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This Alberta Official Statistic compares the Consumer Price Index year-over-year for Canada and Alberta. The graph shows the CPI for all items as well as for 9 individual sectors such as Food, Shelter, Energy, etc.
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January 17, 2024
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2024-01-17
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Treasury Board and Finance
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Date Created
2024-01-17
Date Added to catalogue
2015-05-13T19:27:36.150931
Date Issued
2013-05-28
Date Modified
2024-01-17
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Note: The basket of goods and services used in the calculation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was updated on February 26, 2015 with the release of the January CPI. Updated basket weights for the goods and services in the Consumer Price Index, representing spending patterns in 2022, are now available. The 2022 basket combines expenditure data from the Household Final Consumption Expenditures, the Survey of Household Spending and alternative data source to account for shifts in spending. The updated weights have been incorporated into the May 2023 CPI, which was release on June 27, 2023. They have replaced previous weights, which were based on 2021 expenditure patterns. The weight reference period for the new basket is 2022. The index base period for the all-items CPI remains 2002=100.
Note: Users may notice a slight discrepancy between the annual percent change figures found within the CSV downloadable directly from the Statistics Canada website and the one available on the OSI website. On the Statistics Canada website, the data are rounded using statistician’s rounding (also known as round-to-even method, unbiased rounding, convergent rounding and banker’s rounding) whereas the official figure presented by the OSI and Statistics Canada’s Daily uses the traditional rounding method.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is an indicator of changes in consumer prices experienced by Canadians. It is obtained by comparing through time, the cost of a fixed basket of products purchased by consumers. Since the basket contains products of unchanging or equivalent quantity and quality, the index reflects only pure price change.
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Office of Statistics and Information
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(780) 427-2071