- INEbase
- Standard of living and living conditions (CPI)
- Consumer price and housing indices
Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices. Methodology
- Type of survey: monthly continuous survey
- Base period: 2015
- Weight reference period: previous year
- Sample of municipalities: 177
- Number of items: 462 of traditional collection and 493 of scanner data
- Number of observations: approximately 210,000 prices per month
- Classification: 12 groups (ECOICOP 2-digit level), 41 subgroups (ECOICOP 3-digit level), 92 classes (ECOICOP 4-digit level) and 199 subclasses (ECOICOP 5-digit level)
- General calculation method: Laspeyres chain index
- Collection method: personal visits to outlets, e-mail, telephone, internet and scanner data
- Standardised Methodological Report
- File in the Inventory of Statistical Operations: 30180
Methodological documents