Published types of inflation

The Statistical Office of the SR publishes two types of inflation:

• development of consumer prices based on national methodology – Inflation – Consumer Price Indices (the English abbreviation CPI - Consumer Price Index is used)
• development of consumer prices based on internationally harmonized EU methodology - Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP - Harmonized Indices of Consumer Prices)

National inflation (CPI)

Prices are monitored on the consumer basket, which consists of selected types of goods and services classified into 12 divisions, 44 groups and 102 classes according to the COICOP classification. Prices are surveyed throughout the territory of the SR.

The published reference data are for all types of consumers, including specific social groups – households of employees, pensioners and low-income households. Pensioner inflation expresses the change in consumer prices for pensioner households. The difference between general and pension inflation is in the weights of goods and services in the consumer basket (COICOP). Detailed data broken down by social groups of the population is published approximately ten days after the CPI in the DATAcube. database section: 2. 3. 1. 1 - Consumer price indices

Internationally harmonized inflation in the EU (HICP)

EU Harmonized Indices of Consumer Prices (HICP) data are published monthly, several days after the national CPI inflation, according to the First Release Calendar in the DATAcube database chapter: 2. 3. 3 - Harmonized indices of consumer prices (HICP inflation).

Consumer basket - structure of household expenditures

The Statistical Office annually revises the weights of expenditure items in the structure of the consumer basket. The consumer basket valid for the year 2024 presents the structure of household expenses according to individual social groups. It indicates how much the household spends on specific expenditure groups of products and services in everyday life.