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TABLE - 1
The Consumer Price Index and Major Components
(Not Seasonally Adjusted), Canada, 1992=100

  Indexes Percentage change February 2003 from
February
2003
January
2003
February
2002
January
2003
February
2002
All-items 122.3 121.4 116.9 0.7 4.6
Food 122.1 122.3 120.6 -0.2 1.2
Shelter 116.7 116.2 113.1 0.4 3.2
Household operations and furnishings 114.5 113.9 113.1 0.5 1.2
Clothing and footwear 103.8 101.6 105.4 2.2 -1.5
Transportation 144.1 141.9 127.5 1.6 13.0
Health and personal care 116.4 116.1 114.8 0.3 1.4
Recreation, education and reading 127.1 125.4 124.1 1.4 2.4
Alcoholic beverages and tobacco products 133.5 132.0 112.9 1.1 18.2
All-items (1986=100) 156.7        
Purchasing power of the consumer dollar expressed in cents, compared to 1992 81.8 82.4 85.5    
Special aggregates          
Goods 119.2 117.9 113.7 1.1 4.8
Services 126.1 125.5 120.7 0.5 4.5
All-items excluding food and energy 119.9 119.2 115.4 0.6 3.9
Energy 146.5 140.4 122.4 4.3 19.7
All items excluding the 8 most volatile components (Bank of Canada definition)(1) 122.3 121.7 118.6 0.5 3.1

(1) Excluded from the All-items CPI are the following eight volatile components, as defined by the Bank of Canada: fruit, fruit preparations and nuts; vegetables and vegetable preparations; mortgage interest cost; natural gas; fuel oil and other fuel; gasoline; inter-city transportation; and tobacco products and smokers' supplies. The Bank of Canada further adjusts this series to obtain their measure of core inflation which also excludes the effect of changes in indirect taxes. For data and information on core inflation, please consult the Bank of Canada Web site: http://www.bankofcanada.ca/inflation.

Statistics Canada - Catalogue no. 62-001