Consumer prices talks

A delegation from Eurostat, the statistical branch of the EU, has had talks with the National Statistics Office to discuss a number of issues connected to the compilation of the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) in Malta. The mission, headed...

A delegation from Eurostat, the statistical branch of the EU, has had talks with the National Statistics Office to discuss a number of issues connected to the compilation of the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) in Malta.

The mission, headed by Inna Steinbuka, director of economic and regional statistics at Eurostat, also discussed improvements in methodologies that are being contemplated at an EU level.

The visit to the NSO was within the framework of the undertaking by Eurostat to strengthen its system of monitoring of practices in the 25 EU member states, and particularly in the countries in line for euro adoption, with regard to the compilation of statistics relating to HICP.

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