How is purchasing power calculated? How is the consumer price index compiled? What relationship is there between the Insee price index and households’ purchasing power?
These are just a few questions that you would no doubt like an answer to, and which this Insee video deals with clearly.
Insee has also produced a booklet to test your knowledge of prices and purchasing power with a 10-question quiz.
Source: Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques – the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies)
Aim: To learn about how the consumer price index and purchasing power are calculated.
Target group: 16+
Length: 4m50s
Published on 27 November 2012. Updated on 12 September 2019