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This monthly release of the The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for Canada, the provinces, Whitehorse and Yellowknife, provides a descriptive summary of retail price movements, inflation rates and the factors underlying them. The CPI also contains the following tabular information: latest price index movements for the eight major components; price index changes on one and 12-month bases for an extensive number of components and groups; historical monthly information; and price indices reclassified according to categories of goods and services.

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Product:The Consumer Price Index
Catalogue no.:62-001-XWE
Frequency:Monthly
Status:Ongoing/Available
 
Latest issue:December 2009, vol. 88 no. 12 Free
Release date:January 20, 2010
 
Subscription:one year (365 days) N/A  
 
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accommodation, alcoholic beverages, books, clothing, consumer prices, electric power, expenditures, food, food purchased from restaurants, footwear, fuel costs, health care, household furnishings, mail services, newspapers, personal care, recreation, recreational facilities, recreational vehicles, telephone services, tobacco, transport, urban transit.

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