About - 1999-2006
Given the importance of Consumer Price Indexes - CPIs in short-term economic monitoring, mainly in the sub-regional integration process, the institutions of MERCOSUL member countries and Chile, with the technical counseling of the European Union and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean - CEPAL, developed a methodological study to guide the construction, in each country, of the Harmonized Consumer Price Indexes - HCPIs.
As a sequence to the project of index harmonization, first released in 2005, covering the period 1999-2004, this publication presents the procedures and concepts applied in the calculation of the HCPIs, as well as the time series of the corresponding indexes of the period 1999-2006. These results, besides contributing to the comparative analysis of inflation among countries, constitute an important landmark in the consolidation of an integrated statistical system for the countries of the region.
Description
Given the importance of Consumer Price Indexes - CPIs in short-term economic monitoring, mainly in the sub-regional integration process, the institutions of MERCOSUL member countries and Chile, with the technical counseling of the European Union and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean - CEPAL, developed a methodological study to guide the construction, in each country, of the Harmonized Consumer Price Indexes - HCPIs.