Consumer Price Index 2018
Lesotho, 2018
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Consumer Price Index 2018
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Lesotho | LSO |
Price Survey [hh/prc]
From 1982 to 2001 CPI was collected on a quarterly basis, then from 2002 to current is collected monthly.
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.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Retail outlets
Version
V1.2: Edited data, second version, for internal use only
2018
Scope
The scope covers, Food and non-alcoholic beverages, alcohol and tobacco, clothing and footwear, housing, water, electricity, gas , furnishings, household equipment and routine maintenance of the house, health, transport, recreation and culture, education, restaurants and hotels and miscellaneous goods and services.
Coverage
National coverage
The survey covers all selected retail outlets
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Bureau of Statistics | Ministry of Development Planning |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Government of Lesotho | Funder |
Sampling
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.
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.
Survey instrument
The 2018 CPI questionnaire consists of the following sections:
- Grocery
- Fruits and Vegetables
- Butchery
- Bottle store
- Clothing
- Housing and Fuels
- Furniture and Hardware
- Health
- Transport
- Communication
- Recreation
- Education
- Restaurants and Hotels
- Miscellaneous
Data collection
| Start | End | 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 |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Bureau of Statistics | Ministry of Development Planning |
Enumerators were accompanied by supervisors during data collection.
Data processing
a) Office editing and coding
b) During data entry
c) Structure checking and completeness
d) Secondary editing
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bureau of Statistics | Ministry of Development Planning | www.bos.gov.ls | economics@bos.gov.ls |
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes | The information supplied is confidential (as stipulated in the Statistics Act 2001, section 20(1)) and is used strictly for statistical purposes. |
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download
Disclaimer and copyrights
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.
(c) 2018, Lesotho Bureau of Statistics
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bureau of Statistics | Ministry of Development Planning | economics@bos.gov.ls | www.bos.gov.ls |
Metadata production
DDI_LSO_2018_CPI_v01_M
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Bureau of Statistics | Ministry of Development Planning | Documentation of the study |
2018
Metadata version
Version 01 ( 2018)