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Consumer Prices, Food Indices (2015 = 100)

Field Value
Description 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 specified
Activity type Food demand
Environment activity type Pricing
Demand activity type Consumer characteristics
Outcome type Economic impacts
Category FoodAffordability
Connects to transition domains None specified
Unit(s) of measurement None specified
Unit(s) of measurement description Index number of Food CPI
SDG Targets SDG_2, SDG_1, SDG_12
Transition domain alignment Area_1 (Strong), Area_2 (Adequate), Area_3 (Strong), Area_4 (Strong)
Supply chain components Consumption, Retail
Methodology Not specified