France CPI basket weight: overall excepting food
France CPI basket weight: overall excepting food stood at 8,515 Per 10,000 of total in 2026, according to INSEE – Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (BDM). It is one of the indicators in the CPI weights table (Value · Annual), with a complete series running from 1996 to 2026. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the CPI weights table
| Indicator | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Divisions | |||||||||||
| Overall excepting food | 8,515 | 8,536 | 8,493 | 8,376 | 8,351 | 8,215 | 8,390 | 8,381 | 8,373 | 8,373 | |
| Overall excepting fresh products | 9,839 | 9,840 | 9,827 | 9,781 | 9,773 | 9,760 | 9,790 | 9,777 | 9,776 | 9,785 |
Understanding france CPI basket weight: overall excepting food
Delineating the residual expenditure share for all non-alimentary goods and services after stripping away the entire food division, this metric captures the vast majority of diversified household outlays. The series encompasses housing, transport, clothing, recreation, health, and miscellaneous services, while excluding all items categorized as nutritional provisions or catering. It provides researchers with a broad macro-level gauge of discretionary and non-food service spending capacity across the entire consumer market.
Evaluating this broad measure requires understanding that shifts in the food sector can automatically induce inverse movements in this residual category due to the closed sum of basket weights. Periodic methodological updates and reclassifications of borderline items can introduce structural breaks that complicate long-term trend analysis. Analysts should examine sub-components within this aggregate to determine whether changes are driven by cyclical discretionary purchases or rigid non-food service costs.
Frequently asked questions
- What major spending categories remain inside this non-food aggregate?
- It includes housing, transport, health, clothing, education, and all other goods and services outside the food division.
- How does a change in food prices affect this specific series?
- Because weights are normalized against a fixed total, an increase in the food basket share mechanically reduces the residual non-food proportion.
- Are restaurant and catering services included in this non-food measure?
- Yes, hospitality and dining out are retained here because they fall outside the strict definition of household food retail purchases.