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Chained Dollars: weighted by a basket/list that changes yearly to more accurately reflect actual spending. The basket is an average of the basket for successive pairs of years; example of paired years are 2010–2011, 2011–2012, etc. The technique is so named because the second number in a pair of successive years becomes the first in the ...
The Canadian dollar edged higher against its U.S. counterpart on Friday but was still headed for a weekly and monthly decline as domestic gross domestic product data bolstered bets for an outsized ...
The template supports inflation calculation, by way of {}. If the second parameter is used, to specify a year, and this year is within a certain range of available inflation data (specifically, if 1688 ≤ year < 2023), the equivalent value represented in 2023 dollars will be calculated in parentheses. However, this function should only be used ...
The loonie was trading 0.3% higher at 1.4350 to the U.S. dollar, or 69.69 U.S. cents, extending its recovery from the weakest intraday level in nearly five years at 1.4467 on Thursday.
A chained volume series is a series of economic data (such as GDP, GNP or similar kinds of data) from successive years, put in real (or constant, i.e. inflation- and deflation-adjusted) terms by computing the aggregate value of the measure (e.g. GDP or GNP) for each year using the prices of the preceding year, and then 'chain linking' the data together to obtain a time-series of figures from ...
The Canadian dollar strengthened against its U.S. counterpart on Thursday as investors took stock of recent gains for the American currency ahead of employment data on both sides of the border ...
If for years 1 and 2 (possibly a span of 20 years apart), the nominal wage and price level P of goods are respectively nominal wage rate: $10 in year 1 and $16 in year 2 price level: 1.00 in year 1 and 1.333 in year 2, then real wages using year 1 as the base year are respectively: $10 (= $10/1.00) in year 1 and $12 (= $16/1.333) in year 2.
The increase in the Consumer Price Index was driven by soaring gas prices, which rose 6.2 per cent compared to May and 54.6 per cent compared to the same time last year. Canadian inflation hits 8. ...