Table 5 
Main contributors to the 12-month and 1-month change in the Consumer Price Index 

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Main contributors to the 12-month and 1-month change in the Consumer Price Index
  July 2017 to July 2018
  % change
Main contributors to the 12-month change  
Main upward contributors  
Gasoline 25.4
Air transportation 28.2
Food purchased from restaurants 4.4
Mortgage interest cost 5.2
Purchase of passenger vehicles 2.0
Main downward contributors  
Telephone services -5.1
Traveller accommodation -4.1
Natural gas -5.7
Digital computing equipment and devices -3.5
Prescribed medicines -2.8
  June to July 2018
  % change
Main contributors to the 1-month change, not seasonally adjusted  
Main upward contributors  
Air transportation 16.4
Travel tours 13.9
Telephone services 2.2
Gasoline 0.8
Fresh fruit 3.4
Main downward contributors  
Purchase of passenger vehicles -1.3
Women's clothing -2.3
Footwear -1.4
Children's clothing -1.7
Seeds, plants and cut flowers -2.0
Source(s):
Table 18-10-0004-01.
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