PPPs data collection 2020 - Cyprus: 2019/CY/PPP

Programme(s): European Statistics

Topic(s): B4454-2019-PPP

Type of action: European Statistics Action Grant

Project ID: 875365

Objective

The main purpose of the program is to provide users with quality PPPs. The action aims at ensuring provision of quality comparable input data for calculating PPPs. The National Statistical Authority of Cyprus CYSTAT, shall fulfil tasks under Objectives A to F to achieve this aim. Objective (Obj.) A: The tasks are the consumer goods price surveys, namely E19-2 Transport, Hotels& Restaurants, E20-1 Services, E20-2 Furniture & Health, E21-1 Food, Beverages& Tobacco and E21-2 Personal Appearance. Additional task is participation to 2 countries’ meetings and reception of a contractor visit. Expected result is to have a dataset of average prices of sufficient number of products to enable the establishment of quality PPPs. Deliverables depending on the survey are the preview questionnaire, presurvey results, survey data & report, spatial adjustment coefficients, task report and survey report part 2. Obj. B: The task is the Estate Agencies Rent survey 2020. Expected result and deliverable is to provide capital city rents and report for 2020. Obj. C: The tasks are related to Capital Goods Price Surveys, namely Construction Surveys (CS) 2019 and 2020 as well as Equipment Goods Surveys (EG) 2019 and 2021. Expected result is to provide validated construction and equipment goods price data& metadata. Deliverables are preview and presurvey results (EG‘21), task report and survey report part 2 (EG ’19, CS ‘19), survey data, report and task report (CS’20) Obj. D: The task is the Hospital price survey for 2020 that refers to 2017-19 data. Expected results is to provide validated hospital price data and metadata. Deliverable is the 2017-19 qnr. Obj. E: The tasks involve submission of other PPP Input data in 2020. Expected result is to provide data needed for PPP calculations, namely GDP Weights, VAT, Tips, Actual& Imputed Rents, Compensation of Gov. Employees and confirmation of Energy and Education data. Obj. F: Submission of an up-to-date Inventory of sources & methods used.