Food services and drinking places, September 2012

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Sales for the food services and drinking places industry rose 0.5% between August and September to $4.4 billion. During the same period, the price index for food purchased in restaurants increased 0.1%.

In September, three of the four industry sectors posted higher sales compared with August: the special food services sector, which includes food service contractors, caterers and mobile food services (+1.9%), the drinking places sector (+1.3%), and the limited-service restaurant sector (+0.8%). The full-service restaurant sector (-0.2%) saw a decline.

In September, six provinces posted higher sales, two saw declines, and two were unchanged. The biggest increase was in British Columbia (+1.8%). The largest decline was in Nova Scotia (-1.7%).

Note to readers

All data in this release are seasonally adjusted and expressed in current dollars. For more information on seasonal adjustment, see Seasonal adjustment and identifying economic trends.

At the time of this release, non-seasonally adjusted data were revised from January 2011 to August 2012 and seasonally adjusted data were revised from January 2008 to August 2012.

Factors influencing these revisions include improvements to the survey methodology, corrections of non-sampling errors and modifications to seasonal adjustment.

Revisions may have a greater impact in smaller industries, provinces and territories.

Table 1

Food services and drinking places – Seasonally adjusted

Available without charge in CANSIM: table CANSIM table355-0006.

Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number survey number2419.

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To enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Yukman Cheung (613-951-8354; yukman.cheung@statcan.gc.ca), Service Industries Division.