Table 3
Descriptive statistics for percent change in price, week before to week of release, 1990 to 2009

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Table 3
Descriptive statistics for percent change in price, week before to week of release, 1990 to 2009

Table summary
This table displays the results of descriptive statistics for percent change in price. This information is grouped by Crops appearing as row header, and by N, Minimum, Maximum, Mean, Standard Deviation and Confidence Interval (95%) (Lower and Upper) appearing as column headers.
Crops  N Minimum Maximum Mean Standard Deviation Confidence Interval (95%)
Lower Upper
Specialty Crops  
Large Green Lentils 138 -0.12 0.19 0.0051 0.0378 -0.001 0.011
Small Green Lentils 134 -0.24 0.09 -0.0080 0.0397 -0.014 -0.011
Medium Green Lentils 121 -0.13 0.16 0.0049 0.0332 -0.001 0.011
French Green Lentils 124 -0.29 0.10 -0.0066 0.0416 -0.014 0.001
Red Lentils 87 -0.10 0.10 0.0028 0.0337 -0.004 0.010
Brown Mustard 139 -0.26 0.22 0.0012 0.0424 -0.006 0.008
Yellow Mustard 128 -0.09 0.36 0.0092 0.0469 -0.001 0.017
Oriental Mustard 139 -0.21 0.27 -0.0006 0.0389 -0.007 0.005
Sunflower Seed 113 -0.27 0.42 0.0061 0.0663 -0.006 0.084
Canary Seed 140 -0.11 0.20 -0.0026 0.0362 -0.009 0.003
Desi Chick Peas 87 -0.10 0.06 -0.0005 0.0251 -0.006 0.004
Kabuli Chick Peas 87 -0.13 0.17 0.0023 0.0385 -0.006 0.010
Field Green Peas 139 -0.36 0.14 0.0015 0.0444 -0.006 0.009
Field Yellow Peas 140 -0.36 0.20 0.0036 0.0468 -0.004 0.011
Field Peas 140 -0.25 0.09 -0.0015 0.0364 -0.007 0.004
Major Grains/Oilseeds  
Grain Oats 134 -0.13 0.27 0.0062 0.0534 -0.003 0.015
Canola 154 -0.18 0.08 -0.0024 0.0296 -0.007 0.002
Flax Seed 154 -0.13 0.17 -0.0013 0.0397 -0.007 0.005
Barley 154 -0.10 0.14 0.0028 0.0359 -0.003 0.008
Feed Wheat 154 -0.19 0.13 0.0000 0.0430 -0.007 0.007
Source: Statistics Canada, authors' calculation.
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