Istat updates the basket: enter tattoos, leaving the bunks and the … – Rai News

The revised basket in 2016 are different in nature and aimed to understand the evolution of the spending behavior of consumers

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February 3, 2016 The integrated TV, Internet and voice enter the Istat basket used to calculate inflation. The institute of statistic in updated for 2016 products and services under observation for calculating the consumer price index. This year, he says the Institute of Statistics in the basket also enter the vegetable drinks, the men short pants, leggings baby, LED Bulbs, cloths capture dust, university accommodation, the tattoo. Among other innovations, the record prices of used cars complements that of the prices of new cars and the electric drill enriches the range of products in the segment of consumer tools and motorized equipment for the home and garden. The product comes out of the basket bunks and sleeping cars. In 2016, the basket used to calculate the indices of consumer prices for the entire resident population (NIC) and the families of workers and employees (FOI) consists of 1,476 elementary products (1,441 in 2015), grouped into 901 products in turn collected in 400 aggregates.

Consumers: basket good changes, but no change in the weight
If changes to the goods that make up the basket Istat appear “correct”, because “reflect the changes registered in the habits of Italians,” what appears “incomprehensible” is “the change in weights that Istat attributes for the items.” The Codacons says, commenting on the changes to the basket on which we calculate the inflation rate. “Okay place in the basket tattoos, bulbs to LEDs and integrated telecommunications services, because in recent years such products have entered powerfully in the lives of Italians”, says the president of Codacons, Carlo Rienzi. “The real problem of inflation – continues – is represented by the weights that Istat attributed to individual voices. And ‘the incomprehensible decision to increase sharply by the weight of’ services Restaurants and hotels’, after which in recent years families have

cut heavily own travel and dinners at the restaurant, and then bring down the ‘Transport’, contrary to the rumor that weighs heavily on the monthly outgoings of the citizens. ” “The change in weight is even more important and delicate goods moving in and out of the basket, just because of these weights is based the calculation of inflation and, therefore, the economic choices that affect millions of people,” said Rienzi. This opinion Rosario Trefiletti and Elio Lannutti Presidents of Federconsumatori and Adusbef, that the “parameters adopted, in many respects, are still inadequate in detecting the actual price trends. For added relevance to reality ‘,” say in a statement , “is essential to seriously address a rebalancing of the weights of the basket of goods: making more realistic the weights assigned to certain items, such as that concerning the important Rc car. We also feel wrong entry occurred in recent years of technology products very expensive , the spread still rather limited, whose inevitable price drop affects downward inflation in general terms. These goods should be inserted in the basket until you have reached a minimum threshold of diffusion of at least 20% of the population. ”