Title: The practical guide to South African economic indicators /
Authors: Mohr, P. J.
Publisher: Lexicon Publishers,
Year: 1988
Subjects: Economic indicators South Africa.; South Africa Economic conditions.
Contents: ABC of interpreting economic data -- Averages -- Balance of payments -- BA rate -- Base period of a time series or index -- Business cycles -- Consumer price index (CPI) -- Cyclical variation of a time series -- Data revisions -- Deflating a time series -- Exchange rates l -- Exchange rates ll -- Forecasting economic activity -- Foreign trade (and foreign reserves) -- Geographical coverage of data -- Gold -- Government sector in national accounts -- Gross domestic expenditure (GDE) -- Gross domestic product: estimation -- Gross domestic product: problems -- Gross domestic product: real -- Implicit price deflators -- Index numbers l: introduction -- Index numbers ll: calculation -- Inflation rate: calculation -- Interest rates: calculation -- Interest rates: capital market -- Interest rates: money market -- International comparisons of economic data -- Investment, depreciation and capital stock -- Labour statistics -- Measuring the performance of the economy: a summary -- Monetary aggregates -- National accounting concepts -- Per capita data -- Presentation of economic indicators in financial weeklies -- Price indices -- Production price index (PPI) -- Production: sectorial data -- Public finance -- Purchasing power parity (PPP) -- Rates of change (or growth rates) -- Rates of change: tabulation -- Ratios -- Residual items -- Sales data -- Seasonal adjustment -- Share price indices and other stock exchange concepts -- Sources of South African economic data -- Technical issues -- Terms of trade -- Time series l: frequency of observations -- Time series ll: components of a time series -- Units of measurement -- Weighted growth rate: calculation -- Presentation of economic data.