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41. The Canadian Consumer Price Index Enhancement Timeline
Articles and reports: 62F0014M2023008
Description: An interactive timeline of the modernization of the CPI and related programs with dates, links, and summary of key developments.
Release date: 2024-02-20
42. Shelter in the Canadian CPI: An overview, 2023 update
Articles and reports: 62F0014M2023007
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: 2023-12-19
43. The rise in prices for wheat-based food products, 2023 Archived
Stats in brief: 11-627-M2023062
Description: This infographic details the food supply chain by focusing on the price movements for wheat-based food products in 2023 and the costs to move food products from producers to consumers. Since March 2022, some costs along the supply chain have declined while others remained elevated. Prices for bread, pasta and cereal at the grocery store continued to increase in 2023 but at a slower pace compared with 2022.
Release date: 2023-11-17
44. Study: Corporate profitability and inflation 2017 to 2022 Archived
Stats in brief: 11-001-X202320837386
Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
Release date: 2023-07-27
45. Corporate profitability and inflation: 2017 to 2022
Articles and reports: 62F0014M2023004
Description: This paper looks at how profitability has evolved for key Canadian industries from 2017 to 2022. A specific focus is given to the post-lockdown period between the second quarters of 2021 and 2022, during which year-over-year inflation exceeded the Bank of Canada’s inflation-control target range ceiling of 3%. In addition to industry-wide trends, energy and food sectors are analyzed given their day-to-day relevance for Canadians.
Release date: 2023-07-27
46. An Analysis of the 2023 Consumer Price Index Basket Update, Based on 2022 Expenditures
Articles and reports: 62F0014M2023003
Description: This paper describes the composition of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) basket and the changes introduced with the 2023 basket update, based on 2022 expenditure weights.
Release date: 2023-06-20
47. Measuring the price of digital computing equipment and devices in the Consumer Price Index
Articles and reports: 62F0014M2023001
Description: A new approach to estimate the computer equipment, software and supplies index and the multipurpose digital devices index, which are sub-indices of the digital computing equipment and devices index, will be implemented in the calculation of the Consumer Price Index. The new approach includes enhanced methodology and new data sources.
Release date: 2023-02-21
48. 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
49. 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
50. The rise in prices for wheat-based food products Archived
Stats in brief: 11-627-M2022068
Description: This infographic details the food supply chain by focusing on the price movements for wheat-based food products in March 2022, and the costs to move food products from producers to consumers.
Release date: 2022-11-16

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1. Monthly average retail prices for selected products
Table: 18-10-0245-01
Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Population centre
Frequency: Monthly
Description: Monthly average retail prices for selected products, for Canada, provinces, Whitehorse and Yellowknife. Prices are presented for the current month and the previous four months. Prices are based on transaction data from Canadian retailers, and are presented in Canadian current dollars.
Release date: 2026-08-05
2. Monthly average retail prices for selected products: Food
Table: 18-10-0245-02
Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Population centre
Frequency: Monthly
Description: Monthly average retail prices for selected food products, for Canada and provinces. Prices are presented for the current month and the previous four months. Prices are based on transaction data from Canadian retailers, and are presented in Canadian current dollars.
Release date: 2026-08-05
3. Average Retail Food Prices Data Visualization Tool
Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024005
Description: This interactive dashboard provides access to current and historical average price data for selected food products in a dynamic and customizable format. The price data is available for Canada and the provinces. Prices are based on transaction data from Canadian retailers, and are presented in Canadian current dollars.
This web-based application is updated monthly, as soon as the data for the latest reference month is released in The Daily.
Release date: 2026-08-05
4. 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
5. 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
6. Consumer Price Index Data Visualization Tool
Data Visualization: 71-607-X2018016
Description: This interactive dashboard provides access to current and historical Consumer Price Index (CPI) data in a dynamic and customizable format. Key indicators such as the 12-month and 1-month inflation rates and price trends are presented in interactive charts, allowing users to compare and analyze price changes of all the goods and services in the CPI basket over time as well as across geography (national, provincial and territorial levels).

Other CPI indicators available in this tool include the Bank of Canada’s core measures of inflation, seasonally adjusted inflation rates, and CPI basket weights.

This web-based application is updated monthly, as soon as the data for the latest reference month is released in The Daily.
Release date: 2026-07-20
7. Monthly average retail prices for gasoline and fuel oil, by geography
Table: 18-10-0001-01
Geography: Canada, Census subdivision, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
Frequency: Monthly
Description:
Monthly average retail prices for gasoline and fuel oil for Canada, selected provincial cities, Whitehorse and Yellowknife. Prices are presented for the current month and previous four months. Includes fuel type and the price in cents per litre.

Release date: 2026-07-20
8. Consumer Price Index, monthly, not seasonally adjusted
Table: 18-10-0004-01
Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census subdivision, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
Frequency: Monthly
Description:
Monthly indexes for major components and special aggregates of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), not seasonally adjusted, for Canada, provinces, Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Iqaluit. Data are presented for the current month and previous four months. The base year for the index is 2002=100.

Release date: 2026-07-20
9. Consumer Price Index by geography, all-items, monthly, percentage change, not seasonally adjusted, Canada, provinces, Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Iqaluit
Table: 18-10-0004-02
Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census subdivision, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
Frequency: Monthly
Description:
Monthly indexes and percentage changes for all components and special aggregates of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), not seasonally adjusted, for Canada, provinces, Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Iqaluit. Data are presented for the corresponding month of the previous year, the previous month and the current month. The base year for the index is 2002=100.

Release date: 2026-07-20
10. Consumer Price Index, monthly, percentage change, not seasonally adjusted, Canada, provinces, Whitehorse and Yellowknife — Food
Table: 18-10-0004-03
Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census subdivision, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
Frequency: Monthly
Description: Monthly indexes and percentage changes for selected sub-groups of the food component of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), not seasonally adjusted, for Canada, provinces, Whitehorse and Yellowknife. Data are presented for the corresponding month of the previous year, the previous month and the current month. The base year for the index is 2002=100.
Release date: 2026-07-20

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81. 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
82. 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
83. 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
84. 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
85. 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
86. 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
87. 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
88. 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
89. How Inflation and Income Tax Affect the Return on a Safe Investment Archived
Articles and reports: 62F0014M1996001
Geography: Canada
Description: For decades, Canadians have been living in an inflationary environment. Everyone remembers that at some point in the past, consumer goods and services cost less. Even young people know that a candy bar cost less five or ten years ago than it does now. Thus the purchasing power of the Canadian dollar has gradually declined over the years.

Even though everyone knows that things cost more now than in the past, there are situations in which this seems to be forgotten. The purpose of this article is to present a situation that shows the illusion of wealth that fairly long-term inflation can foster. We begin by looking at how inflation and income tax affect a retired person's interest income for a given year. Then we look at the effects of inflation and income tax on interest income over a longer period. When taxation is not factored in, the situation is one of investing inside a registered retirement savings plan.
Release date: 1997-05-05

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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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