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Edmonton Stats Updated

April 5, 2009 Statistics

I’ve finally updated my very popular spreadsheet of Edmonton Stats (with over 3,000 views). I should probably re-title it Edmonton Real Estate Values 1962-2009. Now it includes the real 2008 average value from the EREB, adding an 8th year with a negative year-over-year average price decrease. I’ve also updated the monthly prices with the Q1 [...]

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Canadian Stats, Right Now!

March 12, 2009 Statistics

Now there’s another simple place to find Canadian economic statics. The surprising part is it’s from the Canadian Federal Government. I suppose it’s our answer to the American site Recovery.org. The site is www.canadianeconomy.gc.ca and it starts with a nice simple dashboard for national economic indicators. The nice part is when you click on one [...]

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Statistics – Get 100% More BMO Free!

February 10, 2009 Statistics

I knew I forgot something when I was doing up the stats on the weekend. That’d be our friends at BMO. I guess I’ll have to do CIBC next, but that’s getting to be a little much. Here’s the graph for BMO’s GDP projections. I’ve updated the graphs with the other banks’ growth projections.

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Banks Agree? Not Bloody Likely

February 9, 2009 Statistics

After seeing how popular the last couple posts have been, I thought it’d be a good idea to post the rest of the GDP stats which make up the dataset. You can view this set (and the interactive verisons of the charts) online here. And just to summarize the data another way, here are three [...]

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RBCs GDP Forecasts – Some Handy Graphs

February 8, 2009 Statistics

RBC is my favorite bank when it comes to economics. Among other things, they do the housing affordability index, lots of forecasting and make it relatively easy to find the whole data set, together with some really great analysis. I’ve designed these graphs, as well as the Google Spreadsheets with the data to be easy [...]

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Canada Loses 129,000 Jobs – Alberta Loses 200

February 6, 2009 Statistics

Today at 8:30am Eastern Stats Can released the January 2009 Labour Force Survey. Apparently Canada’s lost 129,000 jobs (or so). Where did we lose them? But there’s a story, and Alberta’s the real winner, followed closely be Saskatchewan. The number of Albertans employed grew by 1.3% year over year. Saskatchewan grew by over 3% because [...]

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Alberta Stats – CPI is Just a Teaser

February 2, 2009 Statistics

Here’s just one chart from a great big workbook of historical stats for Alberta. It’s the Consumer Price Index, set to 2002 as the zero year. It’s reported quarterly, with the first day of the quarter reported as the data point (i.e. April 1, 2002 is Q2 2002) Yes, this only goes up to the [...]

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