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 Consumer price index (Weight CPI - Base 2012)
Characteristic Description
Name Consumer price index (Weight CPI - Base 2012) by Individual consumption by purpose; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Consumer price index
First available period 2013
Last available period 2025
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (Portugal)
  • Individual consumption by purpose
Concepts
  • RESIDENT POPULATION:  The persons who regardless of the fact that at the moment of observation ' 0:00 a.m. of the reference day ' are present or absent in a given housing unit, this unit being where they live during most of the year with their family, or where they have all or most of their belongings.
  • 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.
  • 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.
Definition The Consumer Price Index weights reflect the share of expenditure of each level of The Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose in total Household Final Monetary Consumption Expenditure. The expenditure weights are rescaled in order to sum 10000000. The Consumer Price Index is an indicator that measures changes over time in the general level of prices of goods and services deemed to be representative of the consumption structure of population residing in Portugal.
Measure unit (symbol) No applicable (-)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 12/02/2025


information presented in 19/4/2025