Canada - Food, beverages and tobacco (% of value added in manufacturing)

The value for Food, beverages and tobacco (% of value added in manufacturing) in Canada was 16.54 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 18.09 in 1992 and a minimum value of 11.91 in 2000.

Definition: Value added in manufacturing is the sum of gross output less the value of intermediate inputs used in production for industries classified in ISIC major division D. Food, beverages, and tobacco correspond to ISIC divisions 15 and 16.

Source: United Nations Industrial Development Organization, International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics.

See also:

Year Value
1963 16.46
1964 16.14
1965 15.54
1966 15.48
1967 15.69
1968 15.12
1969 14.91
1970 15.54
1971 15.51
1972 15.01
1973 14.59
1974 13.47
1975 14.76
1976 14.71
1977 14.96
1978 14.52
1979 13.68
1980 13.85
1981 13.85
1982 16.14
1983 15.59
1984 14.62
1985 14.55
1986 14.59
1987 14.31
1988 13.61
1989 13.52
1990 15.45
1991 17.51
1992 18.09
1993 16.57
1994 15.27
1995 13.49
1996 14.33
1997 13.72
1998 14.39
1999 13.73
2000 11.91
2001 13.03
2002 12.80
2003 13.55
2004 13.81
2005 14.11
2006 13.84
2007 14.89
2008 15.55
2009 18.05
2010 17.10
2011 17.09
2012 16.67
2013 17.40
2014 16.70
2015 16.50
2016 18.02
2017 17.25
2018 16.54
2019 16.54

Development Relevance: Firms typically use multiple processes to produce a product. For example, an automobile manufacturer engages in forging, welding, and painting as well as advertising, accounting, and other service activities. Collecting data at such a detailed level is not practical, nor is it useful to record production data at the highest level of a large, multiplant, multiproduct firm. The ISIC has therefore adopted as the definition of an establishment "an enterprise or part of an enterprise which independently engages in one, or predominantly one, kind of economic activity at or from one location . . . for which data are available . . ." (United Nations 1990). By design, this definition matches the reporting unit required for the production accounts of the United Nations System of National Accounts. The ISIC system is described in the United Nations' International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Third Revision (1990). The discussion of the ISIC draws on Ryten (1998).

Limitations and Exceptions: In establishing classifications systems compilers must define both the types of activities to be described and the units whose activities are to be reported. There are many possibilities, and the choices affect how the statistics can be interpreted and how useful they are in analyzing economic behavior. The ISIC emphasizes commonalities in the production process and is explicitly not intended to measure outputs (for which there is a newly developed Central Product Classification). Nevertheless, the ISIC views an activity as defined by "a process resulting in a homogeneous set of products."

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The data on the distribution of manufacturing value added by industry are provided by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). UNIDO obtains the data from a variety of national and international sources, including the United Nations Statistics Division, the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the International Monetary Fund. To improve comparability over time and across countries, UNIDO supplements these data with information from industrial censuses, statistics from national and international organizations, unpublished data that it collects in the field, and estimates by the UNIDO Secretariat. Nevertheless, coverage may be incomplete, particularly for the informal sector. When direct information on inputs and outputs is not available, estimates may be used, which may result in errors in industry totals. Moreover, countries use different reference periods (calendar or fiscal year) and valuation methods (basic or producer prices) to estimate value added.

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: National accounts