ICSC : Cost-of-Living Division

Cost-of-Living Division

The Cost-of-living Division is managed by the Chief of the Cost-of-Living Division, who is accountable to the Executive Secretary of ICSC.

It is responsible for the operation of the Post Adjustment System and Rental Subsidy Scheme.

Its duties include :

Carrying out periodic cost-of-living surveys; collecting data on expenditure patterns of staff, prices for a basket of goods and services, and data on housing costs;
Calculating post adjustment indexes which express cost-of-living relativities between each duty station of the United Nations common system and New York;
Updating of post adjustment indexes on a monthly basis;
Maintaining the rental subsidy scheme, which is linked to the post adjustment system;
Publishing post adjustment reports on a monthly basis;
Calculating and publishing retail price indexes.

Mr. Ibrahim-Sorie Yansaneh
Chief, Cost-of-Living Division

>	Post-Adjustment Reports

>	Cost-of-Living Surveys for 2013

>	Cost-of-Living Survey Reports

>	Retail Price Indexes

>	Retail Price Indexes (Details)

>	Post Adjustment System Booklet