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Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE)

As built

DatasetFrance Consumer Price Index (IPC)
Dataset idinsee.cpi
Series8,408
Observations1,210,487
Countries1
Period range1949-01-01 to 2026-10-01
Vintages1
Last fetched2026-11-08 07:06
Poll interval1 days
Archiveinsee/cpi/*.xml.gz
Licenceetalab-2.0
Redistributablewith-attribution
Terms assessed2026-11-08
AttributionSource: Insee. Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0. Data update dates and original series references are retained; basket weights are expressed as fractions of the published total.

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What building it taught us

The connector's own docstring, verbatim. It lives beside the code so it cannot drift from it.

France's main monthly IPC from INSEE's public SDMX service.

The source keeps geography and several native classifications in different dimensions. PRIX_CONSO is essential: most overseas detail has no COICOP code. Historical idbanks, references and household definitions stay independent. This module does not migrate the shared IMF or Eurostat datasets.

Data-by-idbank omits dimensions present in thematic metadata. Snapshot replay therefore requires the exact metadata and vocabulary fetched alongside it. An internal manifest binds every raw response and requested idbank; original source bytes are archived separately, without rewriting XML or ZIP payloads.