Chart 1
Year-over-year changes in economic activity indexes, March 2020

Newfoundland and Labrador Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia New Brunswick Quebec Ontario Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta British Columbia Yukon Northwest Territories Nunavut -80 -60 -40 -20 0 20 year-over-year percent change PCA indexPCA index Simple indexSimple index Weighted indexWeighted index LASSO indexLASSO index
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PCA: principal component analysis; LASSO: least absolute shrinkage and selection operator. Series are not available for all combinations of indexes and geographic areas. The simple index is not available for Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, Yukon and Nunavut. The PCA index is not available for Newfoundland and Labrador and Nunavut. The weighted index is not available for Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, Yukon, and Nunavut. The LASSO index is not available for the Northwest Territories.
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This is a bar clustered chart.

Year-over-year changes in economic activity indexes, March 2020, year-over-year percent change
  PCA index Simple index Weighted index LASSO index
Newfoundland and Labrador . -4.2 . 4.6
Prince Edward Island 2.0 . . 2.9
Nova Scotia -60.1 -2.4 -6.3 -3.0
New Brunswick -25.7 -0.5 -13.3 -4.3
Quebec -26.8 -5.5 -18.4 -7.6
Ontario -38.1 -14.4 -19.3 -8.5
Manitoba -3.1 . . 2.5
Saskatchewan -46.7 -13.7 -15.9 -8.2
Alberta -68.7 -48.3 -57.0 -30.1
British Columbia 0.2 -16.7 -5.4 -10.7
Yukon -12.5 . . 0.3
Northwest Territories -12.5 -3.7 -12.5 .
Nunavut . . . 8.8
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not available for any reference period
Note(s):
PCA: principal component analysis; LASSO: least absolute shrinkage and selection operator. Series are not available for all combinations of indexes and geographic areas. The simple index is not available for Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, Yukon and Nunavut. The PCA index is not available for Newfoundland and Labrador and Nunavut. The weighted index is not available for Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, Yukon, and Nunavut. The LASSO index is not available for the Northwest Territories.
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