Name: Monthly retail commodity sales
Creator: Statistics Canada
License: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada

Monthly retail commodity sales — AI AnalysisCanada's monthly retail commodity sales grew 33.3% over the January 2023 to December 2025 period, rising from approximately $53.7 billion to a peak of $76.3 billion (in thousands of dollars) in May 2025, based on Statistics Canada Table 20100080. The dataset spans 249 NAPCS commodity categories acroKey Findings

Total retail commodity sales increased by 33.3% over the 36-month period, peaking at approximately $76.3 billion (in thousands of CAD) in May 2025.

The dataset covers 249 unique NAPCS commodity categories across 8,964 records, with monthly sales values ranging from as low as $4,000 to as high as ~$76.3 billion (in thousands).

The distribution is strongly right-skewed: the mean monthly sales value ($1.64 billion) is more than 6 times the median ($254 million), driven by a small number of very high-value commodity aggregates.

The middle 50% of sales records fall between $82,305K (Q25) and $832,317K (Q75), while the standard deviation of $6.85 billion reflects extreme variability across categories.

A correlation heatmap of the top 15 categories revealed strong positive co-movement across most commodity groups, indicating that retail sales broadly rise and fall together with seasonal and macroeconomic trends.

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