Unions, including those from the public sector, use these independent estimates when negotiating pay rises. The regions were Metropolitan, Cuyo, North-West, North-East, Pampas and Patagonia. Housing and utilities (8.7 percent); health (8.2 percent); restaurants and hotels (8.1 percent); recreation and culture (7.4 percent); household maintenance and equipment (6.3 percent); alcoholic beverages and tobacco (3.8 percent); miscellaneous goods and services (3.6 percent); communication (2.9 percent) and education (1.6 percent) for the remaining. The inclusion of the principle to produce and centralise the necessary regulatory bases to ensure comparability and quality of the information developed by the NSS and decentralising the executive stages. On 8 October, Héctor Valle resigned and, on 15 October, Héctor Montero was appointed acting Director-General (In April 1992, INDEC's headquarters were moved to the Ministry of Economy building, which it now occupies in full, at 609 Presidente Julio Argentino Roca Ave., Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (joint Resolution 49 of 1 April). The first offices were in the 8th, 9th and 12th floors of the Secretariat of State for Treasury, at 250 Hipólito Yrigoyen, Buenos Aires City. 1944-2020 Data | 2021-2022 Forecast | Historical | ChartDownload historical data for 20 million indicators using your browser.Direct access to our calendar releases and historical data.
The Permanent Household Survey (PHS), which had been done since 1973 by point measurement of two annual waves (May and October), became a continuous survey with quarterly data publication in 2003. Although nominally independent, INDEC is subject to strong political pressure from the government, and its statistics are no longer considered trustworthy.Controversy arose when the government of President Prices and the official record have continued to part ways since former Commerce Secretary Guillermo Moreno's decision to intervene in the statistics institute in 2007.
The creation of an Institute in charge of setting the national rules in statistical matters and of managing and coordinating the National Statistical System (NSS), as well as the traditional collecting and producing series, surveys and censuses. Originally, Resolution Decree 1831 of 1993 established that INDEC would centralise coordination, monitoring and control actions to guarantee the efficient functioning of the National Statistical System, both at the national and at the provincial levels. In 1980, INDEC established a division by regions to provide statistical information. In 1979, the former minister of Economy during the last military dictatorship, José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, devised the In 1980, Resolution 338 of 17 October entrusted the then national director of Financial and Production Statistics, Juan Cayetano Olivero, with "the duties and functions of the Director-General of the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses, provided in Decree 3110/70, with the status of Article 28." The NSS includes INDEC and the central statistical bodies (under ministries, secretariats of State, commands of the Armed Forces, decentralised organisations of the national administration, and decentralised organisations of State companies) and peripheral statistical bodies (under the scope of provincial and municipal governments, autonomous entities, provincial and municipal companies, and inter-provincial entities), which are the organic units who produce, compile, interpret and disseminate official statistics. Argentina: Inflation moderates in February March 13, 2020 Consumer prices rose 2.0% over the previous month in February, coming in below January’s 2.3% rise and marking the softest increase since January 2018, according to the National Statistical Institute (INDEC). A currency crisis and painful austerity cuts made prices surge During Macri’s government, a currency crisis and spending cuts to subsidized public transportation and utilities triggered high inflation. Consumer prices rose 3.7% in December, the agency said. The Patagonia office was inaugurated in March 2018.
In the same poll, economists predicted inflation would ease in 2020 to a still-high 42.2%. The 2019 inflation rate, released by the government’s Indec statistics agency, was slightly below the 54.6% that economists predicted in a December central bank poll. The sharpest price increases were recorded for clothing and footwear, recreation and culture and home equipment and maintenance.