Consumer Prices, Food Indices (2015 = 100)

The Food CPI measures the change over time in the general level of prices of food and non-alcoholic beverage items that households acquire, use or pay for consumption. This is done by measuring the cost of purchasing a fixed basket of consumer food and beverage of constant quality and similar characteristics, with the products in the basket being selected to be representative of households' expenditure during a specified period.

Definition:

Not available

Food system outcome type: economic impacts

Category: FoodAffordability

Unit(s) of measurement description:

Index number of Food CPI

Unit of measurement:

• Not specified

Supply chain components:

• consumption

• retail