News about consumer price indices

On the occasion of the release of the final consumer price indices of January 2016 (scheduled on February 22) some important innovations will be introduced, intended to implement provisions contained in European regulations recently approved or under approval and to improve the accuracy of the measures of inflation.

In particular, from the definitive data of January 2016, the harmonized index of consumer prices (HICP), the consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) and the consumer price index for blue and white-collar households (FOI) will be disseminated:

• with reference base 2015 = 100;
• adopting the new classification ECOICOP (European Classification of Individual Consumption according to Purpose).

February 3, an information note be released outlining the news arising from the activities of revision of the basket, of the sampling plans and of the weighting system of the indices, at the same time of the release of provisional data of January 2016 that already incorporate these innovations.