AI Analysis: Stocks of frozen eggs and edible dried eggs

Executive Summary

Statistics Canada's Table 32100123 tracks nearly 50 years of monthly frozen and dried egg stocks across Canada (May 1976–April 2026), covering 7 commodity types and 10 geographic regions with 9,421 records. Whole Eggs Total dominates with the highest average stock (750 tonnes) and peak value (2,461 tonnes), while Edible Dried Eggs ranks second at an average of 537 tonnes. All commodities exhibit right-skewed distributions with significant long-term variability, though no statistically significant outliers were detected using the IQR method.

Key Findings

• Whole Eggs Total is the dominant commodity with the highest average stock of 750 tonnes, a peak of 2,461 tonnes, and the largest standard deviation (±418–427 tonnes), reflecting highly volatile frozen egg inventory levels over 50 years.
• Edible Dried Eggs has the highest mean among dried products at 536.6 tonnes and reached a maximum of 1,475 tonnes, making it the second most significant commodity by volume.
• Whites, Total has the lowest average stock at just 102.4 tonnes and can drop to zero, indicating occasional near-depletion and consistently smaller inventory levels compared to all other commodities.
• The overall dataset mean (279.7 tonnes) is substantially higher than the median (190.0 tonnes), confirming a right-skewed distribution where periodic large stock events pull averages upward across most commodity types.
• Dried Albumen recorded an unusually high maximum of 893 tonnes against a mean of only 207 tonnes, suggesting infrequent but significant large-volume storage events within that category.
• No statistically significant outliers were detected using the IQR method across any of the 7 commodity categories, indicating that even extreme values fall within the expected bounds of natural long-term fluctuation.
• The dataset spans 600 unique months across 10 geographic regions — including Canada-wide totals, 6 provinces, and 3 regional groupings — providing a comprehensive 50-year view of Canada's egg storage landscape.