December 2010 Briefing

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Figure 1: Total and Average Number of Claims and Forms Submitted, 2005 and 2008

Claims and Forms Submitted	2005	2008
Total Submissions	17 471 046	16 110 772
Average Submissions per Business	28	25

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Figure 2: Average Time Spent on Compliance per Establishment, by Region, 2005 and 2008

Region	Average Time (hours)
	2005	2008
Atlantic	24	21
Quebec	21	19
British Columbia	21	18
Canada	21	18
Ontario	20	16
Prairies	20	19

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Figure 3: Relationship between Average Submissions per Business and Average Compliance Time, by Business Size and Region, 2008

	Average Submissions per Business	Average Time (hours)
Number of Employees
0	7	7
1–4	25	15
5–19	40	26
20–99	72	42
100–499	162	80
Total	25	18
Region
Atlantic	27	21
Quebec	29	19
Ontario	23	16
Prairies	25	19
British Columbia	26	18
Canada	25	18

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Figure 4: Total Compliance Costs, 2005 and 2008

Year	Total Nominal Costs	Adjusted Total Real Costs
2005	1 085 194	—
2008	1 166 130	1 054 412

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Figure 5: Average Costs per Establishment, 2005 and 2008

Year	Average Nominal Costs	Adjusted Real Average Costs
2005	2 008	—
2008	1 982	1 849

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Figure 6: Average Nominal Costs per Business, by Size of Business, 2005 and 2008

Number of Employees	Average Costs per Business ($)
	2005	2008
0	867	914
1–4	1 378	1372
5–19	2 406	2 802
20–99	4 987	6 095
100–499	14 649	11 975
All Businesses	2 008	1 982

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Figure 7: Average Nominal Costs per Employee, by Size of Business, 2005 and 2008

Number of Employees	Average Costs per Employee ($)
	2005	2008
0	867	914
1–4	628	657
5–19	265	313
20–99	124	155
100–499	85	74
All Businesses	218	282

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