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Alberta Spatial Price Survey

Description

The Alberta Spatial Price Survey measures price differences between selected Alberta communities for a basket of goods and services at a specific point in time, using Edmonton as the index base. This means that Edmonton is benchmarked at 100.0 and serves as the basis of comparison. As such, communities having an index value above (or below) 100.0 experienced higher (or lower) prices than Edmonton for a particular basket of commodities.

Updated

August 15, 2019

Tags
Community Comparison Consumer Price Index Cost Economic Price Region index
Resources

Title and Dataset Information

Alternative Title

Alberta Spatial Price Index, Alberta Place-to-Place Price Comparison Index

Date Modified

2019-08-15

Update Frequency

Annual

Publisher / Creator Information

Creator
Treasury Board and Finance
Publisher

Treasury Board and Finance

Subject Information

Topic
Business and Industry Economy and Finance Employment and Labour Housing and Utilities Population and Demography Society and Communities
Start Date

2018-01-01

End Date

2018-12-31

Spatial Coverage

35 communities located throughout the province, with Edmonton as the reference location.

Resource Dates

Date Created

2019-08-15

Date Added to catalogue

2017-02-15T20:33:07.569201

Date Issued

2016-10-28

Date Modified

2019-08-15

Audience information

Consumers Employees Employers Entrepreneur/Self-employed Funding Applicants General Public Government Immigrants Job Seekers Lower-income Earners Media Nonprofit/Voluntary Organizations Researchers Rural Residents Seniors Travellers Visitors to Alberta

Language

English (Canadian)

Identifiers

Usage / Licence

Usage Considerations

The Alberta Spatial Price Index focuses on price differences across various locations at a specific point in time, whereas Statistics Canada's Consumer Price Index (CPI) program measures price differences over time at a specific location. Hence, any analysis that combines CPI data with spatial price data is not recommended.

The items in the basket of goods and services for the Alberta Spatial Price Survey are not weighted equally but are instead weighted according to relative importance. Thus, price differences in items with relatively large weights will have a larger effect on the composite price index than differences in items with smaller weights.

For the 2016 edition, most of the data collection for Fort McMurray took place before the devastating wildfire that impacted northern Alberta in May 2016. As a result, estimates for Fort McMurray may not accurately describe the price levels currently being experienced. Thus, any analysis involving price indices for Fort McMurray should be conducted with considerable caution, and will likely require other, more recent data sources to verify the accuracy of the analysis.

Licence

Open Government Licence - Alberta

Contact

Contact Name

Office of Statistics and Information

Contact Email

osi.support@gov.ab.ca

Contact Other

OSI.Support@gov.ab.ca