Commercial Software Price Index, November 2012

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The Commercial Software Price Index (CSPI) decreased by 0.3% in November compared with the previous month.

Year over year, the CSPI was down 0.2%.

Note to readers

The Commercial Software Price Index is a monthly series measuring the change in the purchase price of pre-packaged software typically bought by businesses and governments. This release presents data that are not seasonally adjusted, and the indexes published are subject to a six-month revision period after dissemination of a given month's data.

This index is available at the Canada level only.

Available in CANSIM: table CANSIM table331-0009.

Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number survey number5068.

The Commercial Software Price Index for December will be released on January 25, 2013.

For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact us (toll-free 1-800-263-1136; infostats@statcan.gc.ca) or Media Relations (613-951-4636; statcan.mediahotline-ligneinfomedias.statcan@canada.ca).