Consumer price index
Consumer Price Index (CPI), Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), HICP at constant tax rates (HICP-CT) | |
Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose (ECOICOP5) | |
Consumer price indices cover the whole household sector, more precisely the goods and services acquired by households. | |
Consumer price index expresses the change in the prices of consumer goods and paid services. | |
Each published index or its change refers to the final monetary consumption expenditure of the whole household sector. | |
Consumer goods and services FRAME Not applicable | |
Estonia as a whole | |
July 1990–… (from July 1990 to December 1997 indices based on different classifications) | |
The base year for the index is 1997 = 100 |
DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACTS Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1148 of 31 July 2020 laying down the methodological and technical specifications in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/792 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards harmonised indices of consumer prices and the house price index (Text with EEA relevance) REGULATION (EU) 2016/792 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL OTHER LEGAL ACTS Perioodiliselt makstavate hüvitiste ümberarvutamise kord State Pension Insurance Act Health Insurance Act OTHER AGREEMENTS Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) International Monetary Fund (IMF) European Central Bank (ECB) |
The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in § 32, § 34, § 35, § 38 of the Official Statistics Act. | |
The dissemination of data collected for the production of official statistics is based on the requirements laid down in §§ 34 and 35 of the Official Statistics Act. The principles for treatment of confidential data can be found here. |
Notifications about the dissemination of statistics are published in the release calendar, which is available on the website. Every year on 1 October, the release times of the statistical database, news releases, main indicators by IMF SDDS and publications for the following year are announced in the release calendar (in the case of publications – the release month). | |
All users have been granted equal access to official statistics: dissemination dates of official statistics are announced in advance and no user category (incl. Eurostat, state authorities and mass media) is provided access to official statistics before other users. Official statistics are first published in the statistical database. If there is also a news release, it is published simultaneously with data in the statistical database. Official statistics are available on the website at 8:00 a.m. on the date announced in the release calendar. |
The news release “Consumer price index” once a month and once a year. The news release can be viewed on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section News. | |
Not published | |
Data are published in the statistical database at https://andmed.stat.ee/en/stat under the subject area “Economy / Prices” in the following tables: IA001: Consumer price index, change over previous year IA02: Consumer price index, 1997 = 100 (months) IA021: Consumer price index, change (months) IA022: Harmonized index of consumer prices, change over previous year IA023: Harmonized index of consumer prices, 2005 = 100 (months) IA024: Harmonized index of consumer prices at constant tax rates (hicp-ct), change over previous year IA025: Harmonized index of consumer prices at constant tax rates (hicp-ct), 2005 = 100 (months) | |
The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in § 33, § 34, § 35, § 36, § 38 of the Official Statistics Act. Access to microdata and anonymisation of microdata are regulated by Statistics Estonia’s procedure for dissemination of confidential data for scientific purposes. | |
Data serve as input for statistical activities 21401 “National accounts (annual)”, 21405 “National accounts (quarterly)”, 21406 “Regional GDP”, 21408 “Supply and use tables”, 21603 “Trade volume indices”. | |
ILO/IMF/OECD/UNECE/Eurostat/The World Bank. Consumer price index manual: Theory and practice. Geneva, International Labour Office, 2004 ILO/IMF/OECD/UNECE/Eurostat/The World Bank. CONSUMER PRICE INDEX MANUAL Concepts and Methods | 2020 http://unstats.un.org/unsd/EconStatKB/KnowledgebaseArticle10130.aspx http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/stat/guides/cpi/index.htm http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/hicp-ct_manual_EN.pdf EL õigusaktid | |
Eurostat mission reports |
To assure the quality of processes and products, Statistics Estonia applies the European Statistics Code of Practice and the Quality Assurance Framework of the European Statistical System (ESS QAF). Statistics Estonia is also guided by the requirements in § 7. “Principles and quality criteria of producing official statistics” of the Official Statistics Act. | |
Statistics Estonia performs all statistical activities according to an international model (Generic Statistical Business Process Model – GSBPM). According to the GSBPM, the final phase of statistical activities is overall evaluation using information gathered in each phase or sub-process; this information can take many forms, including feedback from users, process metadata, system metrics and suggestions from employees. This information is used to prepare the evaluation report which outlines all the quality problems related to the specific statistical activity and serves as input for improvement actions. |
Ministry of Finance Eesti Pank (central bank of Estonia) Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications Ministry of Social Affairs | |
Since 1996, Statistics Estonia has conducted reputation and user satisfaction surveys. All results are available on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section User surveys. | |
All the required main groups of ECOICOP5 are covered. |
The harmonized index of consumer prices (HICP) across Member States are comparable. Any differences at all levels of detail should only reflect differences in price changes or expenditure patterns. Definitions and classifications have been harmonised in a series of legal acts. | |
The 12 main groups are used since 1998. The harmonized index of consumer prices (HICP) and consumer price index (CPI) data considered to be comparable over time. | |
Differences between the harmonized index of consumer prices (HICP) and consumer price index (CPI). Domestic approach is used for HICP. National approach is used for CPI. There are no consumption expenditures which are included in the HICP but excluded from CPI. Some elements of games of chance (lotteries) are included in the CPI but excluded from HICP. HICP weights are price updated to December, but CPI weights are not price updated. | |
The harmonized index of consumer prices (HICP) and consumer price index (CPI) are internally coherent. Higher-level aggregations are derived from detailed indices according to well-defined procedures. |
The data revision policy and notification of corrections are described in the section Principles of dissemination of official statistics of the website of Statistics Estonia. | |
Consumer Price Index is not revisable. |
SURVEY DATA An expert sample is drawn from the country’s representative goods in representative points of sales in regions. The number of representative items in the sample is approximately 700. The average number of prices collected in a month in nine counties is 24,000. The Consumer Price Index (CPI), the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) and the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices with Constant Taxes (HICP-CT) are based on the same price collection. ADMINISTRATIVE DATA Data received from the homepages of the Estonian Health Insurance Fund and the Republic of Estonian Transport Administration as well as data received by request from the State Agency of Medicines, the Republic of Estonian Transport Administration, the Estonian Traffic Insurance Fund and the balance records information system are used. DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES Data from statistical activities 20007 “Financial statistics of enterprises (quarterly)”, 20206 “Energy consumption and production (annual)”, 20300 “Financial statistics of enterprises (annual)”, 20409 “Price of electricity and natural gas”, 20413 “Service producer price index”, 21302 “Financial statistics of insurance enterprises (monthly)”, 21401 “National accounts (annual)”, 21601 “Financial statistics of trade enterprises (monthly)”, 21603 “Trade volume indices”, 22029 “Transport of passangers and goods by transport enterprises”, 22031 “Water transport”, 22032 “Air transport”, 22101 “Accommodation”, 22107 “Travelling of Estonian residents”, 30101 “Population”, 40003 “Household Panel Survey”, 40203 “Household Budget Survey”, 40204 “Forecast of consumption expenditures”, 40308 “Educational expenditure”, 40402 “Film”, 40407 “Museum”, 40414 “Theatre” and 40602 “Accommodation establishment providing rehabilitation services” are used. Also data of Eesti Pank are used. | |
Monthly | |
Statistics Estonia collects data by direct survey, via internet or phone interviews. Data from the State Agency of Medicines, the Republic of Estonian Transport Administration, the Estonian Traffic Insurance Fund and the balance records information system are received via FTP-server and by e-mail. | |
Validation includes comparison with data of the previous period and, if neccesary, with other regions’ data of the same period. | |
On the bases of collected data Laspeyres-type price indices are calculated. For calculating lower level indices the arithmetic mean of prices is used. Microdata are aggregated to the required level. | |
Not applied |