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Point figure
Point figure is a change quantity used in price indices, which expresses the price, average price or index of the comparison period relative to the price, average price or index of the base period. The point figure of the base period is usually denoted by the number hundred. For example, if the point figure for a commodity at a certain point in time is 105.3, it means that the price of that commodity has risen by 5.3 per cent from the base period.
Statistics using the definition
- Prices of dwellings in housing companies
- Index of wage and salary earnings
- Cost-of-living index
- Price index of public expenditure
- 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
- Net price index
- Cost index of rail transport
- Index of regular earnings
- Producer price indices
- Cost indices of taxi and ambulance transport
- Index of purchase prices of the means of agricultural production
- Labour cost index
- Harmonised index of consumer prices
Validity of the definition
- Valid
Source organisation
- Tilastokeskus
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