Consumer prices (provisional)

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 October 2012:

• the National Consumer Price Index for the whole nation CPI (see Italian NIC) – used to measure inflation over the entire Italian economic system – held steady compared to the previous month and rose by 2.6% 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 0.3% compared to the previous month and by 2.8% in comparison to the same month of the previous year.