Thailand changes inflation base year due to pandemic, population survey

 

FILE PHOTO: A mother and her daughter shop for bananas at a market in Bangkok, Thailand, March 31, 2016. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand has changed the base years for its consumer and production price indexes to better reflect consumption and manufacturing amid the coronavius pandemic, the commerce ministry said on Wednesday.

 

The base year for the consumer price index (CPI) was changed from 2015 to 2019, the year when its latest population survey was completed and before the coronavirus spread globally, causing massive economic disruption.

 

The new calculation will also cover wider households and products and services, the ministry said in a statement.

 

The production price index (PPI) base year was changed to 2015 from 2010, the ministry said, adding it would begin releasing both indexes with the new base years on Feb. 5.

 

(Reporting by Orathai Sriring and Kitiphong Thaichareon; Editing by Martin Petty)

 

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So no or very little inflation may be reported in the future?

16 hours ago, userabcd said:

So no or very little inflation may be reported in the future?

As will little change in the Thai baht?

Abracadra- no price rises.