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| Source | Publication or series identifiers | ||
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| Inflation | |||
| Core inflation | Statistics Canada / Bank of Canada | www.statcan.ca Cansim: V36398 Bank of Canada calculation |
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| CPI excluding food, energy, and the effect of changes in indirect taxes | Statistics Canada/Bank of Canada | Cansim: V36395 Bank of Canada calculation |
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| CPIW | Statistics Canada/Bank of Canada | Cansim: V36393 Bank of Canada calculation |
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| Weighted median | Bank of Canada | Bank of Canada calculation | |
| CPI Inflation | Statistics Canada | The Consumer Price Index Cansim: V735319 |
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| Chain price index for GDP | Statistics Canada | National Income and Expenditures Accounts Cansim: V1997756 |
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| Chain price index for consumption | Statistics Canada | National Income and Expenditures Accounts Cansim: V1997738 |
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| Chain price index for consumption excluding food and energy | Statistics Canada / Bank of Canada | Bank of Canada calculation | |
| Product market | |||
| Output gap (Bank of Canada's conventional measure) | Bank of Canada | Bank of Canada calculation | |
| Capacity utilization rate | Statistics Canada | Industrial Capacity Utilization Rates (in the Daily) |
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| Non-farm goods | Cansim: V4331081 | ||
| Manufacturing | Cansim: V4331088 | ||
| Difficulty meeting an unanticipated increase in demand/sales (% firms) | Bank of Canada | Bank of Canada Regional Office Survey | |
| Production difficulties - Raw material shortage | Statistics Canada | Quarterly Business Conditions Survey: Manufacturing Industries (in the Daily) Cansim: v19694162 |
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| Unfilled orders/shipments - Manufacturing excluding aerospace products and parts | Statistics Canada | Monthly Survey of Manufacturing Cansim: (M1352-M1377) / (M426-M451) (V803189-V803214)/(V800450-V800475) |
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| Backlog of unfilled orders - Higher than normal | Statistics Canada | Quarterly Business Conditions Survey: Manufacturing Industries (in the Daily) Cansim: v19694602 |
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| Backlog of unfilled orders - Lower than normal | Statistics Canada | Quarterly Business Conditions Survey: Manufacturing Industries (in the Daily) Cansim: v19694690 |
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| Backlog of unfilled orders - Balance of opinion | Statistics Canada | Quarterly Business Conditions Survey: Manufacturing Industries (in the Daily) Cansim: v19694602-v19694690 |
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| Aggregate stock-to-sales ratio | Statistics Canada Income and Expenditures Accounts Division | ||
| Foreign activity measure |
Bank of Canada | Bank of Canada calculation | |
| Labour market | |||
| Unemployment rate | Statistics Canada | Labour Force Information Cansim: V2062815 |
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| Participation rate | Statistics Canada | Labour Force Information Cansim: V2062816 |
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| Growth in employment | Statistics Canada | Labour Force Information Cansim: V2062811 |
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| Skilled labour shortage (% firms) - Manufacturing (Statscan survey) | Statistics Canada | Quarterly Business Conditions Survey: Manufacturing Industries (in the Daily) Cansim: v19694074 |
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| Production difficulties - Unskilled labour shortage | Statistics Canada | Quarterly Business Conditions Survey: Manufacturing Industries (in the Daily) Cansim: v19694118 |
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| Production difficulties - Working capital shortage | Statistics Canada | Quarterly Business Conditions Survey: Manufacturing Industries (in the Daily) Cansim: v19694206 |
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| Labour shortage (% firms) - All sectors (Bank of Canada Regional Office Survey) | Bank of Canada | Bank of Canada Regional Office Survey | |
| Wages and costs | |||
| Average hourly earnings (unweighted) | Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey | ||
| All employees | |||
| Permanent employees | |||
| Wage settlements - Private sector | Human Resources Development Canada | The Wage Settlements Bulletin wid-imt@hrdc-drhc.gc.ca Cansim: V4327222 |
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| Compensation per hour: business sector | Statistics Canada | Labour Productivity, Hourly Compensation and Unit Labour Costs (in the Daily) Cansim: V1409158 |
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| Unit labour costs - Total economy labour income/GDP at market prices |
Statistics Canada | Cansim: V498076/V1992067 | |
| Unit labour costs: business sector | Statistics Canada | Labour Productivity, Hourly Compensation and Unit Labour Costs (in the Daily) Cansim: V1409159 |
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| Bank of Canada commodity price index | Bank of Canada | ||
| Total | V36382 | ||
| Energy | V36384 | ||
| Non-energy | V36383 | ||
| Real estate market | |||
| New-housing price index | Statistics Canada | Cansim: V734237 | |
| Resale-housing prices: Royal LePage | Royal LePage survey of Canadian house prices | Bank of Canada calculation using the Royal LePage survey of Canadian house prices | |
| Vacancy rate | Royal LePage | www.royallepage.com | |
| Apartments | |||
| Offices | |||
| Industrial market | |||
| Expectations | |||
| % of firms expecting price increases over the next six months of: | Conference Board | www.conferenceboard.ca Index of Business Confidence |
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| 1% or less | |||
| 2% or less | |||
| 3% or less | |||
| more than 3% | |||
| CPI inflation: Consensus forecasts | Consensus Economics | www.consensuseconomics.com Consensus Forecasts |
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| 2003 | |||
| 2004 | |||
| 2-3 years | |||
| 6-10 years | |||
| Bank of Canada Regional Office Survey -- % of firms expecting CPI inflation over the next two years to be: | Bank of Canada | Bank of Canada Regional Office Survey | |
| less than 1% | |||
| 1-2% | |||
| 2-3% | |||
| more than 3% | |||
| Expectations implicit in real/nominal bond spread | Bank of Canada | Bank of Canada calculation | |