The Industry Forecast Service is tailored for businesses and agencies that track Canadian industries and their markets. The service exploits the information base of our National and Provincial Forecast Services to focus on industry issues:
- What is driving the demand for the industry's products: sales to households, other businesses, governments, exports, or import competition?
- What is driving the prices charged by supplier industries?
- How are wages and payroll taxes affecting the industry's costs? What is the outlook for changes in the industry's productivity, and that of its supplier industries?
- What is the outlook for the industry's return on capital?
- How are all of the above affected by government expenditure and taxes, by environmental regulation, by shifts in exchange rates or foreign prices, or by shifts in the trading environment?
The Industry Service is founded on our National and Provincial Forecast Services - the forecasts developed for Industry Service subscribers are the same as those developed for the parent services. So Industry Service subscribers benefit from the consistency, attention to detail, alternative scenarios, and breadth of analysis inherent in those services.
The Industry service differs from its parent services in that the presentation and analysis is focused on your industry - on the challenges faced by managers of marketing, industrial relations, procurement, finance, business development, and government relations.
The Industry Service has five sub-services (which can be separately subscribed) offering flexibility in configuring the service around your information needs and budget.
The sub-services are organized around five industry "Super-Sectors", each representing a distinct group of industries. This grouping is designed around industry "chains" and common sets of demand "drivers".
Each Super-Sector is composed of several sub-sectors, and each sub-sector of several industries. Subscribers receive full forecast detail right down to the individual industry. The Super-Sectors, their sub-sectors, and the number of individual industries in each sub-sector are:
- Resource Based Goods and Services:
- Food, Beverage and Tobacco (13 industries)
- Wood and Paper (8 industries)
- Energy (10 industries)
- Chemicals and Chemical Products (6 industries)
- Metallic Minerals and Products (10 industries)
- Durable Investment Goods and Services
- Machinery and Equipment (2 industries)
- Transportation Equipment (7 industries)
- Electrical and Electronic Components (7 industries)
- Construction and Related Activities (14 industries)
- Business-Related Services
- Transportation Services (10 industries)
- Communications (6 industries)
- Finance and Insurance (4 industries)
- General Services to Business (3 industries)
- Consumer Goods and Services
- Accommodation, Restaurants and Recreation (3 industries)
- Wholesale and Retail Trade (2 industries)
- Other Consumer Goods and Services (9 industries)
- Government and Social Services
- Government Services (7 industries)
- Education (2 industries)
- Health and Social Services (4 industries)
Service Elements
The Industry Service is offered on an annual subscription basis and includes the following service elements for the subscribed Super-Sector:
- Subscribers receive full industry detail of forecasts for sub-sectors and individual industries within the Super-Sector. Forecasts and analyses are distributed to subscribers in the form of a written report (the "Super-Sector Outlook") along with extensive tabular detail of the forecast in both hard-copy and machine-readable form. (See Industry Table Template.)
- Forecasts are produced throughout the year (corresponding to the forecasts of the parent services): two "reference" forecasts with a time horizon of twenty-five years and two corresponding "update" forecasts with a time horizon of ten years. Forecasts include both a reference outlook and alternative scenarios to assess exposure to risk (or opportunity), the consequences of potential shocks to the national economy, and policy options.
- To provide an economy-wide context in which the industry will operate, subscribers receive a summary "macro outlook" based on detailed reports of the parent services.
- Workshops are held during which the current reference forecast is presented in detail and major assumptions are reviewed with subscribers. Subscriber input from workshops and evolving current economic events determine the intervening "update" forecasts.
- Subscribers receive access to the full Super-Sector detail of the forecasts and historical database in hard copy and machine-readable form.
- Subscribers receive special studies and reports focusing on an industry or policy initiative, based on key issues and in response to subscriber demand. Examples of past special studies include assessments of federal/provincial government budgets, assessments of external shocks (such as U.S. countervail actions, the Gulf War, price/exchange rate shocks, etc.) and the evaluation of major policy initiatives (such as the GST and the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement).
- Subscribers receive a subscription to
Monthly Economic Review.
To contact us
Email or call/write to Carl Sonnen at:
Informetrica Limited
P.O. Box 828, Station B
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5P9
Tel: (613) 238-4831
Fax: (613) 238-7698