Prices and price indexes

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

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This dashboard presents selected data that are relevant for monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 on economic activity in Canada. It includes data on a range of monthly indicators - real GDP, consumer prices, the unemployment rate, merchandise exports and imports, retail sales, hours worked and manufacturing sales -- as well as monthly data on aircraft movements, railway carloadings, and travel between Canada and other countries.

Estimates are presented from January 2019 to the current reference month for each data series. The information will be updated continuously as new data becomes available, and additional series may be added to the dashboard as circumstances warrant.

To support the analysis of time series movements in the data, the dashboard reports changes in each series on both a month-over-month and year-over-year basis. For most of the variables reported, information on cumulative changes in the data both prior and subsequent to the end of 2019 is also presented by indexing the level estimates to December 2019, as depicted in the accompanying charts.

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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Commercial software price index (CSPI) by product. Monthly data are available from February 2007. The table presents data for the most recent reference period and the last four periods. The base period for the index is (2011=100).

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Commercial software price index (CSPI) by product. Monthly data are available from January 2007. The table presents month-over-month and year-over-year percentage changes for various aggregation levels. The base period for the index is (2011=100).

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Computer price index, by type of purchaser (CPPI) by by North American Product Classification System (NAPCS). 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 (2015=100).

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Computer peripheral price index (CPPI) by North American Product Classification System (NAPCS). 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 (2015=100).

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Computer price index (CPPI) by by North American Product Classification System (NAPCS). 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 (2015=100).

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Computer peripheral price index (CPPI) by North American Product Classification System (NAPCS). 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 (2015=100).

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Smart phone price index (CPPI) by North American Product Classification System (NAPCS). The table includes annual data for the most recent reference period and the last four periods. Data are available from January 2015. The base period for the index is (2015=100).

Description:

This dashboard presents selected data that are relevant for monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 on economic activity in Canada. It includes data on a range of monthly indicators - real GDP, consumer prices, the unemployment rate, merchandise exports and imports, retail sales, hours worked and manufacturing sales -- as well as monthly data on aircraft movements, railway carloadings, and travel between Canada and other countries.

Estimates are presented from January 2019 to the current reference month for each data series. The information will be updated continuously as new data becomes available, and additional series may be added to the dashboard as circumstances warrant.

To support the analysis of time series movements in the data, the dashboard reports changes in each series on both a month-over-month and year-over-year basis. For most of the variables reported, information on cumulative changes in the data both prior and subsequent to the end of 2019 is also presented by indexing the level estimates to December 2019, as depicted in the accompanying charts.

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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Commercial software price index (CSPI) by product. Monthly data are available from February 2007. The table presents data for the most recent reference period and the last four periods. The base period for the index is (2011=100).

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Commercial software price index (CSPI) by product. Monthly data are available from January 2007. The table presents month-over-month and year-over-year percentage changes for various aggregation levels. The base period for the index is (2011=100).

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Computer price index, by type of purchaser (CPPI) by by North American Product Classification System (NAPCS). 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 (2015=100).

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Computer peripheral price index (CPPI) by North American Product Classification System (NAPCS). 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 (2015=100).

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Computer price index (CPPI) by by North American Product Classification System (NAPCS). 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 (2015=100).

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Computer peripheral price index (CPPI) by North American Product Classification System (NAPCS). 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 (2015=100).

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Smart phone price index (CPPI) by North American Product Classification System (NAPCS). The table includes annual data for the most recent reference period and the last four periods. Data are available from January 2015. The base period for the index is (2015=100).

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Smart phone price index (CPPI) by North American Product Classification System (NAPCS). Annual data are available from February 2015. The table presents the year-over-year percentage changes for various aggregation levels. The base period for the index is (2015=100).

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

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

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A summary of methodological treatments as applied to the October 2020 Consumer Price Index (CPI) in response to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on price collection, price availability, and business closure.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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A summary of methodological treatments as applied to the September 2020 Consumer Price Index (CPI) in response to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on price collection, price availability, and business closure.

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This article presents the data sources and methodology for Lending Services Price Index (LSPI), to accompany the first release of this price index. The LSPI measures the monthly price change for existing lending services in Canada and its primary purpose is to provide supplemental information to help inform the deflation of the Banking industry's output.

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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.

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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 online lecture provides an introduction to Statistics Canada’s definition and production of the Consumer Price Index, which measures the rate at which prices of goods and services purchased by Canadian consumers change, on average, over a specified period of time.

https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/services/online-lectures/18220001

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This interactive historical timeline was created to showcase the key milestones in the history of Canadian producer price statistics. This historical timeline contains answers to questions such as: Who collected Canada’s first statistics? What do Canadian producer price indexes measure?

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Practically all major retailers use scanners to record the information on their transactions with clients (consumers). These data normally include the product code, a brief description, the price and the quantity sold. This is an extremely relevant data source for statistical programs such as Statistics Canada’s Consumer Price Index (CPI), one of Canada’s most important economic indicators. Using scanner data could improve the quality of the CPI by increasing the number of prices used in calculations, expanding geographic coverage and including the quantities sold, among other things, while lowering data collection costs. However, using these data presents many challenges. An examination of scanner data from a first retailer revealed a high rate of change in product identification codes over a one-year period. The effects of these changes pose challenges from a product classification and estimate quality perspective. This article focuses on the issues associated with acquiring, classifying and examining these data to assess their quality for use in the CPI.

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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 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.

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This activity introduces students to the concept of supply management. Students will consider the advantages and disadvantages for both producers and consumers. It would be a good basis for discussion in an economics class.

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This teacher's kit helps students understand how the Consumer Price Index (CPI) reflects price changes for the goods and services they buy.

The Custom Inflation Simulator is a Web-based resource that demonstrates how the many consumer goods and services in the 'basket' are used to calculate the CPI, and how consumption patterns differ from person to person. Using the simulator, students can also see the effect of individual price increases on overall inflation, in other words how each item in the basket is 'weighted' to reflect its importance in Canadians' consumption patterns.