URL:
https://nipfp.org.in/media/medialibrary/2021/08/WP_343_2021.pdf
Authors:
Ananya Goyal
NIPFP
Radhika Pandey
NIPFP
Renuka Sane
NIPFP
Published:
NIPFP Working Paper Series, Aug 2021, 343
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● Consumption baskets of Indian households: Comparing estimates from the CPI, CES and CPHS

A study of inflation requires a fixed consumption basket. The last publicly available data on household consumption baskets is from Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) 2011-12. A more recent source of data has been the CMIE Consumer Pyramid Household Survey (CPHS). In this paper we compare the weights of various commodities in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) series with the CES 2011-12 and the CPHS 2019. We first document the methodology of construction of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) including details on commodity classification, reference and recall periods. We find that while CPI is based on CES 2011-12, CPI weights closely match those of CES 2011-12 only once the sub-group Housing is excluded from the total consumption expenses. For comparison with CPHS, we first map the CPHS commodities to CPI to make them comparable. We find the differences in some categories such as food, household goods and services are less than 2 percentage points. Differences in the shares of commodities such as transport and communication, health, education and intoxicants are larger.

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