Highlights:

1. Consumer prices rose 1.0% in the 12 months to November 2009, following a 0.1% increase in October. On an unadjusted monthly basis, consumer prices rose 0.5% from October to November, after decreasing 0.1% from September to October.

All-items Consumer Price Index (CPI):

1. The rise in the all-items CPI was due mostly to gasoline prices. Consumers paid 14.1% more at the pump in November than they did a year earlier, compared with a 13.1% drop in October.
2. Energy prices rose 1.3% between November 2008 and November 2009, following a drop of 12.7% in October.
3. All major components in the CPI recorded increases in November, except shelter (-1.7%).
4. Upward pressure on the 12-month change came primarily from higher prices for transportation (+1.9%), household operations, furnishings and equipment (+2.8%), and food (+1.7%).

Main contributors to the 12-month change in the CPI:

Main upward contributors:

1. Gasoline (+14.1%)
2. Passenger vehicle insurance premiums (+7.8%)
3. Property taxes (+4.3%)
4. Food purchased from restaurants (+2.7%)
5. Education (+4.4%)

Main downward contributors:

1. Natural gas (-29.7%)
2. Purchase of passenger vehicles (-6.0%)
3. Mortgage interest cost (-4.0%)
4. Air transportation (-8.9%)
5. Homeowner's replacement cost (-2.1%)

Main contributors to the monthly change in the CPI, not seasonally adjusted:

Main upward contributors:

1. Purchase of passenger vehicles (+5.0%)
2. Gasoline (+3.2%)
3. Fresh vegetables (+16.3%)
4. Telephone services (+2.3%)
5. Fuel oil and other fuels (+9.9%)

Main downward contributors:

1. Air transportation (-11.3%)
2. Traveller accommodation (-7.1%)
3. Homeowners’ home and mortgage insurance (-2.9%)
4. Mortgage interest cost (-0.5%)
5. Women’s clothing (-1.0%)