Q&A about the Retail Price Survey

What Is the Retail Price Survey?

1 What type of survey is the Retail Price Survey?

2 What do you investigate when you conduct the Retail Price Survey?

3 How do you put the results of the Retail Price Survey to effective use?

4 Do I have to respond to the Retail Price Survey?

The Survey Method

5 How do you conduct the Retail Price Survey?

6 How do you select the survey subjects?

7 What criteria are used to select the enumerators?

Publication of Survey Results

8 When do you make the survey results available to the public?

Protection of Privacy

9 Is privacy protected in the Retail Price Survey?

Others

10 Are discount stores included as survey subjects?

11 Are bargain sales investigated?

12 What are basic specifications and local specifications?

13 We now live in an environment in which we have access to so many products and services. Is the Retail Price Survey not excluding too many of these?

14 How are the basic specifications established?

15 Are private brand commodities surveyed?

16 Is the national average price of each item calculated in the Retail Price Survey?