"TERMS AND CONDITIONS" "https://www.bankofcanada.ca/terms/" "NAME" "Past sales" "DESCRIPTION" "Balance of opinion:* Over the past 12 months, did your firm’s total sales volumes decrease significantly, decrease slightly, remain the same, increase slightly or increase significantly compared with the previous 12 months?" "" "* Balances of opinion are constructed by assigning scores (e.g., 1, 0.5, 0, -0.5 and -1) to the responses, totalling all scores and dividing by the number of responses." "" "Note: Responses are plotted one quarter ahead; BOS is Business Outlook Survey; e-BOS is electronic Business Outlook Survey." "" "Sources: Statistics Canada and Bank of Canada calculations" "LINK" "https://www.bankofcanada.ca/?p=221555" "SERIES" "id","label","description" "SAN_CHRI20210422_C6_S1","Micro-micro","" "SAN_CHRI20210422_C6_S2","All e-BOS","" "SAN_CHRI20210422_C6_S3","Micro-small","" "SAN_CHRI20210422_C6_S4","BOS","" "SAN_CHRI20210422_C6_S5","Small","" "SAN_CHRI20210422_C6_S6","Real business sector GDP growth (right scale)","" "OBSERVATIONS" "date","SAN_CHRI20210422_C6_S1","SAN_CHRI20210422_C6_S2","SAN_CHRI20210422_C6_S3","SAN_CHRI20210422_C6_S4","SAN_CHRI20210422_C6_S5","SAN_CHRI20210422_C6_S6" "2004-01-01","","","","9.00","","2.59" "2004-04-01","","","","17.00","","3.67" "2004-07-01","","","","19.00","","3.75" "2004-10-01","","","","29.00","","3.31" "2005-01-01","","","","20.00","","3.14" "2005-04-01","","","","24.00","","3.06" "2005-07-01","","","","32.00","","3.14" "2005-10-01","","","","27.00","","3.45" "2006-01-01","","","","18.00","","3.93" "2006-04-01","","","","9.00","","3.03" "2006-07-01","","","","15.00","","2.22" "2006-10-01","","","","18.00","","1.62" "2007-01-01","","","","12.00","","1.43" "2007-04-01","","","","18.00","","2.25" "2007-07-01","","","","22.00","","2.63" "2007-10-01","","","","9.00","","2.02" "2008-01-01","","","","7.00","","1.07" "2008-04-01","","","","-2.00","","0.38" "2008-07-01","","","","-25.00","","0.35" "2008-10-01","","","","-18.00","","-1.19" "2009-01-01","","","","-52.00","","-4.05" "2009-04-01","","","","-43.00","","-5.63" "2009-07-01","","","","-51.00","","-5.66" "2009-10-01","","","","-43.00","","-2.89" "2010-01-01","","","","18.00","","1.88" "2010-04-01","","","","22.00","","4.25" "2010-07-01","","","","30.00","","4.58" "2010-10-01","","","","29.00","","4.70" "2011-01-01","","","","24.00","","3.98" "2011-04-01","","","","30.00","","3.25" "2011-07-01","","","","29.00","","4.16" "2011-10-01","","","","22.00","","3.57" "2012-01-01","","","","27.00","","2.68" "2012-04-01","","","","6.00","","3.12" "2012-07-01","","","","-2.00","","1.67" "2012-10-01","","","","-17.00","","1.17" "2013-01-01","","","","9.00","","2.23" "2013-04-01","","","","-11.00","","2.44" "2013-07-01","","","","-3.00","","3.28" "2013-10-01","","","","14.00","","4.11" "2014-01-01","","","","5.00","","3.06" "2014-04-01","","","","14.00","","3.70" "2014-07-01","","","","21.00","","3.50" "2014-10-01","","","","25.00","","3.06" "2015-01-01","","","","12.00","","2.22" "2015-04-01","","","","0.00","","0.69" "2015-07-01","","","","0.00","","0.47" "2015-10-01","","","","-4.00","","-0.08" "2016-01-01","","","","0.00","","0.99" "2016-04-01","","","","1.00","","0.43" "2016-07-01","","","","0.00","","1.04" "2016-10-01","","","","2.00","","1.59" "2017-01-01","","","","20.00","","2.54" "2017-04-01","","","","13.00","","4.51" "2017-07-01","","","","20.00","","3.59" "2017-10-01","","","","20.00","","3.64" "2018-01-01","4.14","11.17","16.74","29.00","28.47","2.69" "2018-04-01","0.22","7.98","16.38","12.00","21.00","1.93" "2018-07-01","3.87","6.22","4.68","22.00","21.23","2.20" "2018-10-01","2.10","5.52","5.13","-6.00","22.41","1.56" "2019-01-01","","","","-3.00","","1.24" "2019-04-01","","","","-5.00","","1.71" "2019-07-01","","","","-1.00","","1.55" "2019-10-01","","","","-12.00","","1.68" "2020-01-01","","","","","","-0.54"