The Consumer Price Index for the whole nation (NIC) is based on the entire present population\u2019s consumption.
\nThe Harmonised index of Consumer Prices (HICP), calculated according to the EU regulations in force, is used for the comparison of inflation between Member States and as a key indicator for the monetary policy of the European Central Bank.<\/p>\n
Consumer price indices are calculated using a chained Laspeyres formula, in which the basket of products and the weighting system are updated annually. Monthly indices for the current year are calculated with reference to December of the previous year (calculation base) and subsequently chained over the period chosen as a reference base in order to be able to measure price trends over a period of time longer than a year.<\/p>\n
For further details, please see CONISTAT <\/a>or refer to the Italian version<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Consumer Price Index for the whole nation (NIC) is based on the entire present population\u2019s consumption. The Harmonised index of Consumer Prices (HICP), calculated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4082],"tags":[3563,3186,3270,3264,3256,3468,3555,2968],"regione":[],"tema":[4039],"class_list":["post-16883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-consumer-prices","tag-consumptions","tag-cpi","tag-hicp","tag-inflation","tag-price","tag-prices-2","tag-flash","tema-prices"],"meta_fields":{"data_pubblicazione":"20110516","descrizioneperiodo":"April 2011","titolobreve":"Consumer price indices","news":"In April NIC +0.5% over March, +2.6% year over year","news_rss":"In April 2011 the National Consumer Price Index for the whole nation CPI (see Italian NIC) \u2013 used to\nmeasure inflation over the entire Italian economic system \u2013 rose by 0.5% compared to the\nprevious month and by 2.6% in comparison to the same month of the previous year.\nThe EU Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices HICP (see Italian IPCA) \u2013 developed to\nfacilitate the comparison of inflation between Member States \u2013 rose by 1.0% compared to\nthe previous month and by 2.9% in comparison to the same month of the previous year.","sottotitolo":""},"acf":[],"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":[],"tags-info":[{"id":3563,"label":"consumer prices","slug":"consumer-prices"},{"id":3186,"label":"consumptions","slug":"consumptions"},{"id":3270,"label":"CPI","slug":"cpi"},{"id":3264,"label":"HICP","slug":"hicp"},{"id":3256,"label":"inflation","slug":"inflation"},{"id":3468,"label":"price","slug":"price"},{"id":3555,"label":"prices","slug":"prices-2"},{"id":2968,"label":"statistics flash","slug":"flash"}],"categories-info":[{"id":4082,"label":"Press release","slug":"press-release"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16883"},{"taxonomy":"regione","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regione?post=16883"},{"taxonomy":"tema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema?post=16883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
According to the SDDS programme of the IMF, Istat publishes data of this press release on the National Summary Data Page<\/a> and disseminates an annual calendar of press releases both on Istat and SDDS<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"