The Daily Friday, April 13, 2018
Press Release
New Lending Services Price Index, fourth quarter 2017
The New Lending Services Price Index increased by 0.7% in the fourth quarter, following a 5.9% decrease in the previous quarter.
Supply and disposition of refined petroleum products, January 2018
Some of the key indicators tied to Canadian refinery activity declined in January compared with the same month a year earlier.
StatsCannabis data availability: Crowdsourced cannabis prices, March 2018
In March, the average price of cannabis was $6.96 per gram according to the information submitted by Canadians to the StatsCannabis crowdsourcing application. This estimate is based on all the submissions with a price range from $2 to $20 per gram. Data outside this range were treated as outliers. The March price was up slightly from prices reported in February ($6.91 per gram) and January ($6.72 per gram).
Environment Fact Sheets: Trends in capital expenditures on environmental protection in Canadian industries, 1996 to 2014
From 2000 to 2006, Canadian industry invested primarily in pollution prevention, peaking at nearly $1.6 billion in 2006. However, from 2008 to 2014, the trend has reversed, with investment in pollution abatement and control rising above investment in pollution prevention, meaning that industries were spending more to clean up pollution after it was created than to prevent it from being created in the first place.
New gender and sex variables
To obtain more inclusive data on sex and gender, Statistics Canada is releasing new variables and classifications for sex and gender.
New products
There are no new products today.
New studies and articles
Income and Expenditure Accounts Technical Series: “Distributions of Household Economic Accounts, estimates of asset, liability and net worth distributions, 2010 to 2017, technical methodology and quality report”, No. 87
Catalogue number 13-604-M2018087, (PDF)
Environment Fact Sheets: “Trends in capital expenditures on environmental protection in Canadian industries”
Catalogue number 16-508-X2018001, (HTML | PDF)
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