Published January 13, 2026 | Version 1.0
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Municipal Inflation Statistics in Germany, 1919–1924

Authors/Creators

  • 1. EDMO icon Uppsala University

Description

This repository contains data and code to construct municipality-level inflation statistics for Germany between 1919 and 1924, covering the period from the immediate post–World War I years through the hyperinflation and stabilization phase.
 
The data are extracted from historical price statistics gathered by German statistical authorities and published in *Vierteljahresheft zur Statistik des Deutschen Reichs*.
 

Notes

For full documentation, including the codebook, original sources, and the code used to generate the final dataset, please visit https://github.com/maliedvp/data_cpi.
 
Users of this dataset are requested to cite it using the citation provided in CITATION.bib.

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Programming language
Python