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This monthly publication presents up-to-date information on the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which is useful for analysing the inflation that affects consumers. Month-to-month and year-on-year price movements of 9 commodity/service sections and 94 commodity/service groups for each of the four data ... More
Latest Issue: December 2011 Release Date: 20 January 2012
This report presents the major results of the 2009/10 Household Expenditure Survey (HES) and the main features of the 2009/10-based Consumer Price Indices (CPIs). It is established practice in Hong Kong to conduct the HES once every five years to collect up-to-date information on the expenditure ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 28 April 2011
This annual publication provides a detailed analysis of the major price movements of consumer goods and services during the reference year. This is useful for understanding the inflation that affects consumers. For each of the four series of Consumer Price Index (CPI), namely the Composite CPI, ... More
Latest Issue: 2010 Edition Release Date: 23 February 2011
This report presents the major results of the 2004/05 Household Expenditure Survey (HES) and the main features of the 2004/05-based Consumer Price Indices (CPIs). It is established practice in Hong Kong to conduct the HES once every five years to collect up-to-date ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 15 June 2006
This publication presents the results and methodology of the latest round of Household Expenditure Survey (HES) conducted in 1999/2000. It also describes the main features of the rebased Consumer Price Indices (CPIs).
In line with international standards and ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 22 June 2001
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This monthly publication is a compact volume of official statistics containing about 140 tables in 11 sections. It collects up-to-date statistical series on various aspects of the social and economic situation of Hong Kong. Topics include population; labour; external trade; business performance; ... More
Latest Issue: January 2012 Release Date: 19 January 2012
With the use of tables and charts, this half-monthly publication presents up-to-date monthly and quarterly data of major economic indicators which help readers grasp the pulse of Hong Kong's economy before more detailed statistics become available. Details on concepts and definitions can be found in ... More
Latest Issue: 2011 Issue No.24 Release Date: 30 December 2011
The Hong Kong Annual Digest of Statistics is a comprehensive and convenient collection of official statistics. This publication aims to provide detailed annual statistical series on various aspects of the social and economic developments of Hong Kong. Most of the data are presented in respect of 7 ... More
Latest Issue: 2011 Edition Release Date: 11 November 2011
The Hong Kong Social and Economic Trends is published biennially in odd-numbered years. It aims to present selected major annual data series relating to various social and economic aspects of Hong Kong for analysis. With the use of tables and charts as well as textual descriptions, this ... More
Latest Issue: 2009 Edition Release Date: 30 November 2009
This publication brings together in a handy volume a number of feature articles published in the Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics in recent years. The feature articles in this publication contain relevant data which reflect the social and economic situations of Hong Kong "here and now" and ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 15 August 2008
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This article gives a brief account of the methodology and major findings of the Household Expenditure Survey conducted from October 2009 to September 2010.
The survey results showed that on average, a household spent $21,623 a month on food, consumer goods and services in 2009/10. Analysis of ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 22 August 2011
Based on the results of the 2009/10 round of Household Expenditure Survey(HES), the expenditure ranges and the weighting patterns of the CPI series have been updated. This article presents the main features of the new 2009/10-based CPI series and the usage of the new CPI series in deriving rates ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 July 2011
In recent years, some economies started to adopt the Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose (COICOP) developed by the United Nations in analysing the Consumer Price Index (CPI). In view of this, the Census and Statistics Department additionally compiles the 2004/05-based CPI ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 22 March 2010
The year-on-year rate of change of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is frequently quoted as the indicator of inflation. In the past decade, the CPI registered annual decreases in the early years due mainly to the weakness of the global economy. Besides, the increasing economic integration between ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 March 2009
Among the commodities and services covered by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), some may have prices affected by seasonal factors. In other words, the prices of these consumer items are, on a regular basis, relatively high in certain months of a year but relatively low in some other months. Through ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 21 April 2008
The conventional approach of converting the values of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and other expenditure aggregates into a common currency by means of market exchange rates does not produce statistics suitable for comparisons across economies. This is because market exchange rates may over- or ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 21 February 2008
The year-on-year rate of change of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is frequently quoted as the indicator of inflation. In the past decade, consumer price inflation rate slowed down gradually at first. Then, the CPI even registered annual decreases due to the weakness of the global economy and ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 March 2007
This article gives a brief account of the methodology and major findings of the Household Expenditure Survey conducted from October 2004 to September 2005.
The survey results showed that on average, a household spent $18,884 a month on food, consumer goods and ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 21 August 2006
A new round of the Household Expenditure Survey was conducted from October 2004 to September 2005 by the Census and Statistics Department. Based on the results of the survey, the expenditure ranges and the weighting patterns of the CPI series have been updated. This ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 20 July 2006
Among the commodities and services covered by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), some may have prices affected by seasonal factors. In other words, the prices of these consumer items are, on a regular basis, relatively high in certain months of a year but relatively low ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 21 March 2005
The year-on-year rate of change of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is frequently quoted as the indicator of inflation. In the past decade, consumer price inflation rate began to slow down gradually at first. Then, the CPI even registered annual decreases due to moderating consumer spending, ... More
Ad hoc publication Release Date: 22 March 2004
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Ad hoc publication Release Date: 28 April 2011