Household-specific inflation rates for Italy 2015-2023

The dataset is the outcome of merging the yearly Household Budget Surveys (HBS) conducted by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat), and the Harmonised Index<br>of Consumer Prices (HICP) which is calculated monthly by Istat, according to EU regulations.Mapping price information into consumption decisions and aggregating an individual price index for each household according to a Laspeyres Formula leads to the computation of household-level inflation rates.Furthermore, we compute non-durable equivalent expenditure for each household as a proxy of living standards. The variable is obtained by subtracting durable expenditure from total aggregate expenditure and scaling down by an household equivalent scale (in the benchmark specification, the square root of the household size). The decile distribution of the variable is also computed.