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For-hire Motor Carrier Freight Services Price Index, fourth quarter 2014

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Released: 2015-03-30

The For-hire Motor Carrier Freight Services Price Index decreased 1.0% in the fourth quarter from the third quarter.

The general freight trucking component (-1.1%) and the specialized freight trucking component (-0.9%) posted declines.

Year over year, the index declined 0.1% in the fourth quarter compared with the same quarter of 2013.

Chart 1  Chart 1: For-hire Motor Carrier Freight Services Price Index - Description and data table
For-hire Motor Carrier Freight Services Price Index

Chart 1: For-hire Motor Carrier Freight Services Price Index - Description and data table
Table 1 
For-hire Motor Carrier Freight Services Price Index – Not seasonally adjusted

  Note to readers

The For-hire Motor Carrier Freight Services Price Index measures changes over time in prices for the for-hire motor carrier freight services provided by general and specialized freight trucking companies.

Data are available at the Canada level only.

With each release, data for the previous quarter may have been revised. The series are also subject to an annual revision with the release of second quarter data of the following reference year. The indexes are not seasonally adjusted.

With the release of second quarter 2014 data, the For-hire Motor Carrier Freight Services Price Index series has been converted from a base year of 2007=100 to 2013=100. The relative importance of the component North American Industry Classification System has been updated based on 2013 revenues of the sampled establishments. Accordingly, the entire data series has been updated to reflect the new index reference period.

The new series appear in CANSIM tables 332-0016 and 332-0017 with new vectors. The old index series, based on 2007=100, are terminated (CANSIM tables 332-0004 and 332-0009).

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