Spain - Producer Price Index (PPI)





Spain: Producer Price Index (PPI)

Mnemonic PPI.IESP
Unit Index 2021=100, NSA
Adjustments Not Seasonally Adjusted
Monthly 2.26 %
Data Feb 2024 123.48
Jan 2024 126.33

Series Information

Source National Institute of Statistics (INE)
Release Industrial Price Index [producer price index, PPI]
Frequency Monthly
Start Date 1/31/1975
End Date 2/29/2024

Spain: Price

Reference Last Previous Units Frequency
Consumer Price Index (CPI) Feb 2024 113.81 113.4 Index 2021=100, NSA Monthly
Producer Price Index (PPI) Feb 2024 123.48 126.33 Index 2021=100, NSA Monthly

Release Information

For Spain, the "Industrial Price Index" is a detailed producer price index, monthly, national and subnational.

The objective of the industrial price indices is to measure evolution, on a monthly basis, of the prices of products manufactured by industry in the first stage of their commercialisation. It involves a dynamic indicator, with emphasis placed upon the measuring of variations and not of levels.

Industrial price indices have different uses, the following ones being:

  • Direct use as an indicator for the analysis of price inflation in different states of production. In addition, it is a useful tool for researchers and companies when analysing specific products or markets.
  • Indirect use as a deflator, in order to convert current price value data into constant price data at constant prices, or in order to deflate those series investigated in value in the industrial production index.

Active:

  • Industry classification:
    • CNAE-2009, the localization of NACE Rev. 2
    • Sections B to E
    • MIG aggregates
  • Measurement: Fixed-base value index relative to 2021 (Index 2021=100)
  • Adjustment: Not seasonally adjusted (NSA)
  • Native frequency: Monthly
  • Start dates:
    • 1975m1 (national)
    • 2002m1 (subnational)
  • Geo vintage:
  • Geo coverage:
    • Country
    • NUTS 1 (1 of 7 IESP_^^^^)
    • NUTS 2 (10 of 19 IESP_^^)
    • NUTS 3 (6 of 59 IESP_^^^)
    • Metro area (1 of 23 IESP_M^^^)
  • Concept-geo pairing:
    • 39 concepts for country
    • 7 concepts otherwise

Predecessors:

  • 2015=100, national - 1975m1 to 2023m12 ("_15")
  • 2015=100, subnational - 2002m1 to 2023m12 ("_15")
  • 2010=100, national - 1975m1 to 2017m12 ("_10")
  • 2010=100, subnational - 2002m1 to 2017m12 ("_10")
  • CNAE-2009, 2005=100, national - 1975m1 to 2012m12 ("05")
  • CNAE-2009, 2005=100, subnational - 2002m1 to 2012m12 ("05")
  • CNAE-1993 and 2000=100 - 1975m1 to 2008m12 ("00")

Global concept aliases:

  • PPI.IESP

The Industrial Prices Indices are Laspeyres-type indices. These indices are suitable for managing the evolution of short-term phenomena, but have the disadvantage of losing representativity over the course of time, and base changes become necessary in order to update their structure. The changes affect the branches under investigation, the baskets of products, the weightings and the sample of informant units. Furthermore, the base change has been seized upon in order to introduce a series of quantitative and methodological improvements, which, if carried out at another time, would distort the development of the indices.

The main objective of this new design, aside from continuing to extend and improve coverage of this indicator, both for the national total and for the Autonomous Communities, has been to adapt to the current Classification of Economic Activities (CNAE-2009).

The base period for the IPRI, for which the arithmetic average of the monthly indices is equal to 100, is the year 2010.

The reference period of the prices is the period with whose prices compare with current prices, in other words, the period chosen for calculating simple indices. With the fixed-base Laspeyres formula (used in systems prior to 2010) this period coincided with the base period. Nevertheless, with the chain-linked Laspeyres calculation formula, used since base 2010 was implemented, the reference period of the prices varies each year. In the IPRI base 2010, the reference period of the prices is the month of December of the year immediately prior.

Changes in definition

Until December 2008 the index was published with the year 2000 as the base period.

In accordance with European Union guidelines, the index was published with the new base 2005 as of January 2009.

As of February 2013 the index is published with the year 2010 as the base period.

Recent changes relate to change in the base year to 2015=100.

Yes.

The index base year is advanced about every fifth year.

Further reading

At the source:

At IMF (SDDS Plus):

  • Sep 2005 - Initial version.
  • Feb 2009 - Reclassified from CNAE-93 to CNAE-2009.
  • Nov 2009 - Rebased from 2000 to 2005.
  • Feb 2013 - Rebased to 2010.
  • Apr 2018 - Rebased to 2015.
  • 5 Mar 2024, Phillip Thorne - Rebased to 2021: Properties, Further reading.