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IMF Country Report No. 22/332
PERU
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE REPORT—CONSUMER PRICE INDEX MISSION
October 2022
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Peru
Report on Consumer Price Index Mission (June 21–July 2, 2021)
September 2022
Prepared By Vanda Guerreiro
The contents of this report constitute technical advice provided by the staff of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to the authorities of Peru (the “TA recipient”) in response to their request for technical assistance. This report (in whole or in part) or summaries thereof may be disclosed by the IMF to IMF Executive Directors and members of their staff, as well as to other agencies or instrumentalities of the TA recipient, and upon their request, to World Bank staff, and other technical assistance providers and donors with legitimate interest unless the CD recipient specifically objects to such disclosure (see Operational Guidance for the Dissemination of Capacity Development Information). Publication or Disclosure of this report (in whole or in part) or summaries thereof to parties outside the IMF other than agencies or instrumentalities of the TA recipient, World Bank staff, other technical assistance providers and donors with legitimate interest shall require the explicit consent of the TA recipient and the IMF’s Statistics Department.
Contents
Glossary
SUMMARY OF MISSION OUTCOMES AND PRIORITY RECOMMENDATIONS
DETAILED TECHNICAL ASSESSMENT AND RECOMMENDATIONS
A. Consumer Price Index
B. Scanner Data
C. Web Scraping for the Consumer Price Index
D. Officials Met During the Mission
FIGURES
1. What is Web Scraping
2. Print Screen of the R Code, for Reference
3. The Rational of Hedonic Methods
4. Integration of Web Scraping into CPI
TABLES
1. Priority Recommendations
2. Example of Chaining the Indexes from Rolling Window Hedonic Regression
Glossary
| CPI | Consumer price index |
| INEI | National Institute of Statistics and Information of Peru |
| TA | Technical assistance |
