Abbreviations
Latest release
Consumer Price Index: Concepts, Sources and Methods
Reference period
2025
Released
26/11/2025
| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| ADPI | Attached Dwellings Price Index |
| ANZSIC | Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification |
| APR | arithmetic mean of price relatives, also referred to as the Carli formula |
| APRA | Australian Prudential Regulation Authority |
| ASGS | Australian Statistical Geography Standard |
| CAGR | Compound Annual Growth Rate |
| CCB | Child Care Benefit |
| CCR | Child Care Rebate (formerly known as Child Care Tax Rebate: CCTR) |
| CCS | Child Care Subsidy |
| CoE | compensation of employees |
| COICOP | Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose |
| COLI | Cost of Living Index |
| CPI | Consumer Price Index |
| CRA | Commonwealth Rent Assistance |
| DoH | Department of Health |
| EA | elementary aggregate |
| EC | Expenditure Class |
| EPI | export price index |
| FISIM | financial intermediation services indirectly measured |
| GCCSA | Greater Capital City Statistical Area |
| GDP | gross domestic product |
| GEKS | Gini, Eltetö and Köves, and Szulc |
| GFC | global financial crisis |
| GFCF | gross fixed capital formation |
| GK | Geary-Khamis |
| GM | geometric mean |
| GST | goods and services tax |
| HEC | Household Expenditure Classification |
| HELP | Higher Education Loan Program |
| HES | Household Expenditure Survey |
| HFCE | household final consumption expenditure |
| HPI | House Price Index |
| ILO | International Labour Organization |
| IPD | implicit price deflator |
| IPI | import price index |
| ITPI | International Trade Price Indexes |
| NSO | National Statistical Office |
| OOH | owner-occupied housing |
| PBLCI | Pensioner and Beneficiary Living Cost Index |
| PBS | Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme |
| PPI | Producer Price Indexes |
| QAUV | Quality Adjusted Unit Value |
| RAP | relative of the arithmetic mean of prices, also referred to as the Dutot formula |
| RBA | Reserve Bank of Australia |
| RPPI | Residential Property Price Index |
| SKU | Stock Keeping Unit |
| SLCI | Selected Living Cost Index |
| SNA | System of National Accounts |
| SOP | Stage of Production |
| TNTS | The New Tax System |
| TPD | Time Product Dummy |
| UN | United Nations |
| WPI | Wage Price Index |