Consumer price index, all groups, Australia

The consumer price index, all groups, measures changes in the prices paid by Australian households for a fixed basket of goods and services. The Australian Bureau of Statistics publishes it quarterly, around four weeks after each quarter ends; the series here is the original (not seasonally adjusted) index for the weighted average of the eight capital cities, on the base the ABS currently uses.

It is the index behind the RBA's inflation target and the indexation of pensions, many wages and a range of government charges, so it underpins both monetary policy and household incomes. Lenders track it because inflation above the RBA's 2% to 3% target range leads to higher cash rates, and most Australian mortgages reprice with them.

Use it for comparisons with the same quarter in earlier years, as the CPI inflation page does. The quarterly change in this original index includes seasonal effects, such as price rises for health and education that come at the start of each year. The ABS also publishes a monthly CPI and seasonally adjusted series; this page follows the quarterly index. The ABS rebases the index from time to time, which changes the level of every observation but not the percentage changes between them.

Consumer price index, all groups is at its highest since the series starts in Q1 2006. Within ten years, consumer price index, all groups beats 100% of readings.

All groups CPI, Australia, original series, index numbers on the base the ABS currently publishes.

ABS publishes consumer price index, all groups quarterly in Consumer Price Index (6401.0), in index (as published by ABS) and is not seasonally adjusted. Code: ABS,CPI,2.0.0:1.10001.10.50.Q. Method for consumer price index, all groups.