Malawi: Technical Assistance Report on the Price Statistics Mission

December 17, 2013

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Malawi: Technical Assistance Report on the Price Statistics Mission, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2013) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

This paper discusses the findings of a Technical Assistance Report on the Price Statistics Mission to Malawi. It was concluded that more than 80 percent of the country unit values selected as the price indicators for the macroprudential indicators did not provide credible indicators of pure price change over time. The compilation of the indexes could therefore not be undertaken until import and export price surveys had been initiated. Plans were developed for the conduct of an intensive program of field interviews to initialize the quarterly price collections. Training was provided on index concepts, compilation methodology, and price survey design and implementation.

Subject: Consumer price indexes, Export prices, Import prices, Imports, International trade, Prices, Producer price indexes

Keywords: Base period, Collection initialization, Consumer price indexes, CR, Export price indexes, Export prices, Field interview program, Hs item, Import price index manual, Import prices, Imports, Initialization interview, Interview, ISCR, Producer price indexes, Time series, Unit value, Value

Publication Details

Pages:

22
Volume:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2013/359
Stock No:

1MWIEA2013003
ISBN:

9781475593143
ISSN:

1934-7685

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