Economics Subscriptions

We deliver the timely, unbiased analyses you need to tackle the complex questions facing your organization.

Stay ahead of changing markets.

Give your team access to nine forecast categories, including Canadian, provincial, and industry outlooks. Our team of economists leverage our proprietary econometric model to deliver timely insights and forecasts.

Anticipate the future and make confident business decisions.

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Economics Subscription Benefits

For over 20 years, leaders have relied on our national economic forecasts to position their organizations for success.

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Nine outlook categories—including national, provincial, and industry views—keep you abreast of the latest developments impacting your organization.

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Ensure that your entire team operates from the same standardized set of economic variables and assumptions. Foster cohesive and consistent decision-making.

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Canada’s largest private economic analysis and forecasting unit brings unparalleled human interpretation to economic trends.

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Identify and mitigate potential risks in your strategic plan using forecasts and timely indexes.

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Use insights into consumer and business confidence to drive your operational plans.

Learn more about how an Economics inFact Subscription can help support your organization.

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Subscription Packages

Choose from one of our four economics subscriptions and get access to nine forecast categories, including Canadian, provincial, and industry outlooks and a variety of indices and economic tools.

Our Canadian Outlook, released quarterly, covers business investment, energy, financial markets, government, household consumption, household income and employment, housing, industry trends, and international trade for the next five years, along with a longer-term 20-year view.


How this series can help you:

  • Make projections about industry performance within a broader national context.
  • Explore Canadian household consumption trends and adjust business plans accordingly.
  • Get invaluable insights into the factors driving national economic growth or contraction.

The Canadian Hiring Index, created by The Conference Board of Canada in partnership with Vicinity Jobs, provides comprehensive and timely data on hiring activity across the country. This monthly series, the only one of its kind in Canada, uses job posting data to deliver crucial insights into labour demand across regions and industries, with a focused Labour Tightness Indicator at both the national and provincial levels.


How this series can help you:

  • Assess the competition for talent across different regions and sectors.
  • Evaluate the health of the labour market and identify areas of strength or weakness.
  • Gauge the strength of the Canadian economy and anticipate changes in economic conditions.

Equip policy-makers, advisors, analysts, strategy and planning managers, and economists with current insights and analysis to support business strategies and decision-making processes. The first of its kind, Canadians’ Inflation Expectations is a monthly economic indicator of the anticipated rate of inflation over the next year and the next three years, based on a survey of Canadian households.


How this series can help you:

  • Adapt business plans to align with what consumers are spending or willing to spend.
  • Choose information that’s relevant to your business, with results broken down by respondents’ region, employment status, income, age, and housing type.
  • Better prepare your business for changes in consumer behaviour.

Take the pulse of Canada’s economic health with GrowthNow. This product uses current or recent economic data to estimate the GDP growth rate for the current quarter—before official figures are published.


How this series can help you:

  • Get an up-to-date understanding of economic conditions and trends in between official data releases.
  • Discover the key economic trends driving GDP growth fluctuations to help you better understand the changes.
  • Make well-informed decisions with a monthly analysis of the Canadian economy, including essential insights to help you adapt to changing conditions.

Understand the relative and absolute health of the housing market across Canada with our Housing Market Update. This monthly report provides up-to-date resale and construction information for 24 metropolitan centres, plus a comprehensive national overview. It also presents the factors underpinning housing demand, including interest rates, demographics, and incomes. Importantly, the report scales housing activity by market size, enabling “like-for-like” comparisons, and presents data in interactive, easy-to-read charts that are accessible on any device.


How this series can help you:

  • Gain insights into interest rates, demographics, and incomes.
  • Conduct comparative analyses between specific cities to identify regional disparities in common trends.
  • Make data-driven recommendations about housing policies.

Our widely respected Index of Business Confidence captures the views of senior executives at private Canadian corporations and provides important guidance for Canadian financial policy-makers. The index delves into the state of sales and finances at these executives’ businesses, their investment plans, and their expectations for the Canadian economy over the next six months.


How this series can help you:

  • Assess business sentiment and anticipate potential changes in business behaviour.
  • Tailor your strategies to address business concerns and support business confidence.
  • Generate a more reliable forecast of future economic conditions.

The Index of Consumer Confidence serves as a crucial indicator of near-term sales for companies in the consumer products sector. Based on the Conference Board’s survey of Canadian households, this index tracks consumer optimism about current and expected financial positions, short-term employment outlook, inflation expectations, and major purchase intentions.


How this series can help you:

  • Project future sales trends and their impact on your operational plans.
  • Assess the state of the economy and anticipate changes.
  • Tailor your planning or policies to support consumer spending and overall economic stability.

Our Industry Lens reports present timely analysis of the key issues affecting Canadian industries and include detailed five-year economic and financial forecasts. Topics include accommodation, agriculture, banking, food manufacturing, residential construction, motor vehicle parts and manufacturing, retail trade, and many more.


How this series can help you:

  • Understand the factors at play in Canadian industries and learn which are experiencing growth or contraction.
  • Get in-depth analysis and insights into a wide range of sector dynamics.
  • Identify emerging trends and patterns within various industries.

Our Major City Insights, released quarterly, provide a mathematical representation of the economies of major urban centres across Canada, incorporating unique city-level historical data meticulously constructed by the Conference Board’s forecasting team.


How this series can help you:

  • Understand how inflation rates, local GDP, employment, and population growth are impacting Canada’s major cities.
  • Track economic trends over time to identify emerging risks and opportunities.
  • City-level historical data offers insights into the long-term trajectory of urban economies.

Gain insight into Canada’s unique regional and provincial economies with the Provincial Outlook. Updated annually (20-year) and quarterly (five-year), this report provides detailed analysis and forecasts for all provinces, including GDP by industry and key economic indicators for the next five years, along with a 20-year perspective.


How this series can help you:

  • Leverage insights into provincial economies, such as population growth, household debt, imports/exports, housing trends, sectoral contributions and more to support business planning.
  • Anticipate the impact of provincial economies on the overall Canadian economy.
  • Focus your efforts, allocate your resources, and benchmark business outcomes with provincial trends in mind.

Our Territorial Outlook, updated annually, offers detailed analysis and forecasts for all territories, including GDP by industry and key economic indicators. It serves as the foundation for a 20-year economic outlook.


How this series can help you:

  • Leverage insights into sectoral contributions to territorial economies; understand regional trends.
  • Anticipate challenges and opportunities; develop strategic plans for business development and growth.

Our Travel Markets Outlook, released annually, serves the travel and tourism industry by providing sound insights and travel activity forecasts for both Canadians and visitors. With timely and insightful data interpretation, stay up-to-date on trends and market intelligence with consolidated global data, annual regional forecasts, and seasonal travel surveys.


How this series can help you:

  • Understand the risks and opportunities at play in Canada’s travel industry.
  • Analyze consolidated global data to identify trends and patterns in travel behaviour.
  • Assess the competitiveness of the travel industry, identify emerging markets, and evaluate opportunities for growth and investment.

Our U.S. Outlook, released annually (20-year) and quarterly (five-year), feeds into both our national and regional forecasts, enriching our Canadian Outlook. Seamlessly integrating data from both sides of the border, this outlook offers precise insights for navigating the dynamic economic landscape.


How this series can help you:

  • Inform projections and analyses of economic conditions, both in the United States and globally.
  • Identify cross-border trends and their anticipated effects on Canadian sectors, industries, and regional economies.

Our World Outlook, released quarterly, delves into the short-term economic outlook for the world’s major economies, spanning North and South America, Europe, and Asia–Pacific. It provides comprehensive analysis of pertinent issues crucial for grasping global economic trends and developments.


How this series can help you:

  • View growth projections for the world economy.
  • See how important issues like inflation and energy are affecting different economies.
  • Compare and contrast different economies to help identify risks and opportunities.

Our Canadian Outlook, released quarterly, covers business investment, energy, financial markets, government, household consumption, household income and employment, housing, industry trends, and international trade for the next five years, along with a longer-term 20-year view.


How this series can help you:

  • Make projections about industry performance within a broader national context.
  • Explore Canadian household consumption trends and adjust business plans accordingly.
  • Get invaluable insights into the factors driving national economic growth or contraction.

The Canadian Hiring Index, created by The Conference Board of Canada in partnership with Vicinity Jobs, provides comprehensive and timely data on hiring activity across the country. This monthly series, the only one of its kind in Canada, uses job posting data to deliver crucial insights into labour demand across regions and industries, with a focused Labour Tightness Indicator at both the national and provincial levels.


How this series can help you:

  • Assess the competition for talent across different regions and sectors.
  • Evaluate the health of the labour market and identify areas of strength or weakness.
  • Gauge the strength of the Canadian economy and anticipate changes in economic conditions.

Equip policy-makers, advisors, analysts, strategy and planning managers, and economists with current insights and analysis to support business strategies and decision-making processes. The first of its kind, Canadians’ Inflation Expectations is a monthly economic indicator of the anticipated rate of inflation over the next year and the next three years, based on a survey of Canadian households.


How this series can help you:

  • Adapt business plans to align with what consumers are spending or willing to spend.
  • Choose information that’s relevant to your business, with results broken down by respondents’ region, employment status, income, age, and housing type.
  • Better prepare your business for changes in consumer behaviour.

Take the pulse of Canada’s economic health with GrowthNow. This product uses current or recent economic data to estimate the GDP growth rate for the current quarter—before official figures are published.


How this series can help you:

  • Get an up-to-date understanding of economic conditions and trends in between official data releases.
  • Discover the key economic trends driving GDP growth fluctuations to help you better understand the changes.
  • Make well-informed decisions with a monthly analysis of the Canadian economy, including essential insights to help you adapt to changing conditions.

Understand the relative and absolute health of the housing market across Canada with our Housing Market Update. This monthly report provides up-to-date resale and construction information for 24 metropolitan centres, plus a comprehensive national overview. It also presents the factors underpinning housing demand, including interest rates, demographics, and incomes. Importantly, the report scales housing activity by market size, enabling “like-for-like” comparisons, and presents data in interactive, easy-to-read charts that are accessible on any device.


How this series can help you:

  • Gain insights into interest rates, demographics, and incomes.
  • Conduct comparative analyses between specific cities to identify regional disparities in common trends.
  • Make data-driven recommendations about housing policies.

Our widely respected Index of Business Confidence captures the views of senior executives at private Canadian corporations and provides important guidance for Canadian financial policy-makers. The index delves into the state of sales and finances at these executives’ businesses, their investment plans, and their expectations for the Canadian economy over the next six months.


How this series can help you:

  • Assess business sentiment and anticipate potential changes in business behaviour.
  • Tailor your strategies to address business concerns and support business confidence.
  • Generate a more reliable forecast of future economic conditions.

The Index of Consumer Confidence serves as a crucial indicator of near-term sales for companies in the consumer products sector. Based on the Conference Board’s survey of Canadian households, this index tracks consumer optimism about current and expected financial positions, short-term employment outlook, inflation expectations, and major purchase intentions.


How this series can help you:

  • Project future sales trends and their impact on your operational plans.
  • Assess the state of the economy and anticipate changes.
  • Tailor your planning or policies to support consumer spending and overall economic stability.

Our Travel Markets Outlook, released annually, serves the travel and tourism industry by providing sound insights and travel activity forecasts for both Canadians and visitors. With timely and insightful data interpretation, stay up-to-date on trends and market intelligence with consolidated global data, annual regional forecasts, and seasonal travel surveys.


How this series can help you:

  • Understand the risks and opportunities at play in Canada’s travel industry.
  • Analyze consolidated global data to identify trends and patterns in travel behaviour.
  • Assess the competitiveness of the travel industry, identify emerging markets, and evaluate opportunities for growth and investment.

Gain insight into Canada’s unique regional and provincial economies with the Provincial Outlook. Updated annually (20-year) and quarterly (five-year), this report provides detailed analysis and forecasts for all provinces, including GDP by industry and key economic indicators for the next five years, along with a 20-year perspective.


How this series can help you:

  • Leverage insights into provincial economies, such as population growth, household debt, imports/exports, housing trends, sectoral contributions and more to support business planning.
  • Anticipate the impact of provincial economies on the overall Canadian economy.
  • Focus your efforts, allocate your resources, and benchmark business outcomes with provincial trends in mind.

Our Territorial Outlook, updated annually, offers detailed analysis and forecasts for all territories, including GDP by industry and key economic indicators. It serves as the foundation for a 20-year economic outlook.


How this series can help you:

  • Leverage insights into sectoral contributions to territorial economies; understand regional trends.
  • Anticipate challenges and opportunities; develop strategic plans for business development and growth.

Our Travel Markets Outlook, released annually, serves the travel and tourism industry by providing sound insights and travel activity forecasts for both Canadians and visitors. With timely and insightful data interpretation, stay up-to-date on trends and market intelligence with consolidated global data, annual regional forecasts, and seasonal travel surveys.


How this series can help you:

  • Understand the risks and opportunities at play in Canada’s travel industry.
  • Analyze consolidated global data to identify trends and patterns in travel behaviour.
  • Assess the competitiveness of the travel industry, identify emerging markets, and evaluate opportunities for growth and investment.

Understand the relative and absolute health of the housing market across Canada with our Housing Market Update. This monthly report provides up-to-date resale and construction information for 24 metropolitan centres, plus a comprehensive national overview. It also presents the factors underpinning housing demand, including interest rates, demographics, and incomes. Importantly, the report scales housing activity by market size, enabling “like-for-like” comparisons, and presents data in interactive, easy-to-read charts that are accessible on any device.


How this series can help you:

  • Gain insights into interest rates, demographics, and incomes.
  • Conduct comparative analyses between specific cities to identify regional disparities in common trends.
  • Make data-driven recommendations about housing policies.

Our Major City Insights, released quarterly, provide a mathematical representation of the economies of major urban centres across Canada, incorporating unique city-level historical data meticulously constructed by the Conference Board’s forecasting team.


How this series can help you:

  • Understand how inflation rates, local GDP, employment, and population growth are impacting Canada’s major cities.
  • Track economic trends over time to identify emerging risks and opportunities.
  • City-level historical data offers insights into the long-term trajectory of urban economies.

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