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Summary statistics of manufactures, 1917 to 1961
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| Establish- ments |
Employees1 | Salaries and wages |
Cost at plant of materials used |
Value added by manufacture2 |
Value of shipments of goods of own manufacture3 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basis: Industrial classification in use prior to 1960 | ||||||
| number | $ thousands | |||||
| 1917 | 21,845 | 606,523 | 497,802 | 1,539,679 | 1,281,132 | 2,820,811 |
| 1920 | 22,532 | 598,893 | 717,494 | 2,085,272 | 1,621,273 | 3,706,545 |
| 1925 | 20,981 | 522,924 | 569,944 | 1,571,788 | 1,167,937 | 2,816,865 |
| 19304 | 22,618 | 614,696 | 697,555 | 1,664,788 | 1,522,737 | 3,280,237 |
| 19354 | 24,034 | 556,664 | 559,468 | 1,419,146 | 1,153,485 | 2,653,911 |
| 1940 | 25,513 | 762,244 | 920,873 | 2,449,722 | 1,942,471 | 4,529,173 |
| 1945 | 29,050 | 1,119,372 | 1,845,773 | 4,473,669 | 3,564,316 | 8,250,369 |
| 19505 | 35,942 | 1,183,297 | 2,771,267 | 7,538,535 | 5,942,058 | 13,817,526 |
| 1951 | 37,021 | 1,258,375 | 3,276,281 | 9,074,526 | 6,940,947 | 16,392,187 |
| 1952 | 37,929 | 1,288,382 | 3,637,620 | 9,146,172 | 7,443,533 | 16,982,687 |
| 1953 | 38,107 | 1,327,451 | 3,957,018 | 9,380,559 | 7,993,089 | 17,785,417 |
| 1954 | 38,028 | 1,267,966 | 3,896,688 | 9,241,858 | 7,902,124 | 17,554,528 |
| 1955 | 38,182 | 1,298,461 | 4,142,410 | 10,338,202 | 8,753,450 | 19,513,934 |
| 1956 | 37,428 | 1,353,020 | 4,570,692 | 11,721,537 | 9,605,425 | 21,636,749 |
| 1957 | 37,875 | 1,359,061 | 4,819,628 | 11,900,752 | 9,822,085 | 22,183,594 |
| 1958 | 36,741 | 1,289,602 | 4,802,496 | 11,821,567 | 9,454,955 | 22,163,186 |
| 1959 | 36,193 | 1,303,956 | 5,073,074 | 12,552,201 | 10,320,963 | 23,311,601 |
| Basis: Revised standard industrial classification and new establishment concept | ||||||
| 1957 | 33,551 | 1,340,948 | 4,778,040 | 11,698,789 | - | 21,452,343 |
| 1958 | 32,446 | 1,272,686 | 4,758,614 | 11,630,825 | 9,454,954 | 21,434,815 |
| 1959 | 32,075 | 1,287,809 | 5,030,128 | 12,339,558 | 10,154,277 | 22,830,827 |
| 1960 | 32,852 | 1,275,476 | 5,150,503 | 12,451,637 | 10,371,284 | 23,279,804 |
| 1961 | 32,415 | 1,264,946 | 5,231,447 | 13,127,708 | 10,682,138 | 24,243,295 |
| Notes: Figures for intervening years from 1918 to 1949, not included in this table, are given in the Canada Year Book, 1962, p. 616. Statistics of manufacturing from 1870 have been published but between that year and 1917 figures are not on a basis comparable to the series given below; statistics for significant years appear in the Canada Year Book, 1943/1944, p. 363. Figures of the non-ferrous metal smelting industries were first included with manufactures in 1925. | ||||||
| 1. Includes working owners and partners. | ||||||
| 2. For 1924 to 1951, the value added by manufacture is computed by subtracting cost of fuel, electricity and materials from gross value of products; for 1952 and 1953 the deduction is made from value of factory shipments and for 1954 and subsequent years from the calculated value of production. Figures prior to 1924 are not comparable because statistics for cost of electricity are not available. | ||||||
| 3. Prior to 1952, gross value of products. | ||||||
| 4. A change in the method of computing the number of employees in the years 1925 to 1930 increased the number somewhat over that which the method otherwise used would have given. In 1931, however, the method in force prior to 1925 was re-adopted. | ||||||
| 5. Newfoundland is included from 1949 but figures for the fish processing industry for 1949 and 1950 are not available for that province and are not included. | ||||||
| Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1967. | ||||||
