Technical guide for the Machinery and Equipment Price Index / by Corey Young, Maryam Mustafa, Alexandre Prescott and Min Lin.: CS62-0014/2022-6E-PDF
"The Machinery and Equipment Price Index (MEPI) is an input price index that measures the quarterly change in the price of machinery and equipment purchased by industries in Canada. The MEPI is an important indicator of economic activity in all industries undertaking capital investment, serving as a tool for performance evaluation, cost monitoring, contract assessment and benchmark comparisons. It also provides supplemental information to the Canadian System of Macroeconomic Accounts to calculate gross domestic product and measure changes in productivity"--Introduction, page 3.
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| Department/Agency | Statistics Canada, issuing body. |
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| Title | Technical guide for the Machinery and Equipment Price Index / by Corey Young, Maryam Mustafa, Alexandre Prescott and Min Lin. |
| Series title | Prices analytical series, 1706-7723 |
| Publication type | Series - View Master Record |
| Language | [English] |
| Other language editions | [French] |
| Format | Electronic |
| Electronic document | |
| Note(s) | Cover title. Issued also in HTML format. "Release date: May 16, 2022." Issued also in French under title: Guide technique de l'Indice des prix des machines et du matériel. |
| Publishing information | [Ottawa] : Statistics Canada = Statistique Canada, 2022. ©2022 |
| Author / Contributor | Young, Corey, author. |
| Description | 1 online resource (4 pages). |
| ISBN | 9780660427959 |
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| Departmental catalogue number | 62F0014M |
| Subject terms | Machinery -- Prices -- Canada. Industrial equipment -- Prices -- Canada. Price indexes -- Methodology. |
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