THE Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) is preparing the rebasing of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the country’s National Income Accounts (NIA) this year. On Wednesday, National Statistician ...

This change, known as rebasing the Consumer Price Index (CPI), is more than just a technical update—it’s about understanding ...

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The products in the basket are updated periodically to better reflect shifts and trends in consumer spending. Product weights ...

Consumers paid 1.8% more in September 2024 than they did a year ago for the basket of goods and services included in the ...

Sometimes, good things come in small cages. Or in 70-page documents. Or when you’re in an aeroplane over the sea. FT Alphaville was delighted to land at Washington Dulles airport to find a freedom of ...

The latest PMI survey for December showed that firms did raise their output prices but this was for the first time in three months and was only at a modest pace ...

Stats SA added rosé wine, snuff, ready-made meals and e-cigarette refills to its inflation basket and removed frozen potato ...

A complete list of products entering and exiting the basket is included below Readjustment of the weights “Each product in the CPI basket has a weight attached to it that determines its relative ...

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) will change the base year of the consumer price index (CPI) and gross domestic product (GDP) to 2023 from the current 2018, National Statistician Dennis Mapa ...

The statement noted that exercise is vital to ensure that the CPI basket, which tracks the prices of goods and services, accurately represents present-day spending habits. It noted that the ...