For-hire Motor Carrier Freight Services Price Index
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The For-Hire Motor Carrier Freight Services Price Index increased 0.8% in the fourth quarter from the third quarter.
The specialized freight trucking component was up 0.6%, while the general freight trucking component rose 1.0%.
On a year-over-year basis, the index advanced 1.6% in the fourth quarter compared with the same quarter of 2009.
Note: With this release, third quarter data are revised and the fourth quarter are subject to revision. All data in this release are seasonally unadjusted.
The For-hire Motor Carrier Freight Services Price Index is part of the Services Producer Price Index program at Statistics Canada. This is a monthly index which is disseminated on a quarterly basis. The monthly index measures changes over time in prices for the for-hire motor carrier freight services provided by general and specialized freight trucking companies.
The data collected are used to estimate a price index for the truck transportation services sector. The index can be joined with other business service indexes to provide better estimates of real output and productivity, and to monitor inflation in the services sector. Indexes are available at the Canada level only.
Available on CANSIM: table 332-0004.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 5136.
For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact the Client Services Section (toll-free 1-888-951-4550; 613-951-4550; fax: 613-951-3117; ppd-info-dpp@statcan.gc.ca), Producer Prices Division.
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