Canadian cannabis retail momentum (monthly)

Name: Canadian cannabis retail momentum (monthly)
Creator: Statistics Canada
License: https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/terms-conditions/open-licence
Keywords: canada, retail, retail-sales, consumer-spending, cannabis, monthly, momentum, demand-forecasting

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Monthly Canadian cannabis-retail intelligence from Statistics Canada (table 20-10-0056-01, unadjusted, 2018-10 onward — the legalization month): province x month cannabis sales with per-capita normalization (quarterly population estimates interpolated to monthly), share of total retail, MoM/YoY growth, a documented 0-100 cannabis momentum score (0.6 YoY growth + 0.4 per-capita level, min-maxed in each geo's own trailing-36m window) with strong/firm/steady/soft/weak bands, provincial ranks, and expanding/record-high/preliminary flags. Who joins this: B2B sales teams selling into cannabis retail join (province_code, month) to prioritize expanding provinces; online shops in adjacent categories join provincial momentum to regional demand forecasting; subscription businesses read per-capita demand for market sizing. Caveats: values in thousands of dollars; latest month preliminary; unadjusted — use YoY not MoM for trends; NT/NU excluded (NT discontinued 2021-05, NU fully suppressed). Statistics Canada Open Licence (commercial reuse allowed); source: Statistics Canada.

Source: Statistics Canada
Rows: 1,128
Columns: 22
Source cadence: Monthly
Last refreshed: Oct 1, 2026
Theme: economy

Column	Type	Description
month	date	Reference month, first day, ISO date. (unit: ISO date)
country_code	string	ISO alpha-3 code (CAN every row). (unit: ISO 3166-1)
geo_name	string	Geography name, StatCan verbatim.
province_code	string	ISO 3166-2 code (CA-ON); 'CA' national. Join key. (unit: ISO 3166-2)
province_abbr	string	Two-letter abbr (CA = national).
is_national	boolean	True on the Canada aggregate row. (unit: boolean)
cannabis_sales_thousands	float	Monthly cannabis-retailer sales, unadjusted, thousands of CAD. Latest month preliminary. (unit: thousands of CAD)
total_retail_sales_thousands	float	Monthly total retail sales [44-45], unadjusted, thousands of CAD. (unit: thousands of CAD)
share_of_retail_pct	float	Cannabis share of total retail, same geo+month. (unit: percent)
population	float	Estimated residents (quarterly, interpolated). (unit: persons)
cannabis_sales_per_1000_residents	float	Monthly cannabis sales per 1,000 residents. (unit: CAD per 1k residents)
mom_pct	float	Month-over-month change in cannabis sales. (unit: percent)
yoy_pct	float	Year-over-year change in cannabis sales. (unit: percent)
cannabis_momentum_score	float	0-100 composite: 0.6 winsorized YoY + 0.4 per-capita, trailing-36m window. (unit: score 0-100)
momentum_band	string	Band of the score: strong/firm/steady/soft/weak.
cannabis_rank	string	Score rank across provinces (1 = strongest). (unit: rank)
expanding_yoy_flag	boolean	True when yoy_pct > 0. (unit: boolean)
record_high_12m_flag	boolean	True when the month is the trailing-12m sales high. (unit: boolean)
preliminary_flag	boolean	True on the latest (revisable) month. (unit: boolean)
thin_history_flag	boolean	True with < 24 monthly observations. (unit: boolean)
source_table	string	StatCan table product id (20-10-0056-01).
row_hash	string	Deterministic 16-hex SHA-256 of (geo, month, sales, share, population). (unit: hash)

First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.

month	country_code	geo_name	province_code	province_abbr	is_national	cannabis_sales_thousands	total_retail_sales_thousands	share_of_retail_pct	population	cannabis_sales_per_1000_residents	mom_pct	yoy_pct	cannabis_momentum_score	momentum_band	cannabis_rank	expanding_yoy_flag	record_high_12m_flag	preliminary_flag	thin_history_flag	source_table	row_hash
2018-10-01	CAN	Canada	CA	CA	true	42,084	54,953,509	0.077	37,259,485	1,129.48	—	—	—	—	—	false	true	false	false	20-10-0056-01	1e3da92052e19f0f
2018-10-01	CAN	Newfoundland and Labrador	CA-NL	NL	false	2,144	779,030	0.275	528,926	4,053.5	—	—	—	—	—	false	true	false	false	20-10-0056-01	f8bdb2cd414c63a1
2018-10-01	CAN	Prince Edward Island	CA-PE	PE	false	850	210,610	0.404	153,906	5,522.85	—	—	—	—	—	false	true	false	false	20-10-0056-01	f00f74528cda3980
2018-10-01	CAN	Nova Scotia	CA-NS	NS	false	4,272	1,400,878	0.305	967,578	4,415.15	—	—	—	—	—	false	true	false	false	20-10-0056-01	7842686c83d54542
2018-10-01	CAN	New Brunswick	CA-NB	NB	false	2,190	1,141,074	0.192	772,793	2,833.88	—	—	—	—	—	false	true	false	false	20-10-0056-01	97dd6f0dd7956231
2018-10-01	CAN	Quebec	CA-QC	QC	false	9,927	11,881,351	0.084	8,418,646	1,179.17	—	—	—	—	—	false	true	false	false	20-10-0056-01	034761ee77169ad9
2018-10-01	CAN	Ontario	CA-ON	ON	false	11,454	21,236,430	0.054	14,413,055	794.7	—	—	—	—	—	false	true	false	false	20-10-0056-01	965e29da4a85844b
2018-10-01	CAN	Manitoba	CA-MB	MB	false	—	1,789,874	—	1,357,856	—	—	—	—	—	—	false	false	false	false	20-10-0056-01	9539ca9abff41cb8
2018-10-01	CAN	Saskatchewan	CA-SK	SK	false	2,462	1,688,354	0.146	1,159,648	2,123.06	—	—	—	—	—	false	true	false	false	20-10-0056-01	c97b631dda06339b
2018-10-01	CAN	Alberta	CA-AB	AB	false	5,701	7,001,425	0.081	4,311,439	1,322.3	—	—	—	—	—	false	true	false	false	20-10-0056-01	7cd7167a95f1989d

Profiled Oct 1, 2026 from snapshot 20261001T142718Z-265a4adf8a74

Measured

Completeness: 94.6%
Rows: 1,128
Columns: 22
Columns with gaps: 8

Rows per yearmonth · 2018–2026 · 9 years

20182026

Column	Missing	Distinct	Range	Distribution
monthdate	0%	81	Oct 1, 2018 → Jul 1, 2026	—
country_codevarchar	0%	1	—	CAN1,128
geo_namevarchar	0%	12	—	Alberta94 British Columbia94 Canada94
province_codevarchar	0%	13	—	CA94 CA-AB94 CA-BC94
province_abbrvarchar	0%	12	—	AB94 BC94 CA94
is_nationalboolean	0%	2	—	false1,034 true94
cannabis_sales_thousandsdouble	2%	1,002	280 → 516,398median 13,673	24 outside 1st–99th percentile
total_retail_sales_thousandsdouble	0%	1,177	55,020 → 79,927,499median 2,092,930	24 outside 1st–99th percentile
share_of_retail_pctdouble	2%	1,066	0.0071 → 1.45median 0.612	24 outside 1st–99th percentile
populationdouble	0%	1,031	40,533 → 41,798,407median 1,318,129	24 outside 1st–99th percentile
cannabis_sales_per_1000_residentsdouble	2%	801	106.69 → 31,297median 10,050	24 outside 1st–99th percentile
mom_pctdouble	3.2%	1,205	-63.69 → 155.88median 2.03	22 outside 1st–99th percentile
yoy_pctdouble	16.3%	925	-62.92 → 2,300median 13.23	20 outside 1st–99th percentile
cannabis_momentum_scoredouble	29.5%	761	0 → 100median 49.6	16 outside 1st–99th percentile
momentum_bandvarchar	24.5%	5	—	soft267 strong175 firm159
cannabis_rankbigint	39.9%	11	1 → 10median 5
expanding_yoy_flagboolean	0%	2	—	true852 false276
record_high_12m_flagboolean	0%	2	—	false775 true353
preliminary_flagboolean	0%	2	—	false1,116 true12
thin_history_flagboolean	0%	1	—	false1,128
source_tablevarchar	0%	1	—	20-10-0056-011,128
row_hashvarchar	0%	1,036	—	000ac1ac786f1aa21 000d20c24053210a1 00283299b63cfa5b1

Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).

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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ca_cannabis_retail_intel/ca_cannabis_retail_momentum_monthly" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

Python

import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ca_cannabis_retail_intel/ca_cannabis_retail_momentum_monthly").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ca_cannabis_retail_intel/ca_cannabis_retail_momentum_monthly

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Statistics Canada. (2026). Canadian cannabis retail momentum (monthly) [Data set, snapshot 20261001T142718Z-265a4adf8a74, sha256 265a4adf8a74]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-10-02, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/ca_cannabis_retail_intel/ca_cannabis_retail_momentum_monthly?snapshot=20261001T142718Z-265a4adf8a74

BibTeX

@misc{dz_ca_cannabis_retail_intel_ca_cannabis_ret_265a4adf,
  title        = {{Canadian cannabis retail momentum (monthly)}},
  author       = {{Statistics Canada}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/ca_cannabis_retail_intel/ca_cannabis_retail_momentum_monthly?snapshot=20261001T142718Z-265a4adf8a74}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20261001T142718Z-265a4adf8a74, sha256 265a4adf8a741e6e2e1cc4a4211564ebbf80ca298982d0a94f34c2e5b09212ed; accessed 2026-10-02}
}

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