Comparative study of purchasing power parities for the food component using the consumer price index data in the South African provinces

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dc.contributor.authorKgantsi, Eugene Modisa
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-22T07:31:32Z
dc.date.available2013-04-22T07:31:32Z
dc.date.issued2013-04-22
dc.descriptionA Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, 2012.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this study is to investigate if the International Comparison Program (ICP) methodology could be used to examine the different buying power (worth) of the currency on the same products or goods amongst South African provinces. The method will be tested on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) food data collected from January 2006 to December 2006 from the main cities in the provinces. The food basket is obtained via the Income and Expenditure Survey (IES), which is generally updated every 5 years. South Africa (SA) has disparities and differentials in economic indicators such as the CPI, Gross Domestic Product and employment, amongst the provinces which are caused by among other things geographic set-up, urbanisation, inflation rates, and expenditure patterns. We use the monthly data to do an inter-provincial comparison of food prices by deriving annual purchasing power parities (PPPs) for each of the provinces, using the Country Product Dummy (CPD) method recommended as best practice by the World Bank. The CPI data is validated using the SEMPER software developed by the African Development Bank (AfDB). The validated data is examined for variability over the months and between the provinces using Analysis of Variance. Significant price differences are found for various products over the months and between provinces. The validated data was used to compute PPPs at the group and basic heading level. PPPs were investigated for differences in the provinces on grouped level of food products using Analysis of Variance. The reliability of PPPs between provinces is investigated both at grouped and basic heading level of products using the Cronbach-alpha statistic. The results show that there are no significant variations in PPPs across provinces. This could be due to the similar business opportunities or developments in the provinces or due to the aggregation of prices from the individual product (basic heading) to the main product group level. This implies that the cost of the food basket is the same across provinces.en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/12675
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshPurchasing power.
dc.subject.lcshFood prices - South Africa.
dc.subject.lcshConsumer price indexes - South Africa.
dc.subject.lcshInflation (Finance) - South Africa.
dc.titleComparative study of purchasing power parities for the food component using the consumer price index data in the South African provincesen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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