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Table 2 Swiss inflation rates during the COVID-19 crisis

From: Weighting bias and inflation in the time of COVID-19: evidence from Swiss transaction data

 

Monthly inflation

 

Annual inflation

 
 

CPI

COVID basket

CPI

COVID basket

January

–0.22

–0.22

0.19

0.19

February

0.13

0.11

–0.07

–0.05

March

0.08

0.11

–0.51

–0.29

April

–0.36

–0.11

–1.05

–0.38

May

0.05

0.09

–1.32

–0.87

  1. Monthly and annual inflation rate in the not seasonally adjusted Swiss CPI and the COVID index construed using estimates of the consumption expenditure shares during the COVID-19 crisis