Consumer Price Index 2018
Lesotho, 2018
Bureau of statistics
Identification
idno
LSO_2018_CPI_v01_M_BOS
Title
Consumer Price Index 2018
Country
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Lesotho | LSO |
Abstract
The CPI is an indicator that shows changes in the cost of buying a fixed bundle of consumer goods and services as determined for the base period. CPI is calculated on monthly basis; thus, CPI is calculated comparing the prices of the current month with the prices of the previous month.
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
Retail outlets
Version
Version number
V1.2: Edited data, second version, for internal use only
Version Date
2018
Coverage
Geographic Coverage
National coverage
Unit of Analysis
Retail outlets
Universe
The survey covers all selected retail outlets
Producers and sponsors
Authoring entity/Primary investigators
| Agency Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Bureau of statistics | Ministry of Development Planning |
Funding Agency/Sponsor
| Name | Abbreviation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Government of Lesotho | Govt LSO | Funder |
Sampling
Sampling Procedure
In Lesotho non-probability sampling is used. Prices are collected every month in twelve urban areas and about seventy selected rural areas by personal visits to the outlets. About 40000 price quotations are collected in about 800 outlets for about 350 commodity items.
Weighting
CPI is usually calculated as the weighted average of the prices changes on the goods and services covered by the index. The weights are meant to reflect the relative importance of goods and services as measured by their shares in the total consumptions of households. The weight attached to each good or service determines the impact that its price change will have on the overall index. In practice, the weights usually refer to expenditures on consumption goods and services by households
Data Collection
Dates of Data Collection (YYYY/MM/DD)
| Start date | End date | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-01 | 2018-01-08 | January |
| 2018-02-01 | 2018-02-08 | February |
| 2018-03-01 | 2018-03-08 | March |
| 2018-04-02 | 2018-04-09 | April |
| 2018-05-01 | 2018-05-08 | May |
| 2018-06-01 | 2018-06-08 | June |
| 2018-07-02 | 2018-07-09 | July |
| 2018-08-01 | 2018-08-08 | August |
| 2018-09-03 | 2018-09-10 | September |
| 2018-10-01 | 2018-10-08 | October |
| 2018-11-01 | 2018-11-08 | November |
| 2018-12-03 | 2018-12-10 | December |
Mode of data collection
Face-to-face [f2f]
Supervision
Enumerators are acommpannied by supervisors during data collection
Type of Research Instrument
The 2018 CPI questionnairs consists of the following sections:
1. Grocery
2. Fruits and Vegetables
3. Butchery
4. Bottle store
5. Clothing
6. Housing and Fuels
7. Furniture and Hardware
8. Health
9. Transport
10. Communication
11. Recreation
12. Education
13. Restaurants and Hotels
14. Miscellaneous
1. Grocery
2. Fruits and Vegetables
3. Butchery
4. Bottle store
5. Clothing
6. Housing and Fuels
7. Furniture and Hardware
8. Health
9. Transport
10. Communication
11. Recreation
12. Education
13. Restaurants and Hotels
14. Miscellaneous
Data Collectors
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Bureau of Statistics | BOS | Ministry of Development Planning |
Data Processing
Cleaning Operations
a) Office editing and coding
b) During data entry
c) Structure checking and completeness
d) Secondary editing
b) During data entry
c) Structure checking and completeness
d) Secondary editing
Data access
Contact
| Name | Affiliation | URI | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bureau of Statistics | Ministry of Development Planning | economics@bos.gov.ls | www.bos.gov.ls |
Citation requirement
Use of the dataset must be acknowleged using citation which would include:
- BOS
- CPI Lesotho
- Statistical report no:1:2019
- BOS
- CPI Lesotho
- Statistical report no:1:2019
Disclaimer and copyrights
Disclaimer
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Copyright
(c) 2019, Bureau of Statistics Lesotho
Contacts
Contact
| Name | Affiliation | URI | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bureau of Statistics | Ministry of Development Planning | economics@bos.gov.ls | www.bos.gov.ls |
Metadata production
Document ID
DDI_LSO_2018_CPI_v01_M_BOS
Producers
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bureau of Statistics | BOS | Ministry of Development Planning | Documentation of the study |
Date of Production
2018
Document version
version 01 ( 2018)