{"id":238120,"date":"2015-06-22T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/industry-canada-publishes-new-data-on-the-non-financial-co-operative-sector\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T09:39:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T13:39:51","slug":"industry-canada-publishes-new-data-on-the-non-financial-co-operative-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/industry-canada-publishes-new-data-on-the-non-financial-co-operative-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Canada publishes new data on the non financial co-operative sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Industry Canada has published new data covering the 2009-2010 fiscal periods. This is the first official data released by the federal government in some time on Canadian co-ops and contains quite a bit of insight.<\/p>\n<p>The new data shows that co-ops are growing and recent research on the economic impact of co-operatives funded by a SSHRC grant shows that co-ops from 2009 to 2010 outperformed other sectors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ic.gc.ca\/eic\/site\/693.nsf\/eng\/00103.html#p4\">The survey summary<\/a>&nbsp;states that in 2010, there were 7,865&nbsp;incorporated co-operatives registered under a federal, provincial or territorial co-operative Act. Quebec had the highest share of incorporated co-operatives (37%), followed by Ontario (21%) and Saskatchewan (12%). Of the incorporated co-operatives, 65% (or 5,094) completed the annual survey.<\/p>\n<p>It is well know that Co-operatives in Canada are involved in a wide range of activities&nbsp;\u2013 oil refining, housing, daycare, senior centres, wholesale and retail and so forth. Interestingly, the largest participating sector in the 2010 survey was housing co-ops. 42% (or 2,156) of all reporting co-operatives were classified under the Real Estate sector. Wholesale and Retail were second (13%) followed by Agriculture and Resources (8%) and Health Care and Social Assistance sectors (8%).<\/p>\n<p>For&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ic.gc.ca\/eic\/site\/693.nsf\/eng\/00101.html#p2\">more highlights<\/a>&nbsp;from the new data please visit the Industry Canada page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry Canada has published new data covering the 2009-2010 fiscal periods. This is the first official data released by the federal government in some time on Canadian co-ops and contains quite a bit of insight. The new data shows that co-ops are growing and recent research on the economic impact of co-operatives funded by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":243074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238398,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238120\/revisions\/238398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}