## Mongolia: Technical Assistance Report-Report on the Prices Statistics Mission

_IMF Staff Country Reports, October 24, 2017_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: October 24, 2017
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484324592.002

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### Scope and objective
- Technical advice and recommendations provided by the IMF mission to the authorities of Mongolia regarding updating and improving the consumer price index (CPI) and the industrial producer price index (IPPI).

### Key findings
- An adjustment to the expenditure shares in the updated CPI is recommended based on alternative data sources.
- The compilation procedure used to estimate the monthly price change for automobiles and motorcycles requires improvements.
- Selection of enterprises and products in the rebased IPPI should ensure appropriate coverage of exports.
- The IPPI rebasing process should include a review of 2015 customs data to ensure that relevant enterprises and their products are selected in proportion to their significance to overall production.

### Detailed recommendations
- CPI
  - Adjust expenditure shares in the updated CPI using alternative data sources to better reflect spending patterns.
  - Improve the compilation procedure for estimating monthly price changes specifically for automobiles and motorcycles.
- IPPI
  - Ensure that the selection of enterprises and products in the rebased IPPI provides appropriate coverage of exports.
  - Conduct a review of 2015 customs data as part of the IPPI rebasing to align enterprise and product selection with their significance to overall production.

### Subject focus and keywords
- Subject areas: Consumer price indexes, Expenditure, Export prices, Exports, International trade, Price indexes, Prices.
- Keywords explicitly noted: Consumer price indexes, CPI time series, CR, expenditure share, Export prices, Exports, ISCR, price index series, Price indexes, share, updated CPI, weight reference period.

*International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept. "Mongolia: Technical Assistance Report-Report on the Prices Statistics Mission", IMF Staff Country Reports 2017, 323 (2017), accessed 9/23/2026, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484324592.002*

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