Can we trust Chile's inflation data?

There appears to be some truth to claims that discrepancies in Chile’s consumer price data have lowered inflation artificially. Even so, the overall impact on headline CPI has been relatively small. Instead, it is food and energy prices that have been key in driving Chilean inflation lower over the past year.

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