Supply and Use Tables

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The Supply and Use Tables (SUT) contain the most comprehensive and detailed statistics relating to production, intermediate use and final consumption of goods and services in the Canadian economy. They measure economic activity by industry as well as by product. They are the primary building block of the CSA.

As their name suggests, SUT contain two important dimensions: the supply table and the use table. The supply table shows the goods and services produced by each industry in the Canadian economy. In most cases, domestic production or output of an industry is simply its sales or shipments adjusted for changes in inventories, measured at basic prices. Estimates of the supply (output) of culture products in the CSA originate in the supply table.

The use table shows the goods and services used by each industry in the production of their goods and services. This table also shows the costs of “primary inputs” used in production, including labour income, income of unincorporated businesses, other operating surplus and net indirect taxes (often referred to as the payments to labour, capital and appropriations by government).

From these tables it is possible to derive a measure of value added or gross domestic product by taking the output of an industry and subtracting the intermediate inputs used in the production of that output. The estimates of Culture GDP and GDP by culture industries (as well as Sport GDP and GDP by sport industries) are based on the data reported in these tables. The Input Output Industry Classification (IOIC) is a variant of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). The Supply and Use Product Classification (SUPC) is a variant of the North American Products Classification System (NAPCS).