Consumer prices · 90 categories · latest 2026-09-01
The same category from more than one publisher. The national statistics office is the record; the IMF's series are its own compilation and can differ in definition, coverage and vintage.
KAS replaced its 2015=100 ECOICOP index with a 2025=100 COICOP 2018 index from April 2026; the two families are never spliced. KAS describes a 2025=100 recalculation from 2016 but has not yet published it monthly. ECOICOP rates are KAS's own and can differ from one-decimal index ratios by about 0.1 point; a few early and 2009 values differ more. Social protection is published as 0 throughout 2012-2013 and its monthly and annual changes are blank for most of that suspension; both remain as published. Telephone equipment and services share one weight in the basket table.
Sources: Kosovo Agency of Statistics (KAS). Living Inflation Data has reorganised KAS's ASKdata tables and HICP releases under CC BY 4.0. (as of 2026-10-09); International Monetary Fund (as of 2026-04-01). Collected by Living Inflation Data, HBS Innovations in Economic Measurement (IEM) Lab www.iemlab.org.
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2 recorded findings for this country, shown exactly as in the full quality register.
| Country | Source | Periods | Status | Series | Found | Detected by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burundi, Djibouti, Kosovo, Republic of, Liberia, Qatar, Solomon Islands, Trinidad and Tobago | IMF | whole series | watching | LBR.CPI_CP10_*, BDI.CPI_CP10_*, SLB.CPI_CP08_* +6 more | 2026-09-02 | Manual |
| Found while working the base-break queue and recorded rather than checked, because measuring it did not support a rule. 109 runs across 74 series publish an index that does not change AT ALL for two years or more. Liberia's education index is exactly 100.00 for 157 consecutive months -- thirteen years -- and Burundi's is 95.00 for 98. The reason there is no check: 82 of the 109 runs are communication and education, which is exactly where administered and regulated prices sit, so a flat index in those divisions is often the correct answer rather than a placeholder. A rule firing 109 times in the two divisions where flatness is normal would be the queue crying wolf, which this file is explicit about not doing. The subset worth returning to is the 19 runs pinned at exactly 100.00: a series sitting on its base value and never leaving it is a different claim from one holding a fixed tariff. The series named here are the longest runs, so a reader of any of them is told; the other 65 series are not, which is a gap this entry does not close. | ||||||
| Kosovo, Republic of | IMF | 2008-10-01, 2014-10-01 | confirmed | KOS.CPI_CP07_*, KOS.CPI_CP10_* | 2026-09-02 | Possible index rebasing |
| Two different things. Transport falls 108.70 -> 83.63 in October 2008 (-23.1%) and then moves continuously -- 96.1, 89.5, 87.8, 88.5 -- which is a series still being measured, in the month the oil price halved. Education is the opposite: 138.94 -> 99.94 in October 2014 and then EXACTLY 99.94 for the following year and beyond, which is not a measurement at all but a value carried forward (see imf-indices-held-constant). Kosovo declares a 2015 base, and 99.94 from October 2014 is a division put on it early and then left. The step is permanent, confined to one division, and not a revision: these values were published this way. What the data CANNOT settle is whether the division was put on a new base by itself or its prices really fell, because both produce exactly this shape and nothing held here separates them -- the series is verified at 100 in the reference period the source declares, which is true either way. The country's headline index barely moves in the same month, which is suggestive and not conclusive: these are mostly light divisions, so a real fall would leave only a small mark on the aggregate. What IS certain is the consequence, because the source's own rates are this index restated -- the published month-over-month and year-over-year figures equal the index ratios at all 388,805 and 370,534 overlapping cells, checked 2026-09-02. So if the step is a re-reference, the source's own rates divide across it, and the reader has to be told. | ||||||