Slovak Republic - Consumer Price Index (CPI)

For Slovakia, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) series measure the change in prices of goods and services bought for the purpose of consumption by the vast majority of households in the Slovak Republic. The Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) is standardized across Europe for comparability.

Consumer price index

Active:

• Classification: COICOP 2018
• Measurement: Fixed-base index relative to 2025 (Index 2025=100)
• Adjustment: Not seasonally adjusted (NSA)
• Native frequency: Monthly
• Start date: Uniformly 2026m1

Predecessors:

• COICOP 1999, Dec2000=100 - 2001m1 to 2025m12
• 1995=100 - 1997m1 to 2001m12 ("_95")

Global concept alias:

• CPI

Harmonized index of consumer prices

Active:

• Classification: COICOP 2018
• Measurement: Fixed-base index relative to 2025 (Index 2025=100)
• Adjustment: Not seasonally adjusted (NSA)
• Native frequency: Monthly
• Start date: Uniformly 2021m1

Predecessors:

• COICOP 1999, 2015=100 - 2013m1 to 2025m12
• 2005=100 - 1996m1 to 2015m12 ("_05")

Global concept alias:

• HICP

Prior to 2026, the source wrote:

Item coverage

Comprehensive consumer prices of goods and services for the purpose of consumption were collected for the adjusted consumer basket, which covered 704 goods and services and about 90,000 price quotations from 13,400 retail outlets. The consumer prices of individual commodities include value-added tax and are collected during the initial 20 days of a reference month.

Classification

The CPI is divided into 12 divisions, 44 groups and 101 classes of the COICOP classification (COICOP version from December 1999).

Frequency of weight updates is every year.

Population coverage

From the population aspect the index covers about 90 percent households. It includes the following 5 main groups of population: employees (wage and salary workers), comprised of manual workers outside agriculture and non-manual workers; self-employed; farmers (mainly in co-operatives); pensioners; institutional households.

Geographical coverage

The entire territory of the Slovak Republic, i.e. urban and rural areas, but most of the prices are collected in urban areas.

For HICP (2025), the source writes:

Data present the Harmonized Indices of Consumer Prices (HICP) calculated according to EU harmonized methodology. The data present the HICP in a detailed breakdown - divisions, groups, classes and subclasses of the classification COICOP 2018 (ECOICOP ver.2). The data present HICP to the basis of index reference period 2025=100.

The data for categories: 03.1.1 Clothing materials (SD), 03.1.1.0 Clothing materials (SD) and 03.1.3.2 Clothing accessories (SD) were in the consumption basket only until 2024. For this reason, it was not possible to recalculate the indices to the average 2025=100, the indices for these categories refer to the previous base period average 2015=100.

Method of statistical reporting:

Sample survey - Consumer prices of individual representative items are surveyed on the whole territory of the Slovak Republic in the selected net of shops and services where people usually buy.

Data source:

Statistical Office of the SR (Questionnaire KPESC 1-12)

From January 2024 a new data source for Food and non-alcoholic beverages: Transaction data of retail chains - Scanner data (Questionnaire TDSC 2-52)

From January 2025 a new data source for Alcoholic beverages and tobacco: Transaction data of retail chains - Scanner data (Questionnaire TDSC 2-52)

Moody's Analytics supplements

Prior to 2026: we have back-extended the all-items index CPITTUM.ISVK (1993m1 to 2000m12) using the growth rate of the IMF-reported series IMFIFSIPCPIUM.ISVK. Because the IMF uses a base period of the entirety of 2000, rather than December 2000, the value for December 2000 is not perfectly equal to 100.

As of 2026: we back-extended the all-items CPI (1993m1 to 2025m12) using the predecessor.

For the HICP, we back-extended (1996m1 to 2020m12).

For the CPI and HICP, we constructed seasonally adjusted counterparts using the X-13ARIMA-SEATS program.

No. The data are final when first released and are not subject to revision.

Further reading

At the source:

Each table in the DATAcube portal links to metadata and notes.

• Methodological notes - CPI
• Methodological notes - HICP
• 2.3.3.1, sp1024ms: Harmonized indices of consumer prices - average of year 2025 (detailed structure)
• 2.3.3.3, sp0017ms: Harmonized indices of consumer prices (Average of year 2015=100)
• Macroeconomic statistics -> Consumer prices and prices of production statistics -> Indices of consumer prices in comparison with the basic period [sp0006ms]-en.xlsx

At Eurostat:

• Harmonised indices of consumer prices (HICP) » Overview

At IMF (SDDS Plus):

• Price index: consumer prices (Feb 2026)

• Sep 2005 - Initial version of CPI.
• May 2009 - Initial version of HICP.
• Aug 2012 - CPI, HICP: back-extended and SA supplement.
• Apr 2016 - HICP: rebased to 2015.
• May 2018 - Addendum of CPI base 1995.
• 5 Mar 2026, Phillip Thorne - HICP reclassified, rebased: Description, Properties, Moody's Analytics supplements, Further reading.
• 3 Apr 2026, Phillip Thorne - CPI reclassified, rebased: Properties.