!!!Verbraucherpreisindex, VPI

Consumer Price Index, one of the most important and best known index 
numbers of the Austrian Central Statistical Office, announced each 
month, shows the rate of price increases which affect the final 
consumers. Calculating from a base year, the average price level of 
which is equated with 100, the respective monthly index number 
indicates the percentage by which prices have changed on an average in 
relation to the base period (index 86 = base year 1986). A new 
consumer price index with the base year 1996 is being prepared. The 
shopping basket of the consumer price index at present comprises 615 
goods and services.


%%language
[Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Verbraucherpreisindex,_VPI|class='wikipage austrian']
%%

[{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}]
[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]