Consulting Engineering Services Price Index
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The Canada total Consulting Engineering Services Price Index increased 4.1% in 2010 compared with 2009.
Prices rose for all specializations, except environmental services, ranging from gains of 1.5% for other engineering services, to 8.9% for buildings.
Services Producer Price Index: Consulting engineering services
Chart description: Services Producer Price Index: Consulting engineering services
Note: The Consulting Engineering Services Price Index measures the change in the total price of consulting engineering services. Detailed indexes are available for fields of specialization and for domestic and foreign markets.
The Consulting Engineering Services Price Index is part of the Services Producer Price Index program at Statistics Canada. The purpose of this survey is to collect and compile financial and wage data to measure movements in the price of consulting engineering services. The index can be joined with other business service price indexes to provide better estimates of real output and productivity, and to monitor inflation in the services sector.
With this release, the geographic breakdown and some of the categories of the Consulting engineering services price indexes are no longer available.
Available on CANSIM: table 327-0007.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2328.
The 2010 consulting engineering services price indexes data will be published in the third quarter 2011 issue of Capital Expenditure Price Statistics (62-007-X, free).
For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Client Services (toll-free 1-888-951-4550 or 613-951-4550; fax: 1-855-314-8765; 613-951-3117; ppd-info-dpp@statcan.gc.ca), Producer Prices Division.
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