Canadian Input/Output Model Results

The Canadian Input/Output Model provides calculated impacts in specific areas, including total gross output, total GDP, total labour income, indirect taxes, and jobs created. 

Economic Impact

The Canadian I/O Model can be applied at both the provincial level and the local regional level (as an estimation of spending locally) to estimate economic impact for Brandon University.

The Brandon University expenditure data are used for both methods. The calculation for student spending for the I/O model uses out-of-town students rather than full-time students. Visitor spending impact uses the same base number of out-of- town visitors as the Sudmant Method.  This model calculates the impact of three main variables (i.e., institutional spending, out-of-town student and visitor spending) and does not include the dynamic impact of the University over time (e.g., research impact or Alumni impact). Hence the numbers are much more conservative, but provide more detail in specific areas of spending.

This method does not sum the economic impacts of the university for a total number, but instead calculates the economic impact of the areas of spending (e.g., University Operations, Capital Expenditure, Out-of-town students, Out-of-town visitors) on Gross Output, GDP Basic price, Labour Income, Jobs created and Indirect Taxes for the 2014/2015 fiscal year. Tables 7 and 8 below provide details of the impact on Manitoba and Brandon.

Figure 4. Percentage of Economic Impact of Brandon University in Brandon and Manitoba

Table7. Brandon University Economic Impacts in Manitoba

Initial Spending ($M)

University Operations Capital Expenditure Out-of-town Students Out-of-town Visitors Total Impact in Manitoba
48.2 1.4 24.3 10.5 84.4
Impact University Operations Capital Expenditure Out-of-town Students Out-of-town Visitors Total Impact in Manitoba
Total Gross Output 67.9 2.0 36.7 16.3 122.9
Total GDP Basic Price 48.7 1.4 22.1 9.2 81.4
Total Labour Income 28.5 0.8 11.7 5.7 46.7
Total Jobs 501 15 247 164 927
Total Indirect Taxes15 2.1 0.1 2.1 0.8 5.1

Table 8. Brandon University Economic Impacts in Brandon

Initial Spending ($M)

University Operations Capital Expenditure Out-of-town Students Out-of-town Visitors Total Impact in Manitoba
44.4 0.8 24.3 10.5 80.0
Impact University operations Capital Expenditure Out-of-town Students Out-of-town Visitors Total Impact in Brandon
Total Gross Output 62.6 1.1 20.9 8.4 93.0
Total GDP Basic Price 44.9 0.8 12.4 4.7 62.8
Total Labour Income 26.3 0.5 6.3 3.0 36.1
Total Jobs 462 8 127 82 679
Total Indirect Taxes[1] 1.9 0.03 1.3 0.4 3.6

The estimated total initial (or direct) expenditures in the 2014/2015 fiscal year associated with Brandon University are $84.4M in Manitoba and $80.0M in Brandon, demonstrating the majority of spending and economic impact of the University occurs locally.

  1. Indirect Taxes refers to the total amount of revenues generated by the economic activity for different levels of government, in this study they are not divided into the different levels, but categorized as “general indirect taxes”. ↩