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From gas to streaming: What’s in South Africa’s new inflation basket?
Stats SA has updated its consumer inflation basket to better reflect shifting consumer spending trends.Source: Pexels.The new ...
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 are also adjusted.
businessday5dOpinion
Nigeria’s CPI rebasing: What to expect and why it may not substantially affect inflation
As the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) prepares to unveil Nigeria’s rebased Consumer Price Index (CPI), analysts, ...
The Citizen14d
New SA inflation basket: Frozen chips and coffee out, vaping and rosé wine in
Stats SA added rosé wine, snuff, ready-made meals and e-cigarette refills to its inflation basket and removed frozen potato ...
Stabroek News20d
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 ...
The Punch Newspapers23d
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 ...
The Punch Newspapers22d
Rebased CPI to reflect current price volatility – 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 ...