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The Rising Cost of Grocery Prices in B.C.

By Aidan Jaager Each day many are noticing price increases in groceries in stores across B.C. At Thrifty Foods in South Surrey, affordability is becoming an issue. Grocery prices in B.C. have risen by 23.8 per cent over the past two years, much faster than other consumer goods, according to data from Statistics Canada.  Grace Mounsey, an everyday Thrifty Foods shopper, says she has had to cut out certain grocery items due to higher prices. "Some items lately are too expensive to purchase and afford. I try to spend less on high-priced meats and more on essential cheaper items such as bananas and cereal," she said.  According to Statistics Canada data, January 2019 to December of 2020 saw a small grocery Consumer Price Index increase, while 2021 to 2022 saw a significantly larger increase. Statistics Canada says there has been many reasons for the recent surge of inflation in grocery prices across the province.  " Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many fact...
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The Cost of Tuition Fees is Sky-High for Canadian Undergraduate Students

The Rising Cost of Tuition Fees for Undergraduate Students in Canada  Among all provinces and territories, the largest increase in undergraduate average tuition rates (fees), between the years 2018-2023, is Alberta at 26.4 per cent according to Statistics Canada data.   Over the last five years, almost all of Canada's provinces and territories have seen a drastic increase in average tuition fees. Ontario is an exception to this as the province has seen a decrease of almost 10 per cent. For students across the country, tuition is becoming non-affordable. In certain fields of studies, there has also been significant increase in fees, raising concerns for Canadians.  The reason for the increase in average tuition fees is due to inflation . D ata from the "Tuition and Living Accommodation Costs ( TLAC  )  survey" shows how inflation impacts full-time postsecondary students regarding their tuition fees and other costs.  In a study conducted by Statistics ...
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Data Update 3

 Chart Unanswered Question My question: How many students are enrolled in each individual field of study for 2022/23 in every province? One aspect of my data that I was interested in was the number of students in each field of study. As stated by Chad, a lot of fields like business and arts have more students, so it would be interesting to see which have the most and which have the least number of students. The tuition in fields like arts are low in cost in comparison to dentistry, law and medicine and an assumption can be made that there are many less fields in those fields.  How would you get the data? A CSV dataset or xlsx file could answer the question I might have. Statistics Canada and the Government of Canada open dataset would be two agencies that could potentially answer my question. To go about getting the data I could just simply email and ask for it beforehand, as some agencies will just give the data before an FOI request. If that is unsuccessf...
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Data Update 2

Data Update 2 Lead The Highest average tuition in all provinces and territories in the year 2022/23 is Saskatchewan, at $13,567, according to Statistics Canada data. Excel Workbook Link and Explanation  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xfDHCs1GAfc1PYwkpSubCKtbYzU-imaO/edit?rtpof=true&sd=true My raw data is based off of Canada and tuition rates from 2018/19 until 2022/23 and includes the provinces and territories of Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, News Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and Yukon. My data has the ability to go all the way back to the year of 2006/2007. There are 19 different fields of study to choose from in each territory/province with some not having every single field of study as they do not offer it. Fields of study include law, dentistry and nursing. The slice in my data is based off the average tuition cost for the years 2018/19 and all the years leading up to 2022/23; the slic...
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Data Update #1

I am using a dataset that is based on 'Tuition Fees for Arts Programs at B.C. Public Post-Secondary Institutions' URL:  https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/tuition-fees-for-arts-programs-at-b-c-public-post-secondary-institutions The dataset contains BC Public Post-Secondary Institution tuition fees specifically for the arts program; the years range from 2012/13 all the way to 2021/22. There are six different developmental regions where the data is taken from; Mainland/Southwest, Vancouver Island/Coast, Kootenay, Cariboo, North, and Thompson Okanagan. There are also 25 different institutions in the dataset with Mainland/Southwest accounting for 11 of them. It is also interesting to note that Royal Roads University tuition data is based on the Bachelor of Science in the Environment Science program.  The data is not too complex are hard to read, as the headings are explanatory; Economic Development, Region, Institution, and the range of academic years are among them. Sorting...
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Data Vis Analysis Assignment

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The Visualization on the cost of living in Europe , based on New York City's cost, does a great job of explaining the cost of living clearly through different coloured hexagons. There is also a cost-of-living index with different colours; this range is from 27.1 to 131.3 with a value of 100. Further, there is a graph which outlines the cost of restaurant food, rent, local purchasing power and cost of living and rent. Lastly, there is a feature where you can select the exact country you want out of all of Europe to see everything that was listed above.  I could answer questions on the data based off of the year 2022, however, there is no data from any other years, so I could not ask a question about that. Wanting to know the highest or lowest value of a certain category could be answered, but, would have to be done by individually hovering over every country of Europe which is time consuming. There is not much to be confused about while looking at the two visualizations; the spider ...
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