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Glossary of Definitions

• Business establishments: Production entity or group of entities that produces goods or services, does not cross provincial boundaries, and provides data on value of output and input costs to the government.
   
• Employment income: Includes wages and salaries, commissions from employment, training allowances, tips and gratuities, and all income from self-employment (business, professional, farming, fishing income, and commissions).
   
• Job creation: Change in number of employed individuals between two given years.
  
  
• Pre-tax income: Comprised of labour force income (employment income, wages and salaries, income from self-employment, and employment insurance benefits), pension income, old age security, CPP/QPP, superannuation, family allowance income, interest and other investment income, limited partnership income, rental income, other income (such as alimony and income for non-filing spouses), RRSP income, nontaxable income, GST credit, child tax credit, workers’ compensation payments, social assistance payments, and guaranteed income supplements. Monies not included in pre-tax income: veterans’ disability and dependent pensioners’ payments, war veterans’ allowances, lottery winnings, and capital gains.
   
• Social safety net: Transfers to unemployed individuals and families from the federal and provincial governments under the auspices of the Income Assistance and Employment Insurance programs.
   
• Taxfilers: Those individuals who have filed a tax return for the reference year, and were alive at the end of the year. Non-filing spouses and non-filing children are not included.
  
  
• Unemployment rate: Share of employable labour force looking for work but unable to find it.