1. Consumer price index, also known as consumer price index, referred to as CPI. It is a relative number reflecting the changing trend and degree of the prices of consumer goods and services purchased by urban and rural residents in a certain period, and it is the result of comprehensive summary calculation in urban consumer price index and rural consumer price index. Through this index, we can observe and analyze the impact of changes in retail prices of consumer goods and service items on the actual living expenses of urban and rural residents.
2. It is a macroeconomic indicator, which reflects the change of the price level of consumer goods and services that families usually buy. It is a relative number, which measures the price level of a representative group of consumer goods and services in a certain period of time. Used to reflect the changes in the price level of consumer goods and services purchased by households, it is the coefficient of variation of retail prices of goods and services within one month.
3. Consumer price statistics survey the final price of social products and services, which is closely related to people's lives and plays an important role in the whole national economic price system. It is an important indicator of economic analysis and decision-making, monitoring and regulation of the overall price level and national economic accounting. Its change rate reflects the degree of inflation or deflation to some extent.
Generally speaking, inflation is considered to occur when prices rise in an all-round way, in contrast to changes, and it continues. 2002118 According to the National Bureau of Statistics, in the first three quarters of 20021,the national consumer price (CPI) rose by 0.6% year-on-year, an increase of 0. 1 percentage point over the first half of the year.
5. Consumer price index (CPI) is an important macroeconomic indicator reflecting the changes in the price level of consumer goods and services related to residents' lives, and it is also an important indicator for macroeconomic analysis and decision-making and national economic accounting.
6. Generally speaking, the level of CPI directly affects the introduction and intensity of national macro-control measures, such as whether the central bank adjusts interest rates and deposit reserve ratio. At the same time, the level of CPI also indirectly affects the changes of capital markets (such as stock market, futures market, capital market and financial market). The purpose of compiling consumer price index is to understand the basic situation of price changes all over the country, analyze and study the impact of price changes on social economy and residents' life, meet the needs of governments at all levels to formulate policies and plans and carry out macro-control, provide reference and basis for national economic accounting, and is the basis for the state to issue price subsidies to residents. The combination of consumer price index (CPI) and employment situation report (non-agricultural) has become another hot economic indicator that has been carefully studied in the financial market. Because inflation affects everyone, it determines the cost of consumers to buy goods and services, affects the operating costs of enterprises, greatly damages the investment of individuals or enterprises, and affects the quality of life of retirees. Moreover, the prospect of inflation is conducive to the establishment of labor contracts and the formulation of government fiscal policies.