Canada pump-price signals (retail fuel prices by city, StatCan monthly)
Retail pump-price signals derived from Statistics Canada's monthly average retail gasoline, diesel and household heating fuel prices: cents per litre by city/province and fuel type since 1979, with month-on-month and year-on-year changes, 3-month momentum, 12-month annualized change volatility, 3-sigma anomaly flags vs a trailing 12-month baseline, naive-drift 1-month forecasts, per-month cross-city momentum ranks, and each city's spread versus the national average. The monetizable signals layer on top of raw StatCan retail fuel prices. Raw series: StatCan via the CKAN open-data portal (monthly average retail prices for gasoline and fuel oil).
Quality
Attribution
Statistics Canada (monthly average retail prices for gasoline and fuel oil; derived signals by Frontier Data Hub)
Schema
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | string | Reference month of the StatCan average retail fuel price (monthly). |
| country | string | |
| country_code | string | |
| series_id | string | Geography plus fuel type, e.g. 'Montréal, Quebec | Regular unleaded gasoline at self service filling stations'. |
| series_label | string | StatCan geography and fuel-type labels for the retail fuel price series. |
| value | float | Average retail price in cents per litre, as published by Statistics Canada. |
| mom_change | float | |
| yoy_change | float | |
| yoy_change_pct | float | |
| volatility_30d | float | |
| momentum_3m | float | |
| anomaly_flag | integer | |
| forecast_1m | float | |
| rank | integer | |
| spread_vs_national | float |
Sample rows
| date | country | country_code | series_id | series_label | value | mom_change | yoy_change | yoy_change_pct | volatility_30d | momentum_3m | anomaly_flag | forecast_1m | rank | spread_vs_national |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990-01-01 | Canada | CAN | Calgary, Alberta | Diesel fuel at self service filling stations | Calgary, Alberta — Diesel fuel at self service filling stations | 40 | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | — | — |
| 1990-01-01 | Canada | CAN | Calgary, Alberta | Premium unleaded gasoline at self service filling stations | Calgary, Alberta — Premium unleaded gasoline at self service filling stations | 51.1 | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | — | — |
| 1990-01-01 | Canada | CAN | Calgary, Alberta | Regular unleaded gasoline at self service filling stations | Calgary, Alberta — Regular unleaded gasoline at self service filling stations | 47.9 | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | — | — |
| 1990-01-01 | Canada | CAN | Charlottetown and Summerside, Prince Edward Island | Diesel fuel at self service filling stations | Charlottetown and Summerside, Prince Edward Island — Diesel fuel at self service filling stations | 50.3 | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | — | — |
| 1990-01-01 | Canada | CAN | Charlottetown and Summerside, Prince Edward Island | Household heating fuel | Charlottetown and Summerside, Prince Edward Island — Household heating fuel | 31.6 | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | — | — |
Download sample data
Download the full sample snapshot for this dataset (sample rows, not the complete dataset).
Use with an LLM
Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).
cURL
curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/canada_fuel_signals/canada_pump_price_signals" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'Python
import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/canada_fuel_signals/canada_pump_price_signals").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/canada_fuel_signals/canada_pump_price_signals
Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.