Monthly bulletin of average price for consumer of most important food commodity _August 2020
Arab Republic of Egypt, 2020
Identification
EGY-CAPMAS-PFPS-8-2020
Monthly bulletin of average price for consumer of most important food commodity _August 2020
PFPS
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Arab Republic of Egypt | EGY |
Study of the Living Standards
Food Commodity Prices represent the major importance to follow up the economic changes that happens in the domestic markets. Prices considers a fundamental source that the statistical outputs of CPI rely on and consider one of the most important statistical & Economic Indicators, and mostly related to the daily individuals lives, in addition to its impact on decisions taken in the economic fields.
For the great importance of CPI, CAPMAS collecting the price of 964 commodity and services from all the Republic governorates monthly whether from urban areas or rural areas and from more than 10 thousand resource, also publish the CPI bulletin, which includes price index – annual & monthly change rate of main & sub categories and the general number in 8 geographic areas… the bulletin doesn’t include the commodity & services prices according to the International concepts way.
As C.A.P.M.A.S. keen to achieve the maximum benefits from the data that released in bulletins to clarify the average price of consumer for most important food commodity for the regular citizen and concerned people of following the prices.
Aggregated data
The questionnaire study on the living standards on the level of domestic society through a study of the changing levels of food prices
Version
A Special release for public dissemination for the public No. v2.1
2020-09-15
Scope
- Most important general indicators illustrated in graphs for most important food commodity
- Annual and Monthly change rate of most important food commodity – Urban or the Republic (by selecting a probabilistic sample represented in selling windows on the level of the Republic governorates) Urban
Coverage
CAPMAS release the monthly bulletin of average price for consumer of most important food commodity- Urban of the Republic
Food commodity prices collected monthly from urban areas during the period of day 1st to 28th of every month and the number of resources (10085) for urban areas
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics | The Cabinets of Ministers |
Sampling
By selecting a probabilistic sample represented in selling windows on the level of the Republic governorates (Urban)
Survey instrument
Form no. 1/714 used to collect statistics of food prices for consumers (urban) and divided into 5 samples as follows:
Sample no. (1) Including groups: Cereals / Bean – Wheat / its products - Spice business.
Sample no. (2) Including groups: Meat – Poultry - Birds / Egg – Fish.
Sample no. (3) Including groups: Vegetables / fresh fruits.
Sample no. (4) Including groups: Grocery – Canned vegetables / fruits.
Sample no. (5) Including groups: Milk products – Chocolate Biscuits / Bonbons – Dried fruits /Nuts / Soft drinks – Tobacco / Cigarettes.
Sample no. (2) and (3) collected weekly at the first three days every week in the urban and with maximum of collection days in the 28th of the month, then sending e- mail in the next day of collection for two days.
Sample no. (1), (4), (5) collected from day (15 to 21) monthly then sending e- mail in the next day for two days, then sending all the paper forms with maximum till day 29th of every month.
Data collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-08-01 | 2020-08-28 | Monthly |
| Start date | End date | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-08-01 | 2020-08-28 | Monthly |
- Personal Interview with the handheld tablet
| Name | Affiliation | Abbreviation |
|---|---|---|
| Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics | The Cabinets of Ministers | CAPMAS |
1- Supervising, field reviewing and accurate desktop review of Price’s data.
2- The department of Data Quality Control monitors the field works.
Data processing
Automatic editing & revision through a designed statistical program inside the handheld, which the data collectors use
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics | The Cabinets of Ministers | www.capmas.gov.eg | pres_capmas@capmas.gov.eg |
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes |
Public Statistics Law No. 35 year 1960, Article No. 403 1- Macro data is 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- All should provide data that required by CAPMAS representatives with what represent the truth and in a specified timing and to allow CAPMAS deputy to review all the documents to verify these 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 those who break the previous provisions of articles or give incorrect data. |
All statistics released by CAPMAS has no terms of dealing that not included by law no. 35 or in the framework of law no.35
Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics، monthly bulletin of CPI January 2014. release no. 1.1 (02 - 2014). Cairo - Arab Republic of Egypt
Disclaimer and copyrights
CAPMAS presents these data with no guarantees and with no included responsibility of results or conclusions based on these results, as well as, it has no responsibility of any executed activity upon these results or data.
All rights reserved for the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics C 2013
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Information Center (NIC) in CAPMAS | Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics | nic@capmas.gov.eg | www.capmas.gov.eg |
Metadata production
DDI-EGY-CAPMAS-PFPS-8-2020
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics | CAPMAS | The Cabinets of Ministers | Collecting, processing and disseminating data |
2015-06-29
Metadata version
Ref. No. 60 -22324 –2020