Friday, February 6, 2015

From no-gluten food to car-sharing Here are the novelties of the basket Istat – L’Eco di Bergamo

These are indeed some of the new items introduced by Statistics in the basket in 2015 for the calculation of inflation. From which instead come out technology products no longer in step with the times as the DVD recorder or hi-fi system.

The update of the basket, which takes into account the news emerged in the spending habits of families , sees the entry of the cookies and gluten-free pasta, the non-alcoholic beer, the means of transport in sharing (car and bike sharing) and beverage vending machine. Also come also the ginseng coffee at the bar and the tax assistance for the calculation of taxes on the house: a novelty, the latter, linked to the introduction of Tasi – explain the technical Istat – and the obvious difficulties of families to calculate the amount to pay.

It also improves the coverage of some items of expenditure, with the introduction of the product pizza under “Pizza and quiche” of visits intra moenia orthopedist and spare parts for non-electric razors between the devices.

They come instead from the spending habits of the Italians increasingly technological hi-fi, a navigation system, the dvd recorder and the computer course: all appliances and habits outdated technology 2.0.

Overall, the new basket has 1,441 products (a little ‘less than 1,447 last year for a better definition of the varieties of fruit and vegetables ) and one of the main divisions of spending increases the weight on the consumption of health services and expenses for health, housing, water, electricity and fuels, and to a lesser extent food and soft drinks, and alcoholic beverages.

In fall instead clothing and footwear, transportation, furniture, accommodation services, recreation, entertainment and culture. But consumers are critical. For Codacons would have to significantly increase the weight of the food, that in a situation of strong decline in consumption have a larger impact on household spending.

For ‘ National Union of the new consumer basket “does not take into account the drop in consumption”: the association has compared the new weights and the latest survey on actual consumption of households and the result is that “the official weights Istat not match the real consumption of families, because they do not take account of the crisis and the collapse of the costs in place. “

According Adusbef and Federconsumatori out” products whose costs are in sharp decline, which could further drag downwards rate. “

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