HICP - household equipment

Harmonised Indices of Consumer Prices (HICP) are designed for international comparisons of consumer price inflation. HICPs are used for the assessment of the inflation convergence criterion as required under Article 121 of the Treaty of Amsterdam and by the ECB for assessing price stability for monetary policy purposes. The ECB defines price stability on the basis of the annual rate of change of the euro area HICP. HICPs are compiled on the basis of harmonised standards, binding for all Member States. Conceptually, the HICP are Laspeyres-type price indices and are computed as annual chain-indices allowing for weights changing each year. HICP are broken down by category of consumption expenditure on the basis of the ECOICOP-HICP classification. HICP are produced and published using a common index reference period (2015 = 100). Growth rates are calculated from published index levels. Indexes, as well as both growth rates with respect to the previous month (M/M-1) and with respect to the corresponding month of the previous year (M/M-12) are neither calendar nor seasonally adjusted.消费者价格协调指数（Harmonised Indices of Consumer Prices，HICP）旨在用于消费者价格通胀的国际比较。HICP可用于《阿姆斯特丹条约》第121条规定的通胀趋同标准评估，同时欧洲中央银行（European Central Bank，ECB）在开展货币政策相关的物价稳定评估工作时也会使用该指数。ECB以欧元区HICP的年度变化率来界定物价稳定。 HICP依据对所有成员国均具有约束力的协调标准编制。从概念层面而言，HICP属于拉斯佩雷斯（Laspeyres）型价格指数，通过年度链式指数的方式计算，允许每年更新权重。 HICP依据ECOICOP-HICP分类体系，按消费支出类别进行细分。该指数采用统一的指数基准期（2015=100）进行编制与发布，增长率基于已发布的指数水平计算得出。 无论是指数本身，还是相较于上月的环比增长率（M/M-1）与相较于上年同月的同比增长率（M/M-12），均未经过日历调整或季节调整。