CPI food index weight adjustment or reduce weight

CPI food index weight adjustment or reduce weight
Once every five years to adjust the consumer price (cpi) weights and weight index once again approaching the node. Yesterday, reporters from the National Bureau of Statistics Experts Department understands that this adjustment will increase the residential category, education, medical class weight, corresponding to, food weight or lower.

"This is the cpi statistical work system, cpi is the fixed base price index, every five years, to adjust consumer survey directory, which makes the statistics more comprehensive and reasonable." Statistical experts told the "First Financial Daily."

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In accordance with international practice, our country cpi statistics include food, liquor and tobacco products, clothing, household equipment and services, health care and personal products, transport and communications, recreation, education and cultural products and services, housing eight categories of 263 basic Categories of about 700 specifications and varieties of goods and services.

With the changing economic situation, consumption structure is also changing. Therefore, cpi weight every year to make some small adjustments every five years for a major adjustment.

National Bureau of Statistics The last consumer survey catalog revised in 2006, which reduced food weight, up living and service class weights.

Journalists understand that the Bureau of Statistics survey in 2011 doing research update the directory will be re-investigated and measured, in people's living expenses in the weight of the various weights.

"Residential, medical and educational classes will probably increase the weight of the corresponding food may reduce the weight." Statistical experts said, "Of course, this is not artificially raised or lowered, or to look at-home results of the survey, residents of the actual expenditures, these types of expenditure accounting for whether the growth or decline. "

Statistics According to experts, the existing residence kinds of statistical classification, house virtual rent is to use interest rates instead of the future may improve the use of interest rates and housing prices in weights to replace. Meanwhile, public rental, low-cost housing and rental market will be considered for inclusion cpi statistics.

It is reported that housing type statistics broken down into four categories: housing construction and decoration materials, rent, owner-occupied housing (including housing loan interest rates, property management fees, maintenance repairs, etc.) and water fuel.

Not by household statistics errors To resolve

Reporter Meanwhile learned medical and educational class weights will increased. "Present, China households investigation people daily expenditures coverage not all, such a household flower 100 yuan doctor, but unit reimbursement 80 yuan, own only paid 20 yuan, this leads medical weights proportion low." above expert told reporters.

He noted in education there such problems. Currently China is accordance Household statistics instead family statistical. This creates in statistical education expenditures missing one big gap - out schooling. Because out schooling students not regional household survey a member, he single state nor be other regions drawn When its parents gave him money when partly counted maintenance costs while everyone multi understood this should education costs.

"So medical, education costs statistics weight lower is due objective reasons." Experts told reporters "currently Statistics studying solve these problems."

On prices reflect strive more real

It is understood consumer catalog adjustments include two aspects investigation weights To adjust, namely "basket" To Activity such new product To add come, many old commodity gradually exit people's living consumption mainstream will be eliminated; other hand, weights proportion also change namely "basket" also Activity.

"From States development trend, As people income levels increase, food, clothing total consumption proportion will gradually reduced housing consumption, automotive consumption will gradually increase is consumption structure escalating result." State Information Center macro Economic Research Deputy Director Niu plow told reporters.

Niu plow that even cpi weight be adjusted, nor will China cpi overall trend produce very big impact. "Specific may bring some adjustments, but depends final adjustment structure." Louis vuitton handbagsChanel handbagsPrada handbagsLED LightLED Light

Fact, view, current cpi proportion restructuring lags Consumption Structure change might therefore weaken on inflation alarm.

This, above Statistics experts agrees, weight adjusted will makes cpi on price trends reflect more realistic.