 On Insee’s blog post ‘Yes, Insee does take housing into account in inflation!’Au sujet du Blog de l’Insee « Mais si, l’Insee prend bien en compte le logement dans l’inflation ! »Working Papers from HAL Abstract: This article critically examines the response published by Insee regarding the treatment of housing in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). It shows that the exclusion of owner-occupied housing from the CPI is neither an uncontested international standard nor a neutral choice. In France, this convention significantly reduces the weight of housing in the index and may lead to an underestimation of inflation, particularly in a context of sharply rising rents. The article also highlights the methodological limitations of the current measurement of rents in France and calls for a transparent debate on statistical conventions, given their implications for the assessment of purchasing power and the credibility of official statistics. Keywords: inflation; consumer price index; CPI; housing; rents; imputed rents; owner-occupied housing; price measurement; purchasing power; official statistics; statistical methodology; national accounts; méthodologie statistique; comptabilité nationale; statistiques publiques; pouvoir d’achat; mesure des prix; propriétaires occupants; loyers imputés; loyers; logement; IPC; indice des prix à la consommation (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-05506014 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from HAL |
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