Assessment of Household Inflation Expectations Based on the RANEPA Survey

Yury Perevyshin – Senior Research fellow of the Center for the Study of Central Banks, Institute for Applied Economic Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Candidate of Economic Sciences. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The paper presents the methodology for conducting a survey of households on the expected and perceived inflation conducted by the RANEPA. We discuss the results of the first wave of our survey and compare these with the surveys of the Public Opinion Foundation and Rosstat is given. We identify features of perceived and expected changes in prices by Russian households, and formulate issues that require further discussion.

Key words: inflation expectations, public opinion polls, inflation, monetary policy.