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131. Consumer Prices: The Year 2008 in Review Archived
Articles and reports: 11-621-M2009076
Geography: Canada, Province or territory
Description:
Using data from the monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI), this study examines the change in prices for various goods and services in Canada during 2008. This annual review also describes the sources of the increase in the CPI and those that helped to temper price changes. The analysis includes a review of price movements in the provinces.
Release date: 2009-03-23
132. Consumer Prices: The Year 2007 in Review Archived
Articles and reports: 11-621-M2008074
Geography: Canada, Province or territory
Description:
Using data from the Consumer Price Index (CPI), this study examines the annual change in consumer prices for goods and services in Canada for 2007. This annual review also describes the sources of change in consumer prices. The analysis also includes a review of price movements in the provinces and an international comparison with OECD countries.
Release date: 2008-06-26
133. Outlet Substitution Bias in the Canadian Consumer Price Index: A Case Study Archived
Articles and reports: 62F0014M2005018
Geography: Canada
Description: Since the early 1990s, increased attention has been focused on the possibility that the rate of inflation may be being overstated as a result of measurement biases in the estimation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI). One source of this possible error is caused by outlet substitution bias. This type of distortion can result when consumers shift their patronage from one retail outlet to another. As superstores and warehouse type stores continue to open and capture a larger share of the market, the existing CPI sample could become increasingly unrepresentative. If the prices are lower at the new outlets and this decrease in costs is not accurately captured in the CPI, the index will exhibit an upward bias.
Release date: 2006-05-10
134. Does Inflation Vary with Income? Archived
Articles and reports: 11-621-M2005030
Geography: Canada, Province or territory
Description:
This study examines the inflation rate experienced by lower- and higher-income households from 1992 to 2004. The reasons for Canada-wide and provincial-level differences in inflation are examined.
Release date: 2005-06-17
135. Is Inflation Higher for Seniors? Archived
Articles and reports: 11-621-M2005027
Geography: Canada
Description:
This study examines the inflation rate experienced by seniors-only households from 1992 to 2004. Their inflation rate is compared with that of all other households and the official Consumer Price Index.
Release date: 2005-05-17
136. City Comparisons of Shelter Costs in Canada: A Hedonic Approach Archived
Articles and reports: 62F0014M2004017
Geography: Canada
Description: This paper documents the approach used to construct the shelter element of the current spatial index program. The intercity indexes of the retail price differentials program of Prices Division had, until recently, excluded any reference to shelter because of conceptual issues. A rental equivalence approach is used for measuring spatial variations in the costs of shelter services among cities. To control for quality variations across areas, a semi-log separate hedonic regression methodology is used to construct the Laspeyres, Paasche, and Fisher Törnqvist interarea indices.
Release date: 2004-04-16
137. Different Perspectives on the Rate of Inflation, 1982-2000: The Impact of Homeownership Costs Archived
Articles and reports: 62F0014M2003016
Geography: Canada
Description: For a long time, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has been the most commonly referenced measure of inflation. However, it is not generally perceived how sensitive the CPI is to the measurement of price change for owned accommodation. The relative importance of the homeownership component in the CPI and the movement of that component are critically dependent on the choice of concept for estimating homeownership costs. However, there is no one concept that is generally agreed upon by official statistical agencies. As part of an ongoing research program into major issues involved in the construction of consumer price indexes, analytical indexes of consumer prices based on different treatments of owned accommodation are updated in this publication for the period 1995 to 2000.

This paper presents seven alternative homeownership series based on four different concepts, including one based on the current concept used in the official CPI. Series are also shown for higher-level aggregates, including indexes at the All-items level. All of these higher-level aggregates differ only in their owned accommodation components, for all aggregates and all other components are based on the official concept.
Release date: 2003-04-10
138. Housing Depreciation in the Canadian CPI Archived
Articles and reports: 62F0014M2001015
Geography: Canada
Description: The Canadian Consumer Price Index (CPI) applies a version of the user cost approach to measure the cost of home ownership. Because this approach specifically estimates the costs of using owned accommodation and not those faced by tenants, the measure includes a "replacement cost" (or depreciation) component. Depreciation is the only component in the CPI that is not an out-of-pocket expense. Consequently, economists face a unique set of methodological challenges when measuring depreciation.

Between 1949 and 1997, the annual housing depreciation rate used in the CPI was 2%. Statistics Canada adopted the rate from a study that analysed U.S. Federal Housing Administration field appraisal data from 1939.

This study argues that there is evidence that the 2% depreciation rate is too high to continue to use in the future. Consider that: 1) other Canadian studies show an upper bound of 1.7%, with a median estimate of 1.5%; 2) other statistical agencies use lower rates; and 3) every academic study over the past 40 years has arrived at a lower rate. As a consequence of this study and the existing supporting evidence, the depreciation rate in the Canadian CPI was lowered to 1.5% effective January 1998.
Release date: 2001-11-28
139. Televisions: Quality Changes and Scanner Data Archived
Articles and reports: 62F0014M2001014
Geography: Canada
Description: This paper is the first in a series of reports examining the possible use of scanner data for constructing price indexes. This case study focuses on televisions and compares their price behaviour taken from current surveying methods with alternative measures obtained from massaging electronic data records on all sales by a retailer over a comparable period. Examination of the price index history for televisions shows that the recognition and adjustment for quality change in the sample and the impact of shifts in purchasing patterns have similar impact on the index numbers. The advantages of scanner data - that they record actual sales and current purchasing patterns - have to be set against the difficulty of recognising quality change. This analysis shows that while there are substantial gains from using scanner data in monitoring and adjusting for purchasing pattern changes, it is difficult to account for quality changes without micro-editing the data. The scanner data set raises statistical issues, largely questions of what aggregation across time, outlets and products should be done, that have to be answered before using it in index estimation. Future analysis will be aimed at resolving these issues.
Release date: 2001-06-01
140. Consumer Prices and Price Indexes Archived
Table: 62-010-X
Description:
The publication highlights current and historical statistics on consumer prices and related price indexes. A comparative index contains retail price differentials for 11 major cities by selected groups of consumer goods and services.
Release date: 1999-08-03

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31. Adjusted price index, monthly percentage change
Table: 18-10-0271-01
Geography: Canada
Frequency: Monthly
Description:
1-month change in the Adjusted price index based on monthly adjusted consumer expenditure basket weights created by Statistics Canada, in partnership with the Bank of Canada. 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 covers all goods and services in the Consumer Price Index.
Release date: 2022-05-09
32. Monthly average retail prices for food and other selected products
Table: 18-10-0002-01
Geography: Canada
Frequency: Monthly
Description: Monthly average retail prices for food, household supplies, personal care items, cigarettes and gasoline. Prices are presented for the current month and previous four months. Prices are in Canadian current dollars.
Release date: 2022-03-16
33. Canada's Beef Supply Chain: Interactive Dashboard
Data Visualization: 71-607-X2021021
Description: This dashboard highlights the overall framework of beef value chains in Canada, and identify entities production, processing, distribution, consumption, retail sales, and pricing; as well international trade of goods.

The dashboard uses various Statistic Canada data sources including the Canadian International Merchandise Trade database, the Biannual Livestock Survey, the Farm Cash Receipts, the Farm Product Price Index, Farm Product Price Survey, the Consumer Price Index, the Industrial Product Price Index, the Wholesale Services Price Index, and the Retail Services Price Index. The sources provide data ranging from 2007 to 2020.

This dashboard is accompanied by a report, which examines the beef supply chain more comprehensively and includes additional data sources.
Release date: 2021-07-29
34. Monthly adjusted price index, provisional
Table: 18-10-0263-01
Geography: Canada
Frequency: Monthly
Description:
Adjusted price index based on monthly adjusted consumer expenditure basket weights created by Statistics Canada, in partnership with the Bank of Canada. The data cover the majority of consumer goods and services. These estimates reflect expenditures during the pandemic and concurrent physical distancing, providing insight into the impact of COVID-19 on the headline Consumer Price Index (CPI).
Release date: 2021-04-12
35. Inter-city indexes of price differentials of consumer goods and services, annual
Table: 18-10-0003-01
Geography: Census subdivision, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
Frequency: Annual
Description:
Annual indexes of price differences between 15 cities in all provinces and territories, as of October of the previous year, for a selection of products (goods and services) from the Consumer Price Index (CPI) purchased by consumers in each of the 15 cities. The combined city average index is 100.

Release date: 2020-12-16
36. Housing Market Indicators Archived
Data Visualization: 71-607-X2018014
Description: This web application provides access to key housing market indicators for Canada, by province and by census metropolitan area. This dynamic application allows users to view geographical rankings for each housing market indicator and to create useful reports as well as interactive maps and charts for comparative analysis. All data in this application are updated with each monthly indicator release. Links to The Daily texts and data tables are also provided.
Release date: 2018-12-13
37. The Consumer Price Index Archived
Table: 62-001-X
Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census agglomeration
Description: This monthly release of the The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for Canada, the provinces, Whitehorse and Yellowknife, provides a descriptive summary of retail price movements, inflation rates and the factors underlying them. The CPI also contains the following tabular information: latest price index movements for the eight major components; price index changes on one and 12-month bases for an extensive number of components and groups; historical monthly information; and price indices reclassified according to categories of goods and services.
Release date: 2018-05-18
38. Consumer Price Index (CPI), 2001 basket content, annual Archived
Table: 18-10-0009-01
Frequency: Annual
Description:
This table contains 2002 series, with data for years 1914 - 2006 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2010-03-19. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (30 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; St. John's; Newfoundland and Labrador ...), Commodities and commodity groups (279 items: All-items; Food; Food purchased from stores ...).
Release date: 2017-04-20
39. Consumer Price Index (CPI), seasonally adjusted movement, 2001 basket content Archived
Table: 18-10-0018-01
Frequency: Monthly
Description:
This table contains 13 series, with data for years 1978 - 2007 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2010-03-19. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...), Commodities and commodity groups (13 items: All-items; Food; Shelter; Household operations and furnishings ...).
Release date: 2017-04-20
40. Consumer Price Index (CPI), three-month seasonally adjusted cumulative movement compounded to an annual rate, 2001 basket content Archived
Table: 18-10-0019-01
Frequency: Monthly
Description:
This table contains 13 series, with data for years 1978 - 2007 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2010-03-19. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...), Commodities and commodity groups (13 items: All-items; Household operations and furnishings; Food; Shelter ...).
Release date: 2017-04-20

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1. Consumer Price Index June 2026
Stats in brief: 11-001-X20262013665
Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
Release date: 2026-07-20
2. Prices Analytical Series
Journals and periodicals: 62F0014M
Geography: Canada
Description: The Prices Analytical Series provides research and analysis pertaining to price indices. The Analytical series is intended to stimulate discussion on a variety of topics related to the analysis of the evolution of prices through time or space.
Release date: 2026-06-17
3. Insurance in Canada: What’s driving premiums higher?
Stats in brief: 11-627-M2026026
Description: The infographic provides a high level overview of the main cost drivers to insurers and why consumers are experiencing higher insurance premiums. Home insurance has been most impacted compared to automobile, as many consumers experienced declining premiums during the pandemic for automobile insurance. Extreme weather and pandemic factors influenced homeowners' insurance, whereas rising parts, maintenance, and repair costs as well as a spike in thefts have influenced auto insurance.
Release date: 2026-06-16
4. An Analysis of the 2026 Consumer Price Index Basket Update, Based on 2025 Expenditures
Articles and reports: 62F0014M2026005
Description: This paper describes the composition of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) basket and the changes introduced with the 2026 basket update, based on 2025 expenditure weights.
Release date: 2026-06-15
5. Owned Accommodation in the Canadian Consumer Price Index: A Comparative Analysis of Measurement Approaches, Including an Exploration of Asking-Rent Rental Equivalence
Articles and reports: 62F0014M2026004
Description: In collaboration with the Bank of Canada, this research paper extends previous work on alternative approaches to measuring owned accommodation (OA) in the Canadian Consumer Price Index (CPI), with a particular focus on rental equivalence (RE). The analysis constructs analytical price index series for Canada using the main OA measurement concepts proposed in the International Consumer Price Index Manual and widely adopted internationally. The study examines how OA and the all-items CPI may have evolved from 2004 to 2025 under different methodologies. The inclusion of asking-rent–based RE measures aims to better capture secondary rental market dynamics and provide more timely insights into how rent movements affect OA and the all-items CPI.
Release date: 2026-05-26
6. Enhancements to the passenger vehicle and homeowners’ home insurance price indexes
Articles and reports: 62F0014M2025002
Description: Statistics Canada is enhancing the Consumer Price Index (CPI) by better leveraging existing data to update the methodology to estimate price indexes for passenger vehicle insurance and homeowners’ home insurance. This paper presents an updated estimation methodology that uses hedonic quality adjustment applied to brokerage quote data. This approach estimates the price change of insurance premiums while holding price-influencing characteristics constant.
Release date: 2025-04-15
7. Impacts of rising costs and claims on personal automobile insurance profitability and consumers in Canada
Articles and reports: 11-621-M2025003
Description: This study delves into the contributing claims and cost factors that have impacted the premiums consumers pay for auto insurance and the financial pressures insurers face. The engine type, brand name, and location of the vehicle have contributed, in addition to the overall rising cost of repairs, parts, and the vehicles themselves. Coverage types, and provincial regulation have also impacted both insurers and consumers alike, disproportionally impacting certain provinces. Claims severity impacted by the aforementioned as well as thefts and extreme weather, have contributed to the fact that owning a vehicle and insuring a vehicle has become more costly since 2020.
Release date: 2025-04-02
8. Shrinking products, rising prices: Food-specific quantity adjustments in the Consumer Price Index
Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025016
Description: This infographic looks at the frequency of "shrinkflation" occurring in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), specifically in the food component between 2021 and 2023. "Shrinkflation" refers to the practice of selling a smaller quantity of a product at the same price as the larger size previously offered. Any change in the quality or quantity of a product or service is taken into account in the calculation of the CPI.
Release date: 2025-02-18
9. Updated Methodology for the Compilation of the Cellular Services Price Index
Articles and reports: 62F0014M2024005
Description: As part of its modernization initiative, Statistics Canada has been working with major Canadian wireless services providers (WSPs) to obtain transaction data for wireless plans. This document details the methodology used to incorporate transaction data in the cellular services price index (CSPI). The result is a “hybrid” index that combines the transaction data from participating WSPs with web collected data from the remaining WSPs in the sample.
Release date: 2024-08-20
10. An Analysis of the 2024 Consumer Price Index Basket Update, Based on 2023 Expenditures
Articles and reports: 62F0014M2024004
Description: This paper describes the composition of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) basket and the changes introduced with the 2024 basket update, based on 2023 expenditure weights.
Release date: 2024-06-18

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1. The Canadian Consumer Price Index Reference Paper
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 62-553-X
Description:
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.

Release date: 2023-02-20
2. Your Guide to the Consumer Price Index Archived
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 62-557-X
Description:
This publication was prepared for the general public interested in obtaining a brief non-technical introduction the Consumer Price Index (CPI). It poses and answers some of the more frequently asked questions relating to the construction, interpretation and use of this index.
Release date: 1998-04-01

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