This chapter presents statistics on price indexes, prices and land values. Price indexes concern domestic wholesale prices, export and import prices, prices in rural areas, consumer prices, etc.
Prices contains retail prices and residential land values.
The indexes are published monthly by the Bank of Japan. The system of the indexes is that the domestic wholesale price indexes, the export price indexes and the import price indexes constitute the basic indexes, and the overall wholesale price indexes are computed as all-inclusive indexes integrating these basic indexes. The base period of the indexes is 1995 and the index formula is the Laspeyres type. As to the indexes under the new system, linked series by commodity have been published since January 1995 and the indexes by group since January 1960. The indexes cover domestic products for domestic demand and their weights are calculated based on the value of transactions of domestic products for domestic demand during 1995.