In October 2018, annual inflation (October 2018, against October 2017) calculated based on the HICP stood at 2.8% and was by 0.1 percentage point lower than the CPI-based one.
In October 2018, against September, the increase in prices for consumer goods and services calculated based on the HICP stood at 0.5%. The monthly increase in prices calculated based on the CPI stood at 0.6%.
The overall change in consumer prices is influenced not only by the size of the price change for a certain product but also by the relative share (weight) of expenditure on that product in the total consumption expenditure.
