Tanzania - Consumer Price Index (CPI)

For Tanzania, the National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) measures the change over time in the cost of a fixed basket of goods and services that are purchased by a representative sample of households.

Active:

• Classifiction: COICOP 2018
• Measurement: Fixed-base index relative to 2020 (Index 2020=100)
• Adjustment: Not seasonally adjusted (NSA)
• Native frequency: Monthly
• Start date: 2020m1

Predecessor, where different:

• Measurement: Fixed-base index relative to December 2015 (Index Dec2020=100)
• Date range: 2015m1 to 2020m12 

As of 2021

• Commodities in basket: 383 (132 food and non-alcoholic beverages, 251 non-food)
• Geo coverage: All 26 regions in Tanzania Mainland (Songwe was previously part of Mbeya)
• Classification: COICOP 2018 with 13 divisions
• Weights: 2017/18 Household Budget Survey
• Reference period for base prices: Average of January to December 2020
• Index period: Year 2020

Prior to 2021

• Commodities in basket: 278
• Geo coverage: All 25 regions
• Classification: COICOP 1999 with 12 divisions
• Index period: December 2015

Moody's Analytics supplements

We extend the monthly fundamental to 1969 using IMF data. We produce a quarterly counterpart. We compute a seasonally adjusted counterpart thereof, using X-13ARIMA-SEATS.

Further reading

At source:

• REBASED NATIONAL CONSUMER PRICE INDEX (NCPI) FROM DECEMBER, 2015 TO
  YEAR 2020 AS REFERENCE PERIOD (8 Feb 2021)

At IMF (e-GDDS):

• Price Indices: Consumer price index