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RBA Glossary definition for CPI

CPI – Consumer Price Index. A general measure of price inflation for the household sector compiled and published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

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Disagreement about Inflation Expectations

1 Apr 2016 RDP 2016-02
Alexander Ballantyne, Christian Gillitzer, David Jacobs and Ewan Rankin
1990. Monthly. 15–20. Headline CPI. Market economists. RBA. 1993. Quarterly. 10–20. ... Mix of headline and underlying CPI. Consumers. Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2016/2016-02/full.html

Time-series Variation in Disagreement

6 May 2016 RDP 2016-02
Alexander Ballantyne, Christian Gillitzer, David Jacobs and Ewan Rankin
Unions: year-ahead. Unions: medium-term. Consumers. β. 1. : relationship with the level of CPI inflation. ... The two CPI series exclude interest charges prior to the September quarter 1998 and are adjusted for the tax changes of 1999–2000.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2016/2016-02/time-series-variation-in-disagreement.html

Data Sources

6 May 2016 RDP 2016-02
Alexander Ballantyne, Christian Gillitzer, David Jacobs and Ewan Rankin
1990. Monthly. 15–20. Headline CPI. Market economists. RBA. 1993. Quarterly. 10–20. ... Mix of headline and underlying CPI. Consumers. Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2016/2016-02/data-sources.html

Descriptive Analysis

6 May 2016 RDP 2016-02
Alexander Ballantyne, Christian Gillitzer, David Jacobs and Ewan Rankin
the GST on CPI inflation and in broad agreement about its effect on the price level. ... First, the distribution of consumer inflation expectations contains many more extreme values than the distribution of CPI inflation outcomes suggests is plausible.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2016/2016-02/descriptive-analysis.html

Is Disagreement a Proxy for Forecast Uncertainty?

6 May 2016 RDP 2016-02
Alexander Ballantyne, Christian Gillitzer, David Jacobs and Ewan Rankin
Figure 14 shows a scatterplot of absolute RBA year-ahead CPI inflation forecast errors against disagreement in CPI inflation expectations. ... where π. t h. is CPI inflation over the period t to t h, π.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2016/2016-02/is-disagreement-a-proxy-for-forecast-uncertainty.html

Are Consumer Expectations More Weakly Anchored?

6 May 2016 RDP 2016-02
Alexander Ballantyne, Christian Gillitzer, David Jacobs and Ewan Rankin
One consequence of this result is that movements in relative prices in the CPI basket might see some consumers' expectations become less anchored, even where aggregate inflation outcomes are consistent with ... While the size of the coefficient is
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2016/2016-02/are-consumer-expectations-more-weakly-anchored.html