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

Arab Republic of Egypt, 2017
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DDI-EGY-CAP-CPI-8-2017-v01
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Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Data collection
  • Data processing
  • Data Access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

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

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

    CPI
    Translated Title

    Monthly Bulletin of Consumer Price Index (CPI)
    Country
    Name Country code
    Arab Republic of Egypt EGY
    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.
    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
    Unit of Analysis

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

    Version

    Version Description

    Special release for public use v2.1
    Version Date

    2017-09-10
    Version Notes

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

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

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    Selecting a Probabilistic sample represent the outlets on the Republic governorates levels (Urban/Rural) .

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    2017-08-01 2017-08-28 Monthly
    Time periods
    Start date End date Cycle
    2017-08-01 2016-08-28 Monthly
    Mode of data collection
    • Personal interview with the computer assisted
    Data Collectors
    Name Affiliation Abbreviation
    Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics The Cabinets of Ministers CAPMAS
    Supervision
    1. Supervising, field work reviewing and desk review in order to check prices data
      2.Monitoring the department of Quality control the field works

    Data processing

    Data Editing

    Automatic editing and revision through the designed statistical application inside a handheld tablet which used to collect the prices

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics The Cabinets of Ministers www.capmas.gov.eg pres_capmas@capmas.gov.eg
    Confidentiality
    Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? Confidentiality declaration text
    yes 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
    Access 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
    Citation requirements

    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

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    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
    Copyright

    c All rights reserved for the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics 2017

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    National Information Center in CAPMAS Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics nic@capmas.gov.eg www.capmas.gov.eg

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

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

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Ref. No. 60 - 22321- 2017
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