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Edition: October 2, 2016
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Infoline Highlights: Coverage for the week of September 26-30
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - Canadian real GDP by industry at basic prices (seasonally adjusted) advanced 0.5% in July following a 0.6% increase in June.
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Industrial Product Price Index (IPPI) - The Industrial Product Price Index (IPPI), which measures average price changes that Canadian producers received for their products, slipped 0.5% in August.
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Bankruptcies - There were 404 bankruptcies filed by consumers in British Columbia in July, a 15.1% decline from July 2015.
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Food Services and Drinking Places - Total receipts in British Columbia’s food service and drinking places industry were 2.6% higher (seasonally adjusted) in July, an eighth consecutive monthly increase.
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Quarterly Population Highlights - The population of B.C. was estimated at 4,751,612 as of July 1, 2016, growing by 21,935 persons in the second quarter of 2016 (up 0.5% from April 1, 2016).
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Tourism Room Revenues - Room revenues continued to exhibit strong growth across British Columbia during the month of July.
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Retail Sales - Retail sales in the province bucked the national trend in July as sales climbed 0.9% (seasonally adjusted).
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Did You Know
Households in British Columbia that paid 30% or more of household total income toward shelter costs represented 30.3% of non-farm, non-reserve households with total income greater than zero. This proportion was higher than the national proportion (25.2%).
Source: Statistics Canada
Headlines
- Both goods-producing industries and service-producing industries increased in July.
- B.C. just had the largest second quarter population growth recorded in the last two decades.
- Tourism revenue growth in B.C. was led by the Vancouver, Coast and Mountains tourism region.
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- Quarterly Population Report
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- Labour Force Survey
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