NAICS 91411Industry · 5-digitlocal market

Indigenous public administration

This industry comprises establishments of Indigenous governments primarily engaged in providing a wide variety of services to their citizens that would otherwise be provided by federal, provincial or municipal levels of governments. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA: 835
Under 10 employeesA: 13%

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

1–4435%

5–9688%

10–19526%

20–4919123%

50–9920024%

100–19916620%

200–49910412%

500+111%

Of 835 Canadian establishments with employees, 13% have fewer than ten — an industry where large establishments carry real weight.

Where they areA

British Columbia23829%

Ontario16219%

Manitoba9011%

Saskatchewan8510%

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 914, 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.

local competitionhigh capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 914 Indigenous public administration

Indigenous governments as buyers and as economic-development partners. Entry here is by partnership rather than by sale.

Who sets the price: Not applicable.
The software it runs on: Band administration, membership and housing management.

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 9141 Indigenous public administration covers it.

Operating businessScreenedfiled at 9141

Indigenous Government AdministrationStructure decides

binding constraint: entry cost + regulatory drag

First Nations, Métis and Inuit governments: 835 establishments, only 13% with fewer than ten employees and 281 employing a hundred or more [A]. These are full governments delivering housing, education, health, lands and economic development, often as the largest employer in their community. 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. Work with Indigenous governments is done by partnership and on their terms — through community-owned development corporations, joint ventures and procurement policies that favour Indigenous-owned business. For a non-Indigenous entrant the honest path is as a partner or supplier to such an entity, and the relationship comes before any transaction. 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. The scale of what crosses that line is now measurable, and it is shrinking: Ottawa's mandatory 5% floor moved $1.04 billion of federal contracts to Indigenous businesses in 2024-25, 5.1% of eligible contract value, against $1.24 billion and 6.1% the year before [A], competed for by the roughly 2,700 firms in the Indigenous Business Directory. The other number that matters is $4 billion raised by the First Nations Finance Authority for 193 borrowing First Nations [A] — a nation that can issue debt against its own revenues is a counterparty, not a grant recipient, and it chooses its partners accordingly.

NAICS 91415 vendors named9 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: Band administration, membership and housing management.

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

3 rows sit directly beneath 91411. Each has a base report of its own.

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
914111	First Nations public administration	813	screened at 9141
914112	Métis public administration	17	screened at 9141
914113	Inuit public administration	5	screened at 9141