Methods: how each figure is worked out

Human scale

These are hypothetical comparisons using a named denominator, not a bill to residents, local employment or a geographic allocation. Federal records and mixed supplier summaries do not receive automatic per-person, household or wage-time figures.

Per person: the amount divided by the province's population, 545,080 on July 1, 2024 (Statistics Canada table 17-10-0009-01).
Per household: divided by 223,253 private households (2021 Census, table 98-10-0002-01).
Time to earn: divided by the median full-time wage, $1,248.00 a week in 2025 (table 14-10-0064-01, vector v2200133) times 52, which is $64,896 a year. Weeks, days and hours assume 52 working weeks of five 7.5-hour days.

The personal receipt

How the receipt is worked out.

Budget against actual, the deficit and net debt

Which budget is set against which actual, and why the deficit comes from the Public Accounts.

Provincial award printings

Equal prices and dates do not establish a repeat. The full contract and purchase-order identifiers, matched supplier, buyer, printed award date and description must agree, or an exact pair of report rows must have a source-backed review. Distinct zones, products, terms and separately numbered awards stay separate. Repeated printings remain on the counted record with their receipts and on the publisher report card.

Federal amendments

How amended federal contracts and grants are counted once.

Supplier names

How names printed different ways are matched to one supplier.

Totals and checks

Every total on this site is a sum of line items loaded from the sources. Where a source prints its own totals, the sum is compared with them; the results are on the report card.

Methods