Inflation, prices at the top for 16 years. The Covid health crisis redesigns the Istat basket
Boom in inflation in January: the increase in prices recorded a strong acceleration, reaching a level of 4.8%as it hadn’t registered since April 1996, when the Nic recorded the same trend variation. This was revealed by the Istat survey which photographs the country’s inflationary data.
According to the institute i energy goods regulated drive this flare-up with an annual growth never recorded, but inflationary tensions growing are also manifested in other product sectors. Nonetheless, the underlying component, net of energy e fresh food confirms the December figure thanks also to the slowdown in the prices of transport services, whose trend trends are still conditioned by the limitations to mobility due to the pandemic.
The health crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic then continues to redesign the basket used by Istat to calculate inflation. And among the representative products of the evolution in household spending habits and regulatory changes, they enter the 2022 basket: the PC chair, the air fryer, the oximeter (or pulse oximeter), individual psychotherapy, the serological, molecular and rapid test for Covid-19, the poke take away and the streaming of music contents.
The poke take away is the single dish of Hawaiian origins based on raw fish accompanied by avocado, various vegetables, sauces and rice, which has now become a direct competitor of pizza and other foods that many prefer to enjoy at home rather than inside or outside the premises on cold winter evenings ..
Overall, they are 1,772 the elementary products that make up the basket used for the Nic and Foi consumer price indices, grouped into 1,031 products and 422 product aggregates (in 2021 1,731 elementary products, divided into 1,014 products and 418 product aggregates). The 2022 basket for the HICP includes 1,792 elementary products, grouped into 1,050 products and 426 product aggregates (in 2021 elementary products were 1,751, products 1,033 and product aggregates 422).
“Bearing in mind that the The basket of consumer prices has now reached a level of detail and completeness such as to make the number of products relatively low that every year the revisions made to the basket come in and out of the survey – explains Istat – also this year partially affected by the health crisis underway since March 2020 “.
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