Furniture, comparative price levels in 33 European countries in 2005

European Commission Eurostat

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Economy and finance
Target audience: Specialised/Technical

Informations

• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-EUROSTAT
• Nombre de lectures: 12
• Langue: English

Extrait

Statistics

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ECONOMY AND FINANCE

44/2007

Prices

Author

Sebastian REINECKE

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Furniture: the survey and price

level indices for 2005................ 2

Furniture: Price dispersion 2005

compared to 2002 ..................... 2

Fur nit ur e - c om par at ive

pric e levels in 33 Eur opean

Count ries in 2005

In the framework of the joint Eurostat–OECD Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)

Programme, surveys on prices of household goods and services are cyclically

carried out by National Statistical Institutes (NSIs), each relating to a different

product group. 37 countries are currently participating in the surveys co-

ordinated by Eurostat

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. The OECD co-ordinates the surveys for the 12 non-

European OECD Member States. These spatial consumer price surveys are

corner stones of the work resulting in annual volume comparisons of the

National Accounts aggregates: Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and its main

components. This article provides for 33 countries results of the furniture price

survey carried out in November 2005.

Chart 1: Price level index for furniture, EU25=100

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These are the 27 EU Member States, the 3 Candidate Countries Croatia, the former Yugoslav

Republic of Macedonia (MK; see METHODOLOGICAL NOTES) and Turkey, the 3 EFTA

countries Iceland, Norway and Switzerland and 4 more

Western Balkan Countries Albania,

Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia. In this article, however, the data of the latter 4

countries are not yet presented.



Manuscript completed on: 02.04.2007

Data extracted on: 02.01.2007

ISSN 1977-0316

Catalogue number: KS-SF-07-044-EN-N

© European Communities, 2007