The new consumer price indices of Statistics Netherlands

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Balk, Bert M.^{; 1}

Affiliations: Statistics Netherlands, P.O. Box 959, 2270 AZ Voorburg, The Netherlands

Note: [1] Revised version of a paper initially presented at the Joint ECE/ILO Meeting on Consumer Price Indices, Geneva, 25–28 October 1993 and published in Netherlands Official Statistics, Volume 8, Winter 1993.

Abstract: Statistics Netherlands changed its system of consumer price indices, starting with the February 1994 figures, together with the regular base year change (from 1985 to 1990). Price indices of household consumption, according to the (old) SNA definition, were replaced by price indices which can be conceived as (partial) cost-of-living indices. There are indices for three groups of households. In addition to these three “central” indices we calculate three “derived” indices, viz. cost-of-living indices excluding the direct effect of changes in the rates of commodity taxes and consumption-related taxes. In this communication the motivations for these changes will be clarified.

DOI: 10.3233/SJU-1994-11202

Journal: Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 119-123, 1994