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  • 1. Consulting Services Price Index third quarter 2022
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202301814183
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2023-01-18
  • 2. Industrial product and raw materials price indexes December 2022
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20230183556
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2023-01-18
  • 3. Consumer Price Index December 2022
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20230173665
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2023-01-17
  • 4. Consumer Price Index: Annual review 2022
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20230179305
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2023-01-17
  • 5. Canadian international merchandise trade November 2022
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X20230053612
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2023-01-05
  • 6. Behind the Numbers: What’s Causing Growth in Food Prices
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2022014
    Description:

    Consumer prices for food purchased from stores rose to a 41-year high in October 2022, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI). This analysis explores the factors behind rising prices for food commodities, including shifting consumer demand trends, supply constraints and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

    Release date: 2022-11-16
  • 7. The rise in prices for wheat-based food products
    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
  • 8. 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: 2022-11-16
  • 9. Building construction price indexes third quarter 2022
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202230518843
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2022-11-01
  • 10. Price Adjustment Guide for Contract Escalation
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2022012
    Description:

    This resource provides guidance for the development of contract escalation clauses using price indexes developed by Statistics Canada. This guide summarizes important concepts and notions to consider, with a particular focus on the correct interpretation, utilization and reference of Statistics Canada data series.

    Release date: 2022-09-22
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Articles and reports (135)

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  • 1. Behind the Numbers: What’s Causing Growth in Food Prices
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2022014
    Description:

    Consumer prices for food purchased from stores rose to a 41-year high in October 2022, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI). This analysis explores the factors behind rising prices for food commodities, including shifting consumer demand trends, supply constraints and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

    Release date: 2022-11-16
  • 2. Price Adjustment Guide for Contract Escalation
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2022012
    Description:

    This resource provides guidance for the development of contract escalation clauses using price indexes developed by Statistics Canada. This guide summarizes important concepts and notions to consider, with a particular focus on the correct interpretation, utilization and reference of Statistics Canada data series.

    Release date: 2022-09-22
  • 3. From slaughter to supermarket: How supply-chains inform beef prices
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2022010
    Description:

    In 2021, Canada recorded its highest annual increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) since 1991, as global supply-chains felt the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, transportation and supply disruptions, and rebounding energy prices – all alongside the effects of the climate crisis.

    This analysis uses price data from the Industrial Product Price Index (IPPI), the Wholesale Services Price Index (WSPI), the Retail Services Price Index (RSPI), and the CPI to detail how manufacturers price movement works it way through the supply-chain to ultimately inform the price consumers pay for beef.

    Release date: 2022-09-02
  • 4. Prices through the supply chain: Softwood lumber
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2022011
    Description:

    To better understand the unprecedented volatility in lumber prices and the ensuing price transmission, this analysis evaluates the price movements across the domestic supply chain for lumber since the summer of 2020 using producer price indexes.

    Release date: 2022-09-02
  • 5. Technical Guide for the Building Construction Price Index
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2022005
    Description:

    This technical guide describes the estimation of the Building Construction Price Index (BCPI). It explains the component cost methodology, the aggregation structure, and the data sources used to derive price relatives that are appropriately aggregated to estimate the index. The BCPI measures the quarterly change over time in the prices that contractors charge to construct a range of new residential and non-residential buildings.

    Release date: 2022-07-28
  • 6. An Analysis of the 2022 Consumer Price Index Basket Update, Based on 2021 Expenditures
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2022009
    Description:

    This paper describes the composition of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) basket and the changes introduced with the 2022 basket update, based on 2021 expenditure weights.

    Release date: 2022-06-15
  • 7. Measuring price change for used vehicles in the Canadian Consumer Price Index
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2022008
    Description:

    The Canadian Consumer Price Index (CPI) accounts for the sale of used vehicles by including a net expenditure weight for used vehicles in the index for the purchase of passenger vehicles. However, price changes for new cars were used as a proxy for used cars to ensure price change for this product was still covered to the best extent possible. The research paper outlines the proposed plan for introducing used vehicle prices, including data and methods. With the introduction of the 2021 CPI basket, a new approach for measuring price change in used vehicles is recommended to replace the previous method of measuring used vehicles price change by proxy.

    Release date: 2022-05-18
  • 8. Technical guide for the Machinery and Equipment Price Index
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2022006
    Description:

    This article presents the data sources and methodology for the Machinery and Equipment Price Index (MEPI). The MEPI is an input price index that measures the quarterly change in the price of machinery and equipment purchased by industries in Canada. The MEPI is an important indicator of economic activity in all industries undertaking capital investment, serving as a tool for performance evaluation, cost monitoring, contract assessment and benchmark comparisons. It also provides supplemental information to the Canadian System of Macroeconomic Accounts to calculate gross domestic product and measure changes in productivity.

    Release date: 2022-05-16
  • 9. Methodological Supplement for the Monthly Average Retail Prices Table
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2022007
    Description:

    This document describes the methodology and data source for the monthly average retail prices table. This supplement also explains the difference between the Consumer Price Index and average retail prices in context of inflation.

    Release date: 2022-05-04
  • 10. Industrial Product Price Index: 2021 Annual Review
    Articles and reports: 62F0014M2022002
    Description:

    A review of how prices for products manufactured in Canada, as measured by the Industrial Product Price Index (IPPI), changed in 2021 when compared to 2020. The ongoing effects of COVID-19, macroeconomic phenomena, supply chain issues, as well as international trade all played roles in influencing industrial prices. Prices for lumber, energy products, and metals had a strong influence on the IPPI in 2021.

    Release date: 2022-02-28
Journals and periodicals (4)

Journals and periodicals (4) ((4 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: 2022-11-16
  • 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
  • 3. Canada Year Book
    Journals and periodicals: 11-402-X
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Presented in almanac style, the 2012 Canada Year Book contains more than 500 pages of tables, charts and succinct analytical articles on every major area of Statistics Canada's expertise. The Canada Year Book is the premier reference on the social and economic life of Canada and its citizens.

    Release date: 2012-12-24
  • 4. Canada E-Book Archived
    Journals and periodicals: 11-404-X
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    The Canada e-Book is an online version of the Canada Year Book with texts, tables, charts and audio clips that present the country's economic and social trends. The Canada e-Book illustrates Canada and Canadians under four broad headings: The Land, The People, The Economy, and The State. You will find a wealth of information on topics including the human imprint on the environment, population and demography, health, education, household and family life, labour force, arts and leisure, industries, finance, government and justice. All Canadians will enjoy this useful reference that helps explain the social, economic and cultural forces that shape our nation.

    Release date: 2003-05-26
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