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

  Indexes Percentage change September 2002 from
September
2002
August
2002
September
2001
August
2002
September
2001
All-items 120.1 120.1 117.4 0.0 2.3
Food 119.2 120.2 116.9 -0.8 2.0
Shelter 114.6 114.2 113.4 0.4 1.1
Household operations and furnishings 113.8 114.3 113.2 -0.4 0.5
Clothing and footwear 107.3 105.0 107.9 2.2 -0.6
Transportation 136.8 137.0 133.0 -0.1 2.9
Health and personal care 115.7 115.6 114.2 0.1 1.3
Recreation, education and reading 128.7 128.5 126.0 0.2 2.1
Alcoholic beverages and tobacco products 129.9 129.8 106.5 0.1 22.0
All-items (1986=100) 153.8        
Purchasing power of the consumer dollar expressed in cents, compared to 1992 83.3 83.3 85.2    
Special aggregates          
Goods 116.8 116.8 114.8 0.0 1.7
Services 123.9 123.9 120.4 0.0 2.9
All-items excluding food and energy 118.7 118.5 115.2 0.2 3.0
Energy 134.6 133.4 137.0 0.9 -1.8
All items excluding the 8 most volatile components (Bank of Canada definition)(1) 121.2 121.0 118.2 0.2 2.5

(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-XPB