Arab Republic of Egypt - Monthly Bulletin of Consumer Price Index (CPI) – August 2017

Reference ID

DDI-EGY-CAP-CPI-8-2017-v01

Year

2017

Country

Arab Republic of Egypt

Producer(s)

Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics - The Cabinets of Ministers

Collection(s)

CPI

Created on

Feb 21, 2018

Last modified

Feb 21, 2018

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Overview

Identification

Country

Arab Republic of Egypt

Title

Monthly Bulletin of Consumer Price Index (CPI) – August 2017

Translated Title

Monthly Bulletin of Consumer Price Index (CPI)

Study Type

A Study on the Living standards

Series Information

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.

ID Number

DDI-EGY-CAP-CPI-8-2017-v01

Version

Version Description

Special release for public use v2.1

Production Date

2017-09-10

Notes

Release every month on the 10th day after collecting the data

Overview

Abstract

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 .,,،،،،

Kind of Data

Aggregated data

Units of Analysis

A questionnaire study of Living standard on the local community level through studying the changes in the prices levels

Scope

Notes

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 ة

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

Topics

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
Classification of individual consumption by the purpose inside the national accounts system	COICOP-HBS 2003

Keywords

Inflation, Index number, Statistical Indicators, Geographic areas, Urban of the Republic, Rural of the Republic, Total Republic

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

CAPMAS release the index of 8th geographic areas, that includes:

- Cairo – Canal cities

- Alexandria – Borders governorates

- Urban/Lower Egypt - Rural/Lower Egypt

- Urban/Upper Egypt – Rural/Upper Egypt

CPI released for Urban, Rural and Total Republic

Universe

-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

Primary Investigator(s)

Name	Affiliation
Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics	The Cabinets of Ministers

Other Producer(s)

Name	Affiliation	Role
Egypt Railways	Ministry of Transportation	Buying the tickets
Electricity Company	Ministry of Electricity	Subscribing in the electricity sets of prices
Telecommunication Company	Ministry of Communication	Subscribing in the land line telephone’s subscription prices
Gas Company	Gas Company	Subscribing in the natural gas sets prices
Water Company	Water Company	Subscribing in the water sets prices

Metadata Production

Metadata Produced By

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics	CAPMAS	The Cabinets of Ministers	Collecting, processing and disseminating data

Date of Metadata Production

2017-08-01

DDI Document Version

Ref. No. 60 - 22321- 2017

DDI Document ID

DDI-EGY-CAP-CPI-8-2017-v01