Selected Financial Indexes

Detailed information for October 2000

These indexes measured monthly changes over time in the conventional mortgage lending rates, chartered bank lending rates, bond yield averages and exchange rates for selected foreign currencies.

Data release - November 17, 2000

• Description
• Data sources and methodology

Description

These indexes measure monthly changes over time in the conventional mortgage lending rates, chartered bank lending rates, bond yield averages and exchange rates for selected foreign currencies. The rates on which the first three indexes are based are taken from Table F1 of the Bank of Canada Review and the data for the exchange rate indexes are extracted from the daily sheets issued by the Bank of Canada.

Subjects

• Prices and price indexes
• Service price indexes

Data sources and methodology

Sampling

This is a sample survey with a cross-sectional design.

Data sources

Responding to this survey is voluntary.

Data are extracted from administrative files.

Administrative data provided by the Bank of Canada. Indexes are calculated by dividing the current interest rates and exchange rates by the base year (1992) interest and exchange rates.

Error detection

Census type of survey, and accordingly, no sampling errors.

Disclosure control

Statistics Canada is prohibited by law from releasing any information it collects that could identify any person, business, or organization, unless consent has been given by the respondent or as permitted by the Statistics Act. Various confidentiality rules are applied to all data that are released or published to prevent the publication or disclosure of any information deemed confidential. If necessary, data are suppressed to prevent direct or residual disclosure of identifiable data.

In order to prevent any data disclosure, confidentiality analysis is done using the Statistics Canada Generalized Disclosure Control System (G-Confid). G-Confid is used for primary suppression (direct disclosure) as well as for secondary suppression (residual disclosure). Direct disclosure occurs when the value in a tabulation cell is composed of or dominated by few enterprises while residual disclosure occurs when confidential information can be derived indirectly by piecing together information from different sources or data series.