The Canadian Consumer Price Index Reference Paper

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Release date: February 27, 2019
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Preface

This Canadian Consumer Price Index (CPI) Reference Paper provides an overview of the Canadian CPI. It is intended for a varied audience, ranging from users interested in general information to those requiring more technical or theoretical details. As such, it explains all the important aspects of the Canadian CPI: uses and interpretations, scope, classifications, sample strategy, price collection, index calculation, quality change, weights, basket updates, reliability and uncertainty, special cases and treatments and history.

Reader’s Guide

This volume explains the conceptual, structural and methodological basis of the Canadian Consumer Price Index (CPI). It should be regarded as an update to The Consumer Price Index Reference Paper, published in 2015.Note  It provides a thorough explanation of the concepts and methodology underlying Canada’s CPI. The first chapter provides an overview and summary of the entire document.



Table of contents

Main page
Chapter 1 – Introduction to the Canadian Consumer Price Index
Chapter 2 – Availability and Uses
Chapter 3 – Scope of the Index
Chapter 4 – Classifications
Chapter 5 – Sample Strategy and Price Collection
Chapter 6 – Calculation of the Consumer Price Index
Chapter 7 – Quality Change and Adjustment
Chapter 8 – Weights and Basket Updates
Chapter 9 – Reliability and Uncertainty
Chapter 10 – Treatment of Owned Accommodation and Seasonal Products
Chapter 11 – History
Glossary
Appendix A – Common Price Index Formulae
Appendix B – General information on the CPI major components
Appendix C – Detailed Chronology of Basket Updates and Changes to the Consumer Price Index
References

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Copyright

Published by authority of the Minister responsible for Statistics Canada.

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada as represented by the Minister of Industry, 2019

Use of this publication is governed by the Statistics Canada Open Licence Agreement.

Catalogue no. 62-553-X

Frequency: Occasional

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