Regional Consumer Price Differences Within Germany
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Stefan Linz
Summary
Every month the Consumer Price Index for Germany (CPI) provides comprehensive and detailed information regarding the price development over time. However, when differences in the price level across regions in Germany have to be analysed at a given point in time, sufficient information is not available at present.
Interest in regional consumer price data is shown by both scientists and policy makers. Currently, this information demand is not met as regional consumer prices or regional price comparisons are not provided by the Federal Statistical Office in Germany.
Data available from the German Consumer Price Index is suitable to follow the price development over time but cannot be used directly to compare price levels of different regions because the goods tracked may be different from region to region.
The article first considers the information demand and gives an overview of existing price data. Its main part refers to an empirical study which was conducted to check if existing Consumer Price Index data can be used to calculate regional consumer price comparisons by ex-post selecting comparable products.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Titelei
- Inhalt des 230. Bandes
- Die Gutachter zum 230. Jahrgang der Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik (01.01.2010 bis 31.12.2010)
- Inhalt / Contents
- Introduction to the Special Issue on Index Number Theory and Price Statistics
- Abhandlungen / Original Papers
- Drobisch’s Legacy to Price Statistics
- Notes on Unit Value Index Bias
- Aggregate Indices and Their Corresponding Elementary Indices
- Lowe and Cobb-Douglas Consumer Price Indices and their Substitution Bias
- Reconsideration of Weighting and Updating Procedures in the US CPI
- User Costs versus Waiting Services and Depreciation in a Model of Production
- Hedonic Price Indexes: A Comparison of Imputation, Time Dummy and ’Re-Pricing’ Methods
- Housing Prices in Tokyo: A Comparison of Hedonic and Repeat Sales Measures
- Regional Consumer Price Differences Within Germany
- Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews
