Contribution to Annual Inflation: methodology

What this metric measures

How many percentage points each spending group adds to annual inflation. The contributions of the eleven main groups add up to the all-groups rate shown as the headline line.

Why it matters: A group can rise fast but matter little, or rise slowly and matter a lot because it takes a big share of household spending. Contributions show which prices are actually moving the headline rate.

Source & provenance

Publisher

ABS Consumer Price Index (Cat. 6401.0), contribution to annual change. The ABS publishes contributions monthly only, from April 2025; nothing earlier is available or estimated.

Update frequency

monthly

Licence

CC BY 4.0

How the score is computed

The score is a 0–100 normalisation of the latest observation, compared to a baseline window. The traffic-light rating (RAG) reflects both the absolute level and the recent trend.

Direction

Context-dependent

Trend window

24 months

Baseline

Last 10 years

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