Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices

The HICP measures the change in prices of goods and services which are representative of the private and institutionnal households'consumption in Switzerland, whatever their place of residence and their nationality are. It indicates how much consumers have to increase or to decrease their expenditure to maintain the same volume of consumption, despite the variations in prices.

Further information

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Eurostat

The Harmonized Indices of Consumer Prices (HICP) dedicated section provides access to a full range of HICP information. It gathers together in one place the explanations, reference documents and data already available on Eurostat's website and will be progressively extended to give further information on key projects, methods and data.

HICP regulations

The HICP legal framework comprises 18 Regulations, each of them enacted in the form of minimum standards and requiring the implementation of new mandatory measures while allowing the adoption of different solutions to harmonization problems, provided the HICPs are still comparable.

National HICP practices

This page presents country-specific HICP information on all the participating states:

Documents on methodology