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 Harmonized index of consumer prices (HICP, Base - 2015)
Characteristic Description
Name Harmonized index of consumer prices (HICP, Base - 2015) by Individual consumption by purpose; Monthly
Regularity Monthly
Source Statistics Portugal, Consumer price index
First available period January 1995
Last available period February 2025
Dimensions
  • Data reference period (Month)
  • Geographic localization (Portugal)
  • Individual consumption by purpose
Concepts
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • CONSUMER PRICE:  Amount paid by households when acquiring individual goods and services based on monetary transactions. This amount corresponds to the value actually paid at the moment of acquisition and includes all indirect taxes minus subsidies on products, reductions and discounts, applied to consumers in general, and excludes interest and other costs associated with credit purchase.
  • ECONOMIC TERRITORY:  Territory that consists on: (a) the geographic territory administered by a government within which persons, goods, services and capital move freely; (b) any free zones, including bonded warehouses and factories under customs control; (c) the national air-space, territorial waters and the continental shelf lying in international waters, over which the country enjoys exclusive rights; (d) territorial enclaves (i.e. geographic territories situated in the rest of the world and used, under international treaties or agreements between States, by general government agencies of the country (embassies, consulates, military bases, scientific bases, etc.); (e) deposits of oil, natural gas, etc., in international waters outside the continental shelf of the country, worked by units resident in the territory as defined in the preceding subparagraphs.
Definition The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices is the most appropriate inflation indicator for comparisons among the different European Union countries. Its development arises from the need, expressed in the Treaty on European Union as regards convergence criteria, to measure inflation on a comparable basis in all Member States.
Measure unit (symbol) No applicable (-)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 12/03/2025


information presented in 3/4/2025