Consumer price index, Canada
cpi_carelease v0.7.1CC0 1.0
About
Canadian consumer price index per year (and the latest month), used for 2026 dollars on Vancouver amounts: Statistics Canada BLS CPI-U U.S. city average, annual averages 1913-2025, and 2026 from the latest month; 1800-1912 Minneapolis Fed estimates linked at 1913 (quality estimate).
- How far to trust it
- The release passed its automatic checks before it was published (what is checked). A hand check by the editor of qipu data is under way: 36 of 38 items checked so far were right, on votes, money, places and the map. A row says what the record states; the scanned page is the authority. Details
- Licence
- CC0 1.0: use it for anything, no permission needed. The scans and other sources keep their own rights.
- Version
- v0.7.1, published 21 October 2026. A published release is never changed; corrections come as a new release.
Technical details
- Table
- cpi_ca
- Rows
- 113
- Columns
- 7
- Parquet
- cpi_ca.parquet, < 0.1 MB
- Version
- v0.7.1, 21 October 2026
- Licence
- CC0 1.0. Sources keep their own rights.
Rows
Rows by series
| Value | Rows | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statistics Canada 18-10-0005-01 all-items, Canada | 112 | 99.1% | |
| Statistics Canada v41690973 (18-10-0004-01), latest month | 1 | 0.9% |
Rows by source_url
Method and accuracy
No accuracy measure for this table yet.
The release passed its automatic checks before it was published (what is checked). A hand check by the editor of qipu data is under way: 36 of 38 items checked so far were right, on votes, money, places and the map. A row says what the record states; the scanned page is the authority.
Columns 7
| Column | Type | Can be empty | Privacy | Public copy | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| year | BIGINT | no | none | as is | The year. Values 1800..2030 |
| cpi | DOUBLE | no | none | as is | The index value for the year. Values index (see base); 0.. |
| base | VARCHAR | yes | none | as is | The index base (1982-84=100). |
| series | VARCHAR | yes | none | as is | The series the value comes from. |
| quality | VARCHAR | yes | none | as is | official (BLS annual average), estimate (before 1913, linked), provisional (the current year from its latest month).Values official, estimate, provisional |
| source_url | VARCHAR | yes | none | as is | Where the number was taken from. |
| note | VARCHAR | yes | catalogue text | as is | How the value was derived (rebasing, the month used). |
Privacy: what kind of text the column holds. Public copy: what the published file does with it; the embargo covers records after 1951.
Preview
| year | cpi | base | series | quality | source_url | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917 | 7.9 | 2002=100 | Statistics Canada 18-10-0005-01 all-items, Canada | official | www150.statcan.g…n?pid=1810000501 ↗ | — |
| 1921 | 10.0 | 2002=100 | Statistics Canada 18-10-0005-01 all-items, Canada | official | www150.statcan.g…n?pid=1810000501 ↗ | — |
| 1926 | 9.2 | 2002=100 | Statistics Canada 18-10-0005-01 all-items, Canada | official | www150.statcan.g…n?pid=1810000501 ↗ | — |
| 1927 | 9.1 | 2002=100 | Statistics Canada 18-10-0005-01 all-items, Canada | official | www150.statcan.g…n?pid=1810000501 ↗ | — |
| 1929 | 9.2 | 2002=100 | Statistics Canada 18-10-0005-01 all-items, Canada | official | www150.statcan.g…n?pid=1810000501 ↗ | — |
| 1939 | 7.7 | 2002=100 | Statistics Canada 18-10-0005-01 all-items, Canada | official | www150.statcan.g…n?pid=1810000501 ↗ | — |
| 1949 | 12.2 | 2002=100 | Statistics Canada 18-10-0005-01 all-items, Canada | official | www150.statcan.g…n?pid=1810000501 ↗ | — |
| 1951 | 13.8 | 2002=100 | Statistics Canada 18-10-0005-01 all-items, Canada | official | www150.statcan.g…n?pid=1810000501 ↗ | — |
Eight rows sampled at build time, from the years up to 1951. Hover a shortened value for all of it.
Download
| Format | File | Size |
|---|---|---|
| Parquet | cpi_ca.parquet ↗ | < 0.1 MB |
| SQLite (all tables) | qipu_sf.db ↗ | 6.44 GB |
SQL
Run in the SQL console (DuckDB in the browser, over the Parquet file).