Price Statistics
Price statistics presents the consumer price index, producer price index and
construction materials price index. These data were obtained from the Trade and Economic
Indices Bureau, Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Commerce.
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Consumer Price Index is considered for measuring the cost of living changes of the
consumers when the price level is changed. The Department of Business Economics had been
published the cost of living index and the retail price index for distributing since
1948
. Both
mentioned indexes were discontinued since the new series of consumer price index has been
published in
1962
.
Core consumer price index is the consumer price index excluding raw food and energy
items.
At present, the index calculation and their weight has improved every
5
years. Up-dating
of the base-year and the weight factor for calculating CPI of Thailand is obtained from the
Household Socio-Economics Survey conducted by National Statistical Office. Therefore,
updating the base-year from
1994
to
1998
by using the information from the mentioned survey in
1998
will be effective from
2002
and then.
Producer Price Index (PPI)
Producer Price Index is defined as measure of the price change. The Department of
Business Economics has compiled and analyzed the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) since
1943
by
using
1938
,
1948, 1968
and
1976
as the base years respectively, with a view to keeping abreast of
fluctuation in transaction prices of all representative commodities.
