Rosstat will change the list of goods and services for calculating inflation from 2023

Rosstat will expand the list of goods and services included in the consumer basket for calculating monthly inflation and include eight items. The changes will come into effect on January 1, 2023. Taking into account the update, the set of goods and services for monthly monitoring next year will be 566 items.

AT press release The statistics department notes that the updated basket will include tours to the Black Sea coast and Crimea, river cruises in Russia, seated cars on long-distance trains, office paper, suitcases, as well as a number of children’s goods, including nipples, creams and car seats for children. .

Excluded from monthly price monitoring are: mechanical, quartz and electronic alarm clocks and paper wallpapers. Instead of black peppercorns, Rosstat included dry seasonings and spices.

From external tourist destinations, trips to Cyprus, Morocco and Tunisia (Turkey and Egypt will remain), Israel and Jordan (UAE will remain), India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka (Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand will remain) will no longer play a role in calculating inflation. ).

In addition, the list of tourist destinations that are taken into account when calculating inflation has been adjusted. Due to the high price and the small number of offers, tours to Cyprus, Morocco and Tunisia are excluded from the category “Trips to certain countries of the Mediterranean”. For the same reason, trips to Israel and Jordan are excluded from the list of “Trips to Selected Countries in the Middle East”. Rosstat also excluded trips to India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka from the category of trips to the countries of Southeast Asia.

According to Rosstat, published yesterday, December 28, consumer prices in the country since the beginning of 2022 grew up by 12.01%. The size of real wages in Russia from January to October of the current year decreased by 1.3%.

Milena Kostereva