Key data points
Last release
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Observation period
Dec 2024
Next release
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Forecast
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Highest
75.00 POINT on May 31, 2006
Lowest
22.80 POINT on Apr 30, 2020
About Canada Business Confidence Index
The Ivey Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) is an economic index which measures the month to month variation in economic activity as indicated by a panel of purchasing managers from across Canada, and is prepared by the Ivey Business School at Western University. The PMI includes both the public and private sectors and is based on month end data Ivey PMI panel members indicate whether their organizations activity is higher than, the same as, or lower than the previous month across the following five categories: purchases, employment, inventories, supplier deliveries and prices. A value above 50 indicates an increase in purchases from the previous month and a value below 50 indicates a decrease.