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AI Micro-Internship · ~180 min · no-code

Compute your family’s personal inflation rate

The official inflation number is an average of everyone — your family’s is different. Reconstruct the prices of 10 items your family regularly buys from 5-10 years ago (old receipts, parents’ memory cross-checked, archived prices), compare with today, and compute YOUR inflation vs. the official CPI.

Steps

  1. 01Pick 10 items your family has bought for years: milk, your school fees, a haircut, petrol, a movie ticket, atta, the family’s phone recharge.
  2. 02Reconstruct old prices: old receipts/diaries are gold; parents’ memories must be cross-checked against a second source (archived news, old price lists, RBI/government series) — note your confidence per item.
  3. 03Compute per-item inflation and your weighted family rate (weight by how much of the budget each item takes).
  4. 04Compare against the official CPI for the same period (link the official source) and explain the gap.

Tools: Old receipts / family memory + archival cross-checks, Official CPI data (mospi.gov.in / RBI), Google Sheets

Your submission

Submit the price table as CSV with per-item source and confidence, the official CPI link, your computed rate, and the gap explanation.