¹ Report of the Board (Ottawa, 1915), 2 vols. See Appendix 3, vol. I.Google Scholar

² A general account of the method of construction will be found in Prices and Price Indexes, 1913-1928 (Ottawa, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, 1930), pp. 180-201, 254-65, 290–3.Google Scholar

³ A bibliography of federal publications on Canadian retail prices, cost of living, wholesale prices, and security prices issued up to the end of 1935, together with a list of the individual appendices contained therein, will be found in the annual volume of Prices and Price Indexes, 1913-1936 (Ottawa, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, 1938), pp. 157–60.Google Scholar As the bold face type on these pages does not wholly clarify the scheme of arrangement the following notes may prove useful. Pages 157 and 158 present a list of the periodical and special (non-periodical) bulletins and volumes issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, but it should be noted that the forerunners of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics' series, which were issued by the Department of Labour (annually from 1906-16, and in the monthly Labour Gazette thereafter) are not included.

Pages 159 and 160 refer to appendices in annual publications issued by the Department of Labour until 1916 and from 1922 by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. These appendices contain a number of articles which are the only published sources on Canadian methods of index number construction. References on page 159 are confined mainly to wholesale price indexes and on page 160 mainly to retail price indexes and the cost of living. References to a number of minor unofficial sources will be found in a discussion of the cost of living in Canada in Labor in Canadian-American Relations by Ware, N. J. and Logan, H. A. (edited by Innis, H. A.), (Toronto, 1937), chaps, VII, VIII.Google Scholar

⁴ Prices and Price Indexes, 1913-31 (Ottawa, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, 1932), pp. 212–22.Google Scholar

⁵ Partial results of this study were first published in the Monthly Bulletin of Agricultural Statistics during 1936, for Alberta (p. 73), Ontario (p. 143), and Saskatchewan (p. 218). See also Prices and Price Indexes, 1913-1935 (Ottawa, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, 1936), pp. 177–81.Google Scholar

⁶ Index Numbers of Farm Living Costs, 1915-38, and Farm Living Expenditures, 1934 (Ottawa, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, 1939), 25c.Google Scholar

⁷ Canadian Farm Family Living Expenditures, 1938 (Ottawa, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, 1939), mimeo., 7 pp.Google Scholar Summarized in Monthly Bulletin of Agricultural Statistics, 10, 1940, pp. 345–6.Google Scholar

⁸ See various bulletins of the College of Agriculture, Department of Farm Management, University of Saskatchewan, especially nos. 60, 65, 68, and 71; brief references only will be found in nos. 37, 43, 46, 52.

⁹ Monthly Bulletin of Agricultural Statistics, 10., 1940, pp. 327–44.Google Scholar Also available as an offprint, 10c.

¹⁰ Index Numbers of Farm Living Costs, 1913-38, and Farm Living Expenditures, 1934, pp. 4-11. A bulletin entitled Canadian Farm Family Living Costs, 1939 and semi-annual bulletins for 1940 (spring and fall) have since been issued.

¹¹ Family Income and Expenditure in Canada, 1937-1938 (Ottawa, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, 1941). Pp. 210. 50c.Google Scholar

¹² Husband and wife, living together, were to have from one to five children (except in Quebec, where no upper limit for children was employed) and not more than one domestic servant or lodger; family earnings to range from $450 to $2,500; living quarters not to be shared with other families.

¹³ An additional record of expenditures for food in three periods of one week was secured, representative of winter, spring, and autumn conditions.

¹⁴ See, for example Family Expenditure in Chicago, 1935-6 (United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bulletin no. 642, vol. II), and other bulletins of the same series.

¹⁵ Cf. samples of farm family expenditures reviewed above, the housing sample drawn from the 1931 census, and the housing sample about to be taken in the census of 1941.

¹⁶ The best presentation of the old index appears to be that cited in footnote 2.

¹⁷ The new index first appeared in the customary monthly form in Prices and Price Indexes for August, 1940; July, 1940 was the last month for which the old index was calculated. Monthly figures back to January, 1935, appeared in the special bulletin entitled An Official Cost-of-Living Index for Canada (Ottawa, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, 1940).Google Scholar

¹⁸ Index Numbers of Retail Food Prices, 1935-40 (Ottawa, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, 1941).Google Scholar

¹⁹ Living Costs in Canada, 1913 to August, 1939 (Ottawa, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, 1939), 25c.Google Scholar Monthly figures are given from January, 1914.

²⁰ In an economy where a large part of output does not take the form of consumers' goods, deflation of national income estimates by the cost of living produces absurd results. The aggregate which may appropriately be deflated by a cost-of-living index is the retail value of consumers' goods and services actually produced. Care must be taken to specify the treatment of consumers' goods used by the armed forces.

²¹ The Bureau's reluctance to apply a deflator to retail sales arises from the difficulty of covering goods such as automobiles, radios, furniture, etc., in the price indexes. It is almost impossible to secure comparable quotations for these items over a term of years.

²² See Stewart, Bryce M., “War-Time Labour Problems and Policies in Canada,” (Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, vol. VII, 08, 1941, p. 434).Google Scholar

²³ Published by the Canadian Public Health Association, 111 Avenue Road, Toronto.

²⁴ Ware and Logan, Labor in Canadian-American Relations.

²⁵ In the form of a letter dated August 22, 1940, to J. McGregor Stewart, Esq., Coal Administrator, Wartime Prices and Trade Board, Ottawa; reprinted in the Labour Gazette, 09, 1940, p. 919.Google Scholar

²⁶ Published by the Welfare Council (Toronto, 1939). Authors and editor not stated. 50c.