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A profile of the video game industry in the Canadian provinces / by Rupert Allen and Jenny Watt.CS36-28-0001/2025-8-1E-PDF

"Despite the involvement of the Canadian government in the video game industry, there is relatively little publicly available information about the types of firms populating this industry. This article provides new statistics on the video game industry across the Canadian provinces from 2013 to 2022, focusing on three main areas of interest ... The article illuminates several changes to the video game industry over time, including a rapid increase in the number of small Canadian-owned firms, a shift away from video game publishing towards video game design, and an increasing proportion of women employees and employee compensation paid to women"--Abstract, page 1.

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Department/Agency
  • Statistics Canada, issuing body.
TitleA profile of the video game industry in the Canadian provinces / by Rupert Allen and Jenny Watt.
Series title
  • Economic and social reports, 2563-8955 ; v. 5, no. 8, August 2025
Publication typeMonograph - View Master Record
Language[English]
Other language editions[French]
FormatDigital text
Electronic document
Note(s)
  • Issued also in French under title: Profil de l’industrie des jeux vidéo dans les provinces canadiennes.
  • "Insights."
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 10).
Publishing information
  • [Ottawa] : Statistics Canada = Statistique Canada, August 27, 2025.
  • ©2025
Author / Contributor
  • Allen, Rupert, author.
Description1 online resource (10 pages) : graphs.
Catalogue number
  • CS36-28-0001/2025-8-1E-PDF
Departmental catalogue number36-28-0001
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