Computer and peripherals price indexes, August 2013
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Released: 2013-09-27
Prices for commercial computers increased 0.2% from July to August, while consumer computer prices decreased 1.4%. In the case of computer peripherals, monitor prices were up 0.5% while printer prices remained unchanged.
Year over year, prices remained unchanged for commercial computers and prices for consumer computers decreased by 2.8%. Monitor prices decreased 1.4% and printer prices increased 4.5%.
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The computer and peripherals price indexes are monthly series measuring changes over time in the price of computers and computer peripherals sold to governments, businesses and consumers. This release presents data that are not seasonally adjusted, and the indexes published are subject to a six-month revision period after dissemination of a given month's data.
These indexes are available at the Canada level only.
The computer and peripherals price indexes for September will be released on October 25.
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