Assignment of the Istat consumer price survey service. The monthly consumer price survey records the changes over time in the prices of a set of products (basket) representative of all goods and services intended for the final consumption of households, which can be purchased through monetary transactions (free transactions, self-consumption, imputed rents, etc. are excluded). The territorial survey is carried out through the direct acquisition of information relating to the statistical variables of interest at the survey units present in the municipal sampling plan. On a monthly basis, the surveyors of the Statistical Offices of the Municipalities involved monitor the prices of the local products included in the basket, according to methods and techniques defined by Istat.

The monthly consumer price survey records the changes over time in the prices of a set of products (basket) representative of all goods and services intended for the final consumption of households, which can be purchased through monetary transactions (free transactions, self-consumption, imputed rents, etc. are excluded). The territorial survey is carried out through the direct acquisition of information relating to the statistical variables of interest at the survey units present in the municipal sampling plan. On a monthly basis, the surveyors of the Statistical Offices of the Municipalities involved monitor the prices of the local products included in the basket, according to methods and techniques defined by Istat.