Infoline Highlights: Coverage for the week of June 18 - 22

Consumer Price Index - British Columbia’s consumer price index (CPI) rose 2.7% (unadjusted) in May compared to the same month of the previous year. The rate of inflation was up 0.5% from April 2018.
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Retail Sales - Retail sales in British Columbia bucked the national trend in April, climbing 1.1% (seasonally adjusted). This marked the third consecutive monthly increase.
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Employment Insurance - The number of British Columbians receiving regular Employment Insurance (EI) benefits dropped 3.2% (seasonally adjusted) in April, to 42,100. Nationally, EI beneficiaries inched down 3.4%, to 453,060.
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Food Services and Drinking Places - Revenues generated in British Columbia’s food service and drinking places industry shrank by 1.7% (seasonally adjusted) in April, led by a decrease in sales in full-service restaurants and limited-service eating places. Sales for the month were higher in drinking places and special food services establishments.
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Wholesale Sales - Sales by wholesalers (seasonally adjusted) in British Columbia went up in April to reach $6.6 billion, a 1.6% increase compared to the previous month. The monthly increase was led by building material and supplies merchant wholesales (+8.0%).
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Visitor Entries - In April, B.C. welcomed over 688,000 non-resident travellers (seasonally adjusted), of which almost three quarters were from the United States. Non-resident traveller entries to Canada through British Columbia went down (0.3%) compared to the previous month.
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Current Surveys

• BC Apprenticeship Discontinuers Survey
• BC Assessment Employee Engagement Pulse Survey
  
• B.C. Cannabis Use Survey
  
• BC Hydro Workforce Profile Survey
• BC Public Service Exit Survey
• BC Student Outcomes Survey of Apprenticeship and Trades Training Students
• BC Student Outcomes Survey of Diploma, Associate Degree and Certificate Students
• Canada-BC Job Grant Outcomes Survey
• FrontCounter BC Customer Satisfaction Survey
• New Job Survey
• School District #62 (Sooke) Work Environment Survey
• Social Development and Poverty Reduction (SDPR) LMAPD Monthly Survey
• Survey on Skills, Competencies and Characteristics for Future Workforce

You can read more about any of these by visiting our Current and Recent Surveys page.