EXPERIENCE IN CALCULATING THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX IN FRANCE: STATISTICS AND POLICY
The article investigates the experience of forming the methodology for calculating the consumer price index (CPI) in France from the 1910s to the present. The peculiarities of the index functioning in France are determined by two factors: following the general trends in the development of the indicator methodology and the critical assessment by society of its role. In the first situation, the generalization of historical development is relevant in the light of the accumulation of experience in the formation of sample populations of settlements, points of sale and goods and services, that is necessary to improve the methodology of CPI calculation in other countries. The second situation of discussing the index functioning as an object of political manipulation in France is of scientific interest in order to study the significance of the indicator for society and transfer this experience to the socio-economic systems of other countries. The generalization of materials on data collection and computing techniques was carried out on the basis of dividing the CPI calculation into stages proposed by Rosstat and considered as standard within the framework of the international standard. The political context of the CPI development in France is presented in a separate part of the article on the basis of combining with methodology data for calculating the indicator.
Keywords: consumer price index (CPI), harmonized consumer price index, cost of living index, Boskin Commission, census of settlements in France, household budgets, index of minimum guaranteed interprofessional salary.
Highlights:
♦ the principles of the formation of sample aggregates necessary for calculating the CPI of France and their changes during the XX - beginning of the XXI century are investigated;
♦ the specifics of calculating the CPI of France in dynamics, the features of the publication of the national CPI and additional consumer price indices are determined;
♦ the data on the criticism of the CPI of France in society in comparison with the published values of the index during aggravation periods of negative attitudes towards it are investigated and summarized.
Maria A. Kozlova, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Information Technology and Statistics of the Ural State University of Economics