The Existing Problems and Improvement Methods in the Treatment of Housing Service in Chinese CPI Measurement
ABSTRACT
In recent years, Chinese income and consumption grow steadily, the increase of CPI is not very large , but people feel the burden even heavier than before, the CPI has been widely questioned as the slow and moderate rise was out of people's feelings too much. Mainly, housing consumption announced by Chinese government does not reflect the change of housing system reform of Chinese residents and did not consider the difference in housing consumption between Chinese and foreign countries, can not be comparable internationally. By comparing the CPI statistical methods of China and other major western countries, this article analyses the problems of current CPI statistical methods for dealing with the housing consumption. Discussing these problems from the keystones such as the proportion, classification and the price calculate way and then put forward some improvement bases on it .
KEYWORDS: consumer price index (CPI) weight underestimate
