A copy of the the Monetary Board Regulation No. The data on producer prices are disseminated by the CBE as a service to the public. No government officials outside the INEC and the CBE have access to the data prior to their release to the public. There is no ministerial commentary attached to the release of the data. The data are preliminary when first released.
Final data become available three months after the end of the reference month.
The public are informed of major changes in methodology at the time the changes are introduced, through a statement in the relevant publication. Advance notice will be given of future changes in the methodology. Quality Dissemination of documentation on methodology and sources used in preparing statistics As dissemination of data on the producer prices index began only in June 1999, no documentation on methodology is published at this time.