Retail Price Indices

Tables

Retail Price Indices are related to living expenditures of UN Officials and are calculated and published six times a year (February, April, June, August, October and December). The table is also published in the Monthly Bulletin of Statistics by the Statistics Division of the UN.

The retail price indices measure the cost-of-living of United Nations international staff stationed at specific duty stations relative to New York, the base of the United Nations post adjustment system, at the same indice date.

Detailed explanations of the place-to-place surveys and the Modified Walsh indice can be found in Part II of our Post Adjustment System Booklet.

Downloads

Adobe Acrobat

Compressed Zip

Details

ICSC also publishes the Retail Price Index with Details (RPID). The main advantage of the RPID over its predecessor (the RPI) is that it offers users the option of building a customized RPI indice using selected expenditure components and weights.

Log-in to Access

Indice calculations

It should be emphasized that since the indices relate To United Nations staff whose consumption pattern differ from that Of the indigenous population, these indices may Not reflect the general price levels In the cities indicated.

Note that the base For all indice calculations Is New York.
(New York = 100)

Register for Access

Even though the RPI Details programme and associated database are publicly available, the ICSC would appreciate prospective users providing basic information about themselves and the anticipated use of the indice. Such information will be used for the purposes of research and development only.

Request Access

Quicklinks

Post Adjustment Booklet (PDF)