Development of an integrated system of retail price statistics – INSTATCENY

The duration of the project: January 2019 - June 2022

The research work within the project is aimed at developing the concept of modernisation of the process of measuring changes in retail prices of goods and services (inflation measurement) by the Statistics Poland. New data sources and innovative data obtaining methods will be taken into account. The project will result in the creation of an IT system which will allow the management of acquired data and the integration of heterogeneous and distributed data sets.

Benefits for recipients:

• more accurate and reliable measurement of changes in retail prices,

• reducing the burden on the consumer price index (inflation)

• shortening the time of obtaining information and enabling acceleration of adjustment activities on the part of economic policy,

• enriching the functionality of databases available to users,

• reports dedicated to data administrators,

• enriching the information posted on the website of the Statistics Poland (Local Data Bank, Knowledge Bases, publications on prices in the national economy).

The recipients of the INSTATCENY project are:

• public administration,

• economists, analysts, banks, the National Bank of Poland

• scientific / research centers,

• enterprises, individual domestic and foreign recipients,

• nationwide and local media,

• international institutions

The project was implemented by the Consortium:

• Statistics Poland (Leader),
• Warsaw School of Economics
• Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences.