Statistics Canada : Computer and peripherals price indexes, December 2015

Released: 2016-01-29

In December, prices for commercial and consumer computers declined 0.1% from November. In the case of computer peripherals, monitor prices decreased 1.3% and printer prices were up 0.1%.

Year over year, prices for commercial computers increased 6.0% and prices for consumer computers were up 1.6%. Printer prices were down 0.1% year over year.

Note to readers

The computer and peripherals price indexes are monthly series measuring changes over time in the price of computers and computer peripherals sold to governments, businesses and consumers. With each release, data for the previous six months may have been revised. The indexes are not seasonally adjusted.

These indexes are available at the Canada level only.

Next release

The computer and peripherals price indexes for January will be released on February 26.

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