Personal
Inflation Calculator

This calculator allows you to compare the official inflation rate with your personal inflation rate.

Expenditure

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Aid for consumption expenditure
Final consumption expenditure comprises all actual domestic expenditure on goods and services. Saving is not included.

Please enter below how your monthly consumption expenditure is distributed among the goods sectors. In the sum including “Rest” you should come to the euro amount of your consumption expenditure entered.

Food, beverages, restaurants

 

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Aid for food
In this section you can record all the monthly expenses you spend on food and non-alcoholic beverages. Further information can be found in the publication programme under the SEA-CPI no. 01.

 

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Housing

 

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Mobility

 

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Aid for fuels
In this section you can record all monthly expenses related to the maintenance of your car. This includes costs for petrol or diesel or other fuels. Repairs, spare parts and new tyres also belong to this category. Parking costs and car washing are also recorded here. In the publication programme, this item is designated as "Goods and services for vehicles", SEA CPI No. 072.

 

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Aid for car purchase
Please enter here how much you spend on average per month on new and used car purchases (only passenger cars). Camper, trailers or even boats do not fall into this category. Bicycles and motorcycles are also excluded. In the publication programme, this item is designated as "Passenger cars (excluding campers)", SEA CPI No. 0711.

 

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Aid for public transport
Enter here your average expenditure incurred on local and long-distance public transport. This applies to train and bus journeys, but also to flights and taxi journeys. Not covered are ambulance transports. In the publication programme, this item is designated as "Transport services", SEA CPI No. 073.
Recreation

 

Aid for recreation & culture
Here you should declare all expenses incurred in connection with your leisure activities. This includes concert tickets as well as membership fees from the gym or broadcasting fees, just to name a few. The exact breakdown of which services are covered here can be found in the publications under SEA CPI No 0941 "Sporting and recreational services" and SEA CPI No 0942 "Cultural services".
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Lifestyle

 

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Aid for electrical appliances
are a mixed position of, among others, electrical household appliances, TV sets, computers and telephones.
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Aid for rest
Rest includes all areas for which no expenditure was requested above. These include, for example, furniture, household textiles, education and insurance services.

Personal inflation rate

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Consumer Price Index (CPI)

2020 = 100

Explanation

Inflation rate

Inflation is not a fixed term, it is commonly used to describe a sustained rise in price levels over several periods. Inflation can be measured, inter alia, by the Consumer Price Index for Germany (CPI). The CPI is calculated and published monthly by the Federal Statistical Office.

The percentage change in the CPI compared to the same period of the previous year is often referred to as the inflation rate. It is a measure of how the prices for private consumption expenditure in Germany change on average within a year. The terms „price increase“ and „rate of price increase“ are used synonymously.

Consumer price index

The consumer price index for Germany (CPI) measures the average price change of all goods and services purchased by house­holds for consumption purposes. To compute the CPI, the average price development for each type of goods is weighted by a share of expenditure in relation to the base year. This proportion is derived from the average expenditure of all households in Germany on this type of goods. The weighting pattern provides an overview of all types of goods, including their share of expenditure in per thousand.

Personal inflation rate

How much an individual household is affected by inflation always depends on how much money it spends on which goods. For example, if you don’t have a car, you won’t spend money on fuels and vehicle maintenance – but these are part of the consumer price index basket. The personal inflation calculator offers the possibility to adjust individual goods sectors according to one's own consumption behavior and to calculate a personal inflation rate.

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