This dashboard provides graphs with Consumer Price Index (CPI) information for food categories in Manitoba and other provincial jurisdictions in Canada.
This dashboard provides graphs with Consumer Price Index (CPI) information for food categories in Manitoba, and other provincial jurisdictions in Canada. Food prices are increasing at a pace not seen before in the last 20 years. Requests for information have been received by Manitoba Agriculture from the general public. This dashboard focuses strictly on food and food categories, showing price changes through time, starting in 2002 until the present. The food categories shown in the dashboard, either in a graph or in the selection option, are: Meat Fish, seafood and other marine products Dairy products Eggs Bakery and cereal products Fruit, fruit preparations and nuts Vegetables and vegetable preparations Other food products and non-alcoholic beverages All Foods The dashboard contains three tabs: Manitoba: This chart provides a graph with the option of plotting the food CPI for All Foods (average of all food categories), or for a specific food category for Manitoba. The chart can be filtered to show year-to-date data, or data for the last one, five, 10, or all years going back to 2002. By Food Category: This chart provides a bar graph with the CPI of all the food categories for Manitoba. Information is available for the past 12 months of available data, so the chart shows one-year variation. By Province: This chart provides a bar graph with the CPI for all the provinces, and Canada. Each province is represented by one bar in the graph. The user can select the food category of interest or All Foods (average of all categories). Information is available for the past 12 months of available data, so the chart shows one-year variation. The data table used for this dashboard is the Consumer Price Index Food Product Statistics table. The source of the information is the Statistics Canada Table 18-10-0004-01 Consumer Price Index, monthly, not seasonally adjusted. Data are updated monthly by Manitoba Agriculture from Statistics Canada sources.