Open AccessAnalisis Perkembangan Indeks Harga Konsumen di Kota Medan
Author(s) -
Sari Wulandari,
Muhammad Dani Habra
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
costing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2597-5234
pISSN - 2597-5226
DOI - 10.31539/costing.v3i2.1162
Subject(s) - price index , inflation (cosmology) , consumer price index (south africa) , commodity , index (typography) , economics , descriptive statistics , business , monetary economics , monetary policy , microeconomics , finance , mathematics , statistics , physics , theoretical physics , world wide web , computer science
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is one of the important economic indicators that can provide information about the development of prices of goods and services (commodities) paid by consumers or the public especially the city community. This study aims to analyze the Development of the Consumer Price Index in Medan City. The benefits of this research are a description of the fluctuations in commodity prices for basic needs of the community at the level of consumers or retail traders. This type of research is descriptive qualitative. The subject in this study is the Central Statistics Agency and the object in this study is the Consumer Price Index through seven groups of household expenditure in 2018-2019. The results showed that the development of price indices in Medan City tends to fluctuate from seven types of household expenditure groups. During the January-December 2019 period the highest inflation of the seven types of expenditure was foodstuffs.
Keywords: Consumer Price Index, Inflation Rate