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    <label>Chart 12: Firms expect the size and frequency of their price changes to gradually shift closer to normal</label>
    <description><![CDATA[Size of price changes (balance of opinion*): Over the past 12 months (next 12 months), on average across the products and services you sell, the size of your price changes, in percent, have been (will be): larger than normal, smaller than normal or roughly the same size as normal? Frequency of price changes (balance of opinion†): Over the past 12 months (next 12 months), on average across the products and services you sell, how often have you changed (will you change) selling prices: more frequently than normal, less frequently than normal or as frequently as normal?

* Percentage of firms experiencing or expecting larger-than-normal price increases minus the percentage experiencing or expecting smaller-than-normal price increases.
† Percentage of firms experiencing or expecting more-frequent-than-normal price increases minus the percentage experiencing or expecting less-frequent-than-normal price increases. Firms without regular pricing frequency were excluded.

Source: Business Leaders’ Pulse]]></description>
    <link>https://www.bankofcanada.ca/?p=232462</link>
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<label>Past 12 months</label>
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<o k="Size of price changes"><v s="BOS_2023Q1_C12_S1">56</v><v s="BOS_2023Q1_C12_S2">32</v></o>
<o k="Frequency of price changes"><v s="BOS_2023Q1_C12_S1">19</v><v s="BOS_2023Q1_C12_S2">17</v></o>
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