Arab Republic of Egypt - Monthly bulletin of Consumer Price Index _ May 2017
Reference ID | DDI-EGY-CAP-CPI-5-2017-v01 |
Year | 2017 |
Country | Arab Republic of Egypt |
Producer(s) | Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics - Cabinets of Ministers |
Collection(s) |
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Overview
Identification
DDI-EGY-CAP-CPI-5-2017-v01 |
Version
Special release for public use v2.1 2017-06-10
Overview
CPI considers one of the most important statistical and economic indicators, and most related indicator with the individuals’ daily life. In addition to its impact on decisions’ made in the field of economic.CPI reflect the changes in the price’s level in commodity and services in the retail markets as an important indicator to measure inflation, also represent an important tool used in calculating the national income with fixed prices as well as measuring the changes in the levels of actual wages after clearance from the effect of the price changes.
First series of Index released in 1914 under the title "Index of Living expenses" with the fiscal year 1913/1914 as a base for the city of Cairo only, and in January 1940 the released second series under the same title with the fiscal year base 1939 for Cairo again. Since July 1967 the third series released under the title "Consumer Price Index (CPI)" with the fiscal base year 1966/1967 to cover 11 cities, 6 rural areas, and from July 1988 released the fourth series with the fiscal year 1986/1987 as a base to cover all the Republic governorates. Consumer price index Time Series followed until the 9th series that issued in September 2010 with January 2010 as a base.
CAPMAS presents a latest series of CPI and hope to contribute in satisfying the statistical needs of researchers, planners and decision makers .
Allah grants success,,.,,،،،،
Aggregated data
A questionnaire study of Living standard on the local community level through studing the changes in the prices levels
Scope
1. The Index and the annual/monthly change rate on the level of 6 urban areas, 2 rural areas in addition to Total republic on the level of main sections 2.The Index number and the annual/monthly change rate on the level of 6 urban areas, 2 rural areas, in addition to total Republic on the level of some selected commodities
3.Time series of index number according to the months of the main sections, in addition to Total Republic for 6 urban areas and 2 rural areas
4.Time series of general index number sorted as the months of years and the change rate from the previous month, and the change rate from the same month of previous year on the level of urban, rural and total of the Republic
5.Time series of index and inflation rates according to the Georgian years on the level of main sections and groups of urban, rural and total of the Republic
6.Time series of index and inflation rates according to the fiscal years on the level of mains sections and groups of urban, rural and total of the Republic
7.Time series of index and quarterly change rate on the level of main sections and groups of urban of the Republic
8.Time series for the general number of inflation rates according to the fiscal and Georgian years of urban of the Republic
9.Used weights in weighting for the main sections and groups from the income, expenditure and consumption survey 2008/2009, on the level of 6 urban areas, rural and total Republic
10.Some graphs illustrate the changes in the various indicators
Topic | Vocabulary | URI |
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Classification of individual consumption by the purpose inside the national accounts system | COICOP-HBS 2003 |
Coverage
CAPMAS release the index of 8th geographic areas, that includes: - Cairo - Canal cities
- Alexandria - Borders governorates
- Urban of Lower Egypt - Rural of Lower Egypt
- Urban/Upper Egypt - Rural/Upper Egypt
CPI released for both Urban, Rural and Total Republic.
- Collecting the prices of food, industrial and services commodities monthly from the urban and rural areas during the period 1 to 28 of every month, and number of its sources (10085) urban and (4337) rural .
Producers and Sponsors
Name | Affiliation |
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Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics | Cabinets of Ministers |
Name | Affiliation | Role |
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Egypt Railways | Ministry of Transportation | Buying the ticket fees |
Electricity Company | Ministry of Electricity | Obtaining the electricity sets prices |
Telecommunication Company | Ministry of Communication | Obtaining the cable telephone’s subscription prices |
Gas Company | Gas Company | Obtaining the natural gas sets prices |
Water Company | Water Company | Obtaining the water sets prices |
Metadata Production
Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
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Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics | CAPMAS | Cabinets of Ministers | Collecting, processing and disseminating data |
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