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  • 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: 2025-07-07

  • Stats in brief: 11-001-X20251753665
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-06-24

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Stats in brief: 11-001-X20250219305
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-01-21

  • 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

  • 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

  • Articles and reports: 62F0014M2024003
    Description: This technical paper describes the collection of food price data and the methodologies that are used to provide Canadians with accurate and timely food inflation data in both the CPI and the monthly average retail prices table.
    Release date: 2024-05-21

  • Articles and reports: 62F0014M2024002
    Description: In collaboration with the Bank of Canada, this research paper focuses on constructing analytical price index series for Canada, using the main owned accommodation measurement concepts proposed by the International Consumer Price Index Manual and adopted by other countries. This analysis explores these alternative treatments of owned accommodation in the Canadian context, examining their impact on the all-items Consumer Price Index. Additionally, it provides an explanation for the gap between perceived inflation and estimated inflation.
    Release date: 2024-03-28
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  • Stats in brief: 11-001-X20251753665
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-06-24

  • 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

  • Stats in brief: 11-001-X20250219305
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-01-21

  • 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

  • Stats in brief: 11-001-X202320837386
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2023-07-27

  • 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

  • Stats in brief: 11-627-M2022016
    Description:

    This infographic explains the steps involved in collecting data for all Statistics Canada household and business surveys. The responses are compiled, analyzed and used to make important decisions and are kept strictly confidential.

    Release date: 2022-02-28

  • Stats in brief: 11-627-M2022004
    Description:

    This infographic details the annual average consumer inflation in Canada and the regions in 2021 while also examining the noteworthy average commodity movements of the year amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Release date: 2022-01-19

  • Stats in brief: 11-627-M2021058
    Description: This infographic presents the new expenditure weights and basket items for the 2021 update of the Consumer Price Index basket of goods and services based on 2020 expenditures.
    Release date: 2021-07-21

  • Stats in brief: 11-001-X202028226263
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2020-10-08
Articles and reports (64)

Articles and reports (64) (0 to 10 of 64 results)

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Articles and reports: 62F0014M2024003
    Description: This technical paper describes the collection of food price data and the methodologies that are used to provide Canadians with accurate and timely food inflation data in both the CPI and the monthly average retail prices table.
    Release date: 2024-05-21

  • Articles and reports: 62F0014M2024002
    Description: In collaboration with the Bank of Canada, this research paper focuses on constructing analytical price index series for Canada, using the main owned accommodation measurement concepts proposed by the International Consumer Price Index Manual and adopted by other countries. This analysis explores these alternative treatments of owned accommodation in the Canadian context, examining their impact on the all-items Consumer Price Index. Additionally, it provides an explanation for the gap between perceived inflation and estimated inflation.
    Release date: 2024-03-28

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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
Journals and periodicals (2)

Journals and periodicals (2) ((2 results))

  • 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: 2025-07-07

  • 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
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