NAICS 91291Industry · 5-digitregional market

Other provincial and territorial public administration

This industry comprises establishments of provincial and territorial governments, not classified to any other industry, primarily engaged in executive and legislative activities; fiscal and related policies and the administration of the public debt; assessing, levying and collecting taxes; conducting relations with other governments; and the administration of provincial and territorial government programs. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA: 1,597
Under 10 employeesA: 34%

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–435922%

5–919012%

10–1924115%

20–4921814%

50–9915510%

100–19924215%

200–4991087%

500+845%

Of 1,597 Canadian establishments with employees, 34% have fewer than ten — an industry where large establishments carry real weight.

Where they areA

Quebec24015%

British Columbia18712%

Ontario16911%

Nova Scotia16710%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

No US figure is shown. County Business Patterns is coded to the 2017 US edition of NAICS; this code either does not exist there, names a different industry, or is outside the programme's coverage (most of agriculture, rail, postal and public administration are). A figure is attached only where both the code and the title agree.

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 912, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

regional competitionhigh capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 912 Provincial and territorial public administration

Provincial government as a buyer. Procurement rules and reference requirements favour incumbents.

Who sets the price: Not applicable.
The software it runs on: Case management, licensing and registries, bought by tender.

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

Screened one level up. Nothing is filed at this exact code; the screen for 9129 Other provincial and territorial public administration covers it.

Operating businessScreenedfiled at 9129

Other Provincial Government AdministrationStructure decides

binding constraint: entry cost + regulatory drag

The residual for provincial and territorial administration — and the largest block in the sector: 1,597 establishments, 434 employing a hundred or more [A]. Ministries, agencies, boards and commissions. This is a buyer, not a market to enter: the activity is a function of government, carried out under statute by public servants, and no licence, acquisition or amount of capital lets a private entrant perform it. Ten provinces and three territories each run their own procurement with their own vendor-of-record lists, which makes this thirteen markets, not one. That fragmentation is an opening for a vendor with a regional base and a closed door for one without: reference customers inside the province matter more than price. Software sold here is screened at 912110. The cut factor is recorded as entry cost and regulatory drag because that is the nearest the screening model comes to 'not available to private parties' — the barrier is not high, it is absolute, and everything interesting is in what gets sold across it.

NAICS 91294 vendors named7 sourced figuresOpen →

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

No vertical software market has been recorded along this branch. What the subsector typically runs on: Case management, licensing and registries, bought by tender.

And what every business buys · 25 generic categories

Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.

Who works here

The occupations employed in Public administration, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Concentrated in this sectorA

Managers in public protection services One industry 98.5%

Police investigators and probation officers One industry 97.6%

Primary combat members of the Canadian Armed Forces One industry 97.2%

Occupations in front-line public protection services One industry 96.5%

Managers in public administration One industry 95.3%

Assisting occupations in legal and public protection One industry 93.1%

Water and rail transport operators and labourers and related occupations Mostly one sector 44.2%

Library, correspondence and other clerks Mostly one sector 23.5%

Architects, urban planners and land surveyors Mostly one sector 19.4%

Judges, lawyers and Quebec notaries One industry 15.5%

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Survey, statistical and data entry occupations Across the economy 28.8%

Administrative services managers Across the economy 28%

Technical inspectors and regulatory officers Across the economy 18.9%

Administrative and financial supervisors Across the economy 12.4%

Administrative, property and payroll officers Across the economy 12.3%

Office administrative assistants - general, legal and medical Across the economy 11.8%

Technical occupations in computer and information systems Across the economy 10.7%

Legislative and senior managers Across the economy 9.5%

Financial, insurance and related administrative support workers Across the economy 7.4%

Customer and information services representatives Across the economy 7%

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. In a small establishment several of these are usually one person, or an outside provider.

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Inside this industry

1 row sits directly beneath 91291. Each has a base report of its own.

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
912910	Other provincial and territorial public administration	1,597	screened at 9129