SABAL - Small Area Business and Labour Data is a compendium of independent data sources brought together in one database by Statistics Canada. As a compendium, it is not a fully integrated system, therefore, dates and geographic areas covered vary between data sets selected.
SABAL combines a wide variety of economic and social statistics, and provides coverage of approximately 140 urban areas and 72 economic regions, in addition to Canada, the Provinces and Territories. Some data are not available at all geographic levels. SABAL also includes metadata on each of these data sources. The business sources included are: Business Small Area File (based on Revenue Canada administrative data), Retail Trade, Building Permits, Housing Starts from CMHC, Survey of Manufacturing, Motor Vehicle Registrations, Business Counts, Consumer Price Index, and Tourism. The social sources included are: Census of Population, Small Area Administrative Data (Taxfiler Data), Labour Force Survey, Household Facilities and Equipment Survey, Education, Training, Justice, Population Projections, Family Expenditures, and Consumer Finances Survey.