Title: Quarterly Export Price Index

Description: The data shows number of quartely export price index for the year 1999 to 2022

Source: https://statsmauritius.govmu.org/Pages/Statistics/ESI/External_Trade/EPI_IPI/EPI_IPI_4Qtr22.aspx

Tags/Topics: indices, EPI, export price index, Quarter

Note:
1. year 1999 to year 2018 base year is 2003 = 100
2. year 2007 to year 2022 Base period: Year 2018=100
3. year 2022 quarter 4 is provisional
4. Note that Indices prior to 2007 are posted on Statistics Mauritius website in the historical series of Export and Import Price Indices
5. EPI - The Export Price index provides an overall measure of pure price changes in Mauritian Rupees of goods exported to other countries. 
This index is constructed from the export prices of a "constant" well-defined representative basket of commodities selected from trade data in the base year.
6. The EPI covers total exports (domestic exports and re-exports). The most important commodities in the 2013 EPI are “Articles of apparel and clothing accessories”, “Fish and fish preparations” and “Sugar”.
7. Frame - Around 55 exporters (outlets) have been selected from trade declarations submitted to the Customs Department in 2013 for pricing of the commodities through 
quarterly price surveys. These exporters are the major ones trading on a regular basis. A total of around 140 products, representing the 34 commodities 
directly represented in the index, were selected for pricing on the basis of their share in total exports, regularity of trade of exports and also their 
importance in the trader’s exports. There must also be a sustained demand for the product variety.
8. Price collection - Regarding price collection, the selected exporters are visited every quarter but prices are collected for each month of the quarter for the computation 
of quarterly indices. The collected prices are reported on a free on board (F.O.B.) basis and are mostly contract prices.

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