Consumer Price Index (CPI)

Consumer product of economy, category

Consumer product refers to goods and services available to meet the demand of a consumer.

Economy refers to the entire set of resident institutional units. It is divided into sectors that consists of groups of resident institutional units. An institutional unit is resident in a country when it has a centre of economic interest in the economic territory of that country. It is said to have a centre of economic interest when there exists some location - dwelling, place of production or other premises - within the economic territory on, or from, which it engages, and intends to continue to engage, in economic activities and transactions on a significant scale either indefinitely or over a finite period of time.

The data for this variable are reported using the following classifications and/or lists:

• Consumer products - CPI 2009 basket - List of special aggregates
• Consumer products - CPI 2009 basket Variant
• Consumer products - Gasoline and fuel
• Consumer products - List of food and other selected items
• Consumer products - variant goods and services