Kenya National Bureau of Statistics

Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a key macroeconomic indicator used to monitor price movements and how they affect policy decisions. It is defined as a measure of the weighted aggregate change in retail prices paid by consumers for a given basket of goods and services. Year-on-year inflation is used mainly for economic decision making as current situation is compared to previous year situation, same period. Inflation rate is defined as a percentage change of the CPI between two periods.

National accounts are a set of macroeconomic statistics which are key in understanding the workings of an economy and crucial for macroeconomic analysis and decision making. They provide information on the economic transactions between different economic agents in an economy and also with the rest of the world and are used for international comparison. Evidently, economies are dynamic in nature: they grow, they shrink, they add new sectors, new products and new technologies, and consumer behavior and tastes change over time.

Population and Household Characteristics of Kenya, 2019

Data cited at: https://kenya.opendataforafrica.org/SEDK2015