{
  "id": "gasoline-price",
  "category": "Cost of living",
  "title": "Price of regular gasoline in Victoria",
  "geography": "Victoria (Statistics Canada’s price survey area for Victoria)",
  "scope": "region",
  "levels": [
    "Market (fuel sellers)",
    "Provincial fuel tax"
  ],
  "plain_question": "What does a litre of regular gasoline cost at the pump?",
  "value": 183.7,
  "display_value": "183.7",
  "unit": "cents a litre, 12-month average",
  "period": "12 months to September 2026",
  "period_start": "2025-10",
  "period_end": "2026-09",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "12 months to September 2025",
    "previous_value": 171.5,
    "change_percent": 7.1
  },
  "trend": "context",
  "trend_basis": "Average of the latest 12 monthly prices: 183.7 cents a litre, against 171.5 for the 12 months before. Latest month, September 2026: 210.0 (172.5 a year earlier).",
  "direction_good": "down",
  "right_direction": "Shown for context. Lower prices cost drivers less, but no direction is labelled better or worse.",
  "since_text": "September 2026: 210.0 cents a litre (172.5 in September 2025).",
  "caveats": [
    "Statistics Canada’s monthly average retail price for regular unleaded gasoline at self-service filling stations in Victoria, including taxes.",
    "The headline is the average of the latest 12 monthly prices, so it is not moved by one month (brief rule C3). The latest month is shown as a line.",
    "Prices include provincial and federal taxes on fuel. They move mostly with world oil prices and refining costs."
  ],
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      "title": "Regular gasoline, self service, Victoria (cents a litre)",
      "fmt": "dec1",
      "unit": "cents a litre",
      "lines": [
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          "area": "cpi",
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              "period": "2021-09",
              "value": 156.3
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              "period": "2021-10",
              "value": 160.9
            },
            {
              "period": "2021-11",
              "value": 158.2
            },
            {
              "period": "2021-12",
              "value": 152.6
            },
            {
              "period": "2022-01",
              "value": 164.6
            },
            {
              "period": "2022-02",
              "value": 170.1
            },
            {
              "period": "2022-03",
              "value": 196.6
            },
            {
              "period": "2022-04",
              "value": 194.1
            },
            {
              "period": "2022-05",
              "value": 217.4
            },
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              "period": "2022-06",
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            },
            {
              "period": "2022-07",
              "value": 203.0
            },
            {
              "period": "2022-08",
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            },
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              "period": "2022-09",
              "value": 196.5
            },
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              "period": "2022-10",
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            },
            {
              "period": "2022-11",
              "value": 185.7
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              "period": "2022-12",
              "value": 160.4
            },
            {
              "period": "2023-01",
              "value": 173.4
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            {
              "period": "2023-02",
              "value": 178.6
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            {
              "period": "2023-03",
              "value": 180.9
            },
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              "period": "2023-04",
              "value": 184.9
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              "period": "2023-05",
              "value": 185.0
            },
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              "period": "2023-06",
              "value": 197.3
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              "period": "2023-07",
              "value": 195.0
            },
            {
              "period": "2023-08",
              "value": 198.7
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            {
              "period": "2023-09",
              "value": 200.9
            },
            {
              "period": "2023-10",
              "value": 193.8
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            {
              "period": "2023-11",
              "value": 179.6
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              "period": "2023-12",
              "value": 171.4
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              "period": "2024-01",
              "value": 161.1
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              "period": "2024-02",
              "value": 169.6
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              "period": "2024-03",
              "value": 190.4
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            {
              "period": "2024-04",
              "value": 205.6
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            {
              "period": "2024-05",
              "value": 203.5
            },
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              "period": "2024-06",
              "value": 186.5
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            {
              "period": "2024-07",
              "value": 180.3
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            {
              "period": "2024-08",
              "value": 176.3
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              "period": "2024-09",
              "value": 172.5
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              "period": "2024-10",
              "value": 170.5
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              "period": "2024-11",
              "value": 171.7
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              "period": "2024-12",
              "value": 170.4
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              "period": "2025-01",
              "value": 175.5
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              "period": "2025-02",
              "value": 185.3
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              "period": "2025-03",
              "value": 180.3
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              "period": "2025-04",
              "value": 162.2
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              "period": "2025-05",
              "value": 172.1
            },
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              "period": "2025-06",
              "value": 168.9
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              "period": "2025-07",
              "value": 159.9
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              "period": "2025-08",
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              "period": "2025-09",
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              "period": "2025-10",
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              "period": "2025-11",
              "value": 159.9
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            {
              "period": "2025-12",
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            {
              "period": "2026-01",
              "value": 147.5
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              "period": "2026-02",
              "value": 166.6
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              "period": "2026-03",
              "value": 193.2
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              "period": "2026-04",
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              "period": "2026-05",
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              "period": "2026-06",
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              "period": "2026-07",
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              "period": "2026-08",
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      "title": "Yearly average (cents a litre)",
      "fmt": "dec1",
      "unit": "cents a litre",
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          "area": "cpi",
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              "value": 111.7
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              "period": "2017",
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            {
              "period": "2018",
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            },
            {
              "period": "2019",
              "value": 141.8
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            {
              "period": "2020",
              "value": 123.7
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            {
              "period": "2021",
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              "period": "2022",
              "value": 192.8
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              "period": "2023",
              "value": 186.6
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              "period": "2024",
              "value": 179.9
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      "period": "2021-11",
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      "period": "2021-12",
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      "period": "2022-01",
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      "period": "2022-02",
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      "period": "2022-03",
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      "period": "2022-04",
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      "period": "2022-06",
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      "period": "2022-08",
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      "period": "2022-09",
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      "period": "2022-10",
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      "period": "2022-11",
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      "period": "2022-12",
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      "period": "2023-01",
      "value": 173.4
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      "period": "2023-02",
      "value": 178.6
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    {
      "period": "2023-03",
      "value": 180.9
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    {
      "period": "2023-04",
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    {
      "period": "2023-05",
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      "period": "2023-06",
      "value": 197.3
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    {
      "period": "2023-07",
      "value": 195.0
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      "period": "2023-08",
      "value": 198.7
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      "period": "2023-09",
      "value": 200.9
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      "period": "2023-10",
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      "period": "2023-11",
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      "period": "2023-12",
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      "period": "2024-01",
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      "period": "2024-02",
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      "period": "2024-03",
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      "period": "2024-04",
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    {
      "period": "2024-05",
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      "period": "2024-06",
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      "period": "2024-07",
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    {
      "period": "2024-08",
      "value": 176.3
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      "period": "2024-09",
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      "period": "2025-01",
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      "period": "2026-01",
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      "period": "2026-05",
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      "period": "2026-06",
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    {
      "period": "2026-07",
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      "period": "2026-09",
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  "refresh_frequency": "Monthly",
  "data_published": "2026-10-19",
  "source": {
    "name": "Statistics Canada, monthly average retail prices for gasoline, table 18-10-0001-01",
    "url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1810000101",
    "dataset_url": "https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/cbb9182b-df94-4ae6-8a85-b75a34b2f990",
    "table_url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1810000101",
    "table": "18-10-0001-01",
    "publisher_page": "https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/subjects-start/prices_and_price_indexes",
    "locator": "Table 18-10-0001-01: Victoria, British Columbia, Regular unleaded gasoline at self service filling stations, September 2026"
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": "Open Government Licence - Canada",
    "url": "https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada"
  },
  "attribution": "Adapted from Statistics Canada, table 18-10-0001-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T06:09:48Z",
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      "what": "12-month average",
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  "status_rule": {
    "rule": "One rule for every measure: a change smaller than 5% of the earlier value, or smaller than the agency's own margin of error, is “About the same”; no change is calculated across a marked break in a series; homelessness estimates, prices, staffing and comparison pages are shown for context without a label.",
    "reason": "Fuel prices are shown for context. Lower prices cost drivers less, but whether a change is better or worse is a value judgement.",
    "threshold_percent": 5.0
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      "value": 171.5,
      "text": "vs Sep 2025: +7.1%"
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      "text": "vs 12 months to September 2021: +28.2%"
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  "direction": {
    "type": "context",
    "rule": "Outcome measures read Better, Worse or About the same; published government targets read Ahead of, On or Behind target; value-judgement measures read Rising, Falling or Steady in a neutral colour. A change smaller than the agency's own margin of error, or otherwise smaller than 5% of the earlier value, is About the same (or Steady). No change is calculated across a marked break in a series.",
    "key": "rising",
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  "decided_by": [
    {
      "body": "NONE",
      "name": "No government decides this directly",
      "note": "Fuel sellers set pump prices, which follow world oil prices."
    },
    {
      "body": "BC",
      "name": "Province of B.C.",
      "decides": "Sets the provincial tax on each litre of gasoline.",
      "laws": [
        {
          "key": "mfta4",
          "label": "Motor Fuel Tax Act, s. 4",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/96317_01#section4"
        }
      ],
      "last": null,
      "next": null
    }
  ],
  "main_decision_maker": "No government decides this directly"
}