Name: Consumer Price Index (CPI) statistics, measures of core inflation and other related statistics - Bank of Canada definitions
Creator: Statistics Canada
License: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada

Consumer Price Index (CPI) statistics, measures of core inflation and other related statistics - Bank of Canada definitions — AI AnalysisStatistics Canada's Table 18100256 provides over 77 years of monthly Canadian inflation data (January 1949 to February 2026), tracking 13 distinct Bank of Canada core inflation measures across 6,606 observations. The dataset reveals significant long-term price level changes — with values ranging froKey Findings

The dataset spans 926 months (January 1949 to February 2026) with 6,606 observations across 13 distinct Bank of Canada core inflation measures, making it one of the longest available Canadian inflation records.

CPI values range from a minimum of 0.60 to a maximum of 222.10, with a mean of 86.58 and a median of 96.95, indicating a left-skewed distribution driven by lower historical values in earlier decades.

The standard deviation of 54.49 reflects high variability across measures and time periods, consistent with a dataset capturing over 75 years of structural economic change.

47 outlier data points were identified using a conservative 3× IQR rule, with anomalies clustering around the early 1970s oil shock, the early 1980s high-inflation era, and the 2021–2022 post-COVID inflation surge.

Core inflation measures — including CPI-trim, CPI-median, and CPI-common — are strongly positively correlated with one another, as confirmed by the correlation heatmap, reflecting their shared underlying methodology of tracking broad price trends.

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