Provincial and Territorial Culture Indicators

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The Provincial and Territorial Culture Indicators (PTCI) are used to provide the culture and sport product ratios for each reference year. These ratios provide an estimate of the proportion of each good or service that is attributable to culture and sport. One major assumption with the Trade of Culture and Sport Products (TCSP) estimates is that PTCI product ratios, which are based on the output (i.e. production) of culture or sport products are also reflective of the trade patterns of that good or service. For example, it could be the case that the culture proportion of a product may be domestically used or consumed and that the trade may simply be for the non-culture proportion of the product.

Another point of consideration has to do with international imports. There is no information on how the goods and services that enter Canada are produced. For example, it is not known which industries in the foreign countries produce the culture or sport products being imported. The PTCI culture and sport ratios, which are based on the production of culture and sport products in Canada, are applied to the products that are imported from other countries. This assumes that products produced in other countries have the same culture content as the corresponding products in the provinces and territories where they are imported.