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Description: This table contains 7 series, with data starting from 1972 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...), Commodity (7 items: Total; all commodities; Metals and Minerals; Energy; Total excluding energy ...).

Description: This table contains 7 series, with data starting from 1972 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada), Commodity (7 items: Total, all commodities; Total excluding energy; Energy; Metals and Minerals; ...).

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Freight Rail Services Price Index (FRSPI). Monthly data are available from January 2018. The current base period for the index is 2018=100.

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Freight Rail Services Price Index (FRSPI). Monthly data are available from January 2018. The table presents month-to-month and year-to-year percentage changes for various aggregation levels. The current base period for the index is 2018=100.

Description: Couriers and messengers services price index (CMSPI) by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Monthly data are available from January 2010. The table presents data for the most recent reference period and the last four periods. The base period for the index is (2019=100).

Description: Couriers and messengers services price index (CMSPI) by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Monthly data are available from February 2010. The table presents month-over-month and year-over-year percentage changes for various aggregation levels. The base period for the index is (2019=100).

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: This interactive dashboard provides access to current and historical data for the building construction price indexes, by type of building, for the census metropolitan areas (CMAs) of St. John's, Halifax, Moncton, Montréal, Ottawa-Gatineau (Ontario part), Toronto, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, as well as a composite of these eleven CMAs, in a dynamic and customizable format. It allows users to view the index series, quarter-over-quarter percent changes, year-over-year percent changes, as well as the largest increases and decreases for the current period. Additionally, users can view the weight of each CMA in the eleven CMA composite measured in percentage.

Description: This interactive dashboard provides access to current and historical data for the new condominium apartment price indexes, for the census metropolitan areas (CMAs) of Halifax, Quebéc City, Montréal, Ottawa-Gatineau (Ontario part), Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria as well as a composite of these nine CMAs, in a dynamic and customizable format. It allows users to view the index series, quarter-over-quarter percent changes, year-over-year percent changes, as well as the largest increases and decreases for the current period. Additionally, users can view the weight of each CMA in the nine CMA composite measured in percentage.

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Building construction price indexes (BCPI), relative importance by type of building. Annual weights are available from 2017.

Description: Historical (real-time) releases of merchandise imports and exports with data for years 1988 - current.

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Accounting Services Price Index (ASPI) by North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS). Annual data is available from 1999. The table includes data for the most recent reference period and the last four periods. The current base period for the index is (2010=100).

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Accounting Services Price Index (ASPI) by North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS). Data is available from 1999. The table presents year-to-year percentage changes for various aggregation levels. The current base period for the index is (2010=100).  

Description: Farm input price index (FIPI). Quarterly data are available from from the first quarter of 2002. The table presents data for the most recent reference period and the last four periods. The base period for the index is (2012=100).

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Farm input price index (FIPI). Data are available from from the second quarter of 2002. The table presents data for the most recent reference period and the last four periods. The base period for the index is (2012=100).

Description: Farm product prices, crops and livestock, by province (in dollars per metric tonne unless otherwise noted). Data are available on a monthly basis.

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Electric power selling price index (EPSPI). Monthly data are available from January 1981. The table presents data for the most recent reference period and the last four periods. The base period for the index is (2014=100).

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Electric power selling price index (EPSPI). Monthly data are available from February 1981. The table presents month-over-month and year-over-year percentage changes for various aggregation levels. The base period for the index is (2014=100).

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The commercial and industrial machinery and equipment rental and leasing services price index measures the changes in the prices of rental and leasing activities for the commercial and industrial machinery and equipment industry.

Description: The commercial and industrial machinery and equipment rental and leasing services price index measures the changes in the prices of rental and leasing activities for the commercial and industrial machinery and equipment industry.

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This article presents the data sources and methodology for the Machinery and Equipment Price Index (MEPI). The MEPI is an input price index that measures the quarterly change in the price of machinery and equipment purchased by industries in Canada. The MEPI is an important indicator of economic activity in all industries undertaking capital investment, serving as a tool for performance evaluation, cost monitoring, contract assessment and benchmark comparisons. It also provides supplemental information to the Canadian System of Macroeconomic Accounts to calculate gross domestic product and measure changes in productivity.

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This document describes the methodology and data source for the monthly average retail prices table. This supplement also explains the difference between the Consumer Price Index and average retail prices in context of inflation.

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A review of how prices for products manufactured in Canada, as measured by the Industrial Product Price Index (IPPI), changed in 2021 when compared to 2020. The ongoing effects of COVID-19, macroeconomic phenomena, supply chain issues, as well as international trade all played roles in influencing industrial prices. Prices for lumber, energy products, and metals had a strong influence on the IPPI in 2021.

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There has been a persistent curiosity about the predictability of consumer price inflation by looking at the pass-through effect of prices from earlier stages of production. The theory is that the prices of consumer items, particularly goods, respond to cost pressures from the inputs to production. This paper examines in particular a limited portion of the value chain, namely the predictive power of producer prices of goods as measured by the Industrial Product Price Index (IPPI) on consumer prices, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI).

Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has had an undeniable impact on the way that we spend money. Documenting these shifts in spending patterns is crucial to decision making and providing Canadians with timely and accurate information on consumer price changes. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the most widely used indicator of consumer price change and inflation in Canada. Our guest, Taylor Mitchell, an economist at Statistics Canada, explains why the CPI is an important tool for setting economic policy and monitoring economic conditions. She will also shed light on why you should care about inflation, its impact on different population groups and the cost of living.

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Decisions by economic agents, such as firms and consumers, depend on their views about inflation. Consumers’ views of inflation, are systematically higher than inflation measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), and more so for certain demographic groups. While measurement factors can explain part of this gap, behavioral factors appear to play a larger role. This article examines these factors to explain the gap between CPI’s inflation and inflation perceptions in Canada.

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Using various sources of expenditure data, Statistics Canada, in partnership with the Bank of Canada, has estimated monthly adjusted consumer expenditure weights that reflect shifts in consumption patterns as the COVID-19 pandemic evolves. The Adjusted price index has been updated to incorporate the 2020 basket weights and is now based on a Similarity-linked Fisher price index formula. The expenditure data cover all goods and services in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), and provide snapshot estimates of expenditure weights for June, July, August and September 2021. These estimates can provide insight into the impact of COVID-19 on the headline CPI.

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This article presents the data sources and methodology for the Freight Rail Services Price Index (FRSPI). The FRSPI measures the monthly and the quarterly changes in the price of freight rail services in Canada. The index is an indicator of economic activity in the freight rail services industry, as well as a tool that can be utilized by the industry for cost monitoring, contract assessment and benchmark comparisons.

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This paper describes the composition of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) basket and the changes introduced with the 2021 basket update, based on 2020 expenditure weights.

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The additive and multiplicative decompositions for geometric, arithmetic, and Fisher price indexes that make use of the logarithmic mean are generalized by replacing the logarithmic mean with the more general extended mean. The result is a simple decomposition that takes existing results as special cases, and applies to other index numbers like the harmonic, Lloyd-Moulton, and superlative quadratic mean indexes, and their sample counterparts.

Description: The primary source of data used in post index construction are periodic retail-price and cost-of-living surveys conducted at foreign locations by the foreign service personnel stationed there. Statistics Canada analyses this survey data. In addition to a variety of price information gathered from retail outlets patronized by Canadian personnel at the post, data are also obtained regarding their spending patterns, along with information on the availability of any special local purchasing facilities, and the extent to which staff make direct importation of consumer goods from other countries. The general aim is for full-scale surveys to be carried out at about three-year intervals. However, specific studies may be undertaken more or less frequently than this, depending on the volatility of retail price conditions in each particular country, the instability of exchange rates and the extent to which close monitoring of changes in the local retail price situation being faced by Canadian personnel can be achieved through reference to other statistical indicators.

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This Canadian Consumer Price Index (CPI) Reference Paper provides an overview the Canadian CPI. It is intended for a varied audience, ranging from users interested in general information to those requiring more technical or theoretical details. As such, it explains all the important aspects of the Canadian CPI: uses and interpretations, scope, classifications, sample strategy, price collection, index calculation, quality change, weights, basket updates, reliability and uncertainty, special cases and treatments and history.

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This technical guide describes the methodological details for the Architectural, Engineering and Related Services Price Index (AESPI). The document includes information about the purpose of the index, data sources, and index estimation and aggregation.

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This technical guide describes the methodological details for the Accounting Services Price Index (ASPI). The document includes information about the purpose of the index, data sources, and index estimation and aggregation.

Description: This guide focuses on the Income and Expenditure Accounts. It provides an overview, an outline of the concepts and definitions, an explanation of the sources of information and statistical methods, a glossary of terms, and a broad compilation of other facts about the accounts.

Description: To provide trade prices and volume measurement (including constant dollars) for integration to the Canadian Macroeconomic Accounts framework, forecasting, deflation processes and price measurement.

Description: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is an indicator of changes in consumer prices experienced by Canadians. It is obtained by comparing, over time, the cost of a fixed basket of goods and services purchased by consumers.

Description: These indexes measure semi-annual price changes in the supply, fabrication and field erection of precast concrete on construction projects in Canada.

Description: These quarterly indexes measure price changes of structural steel, (in-place and in construction work) and steel bulk storage tanks which are field erected.

Description: The Farm Input Price Index (FIPI) is a quarterly indicator of the change in the price of farm inputs faced by Canadian farmers.