Annual Survey of Manufacturing and Logging Industries (ASML)
Detailed information for 2023
Status:
Active
Frequency:
Annual
Record number:
2103
This survey collects the financial and commodity information used to compile statistics on Canada's manufacturing and logging industries.
Description
The Annual Survey of Manufacturing and Logging Industries (ASML) is a survey of the manufacturing and logging industries in Canada. It is intended to cover all establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing and logging activities as well as some sales offices and warehouses which support these establishments.
The details collected include principal industrial statistics (such as revenue, salaries and wages, cost of materials and supplies used, cost of energy and water utility, inventories, etc.), as well as information about the commodities produced and consumed. Data collected from businesses will be aggregated with information from other sources to produce official estimates of national and provincial economic production for these industries.
Data collected by the ASML are important because they help measure the production of Canada's industrial and primary resource sectors, as well as provide an indication of the well-being of each industry covered by the survey and its contribution to the Canadian economy. Within Statistics Canada, the data are used by the Canadian System of National Accounts, the Monthly Survey of Manufacturing (record number 2101) and Prices programs. The data are also used by the business community, trade associations and federal and provincial departments, as well as international organizations and associations, to profile the manufacturing and logging industries, undertake market studies, forecast demand and develop trade and tariff policies.
Statistical activity
The survey is administered as part of the Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP). The IBSP has been designed to integrate approximately 200 separate business surveys into a single master survey program. The IBSP aims at collecting industry and product detail at the provincial level while minimizing overlap between different survey questionnaires. The redesigned business survey questionnaires have a consistent look, structure, and content.
The integrated approach makes reporting easier for firms operating in different industries because they can provide similar information for each branch operation. This way they avoid having to respond to questionnaires that differ for each industry in terms of format, wording and even concepts. The combined results produce more coherent and accurate statistics on the economy.
Reference period: The 12 month fiscal period ending between April 1st of the reference year and March 31st of the following year.
Collection period: From March to July of the year following the reference period.
Subjects
- Business performance and ownership
- Financial statements and performance
- Manufacturing
Data sources and methodology
Target population
The target population of the Annual Survey of Manufacturing and Logging (ASML) comprises all establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing and logging activities. The data are classified by industry based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Under the NAICS, logging establishments are classified to NAICS code 1133 and manufacturing establishments to NAICS sectors 31, 32 and 33.
Instrument design
The survey questionnaires comprise generic modules that have been designed to cover all manufacturing and logging industries. These modules include revenues, expenses, and employment. The questionnaires also include industry-specific and activity-specific modules designed to ask for financial and non-financial characteristics that pertain specifically to this industry.
In order to reduce respondent burden, smaller firms receive a characteristics questionnaire (shortened version) that is industry-specific which does not include the revenue and expense modules. This shortened version is designed to collect both financial and non-financial characteristics, while revenue and expense data are extracted from administrative files.
Sampling
This is a sample survey with a cross-sectional design.
The frame is the list of active enterprises and establishments that were selected from Statistics Canada's Business Register. This frame provides basic information about each firm, including address, industry classification, and information from administrative data sources.
The Business Register is a repository of information reflecting the Canadian business population and exists primarily for the purpose of supplying frames for all economic surveys in Statistics Canada. It is designed to provide a means of coordinating the coverage of business surveys and of achieving consistent classification of statistical reporting units. It also serves as a data source for the compilation of business demographic information.
The major sources of information for the Business Register are updates from the Statistics Canada survey program and from Canada Revenue Agency's (CRA) Business Number account files. This CRA administrative data source allows for the creation of a universe of all business entities.
Prior to the selection of a random sample, enterprises are classified into homogeneous groups (i.e., groups with the same North American Industry Classification System codes and same geography) based on the characteristics of their establishments. Then, each group is divided into sub-groups (i.e., small, medium, large) called strata based on the annual revenue of the enterprise.
Following stratification, a sample, of a predetermined size, is allocated into each stratum, with the objective of optimizing the overall quality of the survey while respecting the available resources. The sample allocation can result in two kinds of strata: take-all strata where all units are sampled with certainty, and take-some strata where a sample of units are randomly selected.
Data sources
Data collection for this reference period: 2024-03-15 to 2024-08-16
Responding to this survey is mandatory.
Data are collected directly from survey respondents and extracted from administrative files.
Data are collected primarily through electronic questionnaire, while providing respondents with the option of receiving a paper questionnaire, replying by telephone interview or using other electronic filing methods. Follow-up for non-response and for data validation is conducted by email, telephone or fax.
Administrative data
A strategy to replace survey data with tax data has been introduced to reduce the respondent burden and survey costs. The strategy involves using tax data instead of survey data for some simple units (for example, a single location and a single activity). As part of the Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP), T1 tax data are used for unincorporated businesses, T2 tax data for incorporated businesses, T3010 tax data for registered charities and T5013 tax data for partnerships. Data replacement may be used to correct outliers or to replace partially or completely missing data. Tax data may also be used to reconcile survey data.
Data integration combines data from multiple data sources including survey data collected from respondents, administrative data from the Canadian revenue agency or other forms of auxiliary data when applicable. During the data integration process, data are imported, transformed, validated, aggregated and linked from the different data source providers into the formats, structures and levels required for IBSP processing. Administrative data are used in a data replacement strategy for a large number of financial variables for most small and medium enterprises and a select group of large enterprises to avoid collection of these variables. Administrative data are also used as an auxiliary source of data for editing and imputation when respondent data is not available.
View the Questionnaire(s) and reporting guide(s).
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