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Index
An index is a ratio describing the relative change in a variable (e.g. price, volume or value) compared to a certain base period (e.g. one year). The index point figure for each point in time tells what percentage the given examined variable is of its respective value or volume at the base point in time. The mean of the index point figures for the base period is 100.
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
- Turnover of trade
- Wage and salary indices
- 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
- Turnover of service industries
- Producer price indices for services
- Cost index of rail transport
- Index of turnover of construction
- Index of regular earnings
- Turnover estimate of large enterprises
- New orders in manufacturing
- Producer price indices
- Index of turnover in industry
- 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 until (31 December 2078)
Source organisation
- Tilastokeskus
Related concepts
- Price level index
- Index formula
- Price index of public expenditure
- Base index
- Trading day adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted series
- Adjustment for seasonal variation
- Seasonal variation
- Chain index
- Monthly change
- Index of purchase prices of the means of agricultural production
- Index of producer prices of agricultural products
- Quarterly change
- Weight structure
- Sum of wages and salaries
- Producer price index for services
- Point figure
- Cost index of rail transport
- Index of turnover of construction companies
- Index of total wages and salaries of construction
- Revision
- Producer price index for manufactured products
- Trend
- Wholesale price index
- Import price index
- Producer price
- Working day adjusted series
- Adjustment for working days
- Volume index of newbuilding
- Export price index
- Farmer price
- Producer price of farmers
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