Imagine the following experiment. And so on. In other words, it reminds one of a dialogue between the blind and the deaf. It is only natural that the State Statistical Committee has not yet come up with an ideal way to calculate inflation. Consider the example of our recent neighbors in the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries.
Statisticians there do a very professional job.
In Latvia, which uses the very same inflation index, the form in which the materials are presented is so simple that anyone familiar with the basics of statistical science can understand it. All you need to do is drop by the republic's statistical bureau and in its library you will be given the necessary information, along with an explanation of its meaning. Anyone can calculate the index for themselves and verify whether or not it was calculated correctly. Next to each item is the price index corresponding to it. In such cases State Statistical Committee employees reply that there is information that they are required to make public, and information that they are not required to make public and which is for internal use only.