sorry for any cross posting that may have occurred to you being on the same lists that I choose. Your intelligent. What more can I say? lol In my helping consumer survivors of mental health services with getting computers I am quoting a Statistics Canada index for consumer computer prices. I don't work on this at Statistics Canada. more info on this here. http://www.statcan.ca/cgi-bin/imdb/p2SV.pl? Function=getSurvey&SDDS=5032&lang=en&db=IMDB&dbg=f&adm=8&dis=2 and in French here http://www.statcan.ca/cgi-bin/imdb/p2SV_f.pl? Function=getSurvey&SDDS=5032&lang=en&db=IMDB&dbg=f&adm=8&dis=2 my question for you to discuss is the meaning to this index and if you know of any other states that use a similar official statistic that measures consumer computer prices. The index I believe was set to 100 in 2001 and is in October 2006 at 16. I have been saying this means 100 dollars in 2001 bought you so much computer, and you can get the same amount of computer for 16 dollars these days. Am I very wrong or only sightly wrong? The prices at computer shops seem to reflect a downward trend. The iBook in 1999 was 2000 CND dollars and now a similar model in Apples lineup the Macbook costs about 1000 CND dollars. I know this might be only one example drawn from the aggregate index Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Junior Statistical Clerk Statistics Canada Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa (2006-2007). just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week.