title	Wholesale Prices 2015 - general index, 2015=100
region	Austria
unit	Index
unit mult (smallest available)	1
comment	The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) is calculated on the basis of a Laspeyres index (2015=100). The data used in the calculation are collected in a monthly survey (random sampling) among some 220 wholesale companies. The calculation is based on 1,400 price quotations for the 384 commodities that make up the basket of goods in the survey, covering consumer as well as investment and intermediate goods. Each group of goods has a different share in total wholesale trade. The basket only contains goods normally sold by wholesale companies; services and goods that are sold directly by manufacturers or importers are not included. Data on wholesale prices (excluding VAT and import or export duties) are collected on the 15th day of each month. The weights for the 61 index groups, which reflect the categories of ÖCPA 2008 (the Austrian version of the statistical classification of products by activity in the European Economic Community ), are based on the results of the 2013 Structural Business Statistics on wholesale companies’ sales profiles.
classification	CPA
breaks	Chained with WPI 2010, WPI 2005 and WPI 2000 by OeNB.
frequency	month
data available from	2000 - 2020 Jan. 00 - Jan. 21 (The indicated data availability refers to the longest available time series irrespective of its duration.)
last update	2021-02-05 18:02:35
Source	Statistics Austria, OeNB
lag	1 month
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