The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures the variation in prices of a fixed group of goods and services comprising the regular expenses of families with incomes between 1 and 33 monthly minimum wages.
The structure of family consumption used in CPI calculation is based on IBGE’s Family Budget Survey (POF) and updated with each new edition of the survey. The weighting structures thus express, in percentages, the monetary importance of the goods and services comprising the CPI sample.
Composition:
The goods and services that make up the sample are classified in eight groups or expense categories, 25 subgroups, 85 items, and 338 subitems.
Main Uses:
Reference index for evaluating consumer spending power.
Geographic Coverage:
Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Salvador.
Sector Coverage:
Food, Housing, Clothing, Health and Personal Care, Education, Reading and Recreation, Transport, Miscellaneous Costs, and Communication, from the point of view of the producer and the consumer.
Collection Period: Price collection is carried out on a daily basis to feed the computation system of the seven versions of the CPI:
• CPI Daily;
• CPI–W, researched on a four-weekly basis between the 1st and last day of the reference month;
• CPI–M, between the 21st of the previous month and the 20th of the reference month;
• CPI–10, between the 11th of the previous month and the 10th of the reference month;
• CPI–DI, between the 1st and the last day of the reference month;
• CPI–3a, between the 1st and the last day of the reference month;
• CPI–C1, between the 1st and the last day of the reference month.
Frequency:
• CPI daily;
• CPI–W: weekly;
• CPI–M, CPI–10, CPI–DI, CPI–3i e CPI–C1: monthly.
Historical Series:
1947.
