The Consumer Price Indexes in the EPF [Documentation] [Data Files] Introduction to the EPF. Documentation The documentation is only available in Spanish as a PDF or compressed Postscript file. Details are given on the procedures used to compute the consumer price indexes. Download the documentation (6 pages) ipc_indiv.zip: ZIP-compressed Postscript format, 127 Kbs. ipc_indiv.ps.gz: GZIP-compressed Postscript format, 127 Kbs. ipc_indiv.pdf: PDF format, 94 Kbs. To view and print Postscript files you can use the free applications Ghostview/Ghostcript. To uncompress ZIP files, you can use WinZip for Windows, ZipIt for Macintosh, or the command gunzip/unzip in Unix. To view and print PDF files you may use the free program Acrobat Reader

Data Files Data files for the individual Consumer Price Indexes are available in ZIP-compressed ASCII format. You can use WinZip for Windows, ZipIt for Macintosh, or Unix commands gunzip/unzip to uncompress them. You can download file to file or everything together in .zip or .tar.gz formats. We advise you to read the documentation before using the files. If you find any error in the documentation or the data files, or you have any suggestion, please contact Sergei Davydenko. We would also be very grateful if you send us any additional contribution which could be useful for other users (e.g. scripts to transform data files into other formats like SAS, Stata, etc.) Monthly consumer price indexes from households in the 1990/91 survey. January 1983 to December 1992, base 1992 ipch90_8392.zip: ZIP-compressed ASCII file, 7193 Kbs. ipch90_8392.dat.gz: GZIP-compressed ASCII file, 7352 Kbs. Monthly consumer price indexes from households in the 1990/91 survey. January 1992 to January 1998, base 1992 ipch90_9398.zip: ZIP-compressed ASCII file, 3658 Kbs. ipch90_9398.dat.gz: GZIP-compressed ASCII file, 3748 Kbs. Monthly consumer price indexes from households in the 1990/91 survey. January 1977 to July 1985, base 1983 ipch90_7785.zip: ZIP-compressed ASCII file, 6250 Kbs. ipch90_7785.dat.gz: GZIP-compressed ASCII file, 6405 Kbs. Monthly consumer price indexes from households in the 1990/91 survey. August 1985 to December 1992, base 1983 ipch90_8592.zip: ZIP-compressed ASCII file, 5319 Kbs. ipch90_8592.dat.gz: GZIP-compressed ASCII file, 5434 Kbs. Monthly consumer price indexes from households in the 1980/81 survey. January 1977 to July 1985, base 1983 ipch80_7785.zip: ZIP-compressed ASCII file, 7624 Kbs. ipch80_7785.dat.gz: GZIP-compressed ASCII file, 7718 Kbs. Monthly consumer price indexes from households in the 1980/81 survey. August 1985 to December 1992, base 1983 ipch80_8592.zip: ZIP-compressed ASCII file, 6592 Kbs. ipch80_8592.dat.gz: GZIP-compressed ASCII file, 6678 Kbs. Price indexes for the 110 national subclasses from the 1990/91 survey. January 1983 to December 1992, base 1992. Based upon Lorenzo (1998). florenzo.dat: ASCII file, 91 Kbs. Price indexes by 'rúbricas' from the 1980/81 survey.+ January 1977 to July 1985, base 1983. Based upon Catasús et al. (1986). catasus.dat: ASCII file, 37 Kbs.