HICP - food

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 ver. 2 classification. HICP are produced and published using a common index reference period (2025 = 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.

协调消费者价格指数（Harmonised Indices of Consumer Prices，HICP）专为消费者价格通胀的国际比较而设计。HICP被用于评估《阿姆斯特丹条约》第121条规定的通胀趋同标准，同时欧洲中央银行（European Central Bank，ECB）也将其用于货币政策框架下的价格稳定评估。欧洲中央银行以欧元区HICP的年度变化率作为价格稳定的判定基准。HICP基于适用于所有成员国的统一协调标准编制。从概念层面而言，HICP属于拉斯佩尔式价格指数，以年度链式指数的形式计算，允许每年更新权重。HICP依据欧洲个人消费用途分类体系第2版（ECOICOP ver. 2）的消费支出类别进行细分。HICP采用统一的指数基准期（2025年=100）编制并对外发布，增长率由已公布的指数水平计算得到。各类指数，以及相较上月的环比增长率（M/M-1）和相较上年同月的同比增长率（M/M-12），均未进行日历调整与季节调整。