of the quarterly series for labour productivity and related variables back to the first quarter of 1981 at the aggregate level and back to the first quarter of 2007 at the industry level.

Reference period of change - fourth quarter 2012

Revised quarterly data on labour productivity by industry in the business sector covering the first quarter of 2007 to the third quarter of 2012 period are released today. These industry level data are consistent with the historically revised monthly data on gross domestic product (GDP) by industry, released on January 31, 2013. Aggregate level business sector productivity and related variable data were revised back to the first quarter of 2008 in order to bring these data into line with the revised data by industry.

While revisions to the aggregate business sector estimates were minimal, revisions to the industry detail were more substantial in nature.

The historical revision of the Canadian System of National Accounts incorporated the new international 2008 System of National Accounts accounting standard, methodological improvements and statistical revisions as well as a new industry classification, which provides more detail for the service sector.

Revisions to the first quarter of 1997 to the fourth quarter 2006 are planned for release in December 2013.

Reference period of change - third quarter 2012

With this release, data were revised back to the first quarter of 2012 at the aggregate level and to the first quarter of 2011 at the industry level.

Reference period of change - second quarter 2012

With this release, data were revised back to the first quarter of 2012 at the aggregate level and to the first quarter of 2011 at the industry level.

Reference period of change - first quarter 2012

With this release, data were revised back to the first quarter of 2011.

Important changes are coming to Canada's System of National Accounts (CSNA), starting in October. These changes will affect all users of CSNA products and statistics such as gross domestic product (GDP), balance of payments, international investment, and input-output tables. For more information, consult the National Economic Accounts website. Because of the 2012 CSNA historical revision, the publication of the first quarter 2012 data includes revisions extending back only one year at the aggregate level.