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Index numbers of retail prices, rents and costs of services (on the 1926 base), 1913 to 1936

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Index numbers of retail prices, rents and costs of services (on the 1926 base), 1913 to 1936
  Food index Fuel index Rent index Clothing index Sundries index Total index
  %
1913 66.2 65.8 64.1 63.3 66.2 65.4
1914 68.9 64.5 62.2 63.9 66.2 66.0
1915 69.5 63.2 60.3 69.6 66.9 67.3
1916 77.5 64.5 60.9 79.7 70.2 72.5
1917 100.0 71.7 65.4 93.7 76.8 85.6
1918 114.6 78.9 69.2 109.5 86.1 97.4
1919 122.5 86.2 75.6 125.9 95.4 107.2
1920 141.1 102.6 86.5 153.2 104.0 124.2
1921 107.9 109.2 94.2 124.7 106.0 109.2
1922 91.4 104.6 98.1 105.7 106.0 100.0
1923 92.1 104.6 100.6 104.4 105.3 100.0
1924 90.7 102.0 101.3 101.9 103.3 98.0
1925 94.7 100.0 101.3 101.9 101.3 99.3
1926 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
1927 980.0 97.9 98.8 97.5 99.1 98.4
1928 98.6 96.9 101.2 97.4 98.8 98.9
1929 101.0 96.4 103.3 96.9 99.0 99.9
1930 98.6 95.7 105.9 93.9 99.4 99.2
1931 77.3 94.2 103.0 82.2 97.4 89.6
1932 64.3 91.4 94.7 72.31 94.6 81.4
1933 63.7 87.7 85.1 67.121 92.6 77.521
1934 69.4 87.7 80.1 69.71 92.1 78.621
1935 70.4 86.8 81.3 69.921 92.221 79.121
19362 73.4 86.6 83.7 70.5 92.1 80.6
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1937.