Posted in Prices and Price Indexes, Retail and Wholesale, Updates on Jan 26th, 2011
Question Good day everyone! Another quick question… Is there a follow-up to the FOODEX survey? The last one available is 2001 and a student of ours is interested in more recent data – does it exist somewhere? Answer I asked about this in June 2008. At that time the Food Expenditure Survey was listed as [...]
Posted in Families, Households and Housing, Prices and Price Indexes on Oct 2nd, 2009
Question Hi, I have a question from a research about an accessible real estate property database that he thinks exist for Canada. I have found something similar for regions of the United States but not for Canada. Any suggestions? Answer It may be the Canadian Real Estate Association[CREA] databases hosted by the Conference Board of [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Manufacturing, Prices and Price Indexes on Oct 2nd, 2009
Question Could you please let me know whether this data would be accessible through DLI or are these all custom tabulations? -provincial employment data (updated)which we already have (See summaryTable below) -$ sales by individual wineries or by size categories similar to above for employment -litres of wine by individual wineries or by size categories similar [...]
Posted in Prices and Price Indexes on Feb 9th, 2009
Question I’ve been trying to find price information for corn and ethanol and I seem to be getting close but coming up flat…would appreciate any advice from those who work with these types of stats more than I do! Ideally, I’m looking for prices (versus indices, but I’ll take those too if that’s all that’s [...]
Posted in Prices and Price Indexes on Oct 3rd, 2007
Question I have a user looking for coal prices. She is looking at the coal fired electricity plants in Ontario and wants to know the coat of coal. Answer The Manufacturing, Construction and Energy Division has confirmed that they don’t publish prices for coal. Coal consumption and production data are available in Chapter 7 of [...]
Posted in Prices and Price Indexes on Mar 25th, 2007
Question A patron is looking for the electric power selling price index. Table 329-0050 covers the period from 1981-2006 but she would like data from 1960-1980. I tried the concordance in CHASS, hoping to find an earlier table/matrix, but couldn’t find one. Any suggestions? Answer There seem to be two more tables that may contain [...]
Posted in Prices and Price Indexes on Nov 21st, 2005
Question I have a faculty member looking for historical P/E Ratio data for the S&P/TSX Composite Index. I could find the current ratio on both the TSX site and on Datastream, but I could not find any historical data. He’d like to get it for as far back as he can go. Answer It is [...]
Posted in Prices and Price Indexes, Retail and Wholesale on Oct 6th, 2005
Question There is a class of students doing business plans here, and one of them is looking at making energy drinks using 100% fruit juice as one of the ingredients. What he would like to find is the price that he would have to pay for fruit juice. This would be the wholesale price, not [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Prices and Price Indexes on Mar 10th, 2005
Question A graduate student here is trying to find the amount of lettuce produced in Canada and the average market cost for the years, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000. Can anyone out there help? Answer Ag Canada produced a “Handbook of food expenditures, prices and consumption,” which contains ‘retail prices’ for lettuce. We [...]