France CPI basket weight: overall excepting fresh products
France CPI basket weight: overall excepting fresh products stood at 9,839 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 1998 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 fresh products | 9,839 | 9,840 | 9,827 | 9,781 | 9,773 | 9,760 | 9,790 | 9,777 | 9,776 | 9,785 | |
| Food including restaurants, canteens and cafés | 2,269 | 2,228 | 2,262 | 2,323 | 2,172 | 2,270 | 2,239 | 2,238 | 2,229 | 2,214 |
Understanding france CPI basket weight: overall excepting fresh products
Excluding unprocessed produce from the consumer basket, this parameter captures the remaining household consumption spectrum to isolate structural price movements from weather-driven volatility. Fresh foodstuffs exhibit pronounced seasonal supply shocks that can obscure underlying inflation dynamics, making this aggregate a favored lens for observing core price tendencies. Unlike sibling indices that purge entirely different product classes, this measure retains manufactured goods, services, and energy while stripping out items subject to immediate harvest fluctuations.
Interpreting this series requires attention to annual weight updates that reflect shifting consumer substitution patterns away from volatile agrarian items. Because harvest anomalies do not affect this basket symmetrically across months, month-on-month comparisons can still retain mild residual noise despite the exclusion. Analysts should compare this metric against the full consumer index to quantify the direct impact of weather and agricultural cycles on household budgets without confounding long-term trends.
Frequently asked questions
- Why exclude fresh products from this specific CPI basket weight?
- Harvest volatility and weather shocks create temporary price swings that can mask underlying macroeconomic inflation trends.
- Does this series omit all items related to agriculture?
- No, it removes only unprocessed fresh items, retaining processed foods and other agricultural derivatives within the remaining structure.
- How frequently are these specific exclusion weights adjusted?
- The proportions are updated annually to reflect changing household expenditure patterns on non-fresh categories.