Monthly average retail prices for food and other selected products

Name: Monthly average retail prices for food and other selected products
Creator: Government of Canada Open Data
License: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada
Keywords: food, prices, statcan, government-of-canada

Monthly average retail prices for food and other selected products by geography. Statistics Canada table 18-10-0002-01.

Source: Government of Canada Open Data18,516 rowsUpdated: 9/20/2026License: OGL-Canada-2.0

foodpricesstatcangovernment-of-canada

Quality

Attribution

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada

Schema

Column	Type	Description
ref_date	string	Reference date — the time period the observation refers to (Statistics Canada table field REF_DATE).
geo	string	Geography the observation covers (Statistics Canada table field GEO).
dguid	string	Dissemination geography unique identifier (Statistics Canada table field DGUID).
products	string
uom	string	Unit of measure for the estimate (Statistics Canada table field UOM).
uom_id	integer	Unit of measure identifier (Statistics Canada table field UOM_ID).
scalar_factor	string	Scalar factor applied to the value, e.g. units, thousands or millions (Statistics Canada table field SCALAR_FACTOR).
scalar_id	integer	Scalar factor identifier (Statistics Canada table field SCALAR_ID).
vector	string	Vector number — Statistics Canada's unique identifier for the time series (table field VECTOR).
coordinate	float	Table coordinate locating the estimate within the source table (Statistics Canada table field COORDINATE).
value	float	Estimate value as published in the Statistics Canada table.
terminated	string	Whether the series has been terminated (Statistics Canada table field TERMINATED).
decimals	integer	Number of decimals published for the estimate (Statistics Canada table field DECIMALS).

Sample rows

ref_date	geo	dguid	products	uom	uom_id	scalar_factor	vector	coordinate	value	terminated	decimals
1995-01	Canada	2016A000011124	Round steak, 1 kilogram	Dollars	81	units	v735165	1.1	10.17	—	2
1995-01	Canada	2016A000011124	Sirloin steak, 1 kilogram	Dollars	81	units	v735176	1.2	11.25	—	2
1995-01	Canada	2016A000011124	Prime rib roast, 1 kilogram	Dollars	81	units	v735187	1.3	12.08	—	2
1995-01	Canada	2016A000011124	Blade roast, 1 kilogram	Dollars	81	units	v735198	1.4	7.23	—	2
1995-01	Canada	2016A000011124	Stewing beef, 1 kilogram	Dollars	81	units	v735209	1.5	7.12	—	2

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/ckan_canada/food_prices_monthly" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

Python

import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ckan_canada/food_prices_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/ckan_canada/food_prices_monthly

Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.