Name: Farm product price index (FPPI), monthly weights
Creator: Statistics Canada
License: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada

Farm product price index (FPPI), monthly weights — AI AnalysisStatistics Canada's Farm Product Price Index (FPPI) dataset covers 14 commodity groups across 204 monthly periods from January 2009 to December 2025, revealing significant variation in farm-level price trends with a mean index value of 20.84 and a wide standard deviation of 27.08 on a 2007=100 base.Key Findings

The dataset contains 2,856 complete records — exactly 14 commodity groups × 204 months — with no missing values, spanning January 2009 to December 2025.

Index values range from 0.20 to 100.00 with a mean of 20.84 and a median of 9.30, indicating a strongly right-skewed distribution driven by aggregate categories like 'Total crops' (~55.84) and 'Total index' (fixed at 100.00).

Total crops and Total livestock and animal products average approximately 55.84 and 44.16 respectively, together always summing to 100 and representing the two primary divisions of the index.

Among individual commodities, Cattle and Calves (mean ~16.15) and Grains/Oilseeds (mean ~17.96 each) carry the highest average weights, while Fresh fruit (mean ~1.69) and Eggs in shell (mean ~1.80) carry the lowest.

23 data points were flagged as statistical outliers (z-score > 2.5) across all commodity groups, with Grains, Oilseeds, and Cattle & Calves identified as the primary sources of price volatility.

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