Purchasing power parities

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Updated data for purchasing power parities (PPPs) and related series are now available for 2009. These include consumption- and expenditure-based data from the Canada/United States bilateral program as well as PPPs from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) multilateral program.

These statistics incorporate the latest prices from the OECD's benchmark exercise for 2005. Current dollar expenditure and corresponding price indices from the Canadian System of National Accounts (released in May, 2010) and the US National Income and Product Accounts (released in August, 2010) have also been used in the bilateral program. The latter include significant revisions due to the incorporation of the 2002 Input-output tables. For this reason, the PPP-related data have been revised back to 1992.

Available on CANSIM: tables 380-0037, 380-0057 and 380-0058.

Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 1901.

The document Purchasing Power Parities and Real Expenditures, United States and Canada, 2002 to 2009 (13-604-M2010064, free) is now available from the Key resource module of our website under Publications.

For more information or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact the information officer (613-951-3640; iead-info-dcrd@statcan.gc.ca), Income and Expenditure Accounts Division.