Annual Oil and Gas Extraction Survey (OGEX)
Detailed information for 2024
Status:
Active
Frequency:
Annual
Record number:
2178
This annual survey collects information on Canadian companies involved in the oil and gas exploration, development and production industry. The survey collects financial, income and balance sheet information as well as operating statistics.
Description
Data collected from businesses are aggregated with information from other sources to produce official estimates of national and provincial economic production for this industry.
Survey estimates are made available to businesses, governments, investors, associations and the public. The data are used to monitor industry growth, measure performance and make comparisons to other data sources to better understand this industry.
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: Calendar year
Collection period: April to July
Subjects
- Business performance and ownership
- Crude oil and natural gas
- Energy
- Financial statements and performance
Data sources and methodology
Target population
The target population is comprised of all establishments in Canada engaged in operating in exploration, development and production of oil and gas in Canada classified to the code 2111 according to the North American Industry Classification System.
The observed population is comprised of those establishments in the target population for which business information is available on Statistics Canada's Business Register and whose revenue exceeds a minimum threshold or cut-off. The cut-off excludes from the population all establishments that comprise the bottom 10% of an industry and/or geography grouping and is implemented to reduce response burden for small establishments.
Instrument design
The questionnaire was designed using Statistics Canada questionnaire design standards. The design was done in consultation with the surveys partners. The Annual Oil and Gas Extraction Survey questionnaire was redesigned for RY2018. The redesign consisted of the removal of non-relevant questions to reduce respondent burden. The use of provincial government data and data accrued from other surveys will act as supplements.
Sampling
This survey is a census with a cross-sectional design.
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.
The sampling unit is the enterprise, as defined on the Business Register.
Prior to the selection of a random sample, enterprises are classified into homogeneous groups (i.e., groups with the same industry and same geography) based on the characteristics of their establishments. Then, each group is divided into sub-groups (i.e. small, medium or large) called strata based on a size measure of the enterprise.
The sample size for reference year 2024 was 382 enterprises.
Data sources
Data collection for this reference period: 2025-04-22 to 2025-07-29
Responding to this survey is mandatory.
Data are collected directly from survey respondents, extracted from administrative files and derived from other Statistics Canada surveys and/or other sources.
Collection method: Electronic questionnaire
Data capture method: The data from the questionnaire are processed directly into the Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP).
Follow-up method: Follow-up for non-response and for data validation is conducted by telephone or e-mail in order to reach the survey target response rate of 100%.
Languages offered to respondents: English and French
Time given to complete the questionnaire: 20 days
Average time required to complete questionnaire: 6 hours
1. Royalties and land lease sales information was requested from the provincial governments.
For the Province of Alberta, this information is retrieved from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. Statistics Canada has a data-sharing agreement with them under the authority of the Statistics Act.
For Manitoba Department of Growth, Enterprise and Trade; Saskatchewan Ministry of Energy and Resources, the British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources and Indian Oil and Gas Canada, Statistics Canada has a data-sharing agreement with them under the authority of the Statistics Act.
2. Information for production volume is obtained from an internal program called Monthly Crude oil and Natural Gas (MCONG). Data for parts of this program are sourced from the Alberta Energy Regulator, via a data-sharing agreement under the authority of the Statistics Act.
Data integration combines data from multiple data sources including survey data collected from respondents, administrative data 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.
Volume and value information is from the MCONG program.
View the Questionnaire(s) and reporting guide(s) .
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