Deputy Minister of Finance, Dr. Cornelius Mwalwanda said Government needs coordinated, timely and quality official statistics in evidence based policymaking, monitoring and evaluation of development programmes. The Deputy Minister made the remarks Thursday at the official launch of the 2013-2017 National Statistical System (NSS) Strategic Plan in Lilongwe. The launch was organized by the National […]
Some people who attended interviews for the Millennium Development Goals Endline Survey (MES) on Thursday have expressed reservations on the conduct of the whole process. The National Statistical Office (NSO) conducted the written interviews at Liwonde Community Development Centre in the Eastern Region, Soche Technical College in the South, a centre in Lilongwe and Mzuzu respectively. One […]
Parliament has Thursday passed the 2013 National Statistics Bill. The National Statistics Act of 2013 replaces the Statistics Act of 1967. Speaking during the presentation of the bill to the August House, Minister of Economic Planning and Development, Ralph Jooma, said that the Act would provide a basis for quality statistics for informed and evidence-based […]
Malawi’s headline inflation skyrocketed by 0.5 percent points in January to hit 35.1 in December as prices of food and non-food items continued to surge, the National Statistical Office (NSO) indicated . The rise in inflation signals continued erosion in purchasing power by most average Malawians as both disposable income and savings are drastically reduced, throwing many into […]
Malawi’s annual rate of inflation has increased, according to figures released by the southern African country’s National Statistical Office (NSO) and the country’s poor have been struggling to afford the most basic of essentials. The inflation figures for November rose to 33.3 percent, a 2.7 percentage points increase from 30.6 percent the month before. “Food […]
Some concerned people have complained of flouting of procedures when recruiting temporary staff for some of the surveys at National Statistical Office (NSO) in Zomba. The office has come under scrutiny after it continuously neglects to follow advertisement procedures as per government requirement. Nyasa Times sources reveal that the government statistical agency has conducted certain […]
Malawi’s year on year consumer inflation quickened to 28.3 percent in September from 25.5 percent in August, a 2.8 percentage points increase the National Statistical Office (NSO) in Zomba said on Tuesday. NSO said the inflation has increased due to a sharp rise in food prices, “Food inflation has gone up by 27.7 percent compared to […]
Malawi’s National Statistics Office (NSO) has been hit by accusations of nepotism and maladministration following revelation that the Commissioner of Statistics Charles Machinjiri employed her own daughter to head the NSO’s regional office in Blantyre. Some of the members of NSO staff in Zomba have since written the Ministry of Justice and Attorney General asking […]
Malawi’s consumer inflation quickened to 25.5 percent in August from 21.7 percent in July, data released by the National Statistical Office showed Monday. Inflation quickened on every month since June 2011, when it remained unchanged at 7 percent. According to the data, inflation in the urban and rural area were 28.2 percent and 23.8 percent respectively during the month. […]
Poverty remains high in the country and therefore it needs serious handling, Minister of Economic Planning and Development Atupele Austin Muluzi has noted. Muluzi speaking in Lilongwe when he presented the results of the third Integrated Household Survey (IHS3) conducted by the National Statistical Office (NSO) from March 2010 to March 2011, said poverty levels among […]
Experts have disagreed with Malawi government figures that put the country’s unemployment rate at 3 percent margin. In a published report in Business Times midweek publication, the country’s medium term development strategy, the Malawi Growth Development Strategy (MDGS II) put Malawi among the fastest developing countries in the world with low unemployment levels like Singapore, Austria, Switzerland, […]
Consumer prices in Malawi jumped to a seven-year high in May as fuel and electricity costs shot up after the kwacha currency was devalued by more than 30 percent in early May. The National Statistics Office said headline inflation accelerated to 17.3 percent year-on-year in May from 12.4 percent in April. Malawi scrapped its currency’s […]
Official data show Malawi’s inflation has hit a double-digit figure. The data from the National Statistics Office (NSO) in Zomba confirmed fears that Malawi’s economy is heading for a fall. NSO data showed on Monday that Malawi’s consumer inflation quickened to 10.3 percent year-on-year in January from 9.8 percent in December. “Food inflation has […]
Malawi’s headline consumer inflation rate quickened to 9.8 percent year-on-year in December from 8.9 percent in November, the National Statistics Office (NSO) said in a statement. The NSO said the annual average inflation rate for 2011 was up at 7.6 percent from 7.4 percent in 2010. The Roman Catholic body called Centre for Social Concern […]
Malawi National Statistical Office (NSO) through its monthly inflation rate report has veiled the real hardship that consumers are currently encountering in the country. Data from the NSO shows that the rate at which goods prices are progressing on the market, inflation, has only increased by 0.1 percent. In its statement issued this week, NSO […]
By Nyasa Times Reporter National Statistical Office (NSO) said on Friday that the country’s annual consumer inflation quickened to 7.4 percent in July from 7.0 percent in June. “The year on year headline inflation for the month of July 2011 stands at 7.4 percent, an increase of 0.4 percentage points on the month before,” the […]