Consumer prices: provisional data

The Consumer Price Index measures the change in prices over time of a set of goods and services (CPI basket) representative of Italian household consumption.

Istat estimates that in June 2012:

• the National Consumer Price Index for the whole nation CPI (see Italian NIC) - used to measure inflation over the entire Italian economic system - rose by 0.2% compared to the previous month and by 3.3% in comparison to the same month of the previous year;
• the EU Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices HICP (see Italian IPCA) - developed to facilitate the comparison of inflation between Member States - rose by 0.2% compared to the previous month and by 3.6% in comparison to the same month of the previous year.

tags:

consumer prices, consumptions, HICP, inflation, price, statistics flash

theme:

Prices

document typology:

Press release