ANSA 02/04/2025

ANSA - Shorts, ice cream cones in Istat's new shopping trolley

Covid tests out of agency's list of goods to calculate inflation

The new 2025 trolley of goods published Monday by national statistics bureau ISTAT to calculate inflation includes new products such as speck, women's shorts and ice cream cones.
    The so-called consumer 'shopping trolley' of items also lists ceiling lamps, mattress toppers, air chambers and windscreen wipers.
    Covid-19 tests are out of the trolley, which this year includes 1,923 products compared to 1,915 in 2024.
    Overall, the 2025 trolley used as reference by ISTAT to monitor consumer prices, considering growing levels of expenditure divisions, found that the most elevated increase in absolute terms concerned housing, water, electricity and fuel (+0.6335 percentage points), followed by transportation (+0.5505) and restaurants and hotels (+0.2383).

 


   

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