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1.1. Contact organization:
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Kosovo Agency of Statistics - KAS
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1.2. Contact organization unit:
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Economic Department
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1.5. Contact mail address:
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esk.rks-gov.net/ENG/econ
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3.1. Data description:
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Prices of approximately 160 items are collected every month, starting from May 2002. In July 2002 the number of items increased in around 180, which means that from that month around 1200 prices are collected each month. In March 2003 were added prices of food and drinks in rural areas and from this period the CPI prices are calculated for around 1500 prices. From January 2005 prices were monitored for around 198 articles and services, while from January 2007 is added the subgroup of the package holiday with the code 09.6. Prices are monitored for about 210 items and services. As the number of items and the collection of prices increased, CPI is calculated approximately with 2700 prices by January 2009.
Whereas from January 2010 it has been added the subgroups of the energy and central heating (Central District) with the code 04.5.5, household services (child care and domestic services) with the code 05.6.2, other services related to personal transport device renting the garages, etc..with the code 07.2.4, Transfer of passenger through rail with the code 07.3.1, photographic and cinematographic equipment and optical instruments with the code 09.1.2, information processing equipment with the code 09.1.2, gardens, plants and flowers with the code 09.3.3, pet and other things related to veterinary and other services for pets with the code 09.3.4 /5, cultural services vith th code 09.4.2, insurance related to housing with th code 12.5.2, other insurance with the code12.5.5. And the prices are monitored from this period for about 370 items and services. As the number of price collection items and increase of the prices mentioned, CPI is calculated approximately with 4800 prices in each month.
Results are presented according to COICOP (Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose) which is an international standard for classifying the private consumption of households.
Preliminary weights were used in the calculation of the CPI during May 2002-December 2003. The weights were calculated by using quarterly data from the Household Budget Survey (HBS) referring to the period of June - August 2002. Since January 2004, weights are used based on the information for a year from the HBS referring to the period June 2002-May 2003. In January 2007- December 2008, specific weights are used from the HBS data of 2003 and 2004. Since January 2009-December 2009 specific weights are used from the HBS data of 2005 and 2007 in January 2010 specific weights are used as data from HBS (Household Budget Survey) and NA (National Accounts) data by expenditure approach of 2008. The CPI specific weights from January 2012 are used as data from HBS (Household Budget Survey) and NA (National Accounts) data by expenditure approach of 2010.
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3.2. Classification system:
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Groups and sub-groups according to COICOP.
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3.3. Sector coverage:
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CPI covers the whole household sector, more precisely the goods and services that are acquired by households.
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3.4. Statistical concepts and
definitions:
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The Consumer Price Index describes changes in consumer prices according to the consumption structure of an average household. It comprises the price development of the overall index, commodity groups and commodities.
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3.5. Statistical unit:
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Not applicable
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3.6. Statistical population:
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A limited number of supply chains were designed, which may be extended in the future. The chains and the related groups from COICOP, from NACE Rev 1.
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3.7. Reference area:
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Kosovo
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3.8. Time coverage:
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Time series are avaliable from 2002.
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6.1. Legal acts and other
agreements:
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Statistical units, natural and legal persons, regardless of whether they have a legal personality or not, are obliged to provide complete, updated and truthful information to the KAS and other producers of official statistics in appropriate form, timely and free of charge determined by the producer of official statistics, defined in article 2, Law No. 04/L-036 ON OFFICIAL STATISTICS OF REPUBLIC OF KOSOVO
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6.2. Data sharing:
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Not applicable
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy:
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Data confidentiality is provided by section article 34, Law No. 04/L-036 ON OFFICIAL STATISTICS OF REPUBLIC OF KOSOVO
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7.2. Confidentiality - data
treatment:
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Access to confidential data shall be permitted only to persons who are in charge of producing the official statistics up to that level that these data are necessary for producing statistics. Article 37, Law No. 04/L-036ON
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8.1. Release calendar:
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8.2. Release calendar - access:
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All users have access to release calendar at the same time.
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8.3. User access:
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Not applicable
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10.1. News release:
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Consumer price index is published in a Statement of Consumer Price Index. The statement is published on the Internet at the same time with a printed version of the statement. Data are published monthly on the 15th of each month. The data published refers to a previous month.
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10.2. Publications:
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Horizontal publications.
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10.3. Online database:
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10.4. Micro-data access:
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Not applicable
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10.5. Other:
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11.1. Documentation on
methodology:
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11.2. Quality documentation:
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12.1. Quality assurance:
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12.2. Quality assesment:
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The CPI applies EU methodology recommendations. However, the CPIs are statistical estimates that are subject to sampling errors because they are based on a sample of consumer prices and household expenditures, which are not the complete universe of all prices/expenditures.
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13.1. User needs:
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Besides as a general measure of inflation, CPIs have a variety of potential other uses, for example:
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input to economic forecasting and analysis
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measuring specific price trends
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accounting purposes and deflating other series
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13.2. User satisfaction:
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No user' satisfaction surveys are carried out.
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13.3. Completeness:
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14.1. Overall accuracy:
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14.2. Sampling error:
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14.3. Non-sampling error:
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15.1. Timeliness:
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These data are disseminated every month.
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15.2. Punctuality:
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16.1. Comparability -
geographical:
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The statistics refer to the national level.
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16.2. Comparability over time:
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17.1. Coherence - cross
domain:
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17.2. Coherence - internal:
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19.1. Data revision - policy:
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19.2. Data revision - practice:
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20.1. Source data:
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Data are collected by Kosovo Agency of Statistics.
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20.2. Frequency of data
collection:
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Monthly.
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20.3. Data collection:
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The objective of the Consumer Price Indexis to provide data on the prices that are collected in seven regional centers of Kosovo: Gjakova, Gjilan, Mitrovica, Peja, Prizren, Prishtina and Ferizaj (i.e. in urban and rural areas of ten municipalities) of each month.
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20.4. Data validation:
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20.5. Data compilation:
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20.6. Adjustment:
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