The major overhaul of the national consumer prices index (NCPI), upon which the health index is based, is an opportunity to adjust the methodology to make inflation measurement more accurate and ensure that the index is representative. The new index will enter into force in January 2014. In...

The new national consumer price index (NCPI) on which the health index is based came into effect in January 2014. It underwent full revision, as it does every eight years. This brings to an end the significant obsolescence of the index, in which the weighting scheme increasingly failed to...

To mark the introduction, in January 2006, of a new national index of consumer prices (NICP) in Belgium and almost 10 years of application of the harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP) at the European level, the article highlights recent methodological developments regarding the two...