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Architectural, Engineering and Related Services Price Index, fourth quarter 2019

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Released: 2020-03-05

The Architectural, Engineering and Related Services Price Index (AESPI) decreased 0.1% in the fourth quarter, following a 0.2% increase in the previous quarter.

Engineering services, the largest component of the AESPI, decreased 0.2% after increasing 0.3% in the previous quarter.

Prices rose 0.6% for the architectural and landscape architectural services component.

Surveying and mapping services were unchanged from the previous quarter.

Chart 1  Chart 1: Architectural, Engineering and Related Services Price Index
Architectural, Engineering and Related Services Price Index

Chart 2  Chart 2: Architectural, Engineering and Related Services Price Index, percentage change by region
Architectural, Engineering and Related Services Price Index, percentage change by region

Year-over-year change

Year over year, the AESPI rose 1.7% in the fourth quarter as a result of higher prices for architectural and landscape architectural services (+1.8%), engineering services (+1.7%) and surveying and mapping services (+1.3%).


  Note to readers

The Architectural, Engineering and Related Services Price Index (AESPI) is a quarterly series that measures changes over time in the prices of architectural, engineering, surveying and mapping services.

With each release, data for the previous quarter may have been revised. Data are also subject to an annual revision with the release of second quarter data of the following reference year. The index is not seasonally adjusted. Data are available at the Canada and regional levels.

Products

Statistics Canada has an interactive AESPI dashboard, which allows users to visualize statistics on architectural, engineering and related services prices.

Statistics Canada has launched the Producer Price Indexes Portal as a part of a suite of portals for prices and price indexes. This webpage provides Canadians with a single point of access to a wide variety of statistics and measures related to producer prices.

The video "Producer Price Indexes" is available on the Statistics Canada Training Institute webpage. It provides an introduction to Statistics Canada's Producer Price Indexes: what they are, how they are compiled and what they are used for.

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