Malawi Technical Assistance Report on the Price Statistics Mission

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 ch...

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Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund Statistics Dept
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2013
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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653 |a Price indexes 
653 |a Inflation 
653 |a Import prices 
653 |a Deflation 
653 |a Consumer price indexes 
653 |a Trade: General 
653 |a Exports and Imports 
653 |a International economics 
653 |a Price Level 
653 |a International trade 
653 |a Exports 
653 |a Producer price indexes 
653 |a Prices 
653 |a Macroeconomics 
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520 |a 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