Abstract
Statistics Netherlands changed its system of consumer price indices, starting with the February 1994 figures, together with the regular base year change (from 1985 to 1990). Price indices of household consumption, according to the (old) SNA definition, were replaced by price indices which can be conceived as (partial) cost-of-living indices. There are indices for three groups of households. In addition to these three “central” indices we calculate three “derived” indices, viz. cost-of-living indices excluding the direct effect of changes in the rates of commodity taxes and consumption-related taxes. In this communication the motivations for these changes will be clarified.
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