Consumer Price Index Data for British Columbia, Monthly Releases

Consumer Price Index data tables and highlights are produced monthly, fiscally, and annually by BC Stats using data from Statistics Canada. The dataset is adapted from Statistics Canada's CPI and was last updated on June 24, 2026. It is released by the Government of British Columbia under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Tracking monthly inflation trends based on the CPI data tables
• Analyzing annual price changes for economic reporting based on the annual releases
• Comparing fiscal year price indices for budget planning based on the fiscal releases
• Modeling consumer price dynamics over time based on the time-series nature of the data

Strengths

• Data is produced by an official provincial statistics agency, BC Stats.
• Data is available in multiple formats including XLSX, CSV, HTML, and PDF.
• The dataset includes monthly, fiscal, and annual temporal aggregations.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Statistics Canada, Consumer Price Index (CPI), adapted by BC Stats.

Collection Method

Produced by BC Stats using data from Statistics Canada's CPI.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-24 17:00:59.922653; freshness should be verified.

Geography

British Columbia, Canada