Switzerland - Consumer Price Index (CPI)

For Switzerland, a consumer price index; detailed by COICOP main groups, origin, supplementary classifications; monthly from 1982. It is an average measure of pure change in prices of goods and services bought for the purpose of consumption by the resident households in Switzerland.

Active:

• Classification: COICOP 2018
• Measurements:
  • Fixed-base index relative to December 2025 (Index Dec2025=100)
  • Year-over-year percent change (% Y/Y)
• Adjustment: Not seasonally adjusted (NSA)
• Native frequency: Monthly
• Start date: As early as 1982m1

Predecessors:

• 2020=100 - 1982m12 to 2025m12
• 2015=100 - 1982m12 to 2020m12 ("_15")
• 2010=100 - 1982m12 to 2015m12 ("_10")
• 2005=100
• 2000=100

Global concept alias(es):

• CPI

• Population coverage: All private households residing permanently in Switzerland.
• Geographic coverage: All of Switzerland; sample of 11 regions nationwide selected among the 7 major regions.
• Item coverage: All goods and services bought by the reference population for the purposes of consumption; expenditure on direct taxes, cash gifts, gambling and illegal activities are excluded; the CPI has 12 main groups,122 groups of goods, 254 index positions and 1100 survey positions.
• Classification system: As defined by the international product nomenclature COICOP (Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose).
• Sources of weights: The Household Budget Survey conducted by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO) during January-December T-2 among 3'000 private households of all socio-economic groups.
• Time period of current weights: December T-1.
• Frequency of weight updates: The Consumer Price Index is designed as a relative chain index which is reweighted annually in December.
• Item selection: The selection of products is purposive; within item specification, price collectors, in cooperation with sales outlets representatives, select products with significant market share. With scanner data the best selling items per survey position are selected
• Timing of price observation: Most prices are collected once a month during the first two weeks of the month. Fuel and gasoline prices are collected twice a month (at the beginning and at mid-month). Food and near food prices from the most important retailers are collected during for the 2 first weeks of the month using scanner data. In and out of season months are defined for fruits, clothing and some other products. Prices of some services are collected on a quarterly basis.
• Method used to combine basic price observations: Separate indices are calculated for each index position, region and type of outlet. The indices represent the geometric mean of price ratios between the current and base period
• Timeliness: Data are published within the first half of the month following the reference month.

Moody's Analytics supplements

For the all-items index, we back-extend to 1955m1, then compute a seasonally adjusted counterpart using X-13ARIMA-SEATS.

No. Only the final data is released, and is not subject to revision.

The index base period is advanced every fifth year.

Further reading

At Eurostat:

• Harmonised indices of consumer prices (HICP) » Overview

At IMF (SDDS Plus):

• Price index: Consumer prices (Jan 2026)

• Sep 2005 - Initial version.
• Feb 2011 - Rebased to 2010.
• Feb 2016 - Rebased to 2015.
• Feb 2021 - Rebased to 2020.
• 17 Feb 2026, Phillip Thorne - Reclassified, rebased to 2025: Description, Properties, Moody's Analytics supplements, Further reading.