Prices and consumption
Building cost index on a new base
A rebased building cost index was published on the 21st of January 2010. A new residential building sets the base. Minor changes to the composition of the building cost index coincide with the rebase in accordance with the Eurostat manual on building cost indices. Measurements of labour cost are now based on Statistics Iceland’s survey on wages, earnings and labour costs instead of official pay scales from union contracts.
Staff papers
- The effect of House Market downturn on House Price Index. Paper by Rósmundur Guðnason, Guðrún R. Jónsdóttir and Lára G. Jónasdóttir presented at the 11th meeting of the International Working Group on Price Indices (The Ottawa Group), Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 27-29 May 2009. Presentation (PPT).
- The impact of Financial Crises on the CPI. Paper by Rósmundur Guðnason and Guðrún R. Jónsdóttir presented at the 11th meeting of the International Working Group on Price Indices (The Ottawa Group), Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 27-29 May 2009. Presentation (PPT).
- The Receipts Approach to the Collection Of Household Expenditure Data
by Rósmundur Guðnason, chapter 6, pp. 105-110, in Price and Productivity Measurement: Volume 2 – Seasonality. Volume Editors; Diewert W.E., B.M. Balk, D. Fixler, K.J. Fox and A.O. Nakamura (2009). Trafford Press. - Owner Occupied Housing in the Icelandic CPI
by Rósmundur Guðnason and Guðrún R. Jónsdóttir, chapter 9, pp. 147-150 in Price and Productivity Measurement: Volume 1 – Housing. Volume Editors, Diewert W.E., B.M. Balk, D. Fixler, K.J. Fox and A.O. Nakamura (2009). Trafford Press. - Present challenges facing Icelandic CPI/HICP
Presentation by Guðrún R. Jónsdóttir at the HICP working Group meeting, Luxembourg, 27-28 October 2008. - House Price Indexes, Approaches and Methods
Paper by Rósmundur Guðnason og Guðrún R. Jónsdóttir presented at The 2008 World Congress on National Accounts and Economic Performance Measures for Nations, Washington DC 12th-17th May 2008. Presentation (PPT). - Electronic Data Collection Methods; Use of Transaction Data for PPI
Paper by Heiðrún Guðmundsdóttir, Rósmundur Guðnason og Guðrún R. Jónsdóttir presented at The 2008 World Congress on National Accounts and Economic Performance Measures for Nations, Washington DC 12th-17th May 2008, at the Joint UNECE/ILO Meeting on Consumer Price Indices, Geneva, 8-9 May 2008 and at the 24th meeting of Nordic statisticians, Reykjavík 25-28 June 2007. Presentation (PPT)
Prices and consumption - older papers