:: Sub Regional MDG Workshop

Tanga Morris attended the MDG-based planning, Costing and Budgeting for the Polynesian Countries

:: Statisticians making it count for the Pacific

Heads of Statistical Offices and Planners attended workshops

:: HES 2005-06

Preliminary results are now available.

:: Vaevae Challenge comes to CISO

Everyone at CISO have joined the 12 weeks Vaevae Challenge for 2008

:: NSDP (National Sustainable Development Plan)

Pathway for Sustainable Development in the Cook Islands

:: Cook Islands Population Profile

To provide an overview of some of the demographic features of the population of the Cook Islands

:: Cook Islands Demographic Profile

This report provides an analysis of available Cook Islands demographic data.

Consumer Price Index Rebase

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) has been reviewed and now has a new expression base of December quarter 2006=100. The March quarter 2007 CPI is the first quarter to be released on the new base. As part of the review, the basket of goods and services has been updated to ensure that the index represents current household expenditure patterns.

The most significant difference in the new weights when compared to the 1998 base were the Housing group, from 7.0% in 1998 to 13.2% in 2006 and similarly with Tobacco & Alcohol, from 15.9% of the total basket to 8.1%.

The weights for the CPI expenditure basket are derived principally from the Household Expenditure Survey (HES). Some expenditure such as investments is considered outside the scope of the CPI and is excluded. Other expenditure items for which price change is too difficult to measure, e.g. housie and raffle tickets are also excluded.

Detailed tables are available here. Or Contact the Office for more information