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New consumer basket in Serbia with 26 more articles
Belgrade,
1 February 2011
Minister of Trade and Services Slobodan Milosavljevic said today that the new average consumer basket used in Serbia this year has 26 items more and applies to a three-member household.
From left: Vladimir Bozovic, Slobodan Milosavljevic and Stipe Lovreta
Milosavljevic said at a press conference that an average consumer basket in Serbia so far had 49 items, and now has 75, which is in accordance with the methodology of official statistics of Eurostat.
The old methodology saw a household as a four-member household, while according to the new methodology the average household has 3.1 members, said Milosavljevic.
The new products in the consumer basket are: corn flour, spinach, lettuce, tomatoes, frozen vegetables, carrots, canned vegetables, dried plums, oranges, salami, bacon, pork ribs, sausages, liver pate, fresh sea fish, several new kinds of bread and rolls, he said.
The Trade Minister stressed that the new method of monitoring the standard of living, which is applied from the beginning of the year, is fully aligned with the statistics of the EU, Eurostat.
This will enable a more complete and better monitoring of purchasing power and living standards in Serbia, he added.
Milosavljevic said that according to the new methodology the average consumer basket in Serbia in December 2010 would be RSD 52,701.34, or RSD 39,779.09 according to the old one.
The Trade Minister also added that the average salary in Serbia in December 2010 was RSD 39,580.
Head of the survey department at the Statistics Office Vladimir Bozovic said that the food basket in Serbia is calculated on a sample of 4,400 households.
Advisor to the Minister of Trade and Services Stipe Lovreta said that these indicators are important for the Serbian government’s economic policy, but also for a serious social policy, adding that these indicators will also be used to determine market potentials for possible investors.
The old methodology saw a household as a four-member household, while according to the new methodology the average household has 3.1 members, said Milosavljevic.
The new products in the consumer basket are: corn flour, spinach, lettuce, tomatoes, frozen vegetables, carrots, canned vegetables, dried plums, oranges, salami, bacon, pork ribs, sausages, liver pate, fresh sea fish, several new kinds of bread and rolls, he said.
The Trade Minister stressed that the new method of monitoring the standard of living, which is applied from the beginning of the year, is fully aligned with the statistics of the EU, Eurostat.
This will enable a more complete and better monitoring of purchasing power and living standards in Serbia, he added.
Milosavljevic said that according to the new methodology the average consumer basket in Serbia in December 2010 would be RSD 52,701.34, or RSD 39,779.09 according to the old one.
The Trade Minister also added that the average salary in Serbia in December 2010 was RSD 39,580.
Head of the survey department at the Statistics Office Vladimir Bozovic said that the food basket in Serbia is calculated on a sample of 4,400 households.
Advisor to the Minister of Trade and Services Stipe Lovreta said that these indicators are important for the Serbian government’s economic policy, but also for a serious social policy, adding that these indicators will also be used to determine market potentials for possible investors.
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