Infoline Highlights: Coverage for the week of September 17-21

Retail Sales -Retail sales in British Columbia (seasonally adjusted) fell 0.5% in July compared to June, the third consecutive month of decline. Nationally, retail activity was up 0.3% in July, boosted by increased sales at food and beverage stores (+1.3%) and gasoline stations (+1.9%).
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International Travel -In July, B.C. welcomed more than 685,000 non-resident travellers (seasonally adjusted), of which 73% were from the United States. Total non-resident traveller entries to Canada through British Columbia were down 1.3% in July, as entries from the United States dropped 0.9%.
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Consumer Price Index - British Columbia’s consumer price index (CPI) was 2.9% higher (unadjusted) in August than in the same month of last year. On a monthly basis, the rate of inflation was down 0.1% from July 2018.
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Employment Insurance -The number of people receiving employment insurance (EI) benefits in British Columbia rose 2.2% in July compared to June (seasonally adjusted), up by 900 to reach 42,570 individuals. This was the first increase seen since November 2017, and only the third in the 21 months since November 2016.
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Manufacturing Sales - B.C. manufacturing sales (seasonally adjusted) fell 1.7% to $4.7 billion in July. Despite the drop, July sales were the second-highest on record after June’s peak, and 10.0% higher than in July 2017.
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Current Surveys

• BC Apprenticeship Discontinuers Survey
• Baccalaureate Graduates Survey
  
• BC Hydro Workforce Profile Survey
• BC Public Service Exit Survey
• BC Public Service New Job Survey
  
• Canada-BC Job Grant Outcomes Survey
• Community Living BC Employee Engagement Survey
  
• Corporate Accounting Services (CAS) Client Satisfaction Survey
  
• FrontCounter BC Customer Satisfaction Survey
• New Job Survey
• Online Games Survey
  

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