Stats SA reshuffles the inflation basket: What’s in and what’s out?
The products in the basket are updated periodically to better reflect shifts and trends in consumer spending. Product weights ...
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When last did BoS revise weightings of the CPI basket and why doesn’t it publish them?
3. When last did the BoS revise the weights of the CPI basket and why doesn’t it publish them, as does the CSO in Trinidad. I would hope the BoS respond to these questions, and that SN ...
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Stats SA revises inflation food basket
StatsSA has added 71 new products to the basket of goods and services used to measure consumer inflation. Nodar Chernishev / ...
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Rebased CPI to improve economic data, enhance policymaking – NBS
It highlighted several benefits of the rebasing exercise, including a CPI basket aligned with current ... offering item weights that reflect modern household spending habits and providing ...
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What do high-frequency expenditure network data reveal about spending and inflation during COVID‑19?
Then, we use these data to map changes in the shares, or weights, of consumer spending on the goods and services in the CPI basket. Figure 1 outlines our process. Figure 1: Constructing the adjusted ...