Financial market statistics from the Toronto Stock Exchange

Detailed information for September 2023

The information pertains to financial market statistics of publicly-traded entities listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Data release - November 1, 2023 (the last data release)

• Description
• Data sources and methodology
• Data accuracy

Description

This is third-party information pertaining to financial market statistics of entities listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The data are publicly available through the Toronto Stock Exchange listings.

This data release satisfies the requirements for the International Monetary Fund's Special Data Dissemination Standards (SDDS) Plus initiative.

The data are used for various analytical purposes by numerous internal and external users.

Subjects

• Economic accounts
• Financial and wealth accounts

Data sources and methodology

Target population

All publicly traded companies listed on the Toronto stock exchange

Instrument design

The data are obtained from a third-party data source and collected by their systems.

Sampling

The data are a census of all entities listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Data sources

Responding to this survey is voluntary.

Data are extracted from administrative files.

The data are obtained from a third-party data source and collected by their systems.

Error detection

As this is data from a third-party provider any error detection would be carried out at source. As such, this item does not apply to Statistics Canada for this statistical program.

Imputation

As this is data from a third-party provider any imputation would be carried out at source. As such, this item does not apply to Statistics Canada for this statistical program.

Estimation

As this is data from a third-party provider any estimation would be carried out at source. As such, this item does not apply to Statistics Canada for this statistical program.

Quality evaluation

Upon receipt of the financial market statistics data, Statistics Canada carries out quality checks that include: consistency checks and comparisons with past data to detect unusual or unexpected variations.

Disclosure control

Statistics Canada is prohibited by law from releasing any information it collects which could identify any person, business, or organization, unless consent has been given by the respondent or as permitted by the Statistics Act. Various confidentiality rules are applied to all data that are released or published to prevent the publication or disclosure of any information deemed confidential. If necessary, data are suppressed to prevent direct or residual disclosure of identifiable data.

Revisions and seasonal adjustment

This methodology type does not apply to this statistical program.

Data accuracy

Concerns about coverage are minimal as the sample size includes all publicly-traded companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.