Bankruptcy - General Statistics

The Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy offers in-depth bankruptcy statistics on its Web site. These statistics include the monthly volumes of consumer and business bankruptcies, proposals and  receiverships (reported monthly from 1993 to 2007 and reported yearly since 2008). 

Business bankruptcy statistics are also broken down monthly by major industrial division, Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes up to 2003. Starting in January 2004, Type of Industry was changed to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (NAICS are published quarterly since 2008). 

Summary

The database now contains over four years of monthly data for consumer and business bankruptcies by province as well as eight years of data for business bankruptcies by province and by Standard Industrial Classification Codes. Also, more breadth has been added with the addition of bankruptcies by major urban centres which provides details on filing volumes for all of the census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations in Canada. The major urban centres statistics include statistics for the component census subdivisions of Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto and Hamilton (starting January 2008, urban centers were replaced by Quartely Census Metropolitan Areas and the Economic regions).

The statistics provide:

• published monthly statistics on bankruptcies, receiverships (up to 2007) and proposals;
• urban centres (up to 2007), provincial and national statistics;
• annual bankruptcy rates by urban centre (up to 2007).

The following reports are available under Published Statistics:

• Bankruptcies, Consumer and Business by Province - 2004/01 to 2008;
• Bankruptcies and Proposals by Urban Centers - 2004/01 to 2007/12;
• Bankruptcies, Business by Province and by SIC - 2004/01 to 2007/12;
• Receiverships, Private and Court by Province - 2004/01 to 2007/12;
• Proposals, Division I and II by Province - 2004/01 to 2008.

The Annual Statistical Summary is available from 1999 to 2007.

Manitoba Contact(s):
Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy
Industry Canada
4th Floor
400 St. Mary Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba  R3C 4K5
Telephone: 204-983-3229
Fax: 204-983-8904

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National Contact(s): 
Monique Leclair 
Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy
Industry Canada
4th Floor
Heritage Place
155 Queen Street
Ottawa, Ontario  K1A 0H5
Telephone:613-941-9054
Fax:613-941-6176
E-mail:osbstatsbsf@ic.gc.ca
Web site: http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/bsf-osb.nsf/eng/home