6401.0.60.002 - Information Paper: Increasing the Frequency of CPI Expenditure Class Weight Updates, July 2016  
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APPENDIX 3 OECD MEMBER AND PARTNER COUNTRIES : SOURCE AND FREQUENCY OF WEIGHTS

A3.1 OECD member and partner countries: data sources and frequency of weight updates
Country Source of weights Frequency of weights update
Australia Household Expenditure Survey 6 years
Austria Household Budget Survey 5 years
Belgium Household Budget Survey 2 years
Brazil Consumer Expenditure Survey 1 year
Canada Survey of Household Spending 2 years
Chile Household Budget Survey 10 years
China Household Surveys 5 years
Columbia National Account HFCE 10 years
Costa Rica National Survey of Households' Income and Expenses 5 years
Czech Republic Household Budget Survey 5 years
Denmark National Accounts HFCE 5 years
Estonia Household Budget Survey and National Accounts 1 year
Finland National Accounts HFCE 5 years
France National Accounts HFCE 1 year
Germany Survey of Income and expenditure 5 years
Greece Household Budget Survey 2 years
Hungary National Accounts 1 year
Iceland Household Expenditure Survey 1 year
India Consumer Expenditure Survey 5 years
Indonesia Cost of Living Survey 5 years
Ireland Household Budget Survey 5 years
Israel Household Expenditure Survey 2 years
Italy National Accounts HFCE 1 year
Japan Family Income and Expenditure Survey 5 years
Korea Family Income and Expenditure Survey 5 years
Latvia Household Budget Survey 1 year
Lithuania Household Monetary Expenditure 1 year
Luxembourg National Accounts HFCE 1 year
Mexico National Income and Expenditure Household Survey Not fixed
Netherlands National Accounts HFCE 1 year
New Zealand Household Expenditure Survey 3 years
Norway National Accounts HFCE 1 year
Office for National Statistics (ONS) National Accounts HFCE 1 year
Poland Household Budget Survey 1 year
Portugal Household Budget Survey and National Accounts 1 year
Russian Federation Household Budget Survey 1 year
Saudi Arabia Household Expenditure and Income Survey Not fixed
Slovak Republic Household Budget Survey 1 year
Slovenia Household Budget Survey 1 year
South Africa Income and Expenditure Survey 5 years
Spain Household Budget Survey 1 year
Sweden National Accounts HFCE 1 year
Switzerland Household Budget Survey 1 year
Turkey Household Budget Survey 1 year
USA Consumer Expenditure Survey 1 year

Information obtained from the OECD Main Economic Indicators website (http://stats.oecd.org/mei/)