• Type of survey: monthly continuous survey 
  • Base period: 2025
  • Weight reference period: previous year
  • Sample of municipalities: 177
  • Number of items: 487 of traditional collection and 263 of scanner data
  • Number of observations: approximately 200,000 prices of traditional collection
  • Classification: 13 groups, 45 subgroups, 108 classes and 196 subclasses; 55 headings and 32 special aggregates
  • General calculation method: Laspeyres chain index
  • Collection method: personal visits to outlets, e-mail, telephone and internet and scanner data
Last date of update of the methodology
31/01/2026