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Consumer price indexes

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Consumer price indexes: Part 1
  All items Percentage change Excluding food and energy Percentage change Reclassified as goods and services
Total goods Durable goods Semi-durable goods Non-durable goods Total services
v41693271 v41693271 v41693531 v41693531 v41693520 v41693521 v41693522 v41693523 v41693528
  2002=100 percent 2002=100 percent 2002=100
1949 12.2 3.4 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
1950 12.5 2.5 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
1951 13.8 10.4 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
1952 14.2 2.9 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
1953 14.0 -1.4 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
1954 14.1 0.7 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
1955 14.1 0.0 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
1956 14.3 1.4 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
1957 14.8 3.5 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
1958 15.2 2.7 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
1959 15.3 0.7 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
1960 15.5 1.3 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
1961 15.7 1.3 17.3 .. 17.5 32.9 25.2 13.3 13.3
1962 15.9 1.3 17.5 1.2 17.7 32.5 25.4 13.5 13.5
1963 16.1 1.3 17.8 1.7 18.0 32.6 26.0 13.8 13.8
1964 16.4 1.9 18.1 1.7 18.2 32.3 26.6 14.0 14.1
1965 16.8 2.4 18.6 2.8 18.5 32.2 27.1 14.3 14.7
1966 17.5 4.2 19.1 2.7 19.2 32.2 28.0 15.0 15.2
1967 18.1 3.4 20.0 4.7 19.7 33.1 29.5 15.2 16.0
1968 18.8 3.9 20.9 4.5 20.5 33.6 30.4 15.9 16.8
1969 19.7 4.8 21.9 4.8 21.1 34.0 31.2 16.5 18.0
1970 20.3 3.0 22.7 3.7 21.5 34.4 31.8 16.9 19.0
1971 20.9 3.0 23.4 3.1 21.9 34.9 32.2 17.2 19.9
1972 21.9 4.8 24.3 3.8 22.9 35.3 33.0 18.2 21.0
1973 23.6 7.8 25.4 4.5 24.9 35.8 34.5 20.4 22.3
1974 26.2 11.0 27.6 8.7 28.0 38.6 37.7 23.3 24.0
1975 29.0 10.7 30.2 9.4 31.1 41.5 39.9 26.3 26.6
1976 31.1 7.2 32.9 8.9 32.6 43.7 41.8 27.6 29.9
1977 33.6 8.0 35.3 7.3 35.1 46.0 44.5 29.8 32.5
1978 36.6 8.9 37.4 5.9 38.6 48.6 46.3 33.5 34.8
1979 40.0 9.3 40.3 7.8 42.7 53.4 50.3 37.2 37.2
1980 44.0 10.0 44.1 9.4 47.6 59.2 55.2 41.8 40.2
1981 49.5 12.5 48.8 10.7 53.8 64.7 59.6 48.4 44.9
1982 54.9 10.9 54.1 10.9 58.9 68.3 63.5 54.1 50.7
1983 58.1 5.8 57.4 6.1 62.1 71.1 66.3 57.5 53.9
1984 60.6 4.3 59.6 3.8 64.9 73.5 67.9 60.9 56.0
1985 63.0 4.0 62.0 4.0 67.5 75.7 69.7 63.6 58.2
1986 65.6 4.1 65.3 5.3 69.8 79.5 71.6 65.5 61.2
1987 68.5 4.4 68.3 4.6 72.6 82.0 74.5 68.4 64.1
1988 71.2 3.9 71.5 4.7 75.2 85.1 78.2 70.5 67.1
1989 74.8 5.1 75.5 5.6 78.4 88.9 81.7 73.9 70.9
1990 78.4 4.8 78.8 4.4 81.6 89.5 84.0 78.5 74.9
1991 82.8 5.6 83.4 5.8 85.7 89.4 91.9 83.2 79.6
1992 84.0 1.4 85.1 2.0 86.4 90.4 92.5 83.8 81.4
1993 85.6 1.9 86.8 2.0 87.8 92.5 93.4 85.2 83.1
1994 85.7 0.1 86.9 0.1 86.8 96.0 94.2 81.6 84.5
1995 87.6 2.2 88.8 2.2 88.4 99.0 94.9 82.9 86.7
1996 88.9 1.5 90.1 1.5 89.9 100.8 95.4 84.4 88.0
1997 90.4 1.7 91.5 1.6 91.2 101.6 97.0 86.0 89.5
1998 91.3 1.0 92.7 1.3 91.4 101.5 97.7 86.1 91.1
1999 92.9 1.8 94.0 1.4 93.1 101.5 99.2 88.4 92.6
2000 95.4 2.7 95.5 1.6 96.0 100.8 99.6 93.3 94.8
2001 97.8 2.5 97.3 1.9 98.4 100.1 100.3 97.4 97.1
2002 100.0 2.2 100.0 2.8 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
2003 102.8 2.8 102.5 2.5 101.9 99.2 98.6 104.3 103.6
2004 104.7 1.8 103.9 1.4 103.4 97.5 98.2 107.9 105.9
2005 107.0 2.2 105.3 1.3 105.8 96.9 97.7 112.6 108.2
2006 109.1 2.0 106.9 1.5 107.1 96.2 96.2 115.9 111.1
2007 111.5 2.2 109.0 2.0 108.0 94.7 96.0 118.4 114.8
2008 114.1 2.3 110.3 1.2 109.4 89.7 94.5 124.4 118.7
Consumer price indexes: Part 2
  Main components
Food Shelter Household furnishings Clothing, footwear Transportation Health, personal care Recreation, reading, education Tobacco, alcoholic beverages
v41693272 v41693348 v41693365 v41693406 v41693426 v41693451 v41693468 v41693504
  2002=100
1949 11.5 .. .. 22.4 10.4 10.2 12.2 8.9
1950 11.8 .. .. 22.2 11.0 10.4 12.4 9.1
1951 13.4 .. .. 24.5 11.8 11.3 13.4 9.9
1952 13.4 .. .. 24.9 12.2 12.0 14.1 10.1
1953 12.9 .. .. 24.5 12.4 12.2 14.3 9.6
1954 12.9 .. .. 24.4 12.5 12.7 14.6 9.5
1955 12.9 .. .. 24.1 12.4 12.9 15.0 9.5
1956 13.0 .. .. 24.2 12.9 13.2 15.3 9.5
1957 13.6 .. .. 24.2 13.5 14.1 15.9 9.7
1958 14.0 .. .. 24.4 14.0 14.8 16.9 9.8
1959 13.9 .. .. 24.4 14.4 15.3 17.3 10.2
1960 14.0 .. .. 24.7 14.6 15.7 17.7 10.3
1961 14.2 .. .. 25.1 14.7 15.8 17.8 10.3
1962 14.5 .. .. 25.4 14.7 16.1 18.0 10.5
1963 15.0 .. .. 26.0 14.7 16.5 18.3 10.5
1964 15.2 .. .. 26.6 14.8 17.1 18.6 10.7
1965 15.6 .. .. 27.1 15.3 17.8 18.8 10.8
1966 16.6 .. .. 28.1 15.7 18.4 19.4 11.1
1967 16.8 .. .. 29.5 16.4 19.4 20.3 11.4
1968 17.3 .. .. 30.4 16.8 20.1 21.3 12.4
1969 18.1 .. .. 31.3 17.6 21.1 22.6 12.9
1970 18.5 .. .. 31.9 18.3 22.1 23.4 13.1
1971 18.7 .. .. 32.3 19.1 22.5 24.2 13.3
1972 20.1 .. .. 33.2 19.5 23.6 24.9 13.7
1973 23.1 .. .. 34.8 20.1 24.8 25.9 14.1
1974 26.8 .. .. 38.1 22.0 26.9 28.2 14.9
1975 30.2 .. .. 40.4 24.6 29.9 31.1 16.6
1976 31.1 .. .. 42.6 27.3 32.5 33.0 17.8
1977 33.7 .. .. 45.5 29.2 34.9 34.5 19.1
1978 38.9 .. .. 47.3 30.9 37.4 35.9 20.7
1979 44.0 41.0 48.6 51.6 33.9 40.8 38.3 22.1
1980 48.7 44.1 53.0 57.7 38.2 44.8 42.0 24.6
1981 54.3 50.0 58.6 61.8 45.2 49.7 46.2 27.8
1982 58.2 56.8 64.8 65.3 51.6 55.0 50.2 32.1
1983 60.4 60.9 68.3 67.9 54.2 58.8 53.5 36.1
1984 63.7 63.3 70.5 69.5 56.5 61.1 55.3 39.1
1985 65.5 65.6 72.3 71.5 59.2 63.2 57.7 42.8
1986 68.8 67.5 74.5 73.4 61.0 65.9 60.7 47.9
1987 71.8 70.5 76.7 76.5 63.3 69.3 63.7 51.1
1988 73.7 73.8 79.6 80.5 64.5 72.3 67.3 54.9
1989 76.5 78.1 82.5 83.7 67.8 75.5 70.3 59.9
1990 79.6 82.5 84.2 86.1 71.6 79.1 73.2 65.2
1991 83.4 86.3 87.4 94.3 72.9 84.7 78.3 76.4
1992 83.1 87.9 87.9 95.1 74.4 86.6 79.2 81.0
1993 84.5 89.1 88.7 96.0 76.8 88.9 81.1 82.2
1994 84.9 89.4 88.9 96.8 80.2 89.7 83.5 68.8
1995 86.9 90.4 90.6 96.7 84.3 89.6 86.7 68.7
1996 88.0 90.6 92.5 96.4 87.6 90.1 88.7 70.1
1997 89.4 90.8 93.7 97.7 90.3 91.7 91.0 72.3
1998 90.9 91.1 95.1 98.8 89.6 93.6 93.0 74.9
1999 92.0 92.3 95.8 100.1 92.6 95.4 94.7 76.5
2000 93.3 95.6 96.7 100.3 97.2 97.0 97.0 79.0
2001 97.4 99.1 98.6 100.7 97.3 98.9 98.4 85.0
2002 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
2003 101.7 103.2 100.7 98.2 105.2 101.4 100.8 110.1
2004 103.8 105.8 101.2 98.0 107.7 102.8 101.1 116.0
2005 106.4 109.2 101.7 97.6 112.0 104.6 100.8 119.1
2006 108.9 113.1 102.2 95.8 115.2 105.9 100.6 121.7
2007 111.8 116.9 103.2 95.7 117.1 107.3 101.8 125.5
2008 115.7 122.0 104.6 93.8 119.5 108.8 102.2 127.5
Note(s):
Based on expenditure weights derived from 2005 consumer spending patterns. Monthly data, when presented in this table, are not seasonally adjusted.
Source(s):
The Consumer Price Index (Catalogue no. 62-001-X), Client services (613-951-9606). CANSIM tables: 326-0020 and 326-0021.
Date Modified: 2009-08-13

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