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  • 1. Consumer Price Index September 2019
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20192893665
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2019-10-16
  • 2. E-commerce and the Consumer Price Index: Measuring Inflation in a Digital Economy
    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
  • 3. 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: 2019-09-27
  • 4. Development of a Consumer Price Index for Seniors
    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
  • 5. New approach for estimating the Telephone Services Index of the Consumer Price Index
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2019003
    Description:

    This paper describes the changes in the methodology for estimating the telephone services index.

    Release date: 2019-04-30
  • 6. An Analysis of the 2019 Consumer Price Index Basket Update, Based on 2017 Expenditures
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2019001
    Description:

    This paper describes the composition of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) basket and the changes introduced with the 2019 basket update, based on 2017 expenditure weights.

    Release date: 2019-02-27
  • 7. New approach for estimating the rent component of the Consumer Price Index
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2019002
    Description:

    This paper describes a new methodology that Statistics Canada has adopted to measure the rent index.

    Release date: 2019-02-27
  • 8. Internet Access Services Index Methodology in the Consumer Price Index
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2018003
    Description:

    This paper describes the methodology that Statistics Canada has adopted to measure the price change of residential Internet access services.

    Release date: 2018-08-07
  • 9. Fertility rates and labour force participation among women in Quebec and Ontario
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X201800154976
    Description:

    Using data from the Canadian Vital Statistics Birth Database and from the Labour Force Survey (LFS), this study examines the relationship between fertility rates and labour force participation among women aged 15 to 44 in Ontario and in Quebec between 1996 and 2016, two provinces that followed different paths with respect to parental leave benefits and affordable child care over the past two decades.

    Release date: 2018-07-18
  • 10. Study: Fertility rates and labour force participation among women in Quebec and Ontario 1996 to 2016
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201819919023
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2018-07-18
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Articles and reports (21)

Articles and reports (21) (0 to 10 of 21 results)

  • 1. E-commerce and the Consumer Price Index: Measuring Inflation in a Digital Economy
    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
  • 2. Development of a Consumer Price Index for Seniors
    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
  • 3. New approach for estimating the Telephone Services Index of the Consumer Price Index
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2019003
    Description:

    This paper describes the changes in the methodology for estimating the telephone services index.

    Release date: 2019-04-30
  • 4. An Analysis of the 2019 Consumer Price Index Basket Update, Based on 2017 Expenditures
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2019001
    Description:

    This paper describes the composition of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) basket and the changes introduced with the 2019 basket update, based on 2017 expenditure weights.

    Release date: 2019-02-27
  • 5. New approach for estimating the rent component of the Consumer Price Index
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2019002
    Description:

    This paper describes a new methodology that Statistics Canada has adopted to measure the rent index.

    Release date: 2019-02-27
  • 6. Internet Access Services Index Methodology in the Consumer Price Index
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2018003
    Description:

    This paper describes the methodology that Statistics Canada has adopted to measure the price change of residential Internet access services.

    Release date: 2018-08-07
  • 7. Fertility rates and labour force participation among women in Quebec and Ontario
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X201800154976
    Description:

    Using data from the Canadian Vital Statistics Birth Database and from the Labour Force Survey (LFS), this study examines the relationship between fertility rates and labour force participation among women aged 15 to 44 in Ontario and in Quebec between 1996 and 2016, two provinces that followed different paths with respect to parental leave benefits and affordable child care over the past two decades.

    Release date: 2018-07-18
  • 8. New approach for estimating the Mortgage Interest Cost Index
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2017002
    Description:

    This document offers information on changes to the Mortgage Interest Cost Index (MICI), which is one of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) components. It describes the new approach for estimating MICI price movements.

    Release date: 2017-11-17
  • 9. Shelter in the Canadian CPI: An overview
    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
  • 10. Inflation in Atlantic Canada fuelled more by oil-linked products
    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
Journals and periodicals (2)

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

  • 1. 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: 2019-09-27
  • 2. 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
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