Malta - Producer Price Index (PPI)

Malta: Producer Price Index (PPI)

Mnemonic	PPI.IMLT
Unit	Index 2021=100, NSA
Adjustments	Not Seasonally Adjusted
	Monthly	0.5 %
Data	Feb 2024	108.58
	Jan 2024	109.13

Series Information

Source	National Statistics Office (NSO) - Malta
Release	Industrial Producer Price Indices [producer price index, PPI]
Frequency	Monthly
Start Date	1/31/2000
End Date	2/29/2024

Malta: Price

	Reference	Last	Previous	Units	Frequency
Consumer Price Index (CPI)	Mar 2024	119.23	118.06	Index 2015=100, NSA	Monthly
Producer Price Index (PPI)	Feb 2024	108.58	109.13	Index 2021=100, NSA	Monthly

Release Information

Description

For Malta, a survey-based industrial producer price index, detailed by market (domestic, euro zone, etc.). Monthly from 2000.

Properties

Active:

Classification:
- NACE Rev. 2
- Sections B to E
Measurement: Fixed-base value index relative to 2021 (Index 2021=100)
Adjustment: Not seasonally adjusted (NSA)
Native frequency: Monthly
Start dates:
- 2023m1 for headline
- 2020m1 for components

Predecessors:

2015=100 - 2014m1 to 2023m12 ("_15")
2010=100 - 2000m1 to 2017m12 ("_10")
2005=100 - 2005m1 to 2013m9 ("_05")

Global concept aliases:

PPI.IMLT

Methodology

The Maltese PPI is compiled by the National Statistics Office - Malta every month.

The Industrial Producer Price Index is a monthly survey, targeting the manufacturing and energy (water and electricity) sectors. The index monitors the changes in ex-works sale prices of all leading products within a sample of around 70 large enterprises. Sampled enterprises account for over 80 per cent of total industrial turnover.

The scope of the index is to provide a measure of upstream inflation, at producer level, to supplement the measure of inflation faced by the household sector, as provided by the Retail Price Index (RPI) and Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP).

Moody's Analytics supplements

For the headline index, we back-extend( over the interval 2000m1 to 2022m12) and construct a seasonally adjusted counterpart.