Kebab prices
against CPI.

Kebab Inflation Index reads a kebab price together with the economic value attached to it, not as a price alone.

The kebab-price indicator and World Bank/IMF consumer-price series are rebased to 2005=100; annual and cumulative gaps are kept separate. Technical formula: kebab_price_index - official_cpi_index.

The target is a standard plate equivalent to 150 grams of uncooked meat. Missing product or weight detail is labelled, not guessed.

The calculation needs 7 core fields: observedAt, price.amount, price.currency, sourceId, confidence, officialCpiSeries, baseYear. Unknown values remain null.

Comparable reference data currently cover 2005–2025.

A positive annual gap means kebab prices rose faster than general consumer prices that year.

Prices come from dated menus, official tariffs, news archives and direct documents; wage and reference series come from official institutions. Every result links to the source ledger.

Bundles with no separable price, temporary promotions, duplicate old prices and records outside the product contract are held out of the core calculation.

The derived series is live through reference year 2025 and expands when a new official year arrives.

This is not an alternative CPI; it compares a narrow product indicator with a broad consumption basket.