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De samenstelling van de index der kleinhandelsprijzen in Groot-Brittannië

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Abstract

The index of retail prices in Great Britain - Information about retail prices on a continuous base was started in 1914. A comprehensive enquiry by the Cost of Living Advisory Committee held in 1953 and 1954 gave results which were used for the method of construction and calculation of the actual index of retail prices. A Family Expenditure Survey was started in 1957. Results of three consecutive years of survey are used to reweigh annually a revised index of retail prices. The first revision was made in January 1962, and a new base date, January 1962, was adopted. The index covers the following groups of items: food, alcoholic drink, tobacco, housing, fuel and light, durable household goods, clothing and footwear, transport and vehicles, miscellaneous goods, services. Each group consists of a number of sections. There are 92 such sections, as illustrated by appendix I. In each section a certain amount of items is priced. An example can be found in the group “food”. The index is an index of price changes and not a cost-of-living index. It only measures the extent to which retail prices of the goods and services change from month to month.

How to Cite:

De Bremaeker, J., (1966) “De samenstelling van de index der kleinhandelsprijzen in Groot-Brittannië”, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Wetenschappen 11(4), 449–464. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tvsw.95760