Survey on Financing of Small and Medium Enterprises, 2004

The Survey on Financing of Small and Medium Enterprises, 2004, surveyed 34 509 enterprises between September 2004 and March 2005. The estimates were generated from the responses obtained from 13 042 SMEs (enterprises that had a gross revenue of less than $50 million, had less than 500 full-time-equivalent employees and were operational even for a very short time during the reference year), rendering a response rate (percentage of in-scope businesses) of 45 percent. The estimates related to Part 2 of the survey were generated from responses to a paper questionnaire obtained from 3500 SMEs.

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2004 Survey in PDF Format
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Survey Questionnaires:

2004 Survey Questionnaire Part 1
2004 Survey Questionnaire Part 2

Methodology/Important Notes:

Public Release, Statistics Canada The Daily
Methodology Report