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         Monthly bulletin of Consumer Price Index
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          DDI-EGY-CAP-CPI-8-2017-v01
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        <producer abbr="CAPMAS" affiliation="The Cabinets of Ministers " role="Collecting, processing and disseminating data">
          Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics
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          Ref. No. 60 - 22321- 2017
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          Monthly Bulletin of Consumer Price Index (CPI) – August 2017
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          CPI
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          Monthly Bulletin of Consumer Price Index (CPI)
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          DDI-EGY-CAP-CPI-8-2017-v01
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        <AuthEnty affiliation="The Cabinets of Ministers">
          Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics
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      <prodStmt>
        <producer affiliation="Ministry of Transportation " role="Buying the tickets  ">
          Egypt Railways 
        </producer>
        <producer affiliation="Ministry of Electricity" role="Subscribing in the electricity sets of prices ">
          Electricity Company
        </producer>
        <producer affiliation="Ministry of Communication " role=" Subscribing in the land line telephone’s subscription prices ">
          Telecommunication Company 
        </producer>
        <producer affiliation="Gas Company " role="Subscribing in the natural gas sets prices  ">
          Gas Company
        </producer>
        <producer affiliation="Water Company " role=" Subscribing in the water sets prices ">
         Water Company
        </producer>
        <copyright>
          c All rights reserved for the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics 2017
        </copyright>
        <software version="4.0.9" date="2013-04-23">
          Nesstar Publisher
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      <distStmt>
        <contact affiliation="Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics" URI="www.capmas.gov.eg" email="nic@capmas.gov.eg">
         National Information Center in CAPMAS 
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          A Study on the Living standards
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          <![CDATA[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.]]>
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      </serStmt>
      <verStmt>
        <version date="2017-09-10">
          Special release for public use v2.1
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        <notes>
          Release every month on the 10th day after collecting the data 
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          Inflation
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        <keyword>
          Index number
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        <keyword>
          Statistical Indicators
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        <keyword>
          Geographic areas
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          Urban of the Republic
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        <keyword>
          Rural of the Republic
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        <keyword>
          Total Republic
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        <topcClas vocab="COICOP-HBS 2003">
          <![CDATA[Classification of individual consumption by the purpose inside the national accounts system ]]>
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      <abstract>
        <![CDATA[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 .,,،،،،]]>
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          Arab Republic of Egypt
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          <![CDATA[    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]]>
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          A questionnaire study of Living standard on the local community level through studying the changes in the prices levels
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          -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 .
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          Aggregated data
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        <![CDATA[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]]>
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        <dataCollector abbr="CAPMAS" affiliation="The Cabinets of Ministers ">
          Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics
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          Selecting a Probabilistic sample represent the outlets on the Republic governorates levels (Urban/Rural)  .
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         Personal interview with the computer assisted  
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          <![CDATA[1. Supervising, field work reviewing and desk review in order to check prices data  
2.Monitoring the department of Quality control the field works]]>
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          <![CDATA[Automatic editing and revision through the designed statistical application inside a handheld tablet which used to collect the prices]]>
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        <confDec required="yes">
          <![CDATA[Public Statistics law no. (35), for year 1960, article no. (403)

1-	Macro data confidential and not allowed to be reviewed by any individual or authority
2-	Not allowed to use any statistical statement as a basis for linking tax, and not used as an evidence for any judicial or legal action
3-	Everybody should provide data that required by CAPMAS representatives with what is truth and in specified timing and to allow CAPMAS deputy to review all the documents to verify the statements 
4-	Punished by prison with no less than a month, and not more than 6 months and with a fine not less than 100 L.E. and not exceed than 500 L.E. for who break the previous provisions of articles or give incorrect data ]]>
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        <contact affiliation="The Cabinets of Ministers " URI="www.capmas.gov.eg" email="pres_capmas@capmas.gov.eg">
          Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics
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          <![CDATA[Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics. The monthly bulletin of CPI August 2017. Version no. 1.1 (8-2017. Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt ]]>
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        <conditions>
          All Statistics that CAPMAS release with no conditions in dealing with, not mentioned in Law no. 35 or in the framework of law 35
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        <disclaimer>
         Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics provides these data without guarantees, any concluded responsibility from results or conclusions based on these results. Also, not responsible for any implemented activity depending on these results or data
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        <![CDATA[Processing through 
First: Reviewer of field work in the field with the researcher 
Second: Office reviewer makes a review of prices 
Third: General supervisor make a final review ]]>
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