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Canada Consumer Price Index by Province and Category — Monthly History (Statistics Canada)

Official consumer price index (not seasonally adjusted, 2002=100) for Canada, every province and the three territorial capitals, for all items and 17 categories (food, shelter, rent, electricity, gasoline, energy, core excl. food and energy …), with the change vs. a year earlier and vs. the previous month. Options for series: region: CA, NL, PE, NS, NB, QC, ON, MB, SK, AB, BC, YT, NT, NU; category: all-items, food, food-stores, food-restaurants, shelter, rent, electricity, household, clothing, transportation, gasoline, health, recreation, alcohol-tobacco-cannabis, goods, services, core-excl-food-energy, energy.

Call it (no API key)

GET https://api.agentdatahub.de/api/v1/call/canada-cpi-by-province?region=CA&category=all-items&compact=1

Full metadata: without compact=1 · Markdown: format=llm · Only some fields: add &fields=a,b.c · MCP: tool call_api with {"apiId":"canada-cpi-by-province"}

Parameters

regionCanada or province/territory code (required): CA, NL, PE, NS, NB, QC, ON, MB, SK, AB, BC, YT, NT, NU
categoryPrice category (required): all-items, food, food-stores, food-restaurants, shelter, rent, electricity, household, clothing, transportation, gasoline, health, recreation, alcohol-tobacco-cannabis, goods, services, core-excl-food-energy, energy
fromOptional start YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD
toOptional end YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD
lastNumber of most recent periods when no from/to is given, 1-500 (default: 13)

Example response (live, compact)

{
  "apiId": "canada-cpi-by-province",
  "data_freshness": "live",
  "data": {
    "region": "CA",
    "category": "all-items",
    "series": "Canada — All-items (CPI, 2002=100)",
    "unit": "index 2002=100",
    "frequency": "M",
    "latest": {
      "period": "2026-09",
      "value": 170,
      "change_vs_year_ago_pct_computed": 3.1,
      "change_vs_previous_period_pct_computed": 0.1
    },
    "history": [
      {
        "period": "2025-09",
        "value": 164.9,
        "change_vs_year_ago_pct_computed": 2.4,
        "change_vs_previous_period_pct_computed": 0.1
      },
      {
        "period": "2025-10",
        "value": 165.3,
        "change_vs_year_ago_pct_computed": 2.2,
        "change_vs_previous_period_pct_computed": 0.2
      },
      {
        "period": "2025-11",
        "value": 165.4,
        "change_vs_year_ago_pct_computed": 2.2,
        "change_vs_previous_period_pct_computed": 0.1
      },
      {
        "period": "2025-12",
        "value": 165,
        "change_vs_year_ago_pct_computed": 2.4,
        "change_vs_previous_period_pct_computed": -0.2
      },
      {
        "period": "2026-01",
        "value": 165,
        "change_vs_year_ago_pct_computed": 2.3,
        "change_vs_previous_period_pct_computed": 0
      },
      {
        "period": "2026-02",
        "value": 165.9,
        "change_vs_year_ago_pct_computed": 1.8,
        "change_vs_previous_period_pct_computed": 0.5
      },
      {
        "period": "2026-03",
        "value": 167.4,
        "change_vs_year_ago_pct_computed": 2.4,
        "change_vs_previous_period_pct_computed": 0.9
      },
      {
        "period": "2026-04",
        "value": 168,
        "change_vs_year_ago_pct_computed": 2.8,
        "change_vs_previous_period_pct_computed": 0.4
      },
      {
        "period": "2026-05",
        "value": 169.6,
        "change_vs_year_ago_pct_computed": 3.2,
        "change_vs_previous_period_pct_computed": 1
      },
      {
        "period": "2026-06",
        "value": 169,
        "change_vs_year_ago_pct_computed": 2.8,
        "change_vs_previous_period_pct_computed": -0.4
      },
      {
        "period": "2026-07",
        "value": 169.9,
        "change_vs_year_ago_pct_computed": 3,
        "change_vs_previous_period_pct_computed": 0.5
      },
      {
        "period": "2026-08",
        "value": 169.8,
        "change_vs_year_ago_pct_computed": 3,
        "change_vs_previous_period_pct_computed": -0.1
      },
      {
        "period": "2026-09",
        "value": 170,
        "change_vs_year_ago_pct_computed": 3.1,
        "change_vs_previous_period_pct_computed": 0.1
      }
    ],
    "available": {
      "from": "1960-02",
      "to": "2026-09",
      "points": 800
    },
    "note": "change_vs_year_ago_pct_computed is computed here from the published index (rounded to one decimal).",
    "verification": {
      "checked_at": "2026-10-31T13:50:45.619Z",
      "checks": [
        {
          "period": "2026-09",
          "field": "yoy",
          "expected": 3.1,
          "ok": true,
          "evidence": "Statistics Canada, The Daily 2026-10-19, CPI September 2026: all items +3.1 % over 12 months"
        }
      ]
    },
    "source": {
      "publisher": "Statistics Canada",
      "licence": "Statistics Canada Open Licence",
      "licence_url": "https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/terms-conditions/open-licence",
      "series_title": "Canada;All-items"
    },
    "attribution": "Source: Statistics Canada (Open Licence). Not an endorsement by Statistics Canada."
  },
  "source": "Statistics Canada",
  "license": "Statistics Canada Open Licence"
}

Source & license

SourceStatistics Canada
LicenseStatistics Canada Open Licence
Source URLhttps://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/terms-conditions/open-licence
Termshttps://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/terms-conditions/open-licence
CategoryFinance & Markets › Official National Statistics (US, UK, Canada, Australia)