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Selected publications from Statistics Canada
Consumer Prices and
Price Indexes
Your Guide to the Consumer
Price Index
Analytical Series -
Prices Division
The Consumer Price Index
Reference Paper
Selected technical and analytical products from Statistics Canada
How Inflation
and Income Tax Affect the Return on a Safe Investment
Televisions:
Quality Changes and Scanner Data
Housing Depreciation
in the Canadian CPI
Selected CANSIM tables from Statistics Canada
Average retail prices for gasoline and fuel oil, by urban centre, monthly
Average retail prices for food and other selected items, monthly
Inter-city indexes of retail price differentials for selected groups of consumer
goods and services, annual
Consumer price index (CPI), 2005 basket content, monthly
Consumer price index (CPI), 2005 basket content, annual
Consumer price index (CPI), seasonally adjusted, 2005 basket content,
monthly
Selected surveys from Statistics Canada
Selected summary tables from Statistics Canada
- Consumer Price Index, by province (monthly)
- Consumer Price Index, by city (monthly)
- Consumer Price Index, food, by province (monthly)
- Consumer Price Index, shelter, by province (monthly)
- Consumer Price Index, household operations, furnishings and equipment by province
(monthly)
- Consumer Price Index, clothing and footwear, by province (monthly)
- Consumer Price Index, transportation, by province (monthly)
- Consumer Price Index, health and personal care, by province (monthly)
- Consumer Price Index, recreation, education and reading, by province (monthly)
- Consumer Price Index, alcoholic beverages and tobacco products, by province
(monthly)
- Canada: Economic and financial data
- Consumer Price Index, provinces
- Consumer price index, historical summary, by province or territory
- Gasoline and fuel oil, average retail prices by urban centre (monthly)
- Food and other selected items, average retail prices (monthly)
- Gasoline and fuel oil, average retail prices by urban centre
- Food and other selected items, average retail prices
- Consumer Price Index, food, by province
- Consumer Price Index, shelter, by province
- Consumer Price Index, household operations, furnishings and equipment, by
province
- Consumer Price Index, clothing and footwear, by province
- Consumer Price Index, transportation, by province
- Consumer Price Index, health and personal care, by province
- Consumer Price Index, recreation, education and reading, by province
- Consumer Price Index, alcoholic beverages and tobacco products, by province
- Inter-city indexes of consumer price levels
- Consumer Price Index, by city
- Consumer Price Index, historical summary
- Selected economic indicators, Canada and United States (monthly and quarterly)
- Education price index, by provinces
- Economic indicators, by province and territory (monthly and quarterly)
For further reading
Detailed information on the methodology and concepts of the CPI is contained
in The Consumer Price Index Reference Paper, Updating Based on 1992 Expenditures, (Occasional), catalogue no. 62-553-X.
Information regarding the Household Spending Survey is contained in the: Spending Patterns in Canada, 2005, catalogue no. 62-202-X.
A brief non-technical document entitled Your Guide to the Consumer
Price Index (Occasional) catalogue no.62-557-X answers
the frequently asked questions about the construction and use of the CPI.
For further information, contact the Consumer Prices Section, Prices Division,
Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0T6 (613-951-9606), or you
can also search through the Statistics Canada catalogue which lists all current
products and services available from Statistics Canada.