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Consumer Price Index and major components
(2002=100)
  Relative importance1 February 2008 January 2008 February 2007 January to February 2008 February 2007 to February 2008
    Unadjusted
          % change
All-items 100.002 112.2 111.8 110.2 0.4 1.8
Food 17.04 112.8 112.4 112.6 0.4 0.2
Shelter 26.62 119.6 119.2 114.9 0.3 4.1
Household operations and furnishings 11.10 104.1 103.3 103.0 0.8 1.1
Clothing and footwear 5.36 94.1 92.2 95.4 2.1 -1.4
Transportation 19.88 117.0 117.6 114.2 -0.5 2.5
Health and personal care 4.73 107.7 107.5 106.5 0.2 1.1
Recreation, education and reading 12.20 100.8 99.6 100.2 1.2 0.6
Alcoholic beverages and tobacco products 3.07 126.8 126.4 124.2 0.3 2.1
All-items (1992=100)   133.6 133.0 131.2 0.5 1.8
Special aggregates            
Goods 48.78 107.4 107.3 107.4 0.1 0.0
Services 51.22 116.9 116.2 113.0 0.6 3.5
All-items excluding food and energy 73.57 109.4 109.0 108.0 0.4 1.3
Energy 9.38 139.4 139.0 127.1 0.3 9.7
Core CPI3 82.71 110.7 110.1 109.1 0.5 1.5
1.2005 CPI basket weights at April 2007 prices, Canada : Effective May 2007. Detailed weights are available under the Documentation section of survey 2301 at (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/imdb-bmdi/index-eng.htm).
2.Figures may not add to 100% due to rounding.
3.The measure of Core CPI excludes from the all-items CPI the effect of changes in indirect taxes and eight of the most volatile components identified by the Bank of Canada: fruit, fruit preparations and nuts; vegetables and vegetable preparations; mortgage interest cost; natural gas; fuel oil and other fuel; gasoline; inter-city transportation; and tobacco products and smokers' supplies. For additional information on Core CPI, please consult the Bank of Canada website (www.bankofcanada.ca/en/inflation/index.htm).


Consumer Price Index by province, and for Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Iqaluit1
(2002=100)
  February 2008 January 2008 February 2007 January to February 2008 February 2007 to February 2008
  Unadjusted
        % change
Newfoundland and Labrador 112.4 111.9 110.1 0.4 2.1
Prince Edward Island 114.6 114.2 111.9 0.4 2.4
Nova Scotia 113.9 113.5 111.0 0.4 2.6
New Brunswick 111.7 111.7 109.6 0.0 1.9
Québec 111.4 111.0 109.6 0.4 1.6
Ontario 111.4 110.9 109.7 0.5 1.5
Manitoba 111.2 110.8 109.4 0.4 1.6
Saskatchewan 113.6 113.0 109.9 0.5 3.4
Alberta 119.0 118.8 115.0 0.2 3.5
British Columbia 110.3 109.9 109.1 0.4 1.1
Whitehorse 110.1 110.4 107.3 -0.3 2.6
Yellowknife2 112.3 111.3 109.1 0.9 2.9
Iqaluit (Dec. 2002=100) 108.4 108.2 106.5 0.2 1.8
1.View the geographical details for the city of Whitehorse, the city of Yellowknife and the town of Iqaluit.
2.Part of the increase first recorded in the shelter index for Yellowknife for December 2004 inadvertently reflected rent increases that actually occurred earlier. As a result, the change in the shelter index was overstated in December 2004, and was understated in the previous two years. The shelter index series for Yellowknife has been corrected from December 2002. In addition, the Yellowknife All-items CPI and some Yellowknife special aggregate index series have also changed. Data for Canada and all other provinces and territories were not affected.
Date Modified: 2009-08-13

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