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Highlights:

  1. Consumer prices rose 2.0% in the 12 months to November, following a 2.4% increase in October. On a non-seasonally adjusted monthly basis, consumer prices rose 0.1% in November, after increasing 0.4% in October.

All-items Consumer Price Index (CPI):

  1. Energy prices rose 6.7% during the 12 months to November, on the heels of a 9.1% increase in October. Prices at the pump were 7.2% higher than a year earlier, following an 8.8% increase posted in the previous month. Electricity prices increased 5.9%, smaller than the 8.1% rise in October.
  2. Prices for the purchase of passenger vehicles rose 3.9% compared with November last year. This follows a 4.9% increase in October.
  3. Homeowners' replacement cost increased 4.6% in November, a slightly slower rate of growth than the 4.9% increase observed in the previous month.

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

Main upward contributors:

  1. Gasoline (+7.2%)
  2. Purchase of passenger vehicles (+3.9%)
  3. Homeowners' replacement cost (+4.6%)
  4. Electricity (+5.9%)
  5. Passenger vehicle insurance premiums (+4.2%)

Main downward contributors:

  1. Mortgage interest cost (-2.7%)
  2. Women's clothing (-6.9%)
  3. Video equipment (-14.8%)
  4. Furniture (-2.9%)
  5. Computer equipment and supplies (-11.1%)

Main contributors to the monthly change in the CPI, non-seasonally adjusted:

Main upward contributors:

  1. Purchase of passenger vehicles (+4.0%)
  2. Gasoline (+1.7%)
  3. Fresh vegetables (+5.5%)
  4. Food purchased from restaurants (+0.4%)
  5. Fuel oil and other fuels (+3.1%)

Main downward contributors:

  1. Women's clothing (-5.8%)
  2. Traveller accommodations (-6.3%)
  3. Electricity (-1.1%)
  4. Non-alcoholic beverages (-3.0%)
  5. Men's clothing (-1.9%)
Twelve month and monthly percentage change in the most quoted indexes, not seasonally adjusted