The concepts described on these pages are words and expressions used in statistics with a specific, limited meaning. In everyday speech the word may have a different meaning. In connection with each definition you can find information about which sets of statistics use the concept.
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Monthly change
Monthly change is the relative change in the index from a time period one month earlier. The change is usually expressed as a percentage.
Statistics using the definition
- Prices of dwellings in housing companies
- Rents of dwellings
- Cost-of-living index
- Cost index of road transport of goods
- Consumer price index
- Cost index of bus and motor-coach traffic
- Cost index of civil engineering works
- Cost index for earth movers
- Cost index of forest machinery and vehicles
- Index of producer prices of agricultural products
- Cost index of rail transport
- Producer price indices
- Cost indices of taxi and ambulance transport
- Index of purchase prices of the means of agricultural production
- Harmonised index of consumer prices
Validity of the definition
- Valid
Source organisation
- Tilastokeskus
Jaa