Table 2: Commodity code classification for MEPI

Table 2: Commodity code classification for MEPI
Table summary
This table displays the results of Table 2: Commodity code classification for MEPI Input-Output W-Level (appearing as column headers).
  Input-Output W-Level
Office furniture (v41232346) 2050
Commercial and institutional furniture (v41232349) 2069
Metal tanks (v41232355) 2730
Tool accessories (v41232379) 2962
Crawler tractors (v41232415) 31493
Other agricultural machinery (v41232418) 3150
Mechanical power transmission equipment (v41232421) 3162
Pumps, compressors, fans and blowers (v41232424) 3170
Conveyors, elevators and hoisting machinery (v41232427) 3180
Industrial trucks and material handling equipment (v41232430) 3190
Fans and air circulation units, not industrial (v41232433) 3200
Packaging and bottling machinery (v41232436) 3211
Other general purpose machinery (v41232442) 3213
Industrial furnaces, kilns and ovens (v41232445) 3220
Construction machinery (v41232448) 32311
Mining and oil and gas field machinery (v41232451) 32312
Metal working machinery (v41232457) 3233
Other industry specific machinery (v41232460) 3234
Service industry machinery (v41232463) 3235
Air conditioning and refrigeration equipment, commercial and transport (v41232469) 3262
Computers and peripherals equipment such as terminals, printers and storage devices (v41232478) 3291
Automobiles, excluding passenger vans (v41232493) 33401
Passenger vans (v41232496) 33402
Trucks, road tractors and chassis (v41232499) 3350
Buses and chassis (v41232502) 3360
Commercial trailers and semi-trailers (v41232514) 3392
Broadcasting and radio communications equipment (v41232559) 3599
Welding machinery and equipment (v41232565) 3650
Power generation and marine propellers, non-electric (v41232568) 3661
Industrial electric equipment, including safety (v41232577) 3689
Laboratory and scientific instruments and flight simulators (v41232589) 4989
Measuring and controlling instruments (v41232592) 4999
Software products development (v41232625) 5751
1 W-Level is the working level of commodity aggregation used in the System of National Accounts Input-Output tables.
Note: See "Data quality, concepts and methodology — Machinery and equipment price indexes" section.
Source: CANSIM table 327-0041

Table 1 : Industry Weights at 1997 prices for MEPI

Table 1 : Industry Weights at 1997 prices for MEPI
Table summary
This table displays the results of Table 1 : Industry Weights at 1997 prices for MEPI Weights (at 1997 prices) (appearing as column headers).
  Weights (at 1997 prices)
Total machinery and equipment (v41232130) 100.00
Total machinery and equipment; Domestic (v41232131) 32.03
Total machinery and equipment; Imported (v41232132) 67.97
Crop and animal production (v41232133) 4.07
Forestry and logging (v41232136) 0.27
Fishing, hunting and trapping (v41232139) 0.08
Support activities for agriculture and forestry (v41232142) 0.10
Mines, quarries and oil wells (v41232145) 4.26
Oil and gas extraction (v41232148) 1.53
Metal ore mining (v41232151) 0.83
Coal, non-metallic mineral mining and quarrying (v41232154) 0.62
Support activities for mining and oil and gas extraction (v41232157) 1.28
Utilities (v41232160) 3.55
Construction (v41232163) 3.54
All manufacturing (v41232166) 22.34
Food and beverages (v41232169) 1.89
Food manufacturing (v41232172) 1.50
Beverage manufacturing (v41232175) 0.39
Tobacco manufacturing (v41232178) 0.12
Textile and textile product mills (v41232181) 0.42
Clothing manufacturing (v41232184) 0.15
Leather and allied product manufacturing (v41232187) 0.03
Wood product manufacturing (v41232190) 1.52
Paper manufacturing (v41232193) 3.09
Printing and related support activities (v41232196) 0.42
Petroleum and coal products manufacturing (v41232199) 0.38
Chemical manufacturing (v41232202) 1.62
Plastic and rubber products manufacturing (v41232205) 1.09
Non-metallic mineral product manufacturing (v41232208) 0.56
Primary metal and fabricated metal product manufacturing (v41232211) 3.46
Machinery manufacturing (v41232214) 0.90
Computer, electronic and electrical product manufacturing (v41232217) 1.19
Transportation equipment manufacturing (v41232220) 5.08
Furniture and related product manufacturing (v41232223) 0.26
Miscellaneous manufacturing (v41232226) 0.16
Trade (v41232229) 8.38
Wholesale trade (v41232232) 4.32
Retail trade (v41232235) 4.06
Transportation (excluding pipeline transportation) (v41232238) 7.66
Pipeline transportation (v41232241) 1.18
Warehousing and storage (v41232244) 0.26
Finance, insurance and real estate (v41232247) 19.90
Finance and insurance (v41232250) 14.29
Real estate and rental and leasing services (v41232253) 5.61
Private education services (v41232256) 0.12
Education services (excluding private), health care and social assistance (v41232259) 2.09
Universities (v41232262) 0.70
Health care (excluding hospitals) and social assistance (v41232265) 0.35
Hospitals (v41232268) 1.04
Other services (excluding public administration) (v41232271) 16.39
Information and cultural industries (v41232274) 8.04
Professional, scientific and technical services (v41232277) 3.42
Management of companies and enterprises (v41232280) 0.34
Administrative and support and waste management (v41232283) 1.24
Public education services (v41232286) 0.71
Arts, entertainment and recreation (v41232289) 0.51
Accommodation and food services (v41232292) 0.62
Other services (v41232295) 1.51
Public administration (v41232298) 5.81
Federal government public administration (v41232301) 3.07
Provincial and territorial public administration (v41232304) 1.32
Local, municipal and regional public administration (v41232307) 1.42
Note: See "Data quality, concepts and methodology — Machinery and equipment price indexes" section.
Source: CANSIM table number 327-0042

Data quality, concepts and methodology: Machinery and equipment price indexes

(Tables 327-0041, 327-0042, 1997=100, quarterly, 1997 to present)

Introduction

The Machinery and Equipment Price Index (MEPI) provides quarterly estimates of price changes for machinery and equipment purchased by industries in Canada. Price indexes are calculated for industries, major groups of industries, and the total for all industries, and are also calculated for commodities. Price movement is measured on a domestic and an import basis.

  • The industry and commodity designations used are those of the Input-Output Tables of the Canadian System of National Accounts. The classification system is the 1997 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
  • Industry indexes are available in CANSIM table 327-0042; commodity indexes are available in CANSIM table 327-0041.
  • Additional information is presented in table 1 for industry weights and table 2 for commodity detail.

Characteristics

Prices used

Prices for domestic machinery and equipment are manufacturers’ selling prices free on board (FOB) plant on new orders as of the middle of the month.

Prices for imported equipment are represented by the producer price indexes of the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and by a few price series from other foreign countries.

Adjustments to price indexes

Domestic and foreign price indexes are adjusted for changes in the effective rate of GST. The effective rate is the net GST tax (the tax levied on a commodity in a particular industry minus the rebated portion) divided by the value of the purchase. For most industries, the effective GST rate approaches zero per cent. Foreign price indexes are also adjusted for changes in exchange rates and custom tariffs where applicable.

Derivation of weights

  • The expenditure weights for the 51 industries and 106 commodities represent capital investment for the year 1997, valued at 1997 purchaser prices. They were derived from Input-Output data, which were themselves derived largely from the series of capital expenditure by industry, reported in the annual survey, Capital and Repair Expenditures, Actual, Preliminary Actual and Intentions (survey number 2803) Investment and Capital Stock Division.
  • In general, below the commodity level of detail, equal weights were assigned to component indexes.

Index formula

From 1997 forward, the MEPI series are fixed-weighted price indexes. For more information, please refer to the “ 2312_d3_t9_v1_eng.pdf (PDF, 0 bytes) (PDF Version, 192.14kb)” document on the Definitions, data sources and methods page for this index. Both the time and weight base are 1997.

Revisions

With each release, data for the previous four quarters may have been revised.

Historical data

Historical 1971=100 quarterly series are publicly available on CANSIM in tables 327-0021, 327-0022 and 327-0023.
Historical 1986=100 quarterly series are publicly available on CANSIM in tables 327-0013, 27-0014 and 327-0016.

Reference documents and further reading

Catalogue no. 15-001-X
Gross domestic product by industry

Catalogue no. 61-205-X
Private and public investment in Canada, intentions

Catalogue no. 62-011-X
Industry price indexes

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Annual Retail Trade SurveyData Accuracy for 2012

Table summary
This table displays the results of Annual Store Retail Survey
Data Accuracy for 2012. The information is grouped by Geography (appearing as row headers), RF (TOR) % and CV(TOR) (appearing as column headers).
Geography RF (TOR) % CV(TOR)
Canada 93.1 0.4
Newfoundland and Labrador 90.2 0.9
Prince Edward Island 91.3 0.6
Nova Scotia 91.9 0.8
New Brunswick 92.1 0.9
Quebec 94.5 0.9
Ontario 93.6 0.8
Manitoba 93.6 0.9
Saskatchewan 93.9 1.0
Alberta 94.9 0.9
British Columbia 87.9 0.8
Yukon 94.8 0.5
Northwest Territories 96.6 0.0
Nunavut 93.4 0.0
Table summary
This table displays the results of Tab2. The information is grouped by NAICS - Canada (appearing as row headers), RF (TOR) % and CV(TOR) (appearing as column headers).
NAICS - Canada RF (TOR) % CV(TOR)
Retail trade[44-45]  
Motor vehicle and parts dealers[441] 96.2 1.0
New car dealers[44111] 97.4 1.2
Used car dealers[44112] 96.1 2.9
Other motor vehicle dealers[4412] 96.0 2.3
Automotive parts, accessories and tire stores[4413] 82.3 2.7
Furniture and home furnishings stores[442] 91.9 1.8
Furniture stores[4421] 90.0 2.6
Home furnishings stores[4422] 94.9 2.3
Electronics and appliance stores[443] 93.2 1.4
Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers[444] 95.1 1.9
Food and beverage stores[445] 93.3 0.9
Supermarkets and other grocery (except convenience) stores [44511] 99.3 1.2
Convenience stores[44512] 90.7 2.6
Specialty food stores[4452] 95.6 2.8
Beer, wine and liquor stores[4453] 70.5 0.5
Health and personal care stores[446] 92.1 1.6
Gasoline stations[447] 88.7 0.9
Clothing and clothing accessories stores[448] 80.7 0.6
Clothing stores[4481] 81.0 0.7
Shoe stores[4482] 86.0 1.0
Jewellery, luggage and leather goods stores[4483] 73.9 2.6
Sporting goods, hobby, book and music stores[451] 93.1 1.4
General merchandise stores[452] 98.4 0.6
Department stores[4521] 100.0 0.0
Other general merchandise stores[4529] 97.0 1.2
Miscellaneous store retailers[453] 87.7 1.7
Total, all stores 93.1 0.4

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