Canadian Defence, Aerospace, Marine and Cybersecurity Industries Survey

Detailed information for 2022

This survey is designed to produce statistical information to create a profile of businesses engaged in the manufacture and delivery of products and services related to the defence, aerospace, marine and cybersecurity sectors in Canada.

Data release - Scheduled for winter 2024

• Questionnaire(s) and reporting guide(s)
• Description
• Data sources and methodology
• Data accuracy

Description

Statistics Canada conducts this survey in collaboration with Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada to produce statistical information on goods and services, sales, exports, innovation, skills and business practices among firms engaged in defence, aerospace, marine and cybersecurity sectors in Canada. The data will be used to better understand the characteristics of businesses engaged in these activities, as well as to develop policies and programs to help them.

Subjects

• Manufacturing
• Transportation equipment

Data sources and methodology

Target population

The target population comprises enterprises engaged in the manufacture and delivery of products and services related to the defence, aerospace, marine and cybersecurity sectors in Canada. This population includes enterprises belonging to a diverse group of industries classified under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

Instrument design

The survey questionnaire was designed by Statistics Canada in collaboration with Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. Minimum changes were made to the questionnaire from the previous iteration. Those changes were tested with approximately six different businesses.

Sampling

This survey is a census with a cross-sectional design.

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada compiled a list of businesses that they identified as being engaged in the manufacture and delivery of products and services related to the defence, aerospace, marine and cybersecurity sectors in Canada for the 2022 iteration of the survey. The list was matched to the Statistics Canada Business Register. In addition to this, Statistics Canada included some businesses from the Business Register that had between 10 and 19 employees and were in one of the following NAICS groups: 541514, 511211, 541710 and 517911. This resulted in a final sample size of 2,440 businesses.

Data sources

Data collection for this reference period: 2023-01-16 to 2023-07-14

Responding to this survey is mandatory.

Data are collected directly from survey respondents.

Before the electronic questionnaire will be e-mailed, 2,440 businesses will be pre-contacted by telephone to confirm that they are in-scope for the survey based on their activities, to identify the person best able to respond to the questionnaire and to collect their contact information.

Follow-up for non-response was conducted by telephone.

Canada Revenue Agency reported tax data will be used to supplement missing data and to enhance data quality of the reported data.

Linkages to administrative data and to data from previous iterations of this survey will be carried out for purposes of data confrontation and to fill data gaps in reported data.

View the Questionnaire(s) and reporting guide(s) .

Error detection

The metadata will be provided upon release.

Imputation

The metadata will be provided upon release.

Estimation

The metadata will be provided upon release.

Quality evaluation

The metadata will be provided upon release.

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.

Confidentiality analysis includes the detection of possible "direct disclosure", which occurs when the value in a tabulation cell is composed of a few respondents or when the cell is dominated by a few companies. Residual disclosure occurs when confidential information can be derived indirectly by piecing together information from different sources or data series.

Revisions and seasonal adjustment

This methodology does not apply to this survey.

Data accuracy

There are two types of errors which can impact the data: sampling errors and non sampling errors. Since this is a census, no sampling was done.

Non-sampling errors may occur for various reasons during the collection and processing of the data. For example, non-response is an important source of non-sampling error. Under or over-coverage of the population, differences in the interpretations of questions and mistakes in recording and processing data are other examples of non-sampling errors. To the maximum extent possible, these errors are minimized through careful design of the survey questionnaire, verification of the survey data, and non-response follow-up to maximize response rates.

The overall response rate of the Canadian Defence, Aerospace, Marine Cybersecurity Industries Survey, 2020 was 83.9%. Data from this survey are representative of those establishments that responded to the questionnaire. Since no imputation was done for businesses which did not respond to the survey or which provided only some of the requested data (unless they were identified as priority units), the coverage of the estimates will differ across variables. Response rates by survey question are available to help evaluate the quality of the survey data in terms of their coverage.