{"id":2575,"date":"2021-02-28T21:27:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T21:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/?p=2575"},"modified":"2021-02-28T21:27:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T21:27:47","slug":"starrs-point-index-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/2021\/02\/28\/starrs-point-index-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Starr’s Point Index #7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tourism and food service businesses<\/strong><\/p>\n

Percentage change in active tourism industry businesses in Canada between February and November 2020: – 8.75%<\/p>\n

Percentage change in active tourism businesses in Nova Scotia: – 4.01%<\/p>\n

Percentage change in active accommodation and food service businesses in Canada between February and November 2020: – 8.16%<\/p>\n

Percentage change in active accommodation and food service businesses in Nova Scotia: – 5.16%[1]<\/a><\/p>\n

Hotel and motel room nights sold in Nova Scotia August 2019: 397,000<\/p>\n

Percentage of available room nights sold August 2019: 73%<\/p>\n

Hotel and motel room nights sold Nova Scotia August 2020: 166,000<\/p>\n

Percentage of available room nights sold August 2020: 39%[2]<\/a><\/p>\n

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COVID-19 relief to business<\/strong><\/p>\n

Total number of businesses receiving Nova Scotia COVID-19 relief and reopening grants 2020: 4,227<\/p>\n

Total value of grants: $20,400,000<\/p>\n

Percentage of total grants to restaurants: 40.2%<\/p>\n

To health professionals: 21.9%<\/p>\n

To personal care services: 10.8%<\/p>\n

To dental offices: 5.9%<\/p>\n

To drinking establishments: 4.9%<\/p>\n

To performing arts: 2.9%[3]<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nova Scotia Nominee Program<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most common language of immigrants to Nova Scotia under nominee program 2012: Tagalog<\/p>\n

Second most common language 2012: English<\/p>\n

Most common language of nominee program immigrants 2019: Chinese<\/p>\n

Second most common language 2019: Arabic<\/p>\n

Largest occupation group under nominee program 2012: cooks<\/p>\n

Second largest 2012: computer programmers<\/p>\n

Largest occupation group under nominee program 2019: nurses<\/p>\n

Second largest group 2019: early childhood educators<\/p>\n

Number of prospective immigrants through nominee program 2019: 1,610<\/p>\n

Number who intended to settle in Halifax County: 1,363[4]<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nova Scotia farms<\/strong><\/p>\n

Percentage change in number of registered farms in Nova Scotia 2016-2020: – 5.53%<\/p>\n

Number of Nova Scotia counties with reduction in registered farms 2016-2020: 12<\/p>\n

County with largest reduction in registered farms: Digby: – 33.3%[5]<\/a><\/p>\n

Net farm income Nova Scotia 2016: $6.17 million<\/p>\n

Net farm income Nova Scotia 2019: – $35.0 million (loss)[6]<\/a><\/p>\n

-30-<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> StatsCanada Table 33-10-0270-01<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Nova Scotia Tourism<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> N.S. Department of Business<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> N.S. Department of Immigration<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> N.S. Department of Agriculture<\/p>\n

[6]<\/a> Statistics Canada Table 32-10-0052-01<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tourism and food service businesses Percentage change in active tourism industry businesses in Canada between February and November 2020: – 8.75% Percentage change in active tourism businesses in Nova Scotia: – 4.01% Percentage change in active accommodation and food service businesses in Canada between February and November 2020: – 8.16% Percentage change in active accommodation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-index","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583,"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions\/2583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}