{
  "id": "consumer-prices-victoria",
  "category": "Cost of living",
  "title": "How fast prices are rising in Victoria",
  "geography": "Victoria (Statistics Canada city index)",
  "scope": "city",
  "levels": [
    "Federal (measured nationally)",
    "Many market and global factors"
  ],
  "plain_question": "Compared with a year ago, how much more does a typical basket of goods and services cost?",
  "value": 3.4,
  "display_value": "3.4%",
  "unit": "% change in the Consumer Price Index over 12 months (all items)",
  "period": "September 2026",
  "period_start": "2025-09-01",
  "period_end": "2026-09-01",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "September 2025",
    "previous_value": 2.4,
    "change_percent": 1.0,
    "change_unit": "percentage points"
  },
  "trend": "worsening",
  "trend_basis": "Prices were 3.4% higher than a year earlier in September 2026, compared with 2.4% a year before that (September 2025). Index level 160.9.",
  "direction_good": "down",
  "right_direction": "A lower number means prices are rising more slowly. A negative number means prices fell compared with a year earlier.",
  "caveats": [
    "The 12-month percentage is calculated here from Statistics Canada's published monthly index values (this month's index divided by the same month a year earlier).",
    "It measures the average basket for a typical household. Your own costs, especially rent and food, may move differently; the index does not show what any one household pays.",
    "Prices rising more slowly does not mean prices are falling or that the level is back where it was.",
    "The index is for the Victoria urban area as defined by Statistics Canada, and monthly values are not seasonally adjusted."
  ],
  "series": [
    {
      "period": "2024-10",
      "value": 2.0
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-11",
      "value": 2.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2024-12",
      "value": 2.8
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-01",
      "value": 1.8
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-02",
      "value": 2.4
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-03",
      "value": 2.5
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-04",
      "value": 1.9
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-05",
      "value": 2.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-06",
      "value": 1.9
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-07",
      "value": 2.0
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-08",
      "value": 2.3
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-09",
      "value": 2.4
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-10",
      "value": 3.0
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-11",
      "value": 2.9
    },
    {
      "period": "2025-12",
      "value": 2.4
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-01",
      "value": 2.4
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-02",
      "value": 2.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-03",
      "value": 2.7
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-04",
      "value": 2.8
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-05",
      "value": 3.3
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-06",
      "value": 2.9
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-07",
      "value": 3.5
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-08",
      "value": 3.2
    },
    {
      "period": "2026-09",
      "value": 3.4
    }
  ],
  "refresh_frequency": "Monthly",
  "data_published": "2026-10-19",
  "source": {
    "name": "Statistics Canada, Consumer Price Index",
    "url": "https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/subjects-start/prices_and_price_indexes/consumer_price_indexes",
    "dataset_url": "https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/2b0c5ebe-c4a6-4a1d-9b4b-c850f9b5c3c4",
    "table_url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1810000401",
    "table": "18-10-0004-01"
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": "Open Government Licence - Canada",
    "url": "https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada"
  },
  "attribution": "Adapted from Statistics Canada, table 18-10-0004-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11T06:52:31Z"
}