Consumer prices · 570 categories · latest 2026-09-01
The same category from more than one publisher. The national statistics office is the record; the IMF's series are its own compilation and can differ in definition, coverage and vintage.
Sources: IBGE, Sistema Nacional de Indices de Precos ao Consumidor (SNIPC) (as of 2026-10-10); International Monetary Fund (as of 2026-09-25). Collected by Living Inflation Data, HBS Innovations in Economic Measurement (IEM) Lab www.iemlab.org.
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| Country | Source | Periods | Status | Series | Found | Detected by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | IMF | whole series | confirmed | BRA.CPI_CP* | 2026-09-02 | Category breakdown is out of date |
| The IMF's COICOP breakdown for Brazil ends in July 2019 while the IMF's own Brazilian headline runs to June 2026 -- 83 months apart, in one dataset, for one country. Eleven divisions, 33 series, every one of them ending in the same month, and all eleven start in January 2002. CP01, food, is worse than stale: it has never carried a single value. Verified in the raw archive rather than inferred from what we stored -- of the twelve archived IMF snapshots, six contain a CP01 file and in all six Brazil's series block holds 559 Obs elements and not one OBS_VALUE. The same check on CP02 in the newest snapshot finds 620 of 968 carrying values, so the reader is not an artefact and the connector is not dropping anything: the source publishes the shape of a series and no numbers in it. Confirmed against the live IMF API on 2026-09-02 (item 17), which returned the same 559 empty observations. Nothing here can be repaired by refetching or reprocessing, and no other rule reports it: the series are still published every week, so last_seen_at is right that nothing was withdrawn, and the breakdown has a span rather than a gap, so frequency_gap is right to stay quiet. The answer for a reader who wants current Brazilian category detail is IBGE's own classification, which is why item 17 became the argument for national connectors. | ||||||
| Brazil | IBGE | 2011-12-01 | suppressed | BRA.CPI_IPCA_1106022_*, BRA.CPI_IPCA_1107097_*, BRA.CPI_IPCA_1108009_* +10 more | 2026-09-06 | Series stops and later resumes |
| Thirteen products that were in the IPCA basket until December 2011, left it when the basket was restructured for table 1419, and came back later: cable television, a notary's fees, a driving school, an adult-education course, melon, salt cod, fermented milk, annatto, ammonia cleaner, decorative stone, rib eye, whiting and mullet. 26 flags, two variants each -- the monthly rate and the weight, which is every variant these categories have before 2012. The dates say what happened: rib eye returns January 2014, the two fish and the driving school May 2018, and the other nine January 2020 -- each at the start of a table or partway through one, never at an arbitrary month. A basket is revised and a product that stops being representative leaves it; cable television re-entering in 2020 is a consumption pattern changing, not a value going missing. The check is right that the months are absent and right that the series resume. What it cannot know is that the absence is the source's own basket rather than a source that stopped working, and no reprocessing here can fill months in which IBGE priced nothing. | ||||||
| Brazil | IBGE | 2019-12-01 | suppressed | BRA.CPI_IPCA_*_YOY.M | 2026-09-06 | Series stops and later resumes |
| Originally 398 flags, all caused by IBGE splitting the IPCA category breakdown into one table per era, and a 12-month rate needs twelve months of its own table before it can be computed. Table 1419 ends December 2019 and table 7060's 12-month variable begins December 2020, so SIDRA publishes no category year-over-year for January to November 2020. The months it would compare straddle the boundary between the tables. IBGE's separate Indicadores IBGE PDFs do bridge that boundary for the nine groups and 51 items, supplying 660 direct published values. Their December overlap matches SIDRA exactly in all 60 series. The remaining 338 flags are therefore confined to the 19 subgroups and 319 continuing subitems that neither source publishes. The SIDRA omission is a convention rather than an accident, and the proof is that it happens at every table start: 444 category year-over-year series begin 2012-12 (1419 starts 2012-01), 58 begin 2020-12 (7060 starts 2020-01), and the pattern repeats wherever a category enters the basket mid-table -- 10 begin 2018-05, 9 begin 2014-01. Not a parse failure, and this is what separates the two: the monthly rate and the weight for the SAME categories are continuous across the same boundary -- 463 categories in December 2019 and 456 in January 2020 for each -- while the 12-month rate has 463 in December 2019 and zero in January 2020. The categories are all there; one variant of them is not. Nothing is derived to fill the remaining subgroups and subitems. The connector contract refuses a derived id the source also publishes, and these ids are published by 1419 before the hole and by 7060 after it. One series whose middle is ours and whose ends are the source's is the thing that rule exists to prevent. | ||||||