Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators

Consumer Price Indices  reflect the trend and degree of changes in prices of consumer goods and services purchased by households during a given period. The rate of change of CPI reflects the degree of currency inflation(or deflation) to a certain extent. The purpose of working out CPI is analyzing the effect of the price changes of consumer goods and services on the social economy and household livelihood, meeting the needs of all levels of governments’ policy and plants making, carrying out macroeconomic control, and providing reference for national accounting.

Retail Price Indices  reflect the trend and degree of changes in prices of retail goods in market. The purpose of working out RPI is obtaining the trend of the price changes of goods, and providing reference for macroeconomic control and national accounting.

Producer Price Indices for Industrial Products  reflects the trend and degree of the ex-factory prices of industrial products in the first sale.

Purchasing Price Indices for Industrial Producers   reflects the trend and degree of the purchasing prices of industrial products as intermediate inputs.

Price Indices of Investment in Fixed Assets  reflect the change trend and degree of change in prices of investment goods and projects in fixed assets during a given period. The investment in fixed assets consists of three components, namely the investment in construction and installation, the investment in purchases of equipment and instrument, and the investment in other items. Price indices of investment in fixed assets are calculated as the weighted arithmetic mean of the price indices of the three components of investment in fixed assets.