From Cepei, we hope that, through this research, public-private data partnerships will improve their potential to respond to the global context.
This Executive Summary provides insights into the partnership between several Chilean companies that collect retail barcode data and the Chile National Institute of Statistics (INE), which combines these data with traditional survey data to produce the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
The use of scanner data by INE Chile to calculate monthly CPI is contributing to the generation of invaluable statistics both for officials responsible for setting economic and fiscal policy and reporting on SDG 11 indicators.
The public-private initiatives on which INE has embarked are now a model that, in the future, can be expanded and replicated in other areas where private-sector data are considered to have public value.
The COVID-19 pandemic severely limited INE's ability to obtain data through traditional face-to-face surveys. As a result, INE decided to innovate, learning from models used elsewhere and using scanner data to compile its CPI.
The use of scanner data by INE Chile to calculate monthly CPI is contributing to the generation of invaluable statistics both for officials responsible for setting economic and fiscal policy and reporting on SDG 11 indicators.
The public-private initiatives on which INE has embarked are now a model that, in the future, can be expanded and replicated in other areas where private-sector data are considered to have public value.
The COVID-19 pandemic severely limited INE's ability to obtain data through traditional face-to-face surveys. As a result, INE decided to innovate, learning from models used elsewhere and using scanner data to compile its CPI.
