Different spending patterns across households and differences in price increases across
goods and services lead to unequal levels of inflation faced by different households. In this …

Measuring poverty requires adjusting nominal consumption (or income) into a real value of
consumption, across geographic areas and over time. To this end, data on consumer prices …

Prais (1958) showed that the standard CPI computed by most statistical agencies can be
interpreted as a weighted average of household price indexes, where the weight of each …

Post-apartheid poverty and inequality trends have been the subject of intensive analysis, yet
relatively little attention has been devoted to the impact of differential price movements on …

The widespread poverty and extreme inequalities prevalent at the time of the democratic
transition represented a key area of policy focus for the first democratic government, as well …

By monitoring the price changes experienced by some representative household, consumer
price indices provide an important measure of changing purchasing power within a given …

One way inflation affects consumption inequality is through its varying impact on the
purchasing power of different households. Indirect taxes, which affect commodity price …

Despite being well-established that relative price changes have significant implications for
the consumption expenditure pattern of households and the measurements of economic …

The consumer price index commonly computed by national statistical agencies can be
interpreted as a weighted average of price indexes of individual households which are …

This paper aims to explore the distribution of inflation rates at the household level and
estimate their determinants using the Household Budget Surveys. It derives the household …