The Daily Friday, December 20, 2019
Press Release
December 20, 2019
Retail trade, October 2019
Retail sales decreased 1.2% to $50.9 billion in October. The decline was primarily attributable to lower sales at motor vehicle and parts dealers and at building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers.
Travel between Canada and other countries, October 2019
More Canadian residents travelled to the United States by plane (+1.3%) in October, but fewer travelled across the border by car (-0.9%). Over the first 10 months of 2019, car travel to the United States by Canadians fell by 3.5% compared with the same period a year earlier. Over the same period, plane travel to the United States by Canadians rose by 4.0% to a record-high 8.3 million.
New Housing Price Index, October and November 2019
New housing prices were down 0.1% in November, following three consecutive monthly increases.
Accounting Services Price Index, 2018
Data are now available for the Accounting Services Price Index for 2018.
Food services and drinking places, annual, 2018
Firms in the food services and drinking places subsector generated $75.2 billion in operating revenue in 2018, up 4.9% from 2017. This increase was mainly driven by rising menu prices as the Consumer Price Index for food purchased from restaurants rose 4.2%, while prices for alcoholic beverages served in licensed establishments increased by 2.7%. This was the largest increase in menu prices since 1991, the year the goods and services tax was introduced.
Monthly civil aviation statistics, October 2019
The six Canadian Level I air carriers flew 6.6 million passengers on scheduled and charter services in October, down 0.1% from October 2018. This marks the fourth consecutive year-over-year monthly decline. There was a 0.5% decrease in September 2019.
Milled wheat and wheat flour produced, November 2019
Millers milled 281 559 tonnes of wheat in November, while wheat flour production totalled 215 497 tonnes.
Monthly Mineral Production Survey, October 2019
Data for October from the Monthly Mineral Production Survey and the Monthly Survey of Smelters and Metal Refineries are now available on the Monthly Statistics of Mineral Production page of the Natural Resources Canada website.
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