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    "terms": {
        "url": "https://www.bankofcanada.ca/terms/"
    },
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        "label": "Business Outlook Survey—data by firm size (four quarter moving averages) - Input prices",
        "description": "Firm sizes are defined as follows: small firms have 10 to 99 employees, medium-sized firms have 100 to 499 employees, and large firms have 500 or more employees. Because the responses are presented here as four-quarter moving averages, these charts may not show the same movements as the aggregate BOS data published each quarter.",
        "link": "https://www.bankofcanada.ca/?p=217700"
    },
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            "description": "Input prices, four-quarter moving average - Over the next 12 months, are prices of products/services purchased expected to increase at a greater, lesser, or the same rate as over the past year?",
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                "key": "d",
                "name": "Date"
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            "label": "Medium-sized firms",
            "description": "Input prices, four-quarter moving average - Over the next 12 months, are prices of products/services purchased expected to increase at a greater, lesser, or the same rate as over the past year?",
            "dimension": {
                "key": "d",
                "name": "Date"
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            "label": "Large firms",
            "description": "Input prices, four-quarter moving average - Over the next 12 months, are prices of products/services purchased expected to increase at a greater, lesser, or the same rate as over the past year?",
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                "name": "Date"
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                "v": "-13.05"
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                "v": "-3.90"
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                "v": "-3.50"
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                "v": "4.71"
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            "d": "2005-01-01",
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                "v": "9.16"
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            "d": "2005-04-01",
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                "v": "1.76"
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                "v": "-21.72"
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            "d": "2005-07-01",
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                "v": "17.54"
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                "v": "-11.55"
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                "v": "5.62"
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                "v": "9.91"
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                "v": "9.24"
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            "d": "2006-04-01",
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                "v": "17.95"
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            "d": "2006-07-01",
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                "v": "7.53"
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                "v": "-6.20"
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                "v": "8.15"
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            "d": "2008-07-01",
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            "d": "2009-07-01",
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                "v": "-18.65"
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            "d": "2009-10-01",
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                "v": "-4.80"
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        {
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                "v": "17.10"
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                "v": "23.93"
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        {
            "d": "2010-10-01",
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                "v": "16.75"
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                "v": "31.86"
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                "v": "16.45"
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            "BOS_INP_L": {
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                "v": "8.51"
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                "v": "2.85"
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                "v": "-2.15"
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                "v": "7.06"
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                "v": "2.05"
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                "v": "6.50"
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                "v": "9.07"
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                "v": "27.35"
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                "v": "16.64"
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        },
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                "v": "15.10"
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                "v": "29.29"
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        },
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                "v": "12.00"
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                "v": "11.90"
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                "v": "2.23"
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                "v": "9.31"
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                "v": "-2.36"
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                "v": "1.13"
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                "v": "19.92"
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                "v": "18.98"
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        },
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        },
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        },
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