Urban Consumer Price Index for 42 Indonesian Cities

42 Indonesian cities provide data for tracking urban household consumption price movements. The dataset is an indicator based on retail transaction data, compiled by the Indonesia Database for Policy and Economic Research. The temporal coverage and update frequency are not specified.

Use Cases

• Analyze inflation rate trends over time for the aggregate index across all 42 cities.
• Compare price movement patterns between different city-specific CPI series.
• Model the relationship between consumer price indices and other economic indicators using the time-series data.

Strengths

• Covers price data from 42 distinct urban areas, enabling multi-city analysis.
• Focuses on retail transactions for goods and services consumed by households.

Limitations

• The specific time range, number of data points, and update frequency are unknown.
• Limited to urban areas, excluding rural price dynamics which may differ.

Provenance

Source

Indonesia Database for Policy and Economic Research.

Collection Method

Compiled from retail transaction data to measure price movements.

Geography

42 urban areas in Indonesia.