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  • 91. Technical Supplement for the April 2020 Consumer Price Index Archived
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2020006
    Description: A summary of methodological treatments as applied to the April 2020 CPI in response to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on price collection, price availability, and business closures.
    Release date: 2020-05-19
  • 92. Study: Canadian consumers adapt to COVID-19: A look at Canadian grocery sales up to April 11 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202013223864
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2020-05-11
  • 93. Canadian Consumers Adapt to COVID-19: A Look at Canadian Grocery Sales up to April 11 Archived
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2020005
    Description: An analysis of trends in Canadian consumer demand and sales using transaction data for grocery products amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This analysis includes Canadian grocery sales up to April 11.
    Release date: 2020-05-11
  • 94. Canadian Consumers Prepare for COVID-19 Archived
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2020004
    Description: An analysis of trends in Canadian consumer demand and sales using transaction data for grocery products amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Release date: 2020-04-08
  • 95. The Integration of Web-Scraped Data into the Clothing and Footwear Component of the Consumer Price Index Archived
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2020003
    Description: This paper describes the change to the method of collection and sample enhancements for the clothing and footwear component of the Consumer Price Index.
    Release date: 2020-02-19
  • 96. Enhancements to the Air Transportation Index in the Consumer Price Index Archived
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2020001
    Description: This paper describes the changes in the methodology for measuring the air transportation index.
    Release date: 2020-01-22
  • 97. Consumer Price Index: 2019 in Review Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2020005
    Description:

    This infographic details the annual average consumer inflation in Canada and the regions in 2019 while also examining the noteworthy average commodity movements of the year.

    Release date: 2020-01-22
  • 98. E-commerce and the Consumer Price Index: Measuring Inflation in a Digital Economy Archived
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2019008
    Description: The rise of the digital economy presents new challenges to the measurement of price change, driven by the increasing popularity of online shopping and the availability of new consumer goods and services. Consumption patterns as well as the behaviour of online prices, compared to those collected in-store, must be considered in the context of consumer price inflation.

    This analytical article explores the impact of e-commerce on the monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) and discusses how price collection and methods are evolving in the context of an increasingly digitalized retail landscape.

    Release date: 2019-09-27
  • 99. Development of a Consumer Price Index for Seniors Archived
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2019004
    Description: This paper describes a measure of inflation as experienced by seniors in Canada for the period of January 2013 to August 2018. It defines a senior population, examines their spending behavior, and describes the construction of a Senior Price Index (SPI). An analysis by geography and by major consumer basket components is provided, as well as a comparison with the official Canadian Consumer Price Index (CPI).
    Release date: 2019-06-20
  • 100. New approach for estimating the Telephone Services Index of the Consumer Price Index Archived
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2019003
    Description: This paper describes the changes in the methodology for estimating the telephone services index.
    Release date: 2019-04-30
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  • 21. Consumer Price Index (CPI) statistics, measures of core inflation and other related statistics - Bank of Canada definitions
    Table: 18-10-0256-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: This table contains 13 series, with data from 1949 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). Data are presented for the current month and previous four months. Users can select other time periods that are of interest to them.
    Release date: 2026-07-20
  • 22. Consumer Price Index (CPI) statistics, measures of core inflation - Bank of Canada definitions, year-over-year percent change
    Table: 18-10-0256-02
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Consumer Price Index (CPI) statistics, measures of core inflation, Bank of Canada definitions, year-over-year percent change.
    Release date: 2026-07-20
  • 23. Basket weights of the Consumer Price Index, Canada, provinces, Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Iqaluit
    Table: 18-10-0007-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census subdivision
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Basket weights of major components, gasoline, and selected special aggregates of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) basket, for Canada, provinces, Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Iqaluit, last 5 years of the CPI basket. Includes price period of the weights as either weights at basket link month prices or weights at basket reference period prices. Weights are shown in percentage terms.
    Release date: 2026-06-15
  • 24. Basket weights of the All-items Consumer Price Index by geography, Canada, provinces, Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Iqaluit
    Table: 18-10-0007-02
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census subdivision
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Basket weights of the all-items Consumer Price Index (CPI) basket, for Canada, provinces, Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Iqaluit, last 5 years of the CIP basket. Includes price period of the weights as either weights at basket link month prices or weights at basket reference period prices. Weights are shown in percentage terms.
    Release date: 2026-06-15
  • 25. Historical (real-time) releases of Consumer Price Index (CPI) statistics, measures of core inflation - Bank of Canada definitions
    Table: 18-10-0259-01
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description: Historical (real-time) releases of the measures of core inflation, with data from 1989 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). Data are presented for the current release and previous four releases. Users can select other releases that are of interest to them.
    Release date: 2026-05-04
  • 26. Education Indicators in Canada: Report of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program
    Table: 81-582-X
    Description: The Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP) draws from a wide variety of data sources to provide information on the school-age population, elementary, secondary and postsecondary education, transitions, and labour market outcomes.

    PCEIP products include data tables, fact sheets, an interactive dashboard, a data explorer, and a handbook. They present indicators for all of Canada, the provinces, the territories, and include year over year comparisons.

    The PCEIP is an ongoing initiative of the Canadian Education Statistics Council, a partnership between Statistics Canada and the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada that provides a set of statistical measures on education systems in Canada.
    Release date: 2026-03-25
  • 27. Consumer Price Index, annual average, not seasonally adjusted
    Table: 18-10-0005-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census subdivision, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Annual indexes for major components and special aggregates of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), for Canada, provinces, Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Iqaluit. Data are presented for the last five years. The base year for the index is 2002=100.
    Release date: 2026-01-19
  • 28. Sources of funds for expenditures on research and development (R&D) in the higher education sector
    Table: 27-10-0363-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Sources of funds for expenditures on research and development (R&D) in the higher education sector. This table is included in Section D: Postsecondary education: Research and development of the Pan Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP). PCEIP draws from a wide variety of data sources to provide information on the school-age population, elementary, secondary and postsecondary education, transitions, education finance and labour market outcomes. The program presents indicators for all of Canada, the provinces, the territories, as well as selected international comparisons and comparisons over time. PCEIP is an ongoing initiative of the Canadian Education Statistics Council, a partnership between Statistics Canada and the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada that provides a set of statistical measures on education systems in Canada.
    Release date: 2025-10-24
  • 29. Experimental indexes of economic activity in the provinces and territories
    Table: 36-10-0633-01
    Geography: Province or territory
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    This table contains experimental indexes of monthly provincial and territorial economic activity from January, 2002 to the present. The indexes are seasonally adjusted.

    Release date: 2023-01-16
  • 30. Monthly adjusted consumer expenditure basket weights
    Table: 18-10-0264-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Monthly
    Description:

    Statistics Canada, in partnership with the Bank of Canada, explores alternative and timely sources of expenditure data to estimate basket weights that reflect shifting consumption patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data cover the majority of consumer goods and services.

    Release date: 2022-05-09
Analysis (89)

Analysis (89) (70 to 80 of 89 results)

  • 71. StatCan Blog: Tracking the cost of shelter Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201727717541
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2017-10-04
  • 72. Shelter in the Canadian CPI: An overview Archived
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2017001
    Description: This article is an overview of the treatment of Shelter in the Canadian Consumer Price Index (CPI). It describes the concepts and methodologies related to the construction of that component and briefly discusses considerations to be taken into account when using the estimates.
    Release date: 2017-09-22
  • 73. Inflation in Atlantic Canada fuelled more by oil-linked products Archived
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2017103
    Description:

    Gasoline and fuel oil, products whose price movements closely reflect underlying changes in the price of crude oil, have a greater influence on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in the Atlantic Provinces compared with the rest of Canada. This paper explores how the higher basket shares for gasoline and fuel oil in Atlantic Canada help shed light on why these oil-linked products have a greater influence on the rate of inflation in this region.

    Release date: 2017-06-23
  • 74. Consumer Price Index: New basket weights, 2015 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201705116001
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2017-02-20
  • 75. Study: Evolution of clothing retail in Canada 2004 to 2015 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201625615101
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2016-09-12
  • 76. The Consumer Price Index and Your Experience of Price Change Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-629-X2016002
    Description:

    A video that explains how and why the price change reported by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) may vary from the prices Canadians see on the shelves. It tells the story of Joe and Izzy, and how they each perceive price change as compared with the CPI.

    Release date: 2016-01-22
  • 77. Exploring the first century of Canada's Consumer Price Index
    Journals and periodicals: 62-604-X
    Description:

    This paper surveys the history of Statistics Canada's Consumer Price Index (CPI) from its origins to today. It discusses changes in the construction, scope and uses of the CPI within the context of historical events.

    Release date: 2015-02-06
  • 78. An overview of Canada's Consumer Price Index (CPI)
    Stats in brief: 11-629-X2014001
    Description:

    This video provides an overview of the Consumer Price Index (CPI). It defines the CPI and looks at what it measures and how it is used.

    Release date: 2014-08-22
  • 79. Consumer Price Inflation by Frequency of Purchase Archived
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2010084
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This special study analyses price movements using three groupings of the CPI items based on frequency of purchase (frequent purchases, non-frequent purchases and contractual purchases), to provide a better understanding of the sources of consumer inflation and to help shed light on people's perception of inflation.

    Release date: 2010-06-09
  • 80. 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
Reference (2)

Reference (2) ((2 results))

  • 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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