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Integrating the Canadian Annual Survey of Manufactures into the Unified Enterprise Survey: Challenges and Issues

The Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) is one of the largest of all the business surveys conducted by Statistics Canada. It is one of the primary contributors to the calculation of the Canadian Gross Domestic Product, representing almost 20% of the economic production. The ASM covers all establishments belonging to the manufacturing sector and the logging industry. It collects various financial data such as employment, wages, total cost of raw materials (referred here as input total), total sales of manufactured products (referred here as output total) and inventories. It also collects detailed commodity data such as the cost of each raw material, the sale of each manufactured product, and the quantity of each raw material or manufactured product. As part of a strategic streamlining initiative that aimed to reduce survey costs and resources while maintaining a certain level of data quality, the ASM conducted some major changes for the reference year (RY) 2004. One of the objectives of these changes was to maximize the use of fiscal data. These changes affected many components of the survey process such as the sample design, questionnaire contents, methodology and processing systems.