Industry Specialization based on Business Locations by Functional Economic Regions

Industry Specialization based on Business Locations by Functional Economic Regions is an open dataset from Government of Nova Scotia with 30 files (HTML, PDF, CSV, OTHER, RDF); catalogue record updated 2026-04-17. On CanQuery you can open 3 CSV or Excel files as tables, filter, chart and export up to 10,000 rows as CSV and follow the original downloads.

The dataset provides information on industry specialization, industry structure and number of business locations for Nova Scotia’s Functional Economic Regions. The data fields include: Functional Economic Region Name, Month and Year; Category (e.g., Farming); Type (Traded or Local); North American Industry Classification (NAICS) - 6-digits; Location Quotient based on Business Locations; and Employment Size Categories for Business Locations. Fields may be added to or change over time.

Publisher

Government of Nova Scotia

Resources

30

Catalogue metadata updated

2026-04-17