Measuring inflation in Argentina: IPC Online Project.

RAMIREZ MUÑOZ DE TORO GONZALO; URIARTE JUAN IGNACIO; LARROSA JUAN MANUEL CEFERINO; GUTIERREZ EMILIANO

Salta

Jornada; 48 Jornadas Argentinas de Informática; 2019

SADIO

The motivation of the IPC Online, was to act and make accountable a policy that misinformed economic agents. It allows for cross checking to highly important variable such as prices with different geographical scopes. It has been shown how webscraping- data-based urban indices were estimated and contrasted to traditional-based indices granting highly efficient measurements at one thousandth of cost. Combined with many other variables that can be captured or downloaded from the Internet [2] paints a future of combined indicators for tracking the socioeconomic life, even remotely.