zaf-statssa-cpi-1970-2023-v1
Consumer Price Index 1970-2023
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South Africa | zaf |
Price Survey
The CPI is a current social and economic indicator constructed to measure changes over time in the general level of prices of consumer goods and services that households acquire, use, or pay for. The index measures changes in consumer prices over time by measuring the cost of purchasing a fixed basket of consumer goods and services of constant quality and similar characteristics. The products in the basket are selected to be representative of households' expenditure during a specific year. Such an index is called a fixed-basket price index. Changes in the index reflect the effects of price changes on the cost of achieving a constant standard of living.
The South African CPI has three equally important objectives:
In compiling the South African CPI, Stats SA largely follows the methodology guidelines in the 2020 Consumer Price Index Manual: Concepts and Methods published jointly by the International Monetary Fund, International Labour Organization, Statistical Office of the European Union, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and World Bank.
Time-Series
v1: Edited data for public distribution
2023
The South African CPI uses the 1999 version of the Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose (COICOP) of the United Nations Statistical Division to classify goods and services. COICOP is the international standard for classifying household expenditure. Goods and services are classified according to their intended use.
The high-level COICOP categories are:
01 - Food and non-alcoholic beverages
02 - Alcoholic beverages and tobacco
03 - Clothing and footwear
04 - Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels
05 - Furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance
06 - Health
07 - Transport
08 - Communication
09 - Recreation and culture
10 - Education
11 - Restaurants and hotels
12 - Miscellaneous goods and services
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Statistics South Africa | South African Government |
Start | End |
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1970 | 2023 |
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DataFirst | University of Cape Town | support.data1st.org | support@data1st.org |
Public access data for use under a Creative Commons CC-BY (Attribution-only) License
Statistics South Africa. Consumer Price Index 1970-2023 [dataset]. Version 1. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa [producer], 2023. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/5zye-y989
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DataFirst Support | University of Cape Town | support@data1st.org | www.support.data1st.org |
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DataFirst | University of Cape Town | Metadata producer |
2023-12-12
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