The Daily Monday, April 7, 2025
Press Release
Retail Commodity Survey, January 2025
Retail sales reached $59.8 billion in January, an increase of 6.4% compared with the same month one year earlier. Higher sales were reported in all 18 commodity classes.
Multifactor productivity growth estimates and industry productivity database, 2023
Multifactor productivity (MFP), measured as output per unit of combined labour and capital inputs, declined by 1.7% in the Canadian business sector in 2023, following a 0.6% increase in 2022. The decrease in MFP in 2023 reflected a 1.2% gain in gross domestic product (GDP) relative to a 3.0% increase in the combined inputs of capital and labour.
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