Germany´s retail prices: the German Empire 1925 to 1944 and the Federal Republic of Germany 1948 to 2001.

In general, the consumer price indices are made up by the consumer price index and the retail price index. This data collection combines the most important retail price indices in compliance with the official price statistics. The corresponding retail price statistics are an essential part of the statistical price system in Germany, which indicates the development of prices on all major economic levels. Thereby, it is the main task of the official price statistics to verify the price development according to the institutional economic domains. In doing so, the price indices appear as indices of the purchase prices (e.g. the import price index, price indices for the incoming goods in industry), or the purchase price indices (e.g. the indices of producer prices in agriculture and industry, the index of export prices, or the retail price index). Here the price indices for the cost of living and the retail price index measure the development of prices on the level of private consumption and retail sales.

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List of tables in HISTAT:
A. Overall index of retail prices: annual averages, monthly values.
B. Classification into branch of trade, main economic sector, and economic group: system of economic sectors („Systematik der Wirtschaftszweige“).
C. Classification into main groups: goods register („Güterverzeichnis für den privaten Verbrauch“).
D. Classification into main domains („Warenverzeichnis für die Binnenhandelsstatistik“).
E. Retail food prices 1925-1944.